private sector has been extensively Investigated by various researchers (Carey and Chua, 1999; Petravick, 1997; and Sharma and Subramaniam, 200l; amongst others), there is scant empirical data from the public sector. This study attempts to fill the gap by providing some preliminary evidence in food and beverages industry. Using responses from 3 firms which includes Dangote flour mills, UAC and Northern Nigeria flour mills plc, the study found that more than 85% of the respondents had either fully
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Answers to in-text Questions in Economics (5th edition) Chapter 1 Page 4 ( Could production and consumption take place without money? If you think they could, give examples. Yes. People could produce things for their own consumption. For example, people could grow vegetables in their garden or allotment; they could do their own painting and decorating. Alternatively people could engage in barter: they could produce things and then swap them for goods that other people had
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Chapter 3 Computer Hardware W1 MODERN CHIP COMPONENTS The four most important concepts in microprocessor architectures are functional units, pipelines, caches, and buses. These factors determine how fast a processor will run and how efficiently it will communicate with the outside world. Functional units are subsystems of logic circuits that carry out a program’s instructions. Different types of functional units handle different instructions. Integer units handle fixed-point arithmetic and
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Industrial Technologies Program Steam Digest A compendium of articles from 2003 on the technical and financial benefits of steam efficiency, presented by stakeholders in the U.S. Department of Energy’s BestPractices Steam efforts Volume IV Compiled for the Industrial Technologies Program By the Alliance to Save Energy Acknowledgements The Steam Digest: Volume IV is the fourth annual compilation of articles dedicated to steam system efficiency. The U.S. Department of Energy’s
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See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235266981 International business and finance scholarship ARTICLE in RESEARCH IN GLOBAL STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT · JUNE 2008 DOI: 10.1016/S1064-4857(08)00001-6 CITATION READS 1 11 1 AUTHOR: Raj Aggarwal University of Akron 203 PUBLICATIONS 1,943 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE Available from: Raj Aggarwal Retrieved on: 23 February 2016 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND FINANCE SCHOLARSHIP Raj Aggarwal
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Citation: Creaby-Attwood, Nick (2010) Rewarding Relationships: A Study of the Interaction of Employment Relationships and Employee Rewards Systems in Two Unionised Private Sector Organisations. Doctoral thesis, Northumbria University. This version was downloaded from Northumbria Research Link: ht tp://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/4415/ Northumbria University has developed Northumbria Research Link (NRL) to enable users to access the University’s research output. Copyright © and moral r ights for
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D haka is ranked as one of the least liveable cities in the world, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit. Similarly, foreign visitors are sometimes left aghast at how, in Malthusian terms, the capital of Bangladesh manages to survive. Yet this host city for the upcoming T20 Cricket World Cup has, some would say, not only survived but prospered in recent years. * * * * More On this topic * Jeans maker backs push on ethical factories * Jeans maker launches push
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Contesting the Margins of Modernity: Women, Migration, and Consumption in Thailand Author(s): Mary Beth Mills Source: American Ethnologist, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Feb., 1997), pp. 37-61 Published by: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the American Anthropological Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/646565 . Accessed: 18/04/2011 07:38 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms
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Chapter 1 An Introduction to Management of Technology M .A. Akkas, Professor, Department of Management Studies, University of Dhaka. 1. 1. Introduction We live in a man-made technological world. Technology has played the basic role of an instrument for transforming the primitive and natural world into a technological and man -made world. Technology determines the standard of living of people of a given country. It is technology that makes basic difference between
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