well-being. The social process by which people interact with each other in small groups can be called group dynamism. A group has certain common objectives and goals and members are bound together with certain values and culture. In organizational development, group dynamics refers to the understanding of behaviour of people in groups that are trying to solve a problem or making a decision. A good manager can act as a facilitator and assist the group in accompanying its objectives and arrive at correct
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Oeriew International cooperation at a crossroads Aid, trade and security in an unequal world Every hour more than 1,200 children die away from the glare of media attention The year 2004 ended with an event that demonstrated the destructive power of nature and the regenerative power of human compassion. The tsunami that swept across the Indian Ocean left some 300,000 people dead. Millions more were left homeless. Within days of the tsunami, one of the worst natural disasters in recent
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Can the distinction between 'late' and 'early' industrialization fully explain the origins and long-term competitiveness of national business systems? Rostow (1978) was a theorist who studied the competitiveness of national business systems, and concluded that there were a number of common characteristics of modern economic growth. Modern economic growth is usually accompanied by underlying characteristics such as a rise of the use of technology in production and a shift from agriculture
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in this area as a software services company. The Ekomate website describes its offering as follows: Ekomate uses the offshore development model to help its clients get their IT work done, maintaining international quality at reasonable costs, thereby resulting in tremendous cost advantages to its clients. Ekomate follows ISO compliant processes for software development. The Bangalore software
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and Fishbein, M. (1980) Understanding attitudes and predicting behaviour, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. Anderson et al. (2007) Statistics for Business and Economics, London: Thomson. Bansal, P. (2002) ‘The Corporate Challenges of Sustainable Development’, The Academy of Management Executive, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 122-131. Baum, T. (2006) Human resource management for tourism, hospitality and leisure: an international perspective, London: Thomson. Baumgartner, C. (2000) Nachhaltigkeit im Österreichischen
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TERM PAPER NAME: Richmond Sagoe TOPIC: Eliminating poverty in rural areas in Ghana THESIS STATEMENT: Rural poverty as an economic woe; eliminating poverty through agriculture and natural resource management, women empowerment, rural infrastructure and education. In Ghana, poverty is primarily rural, with the northern regions recording the highest incidence of poverty in the country (GSS, 2007). Low agriculture productivity, undeveloped markets and lack of gainful wage employment opportunities
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as part of the Nigerian Energy Support Programme (NESP). NESP is implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and funded by the European Union and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The authors would like to thank the GIZ Nigeria team for having entrusted this highly relevant subject to GOPA- International Energy Consultants GmbH, and for their extensive and dedicated inputs and guidance provided during implementation
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developing their staff, leading your team and looking at potential strategies which may benefit the business. “The successful HR professional provides active, insight-led leadership: owning, shaping and driving themselves, others and activity in the organisation.” (CIPD 2015) As reported by the CIPD, there are 8 behaviours included on the HR Profession Map and they influence how an HR Professional needs to plan their daily activities. The behaviours
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Caribbean Development: An Overview Paul Sutton * Development is generally recognised as a complex multifaceted process of economic, social, political, environmental and cultural change, which results in increases in the well-being of people and extends their rights and choices in the present without compromising the abilities of future generations to enjoy these benefits. In the Caribbean the economic, social and political elements of development have held centre stage in the last fifty years
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CHAPTER 13 Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Sustainable Development in Africa: Case Study on Kenya Davis Wekesa Barasa INTRODUCTION OBJECTIVES Indigenous Knowledge System (IKS) is currently drawing special attention of many researchers, institutions of higher learning, pharmaceutical organisations, governments, Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) etc. than it did just a decade ago. Recently, the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has recognised the applications of traditional knowledge
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