Dear MBL Student This letter serves to introduce you to the academics in the Strategy, Marketing, Governance, Economics and International Business Area. We also want to share with you our research focus areas to assist you to select a topic for your MBL research report in which we could offer you quality supervision. Should you select to do your research in our area you will work with seasoned academics who has a strong track record of successfully supervising both Master’s and Doctoral candidates
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STD – ICE 2003 San Diego, CA - May 20, 2003 TU309 Getting High Performance in Diverse Teams The “M.B.I” Model Professor Joe DiStefano IMD Lausanne Switzerland L A U S A N N E - SW IT Z E R L A N D Joe DiStefano 1 JDS-MBI Model Copyright © IMD International, Lausanne, Switzerland Not to be used or reproduced without permission STD – ICE 2003 San Diego, CA - May 20, 2003 Objectives get higher performance and the impact of our differences Test the applicability of the ideas
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the current decade of social movements, non government organizations (NGOs) and community based organizations (CBOs), is a manifestation of organized community participation. By analyzing the dynamics of community participation, particularly in the South African urban upgrading context, nine obstacles and impediments (‘plagues’) are exposed which serve to illustrate participatory development as a complex and difficult, though essential and challenging endeavour. Twelve draft guidelines (‘commandments’)
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STUDENTS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS COUNSELLING: A CROSS-CULTURAL STUDY by KATLEGO FANDIE This thesis is submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree Philosophiae Doctor in the FACULTY OF THE HUMANITIES DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY at the UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE BLOEMFONTEIN January 2015 Promoter: Prof. L. Naudé DECLARATION I declare that the thesis hereby submitted by Katlego Fandie for the degree Philosophiae Doctor at the University of the Free State
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Levitt did not explicitly discuss branding, managers interpreted his ideas to mean that transnational companies should standardize products, packaging, and communication to achieve a leastcommon denominator positioning tbat would be effective across cultures. From that commonsense standpoint, global branding was only about saving costs and ensuring consistent customer communication. The idea proved popular in the 1980s, wben several countries opened up to foreign competition and American and Japanese
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general recruitment. RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION Recruitment and selection can be described as a process of identifying and hiring the best candidate who is right suited for the job and its requirements, the organizational environment and its culture. According to Robbins, et al. (2009, p. 450) the most important and critical decision HR personnel has to make is to effectively select the right people by figuring out the right match between individual’s ability, experience, attitude, skills and
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1. Dissertation: The Factors that Influence Successful Internationalization of Firms in Emerging Markets: A Case Study of MTN International Abstract Internationalization is essential in the modern world that is filled with many uncertainties. Companies internationalize because of many factors that include profit motives, costs minimization, diversification of the markets, search for new opportunities, saturated domestic market etc. the internationalization process of a firm involves many processes
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AP* World History Study Guide and Graphic Organizers – Unit 5: The Modern World, 1914 CE – present 1. World War I Students are required to know the causes, major events, and consequences of WWI 1) Causes a) Imperialism i) No new lands to expand into – some nations didn’t have many colonies (Germany, Italy) ii) Rivalries as nations competed for colonies iii) Sometimes armed conflict in colonial lands for control over resources b) Nationalism i) Pride in one’s nation, want one’s nation to
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diseases or the resurgence of diseases that were previously controlled. We also lost indicators of the ability of ecosystem to support life of all kinds, including human life, finally, living in a world lacking the beauty and tranquility inherent in diverse, intact ecosystems had profound effects on out mental health. 2. According to the information in the exhibit human population has exploded since the invention of agriculture and people are transforming the land for farming and the industrial revolution
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age-group. This statement alone tells us about how complex the term “youth” is since, as we all know, there are infinite differences and varieties between an individual from another individual, a group from another group, and an entire culture from another culture. But generally speaking, there are numerous ways on how to determine people from the youth today and to later find out that these observations are very much lucid and manifested. There are many possibilities as to how to determine the
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