COUNCIL OF EUROPE CONSEIL DE L’EUROPE A guide to project management Frank Heyworth European Centre for Modern Languages Centre européen pour les langues vivantes A guide to project management In 1994, upon the initiative of Austria and the Netherlands, with special support from France, eight states founded the European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML) as an Enlarged Partial Agreement of the Council of Europe. It was to become “a forum to discuss and seek solutions to the specific
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program! Rushkoff, Douglas, dir. Program or Be Programmed. 2010. Film. 31 Jan 2013 2 RUSHKOFF’S PRINCIPLE OF: I. TIME DO NOT BE “ALWAYS ON”. We live in a world dictated by time. However, to our digital devices, time is an unknown concept. This situation has caused us to become more concerned with the newest information rather than the most relevant. In order to remain effective, efficient humans, we must apply the concept of time to our digital devices. We hold the power to decide when we interact
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1 The CASE Journal Volume 4, Issue 2 (Spring 2008) Table of Contents Click on the article or case title to go to that page Editorial Policy Letter from the Editor Case Abstracts Cases “Sally’s Dilemma: Making Tough Choices in Collaborative Visioning” Karl A. Hickerson, David J. O’Connell & Arun K. Pillutla, St. Ambrose University “The Death of a Salesman Revisited: Part A” Herbert Sherman, Long Island University & Daniel James Rowley, University of Northern Colorado “The Death
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Family Functioning Factors1 Sections A through F Family Identifying Information: Name 1 DOB Relationship Children’s Bureau of Southern California. (1997). Family Assessment Form. California: Authors. Reprinted with permission from Sandy Sladen, LCSW. Family Assessment Form Family Functioning Factors SECTION A: LIVING CONDITIONS* A1. Cleanliness/Orderliness - Outside Environmental Conditions Refers to environmental health and hygiene factors (e.g. litter, garbage, vermin, clutter, odors around
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Boss Good in a Bad Economy By RoBeRt I. Sutton ■ ■ ■ ■ How to Be a 130 Harvard Business Review | June 2009 | hbr.org Serge Bloch T hese are tough times for every boss I know. Fear and paranoia are running wild, not just in financial markets but in workplaces, too. A few weeks back a weary executive at a professional services firm told me how painful it had been to lay off 10% of his people and how he was struggling to comfort and inspire those who remained. When I asked
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Journal of Organizational Behavior, J. Organiz. Behav. 32, 1062–1083 (2011) Published online 7 September 2010 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI: 10.1002/job.724 Diversity and organizational innovation: The role of employee involvement YANG YANG1* AND ALISON M. KONRAD2 Management Department, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Department of Organizational Behavior, Richard Ivey School of Business, U. of Western Ontario, London
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TB0243 Michael Greto Andreas Schotter Mary Teagarden Toyota: The Accelerator Crisis The root cause of their problems is that the company was hijacked, some years ago, by anti-family, financially oriented pirates. Jim Press, former President & Chief Operating Officer (COO) Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. On February 24, 2010, Akio Toyoda, the grandson of Toyota Motor Corporation’s founder, Kiichiro Toyoda, endured a grueling question-and-answer session before the U.S. House of Representatives
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EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATION MODULE-I: INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNICATION 1. Importance of communication in Business Organization MEANING Communication has been defined in numerous ways. The one chosen for the purpose of the present study is: 'Communication is a mutual exchange of facts, thoughts and perception, resulting in common understanding of all parties. This does not imply agreements.' An examination of this definition reveals the following ingredients as being important in communication:
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systems design and is critical to the success of interactive systems. However specifying these requirements is not so simple to achieve. This paper describes general methods to support user requirements analysis that can be adapted to a range of situations. Some brief case studies are described to illustrate how these methods have been applied in practice. user requirements, user-centred design, usability methods Key words: 1. INTRODUCTION Understanding user requirements is an integral
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Chapter 2. Security in the Microsoft Windows Operating System ONE OF THE MORE DIFFICULT TASKS when securing any computer system or network is identifying where to start. There are many components in any computing environment. Each component is a potential point of attack. Since the operating system provides the ability for software and hardware to interact it is a good starting point for securing an entire environment. On any computer, the operating system enables software to access physical resources
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