address many of these complexities. 1. A definition of participation For the purposes of this note a useful definition of public or community participation is that adopted by Stoker (1997) for ‘political participation’ (following Parry et al, 1992): members of the public ‘taking part in any of the processes of formulation, passage and implementation of public policies’. This is a wide-ranging definition, which extends the emphasis of public participation beyond the development of policy, to decision-making
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generations have become accustom to. The executive team is made up of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Vice President of Operations (VP). Middle management is made up of the Accounting Manager, Member Services Manager, and Special Services Manager. There are additional leadership roles which include: Lead Member Services Representative, Loan Under-Writer, and my current role as Senior Accounting Clerk. As within any organization there are multiple leadership styles utilized by each leader. Each style
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people think ideas and faces we are not quite used to. The definition of race all depends on where and when the word is being used. In U.S. history, the meaning of the label “white” has changed over time, eventually adding groups like the Italians, Irish and Jews. Other groups, mainly African, Latino, American Indian, Pacific Islander, and Asian descendants, have found the path for worldwide social acceptance much more difficult. The irregular border of ethnicities touches educational and economic
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awareness article from Dr. Termit Kaur Ranjit Singh (senior lecture at the School of Educational Studies at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)) who shares with us her perceptions towards teenagers busy chasing their social network lifestyle. These particular groups of people tend to care more about the trending gadgets that available in the market, without thinking wisely about their personal financial savings. Whenever this kind of trend reaches its limit, irresponsible attitudes of teenagers occurs when using
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Management Principles and Practices MGT101 Case Study – GE Electric Motivation Gemma Blandford Word count 1315 (excluding references) Introduction General Electric (GE) was founded in 1878 by Thomas Edison. Since then GE have developed businesses in the areas of Appliances, Aviation, Consumer Electronics, Electrical Distribution, Health Care, Lighting, Oil and Gas, Energy, Finance for both Business and Consumers, Rail, Software Services and Water. They are now one of the most diversified
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life was his lifelong focus on the creation of betterment and education programs for poor, disadvantaged and delinquent street children. Many of these children were considered “throw aways” by society. Saint John Bosco became the champion for these forgotten children and treated them like his own. There is no doubting that he deserved to be made a Saint. He helped save the lives of thousands of young children and offered them an opportunity to live a good and meaningful life. We definitely need more
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Recently, some marketers have noted that it is easier to develop communications programs to Generation X members than Generation Y. Briefly describe the characteristics of Gen X and Gen Y and whether or not you believe this to be true. There is some debate as to whether Gen X’ers (born between 1965-1978) or Gen Y’ers (1978 to 1986) is more easily targeted by marketers. Each of these groups has their own identifying characteristics. Generation X consumers are typically characterized as self-confident
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which would make it comfortable for the client to communicating with the worker without being nervous. Group communication is when a number of people get together to have a discussion. Group communication is much more difficult compared to one to one communication as it requires all the members of the group to be working on the same page or thing. One of the thing that cause problems in a group communication is that there are different people with different personalities as some may speak a lot and
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organization that we want to be. A brand is an expression of your actions and what you do every day. In AIESEC, our global brand is represented through our living The AIESEC Way. Our ―Brand Experience‖ is the experience we want our stakeholders (members, supporters and enablers) to live when they interact with AIESEC. The closer we can make this experience to the entirety of our Brand Experience the more we are strengthening our global brand every day. 1.2 Why do we have a global brand?
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2011 Arab World is rather heterogeneous group of nations and tribes who live in 22 states, counts more than 350 million people spread on bigger than Europe territory with very long distances - 7800 km. from East to West (United Nation Website, 2008). However based on common religion, origin and cultural roots many authors talk for "Arabs" making assumptions and conclusions. On the other hand different historical paths, isolation between remote groups and stage of development are the most probable
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