South African Journal of Education Copyright © 2006 EASA Vol 26(2)253–266 Factors associated with high school learners’ poor performance: a spotlight on mathematics and physical science Andile Mji and Moses Makgato mjia@tut.ac.za This study‚ using a non-experimental‚ exploratory and descriptive method‚ established learners’ and educators’ views about factors that contribute to poor performance in mathematics and physical science. Participants were purposefully selected from seven schools with poor
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PB Technologies Exercise The exercise was designed so that everyone is assigned to an executive position in PB Technologies. Then‚ everyone has to choose his or her candidate individually before we attend the executives meeting to come up with a single candidate. My position in the organization was the VP of Marketing. Once I received the exercise’s handout‚ I read it carefully‚ compared the three candidates’ resumes and then decided to nominate Suzanne T. Valdes for the Senior VP of Finance and
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The entire purpose of this documentary The Untouchables was to seek an answer to an abbreviated question: why has no Wall Street executive been criminally prosecuted for fraud tied to the sale of mortgages. But the unabbreviated question and the one that infuriates us as Americans is: why has no executive of a major Wall Street firm been criminally prosecuted for anything. Containing interviews with top prosecutors of the DOJ‚ government officials and industry whistleblowers‚ Frontline reports allegations
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BOOK REVIEW [103] because human ideals‚ motives‚ and actions have been considered insignificant. According to American scholars‚their Frenchcolleagues in Annaliste fell under strong influence of the structuralist schoolanother French school in historiography- which maintainsthat there is a continuity in change in time and space in human history. According to the structuralists‚the change-whether social or economic -is mainly an adjustmentaimed at preserving an eternal systemof structures; it is
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VALUE CHAIN OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS Report of “UPS Lithuania” We decided to rate UPS as a plant‚ since we have not seen its` warehouse and how it works. So talking about customer satisfaction (Category No.1) in UPS we think that they really care about this aspect and it is their main goal in the company. If customer has special needs for the package that he wants to send‚ UPS employees will not hesitate to contact him and try to find the best solution for both parts. All the employees know
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Summary: Frontline PBS Documentary on the real CSI In this video Correspondent LOWELL BERGMAN questions the scientific validity of forensic science. He also expresses that it is not as simple as it appears on television shows. Detective. Joanna Grivetti who is a crime scene investigator in Richmond‚ California explains that the real life CSI is getting dirty‚ smelling things you don’t want to smell‚ seeing things you don’t want to see and dealing with blood in order to collect evidence that may
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Article Summary: Strategic Cost Management: The Value Chain Perspective Authors of this article do not believe the concept of “value chain” has been written about enough or clearly enough and therefore attempt to state the importance of the value chain on strategy from a managerial accounting perspective. Michael Porter first wrote about this in 1985. [ (Porter‚ 1985) ] They believe that any organization must understand the entire value chain for the entire industry in order to sustain competitive
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Using value-chain analysis to discover customers’ strategic needs David W. Crain and Stan Abraham David Crain‚ a marketing and strategy consultant‚ is visiting professor of marketing at Whittier College‚ CA‚ and former Director of Marketing at Fluor Corporation (davidwcrain@aol.com). Stan Abraham is professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at Cal Poly Pomona (scabraham@ csupomona.edu) and author of Strategic Planning: A Practical Guide for Competitive Success (Thomson South-Western‚ 2006).
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Critically evaluation of Porter’s five forces‚ Value Chain Analysis‚ Balanced Scored Card Given the demands of today’s competitive and dynamic environment‚ it is quite challenging to understand strategic issues facing organizations and develop the capability for long term organizational success. This report aims to present a critically analysis of three frameworks across organizations: Porter’s Five Forces‚ Value Chain and Balanced Scorecard. Such critical evaluation includes identifying the benefits
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process at different levels‚ Barnevik built an organization that was accommodating and allowed the workers in the company to work at their optimum level. The workforce was reduced in order to increase productivity and ensure that every worker brought value into the company. The new company was run on the principles of decentralized duty and personal accountability and there was
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