ECON 5103 Business Economics * * * Course Outline Semester 2‚ 2011 Table of Contents 1 STAFF CONTACT DETAILS 1 1.1 Lecturers-in-charge: 1 1.2 Pitstop 1 2 COURSE DETAILS 1 2.1 Teaching Times and Locations 1 2.2 Units of Credit 1 2.3 Summary of Course 2 2.4 Aims and Relationship to Other Courses 2 2.5 Student Learning Outcomes 2 3 LEARNING AND TEACHING ACTIVITIES 2 3.1 Approach to Learning and Teaching in the Course 2 3.2 Quality Assurance 3.3 Learning Activities
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Affirmative Action Thesis: Affirmative Action has helped many women and minorities in entering the job market. Although there has been a lot of hue and cry regarding the benefits of the affirmative action and the suitability of candidates selected thorough affirmative action; research has shown that affirmative action is beneficial and the candidates of affirmative action perform as well as those who are selected through the normal process. I. An overview of affirmative action and
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“A Civil Action” by Jonathan Harr What is the difference between a criminal and a civil case? Criminal cases require that a verdict be made without a “shadow of doubt‚” but in civil cases that is not the case. Professor Nesson in “A Civil Action” states that civil cases only need around 51 percent to determine liability. This book was a very interesting read because it takes us through the different parts of a civil trial and how the case even got started. It is especially important to consider
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What is Action Learning? Action Learning is an accelerated learning tool which can be applied to any number of different workplace (and personal) issues and challenges. In Action Learning groups or ’sets’ we meet regularly with others in order to explore solutions to real problems and decide on the action we wish to take. When doing this in the set‚ the stages include: 1. Describing the problem as we see it 2. Receiving contributions from others in the form of questions 3. Reflecting on our discussion
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------------------------------------------------- FI 627: Corporate Finance: Applications and advanced topics ------------------------------------------------- Study questions for case studies: Spring 2013 Week 1: Sears‚ Roebuck & Co. vs. Wal-Mart Stores‚ Inc. 1. How do the retailing strategies of Sears and Wal-Mart differ? 2. Wal-Mart’s average return on equity for the 1997 fiscal year was 19.7% while Sears’ average return on equity over roughly the same period was
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coordinate to exercise their common goal. However‚ this is generally not the case‚ as Mancur Olson‚ the author of The Logic of Collective Action‚ argues. Olson (2004: 2) states that "it is not in fact true that the idea that groups will act in their self-interest follows logically from the premise of rational and self-interested behavior." Collective action groups‚ without some sort of coercion or special device to make individual participants act in the interest of the group‚ will not succeed
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Project Report On Disciplinary Measures And Procedures Bachelor of Business Administration (Human Resource) Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirement for award of Bachelor of Business Administration of Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth‚ Pune. Submitted by SHARAYU KUMTEKAR PRN: 07111002474 Of INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS STUDIES AND RESEARCH‚ Navi Mumbai Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth Gultekdi‚ Pune 411037 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I have taken efforts in this project. However‚ it would not have been possible
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Affirmative Action in South Africa does more harm than good. * Page * Discussion * History Affirmative Action was introduced to counter the effects of apartheid. However‚ the first democratic elections took place 14 years ago and yet affirmative action policies have strengthened. The policies‚ although implemented for an admirable purpose‚ have done the economy and moral of the country’s citizens more harm than good. All the Yes points 1. -------------------------------------------------
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Topic: Whether or not schools should have the right to discipline students who bully others off of school property. Thesis: Disciplinary actions are enforced in school for purposes that ensure the students’ safety and maintain balance for all school compliances. Schools do not have the right to discipline the student that bullies another student‚ if the event occurs off the school property. Those that work in the school system‚ are the mentors to the student for knowledge and future success‚
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Affirmative action ultimately fails in its attempt to address the social imbalance caused by past discrimination because it only treats the symptoms rather than the cause. Do you agree? A growing number of equality programs‚ also known as affirmative action‚ which include quotas‚ minority scholarships and job opportunities based on diversity‚ have been proposed by governments throughout the world‚ as measures to diminish the inherited discrimination towards different groups of our society. But what
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