Prevention/Protection Mission Area Core Capabilities On Monday‚ January 17‚ 1994 at 4.31 a.m. an earthquake measuring a magnitude of 6.7 struck a densely populated area of San Fernando Valley. In spite of Los Angeles County considered as one of the greatest prepared regions for earthquakes‚ Northridge was one of the worse disasters financially. They were around 14‚000 aftershocks reported in the magnitude of 4.0-5.0 range. Because of the earthquake people displaced from their homes are estimated
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Week 3 Assignment IT/284 Scenario: Bill‚ a project manager from a financial firm‚ calls the computer support hotline and expresses his frustrations with the software he has just purchased from your company. He is a new customer and has little experience with how to use the software. After receiving the call from Bill the project manager I could tell by tone in his voice that he was very frustrated and irritated with his new software purchase. Therefore‚ in order to maintain the relationship
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What does a person need in their lives? Food? Shelter? Love? Family? This is a question that can be answered both with very simply ideas and more complex concepts. In “Sun from America‚” Berl and Berlcha would have a fairly dissimilar response to this question than their son‚ Samuel. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs describes what a theoretical person would need in their life. Abraham Maslow supposes‚ “the fundamental desires of human beings are similar despite the multitude of conscious desires” (Zalenski
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Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs shows us what humans are motivated to achieve after we fill our bellies. Once our basic needs are met‚ what then? The base of Maslow’s hierarchy being physiological needs‚ followed by safety‚ love and belongingness‚ esteem and lastly self-actualization. In this order we can see that as humans we will naturally take care of certain needs like the physiological need to eat or sleep over the need to feel loved. In the next coming paragraphs‚ I will create 5 different
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2.4 Gaps in the concept of dynamic capabilities leading to the research question The concept of dynamic capabilities‚ as discussed above‚ is sleek and attractive. However‚ the association of dynamic capabilities only with routines is questionable‚ as Teece (2012) has briefly commented concerning the entrepreneurial action. It is reasonable to assume that routines or processes are the codification of a former knowledge. However‚ having a bunch of routines or processes does not mean that the company
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have such a high level of drive that arouses me to satisfy the needs. I finally decide to reduce the tension‚ occurs from the discrepancy between my present state (of not having it) and my goal (owns a notebook)‚ by buying it. The motivation I had then resulted from my needs‚ both utilarian and hedonic. On the one hand‚ utilarian need implies my attention towards to objective and tangible attributes of the products. My utilarian need was the necessity of using the laptop to do homework‚ paperwork
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souls‚ and mind. The biggest psychological theory that shows what a human needs to survive was Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. This theory show what every person needs and the superiority of each need: the base being the basic needs to the top being self-discovery‚ only available when the other levels are fulfilled. With
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“America Needs Its Nerds”‚ by Leonid Fridman‚ analyzes American society’s approach on how it views its intellectuals. In the following passage‚ Fridman describes how American society should stop looking down on academically serious people‚ by calling them “nerds” and “geeks”. Instead‚ these individuals should be treated with more respect. Also‚ he explains in the passage how Americans stress being social and athletic‚ rather than being intellectually adroit. Fridman develops his argument that America
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NEED ASSESSMENT Submitted by: Faryal Aslam INTRODUCTION A need assessment is a systematic process through which the needs can be determined and addressed through an analytical exploration which identifies how things are going compared to how they should be. Following are four step involved in the process of need assessment. PERFORMING A GAP ANALYSIS The first step in the need assessment process is to perform a gap analysis. In this process‚ the current and the desired states are analyzed
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Identify Needs of Learners: So‚ how do you begin to identify top learning needs and develop a plan? To identify the learning needs‚ in most case you can start from the organizational mission and strategic plan already in place. Recognizing the goals of the organization‚ ask yourself what are the specific skills‚ or knowledge requirements for any of your staff in order to contribute to those goals? For example‚ are these areas important for job success? • project management • management and
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