Nakisa Pirooz SLWK-200 September 26‚ 2013 Reflection Paper 1 “I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else’s freedom‚ just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity‚” is a famous quote in “Long Walk to Freedom‚” by Nelson Mandela. Young African Americans arrested for drug possession are forty-eight times more likely to end up in prison than Caucasians are. Racism applies to other races as well from all
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MODERN SOCIAL WORK THEORY Contents List of Figures List of Tables Preface to the Third Edition A Note on Terminology xiii xiv xv xviii PART 1 Thinking about social work theory 1 The Construction of Social Work Theory What this chapter is about MAIN POINTS Practice and practice theories Practice and other theory The social construction of welfare and social work Are there paradigms of social work? Is social work theory ‘modern’ or ‘postmodern’? Arenas of social work construction The social
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Entrepreneurial Competencies - The EMPRETEC Model Research by McClelland and McBer‚ funded by USAID‚ has identified 14 personal entrepreneurial competencies (PECs) which appear to characterize the behaviour of successful entrepreneurs. The study‚ conducted in India‚ Ecuador and Malawi‚ also found that these PECs transcended culture‚ country and continent. These competencies can be grouped into 3 main clusters and the EMPRETEC model has merged some of these competencies to derive 10 PECs
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COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF WORK COMPETENCY OF MEN AND WOMEN AS PERCEIVED BY THEIR SUPERVISORS A thesis Presented to the Faculty of College of Accountancy‚ Business and Economics Batangas State University Don Claro Mayo Recto Campus Lipa City In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Major in Human Resources Management Brenlee Balita Estelita Andaya Jose Alilio 2012 APPROVAL SHEET This research paper entitled “Comparative
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Despite a growing interest of competency among mangers and human resource professionals in recent years‚ the modern competency movement in industrial-organizational psychology actually dates from the mid1950’s and early 1970’s. In that regard‚ John Flanagan’s work (1954) and Dave McClelland’s studies (1970) might be cited as two landmark efforts that originally invented the concept of competency. A Precursor of Competency Modeling : The Work of John Flanagan. A seminal article published
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A Competency is an underlying characteristic of a person which enables him /her to deliver superior performance in a given job‚ role or a situation. Competencies are seen mainly as inputs. They consist of knowledge‚ attitudes and skills that could affect an individual’s ability to perform. Competency Mapping Procedures and Steps * First Step: A job analysis is carried out by asking employees to fill in a questionnaire that asks them to describe what they are doing‚ and what skills‚ attitudes
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New York: Free Press. Barney‚ J. B. (1991) “Firm resources and sustained competitive advantage.” Journal of Management‚ 17: 99-120. Cameron‚ K.S. and Mora‚ C.M. (2003) “Corporate culture and financial success of mergers and acquisitions.” Working paper‚ University of Oxford press. Cameron‚ K.S. and Quinn‚ R.‚E. (1999) Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture. London UK. Mintel (2013)‚ Food Retail Industry – Including Online‚ Mintel Research. Porter‚ M. (2008). The Five Competitive Forces that
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Critically discuss how the use of competencies and competency frameworks can support the achievement of improved individual and organisational performance. In understanding how an organisation can improve through organizational competency frameworks‚ one must first understand what is a competency. Competency‚ defined by Boyzatis (1982: 21) is known as “the behavioral characteristic of a person which is casually related to effective or superior performance in a job” Competencies act as a signal from the
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Social Work in India..?? BIG REQUEST FOR ALL..... SOCIAL WORKERS PLZ GO THROUGH THIS ONCE- Starting with one institute offering a programme in Social Work in 1946‚ we have today a hoard of such institutes functioning from all across the country. The earliest graduates in Social Work migrated to the United States of America or Europe because Social Work is a recognised profession there. A degree in Social Work offered good employment opportunities as well as scope for private practice. In
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5/3/13 Social Work Theories Social Work Theories A social work theory provides an objective analysis of problems experienced by a society and the theoretical basis for various practices that are aimed towards dealing with them. These theories differ in their approach to solving social problems. Read to get a perspective of modern theoretical models‚ that represent different paradigms of social change. Social work is all about dealing with the various problems that besiege a society‚ inhibiting
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