Introduction 1. For your chosen organization and/or its industry sector outline the main external ‚ internal ‚ task and general environmental factors which would need to be considered by a potential outside investor when making a major investment decision. 2. Explain how some of the major operational and/or operational environment factor impact on functional areas within your chosen organization or organizations in your chosen industry sector. 3. In relation to your chosen organization and
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Show slide youtube on Mercedes innovation: Trivia: Did you know that 280 years ago‚ the British government announced if not the world’s first‚ then certainly the world’s largest prize for innovation at 20‚000 pounds reward for anyone who can “discover the longitude”- according to John Brandt. What is innovation? Why do organizations pay so much on research and development just to develop more of these? In a nutshell: 1. Innovation is something that is created as “new”. * According
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Some Early Definitions of Civilizations Civilization comes from the Latin word "civis‚" meaning "citizen."The term civilization has been defined and understood in a number of ways in a situation when there is no widely accepted standard definition. Civilizations have distinctly different settlement patterns from ordinary societies. The word civilization is sometimes defined as "a word that simply means ’living in cities’" (Standage 2005:25). Non-farmers gather in cities to work and to trade. Civilization
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EUROPE’S SECOND LOGISTIC Population and levels of living what sort of people these Europeans were‚ and what inspired that curious combination of adventurous spirit‚ pious sentiment‚ and brutal behavior that characterized the explorers and conqueror?. After a century of decline and stagnation Europe’s population began to grow. In the middle of 15 th century the population of Europe as whole was 45-50 million‚ it’s about 2/3 less than it was before the plague. By the middle of 17 th century the population
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The definition of culture is vague; culture does not define an individual‚ yet directly influences the individual’s mindset. A community’s culture is connected to the ideals it views as “the way of life;” therefore‚ culture can include ethics‚ morality‚ standard of living‚ and beliefs. Living in such environment would sequentially influence an individual to live by these ideals and view them as the norm. Interestingly‚ my culture is the mixture of the American culture and South Korea’s
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ESSAY #2 I believe that the state should not by itself have the power to declare war on another nation or country without the consent of the national government. the reason behind why I think this is because I believe that the government itself has enough power to keep the branches and there paper works in order and to do what is needed and expected of them to do nothing easel over that or under. I also believe that we south Carolinians if we do not
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rate for persons of age 7 years or above to 85% ▪ Lower gender gap in literacy to 10 percentage point ▪ Increase the percentage of each cohort going to higher education from the present 10% to 15% by the end of the plan Thrust Areas in the 10th Five Year Plan GENERAL : To achieve a profound transformation of higher education in order that it becomes an effective promoter of sustainable human development and at the same time‚ improves its relevance with closer links with the world of work
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The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor George Lakoff (c) Copyright George Lakoff‚ 1992 To Appear in Ortony‚ Andrew (ed.) Metaphor and Thought (2nd edition)‚ Cambridge University Press. Do not go gentle into that good night. -Dylan Thomas Death is the mother of beauty . . . -Wallace Stevens‚ Sunday Morning Introduction These famous lines by Thomas and Stevens are examples of what classical theorists‚ at least since Aristotle‚ have referred to as metaphor: instances of novel poetic language in which
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Contemporary Theories of Motivation Motivation is a desire to attain a goal‚ combined with the energy to work towards that goal. It involves the biological‚ emotional‚ social and cognitive forces that stimulate a person’s behavior. In everyday usage‚ the term “motivation” is frequently used to describe why a person does something. “There are three major elements of motivation- intensity‚ direction and persistence” (Robbins & Judge‚ 2011-2012‚ p209).Intensity refers to how hard a person tries
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