CAUSES OF PROBLEM FACING SOCIAL STUDIES The finding that an unacceptably high percentage of preservice elementary teachers shared a negative perception of their past encounters with social studies presents a serious challenge. The cumulative percentage of participants who described their past social studies courses as being either "very interesting" or "interesting" was 58.5 percent. For those who reported their past social studies courses as being either "very uninteresting" or "uninteresting‚"
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MODELS OF ORGANIZATIONAL DECISION MAKING When we speak of rational behavior‚ we should remember that our focus in this discussion is not on making decisions‚ but rather on how to support the process of making decisions. Managers are change agents‚ not just decision makers‚ so the steps before and after a decision are as important as the actual choice of action. Preparatory steps include creating tension for change‚ understanding the positions of the various constituencies‚ and developing political
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Rough Draft Leigh Ann Ofeimun COM/156 September 4‚ 2011 Lisa Acerbo Rough Draft The credit card companies are using vigorous practices to entice young college students to get credit cards‚ and paired with the gaining “high social status” and self-gratification‚ students have completely bypassed the responsibility of getting an education about credit card use and how to stay out of debt. The use of free gifts and food by credit card companies has contributed to the students’ lack of
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A Decision of Uncertainty Paper Cynthia Anderson QNT/561 November 14‚ 2012 University of Phoenix A Decision of Uncertainty Paper Decision: To buy or not to by the new Apple iPhone 5. Just recently‚ this past spring my cell phone contract recently expired after a continuous extension of over lapping contracts for over ten years. I have decided to finally upgrade my cell phone. The saturated cellular device industry can meet various consumer needs just depending on how sophisticated of a device
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Challenges Facing Islam and the Muslim Ummah Columnist Col (Retd) GHULAM SARWAR discusses the difficulties facing Muslims in today’s world It is a fact‚ universally acknowledged that current world crises have assumed alarming proportions‚ leaving everybody in a state of utter awe and fear. The US and its trusted ally‚ Britain‚ are seen hell-bent on ensuring world domination through means fair or foul. Yesterday‚ Sudan and Afghanistan were brutally targeted. Today it is Iraq‚ which is the victim of
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The Success Factors of Developing Countries in Facing Globalization The question of whether globalization could give benefits for all countries in the world becomes an interesting issue. Rapid technological development in various fields and changes in global policies result globalization must be faced by develop countries and developing countries. The concept that globalization has caused negative impacts particularly for developing countries is not entirely correct. Globalization could bring
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Figure 1: Decision Support Systems. Retrieved from http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-images-word-cloud-dss-decision-support-system-related-items-image35542029 INTRODUCTION Decision Support System (DSS) is a computer based system which uses analytical models‚ specialized databases and aids the decision makers in making complex decisions in an organization. In the old days‚ a group of professional people in a company used to consider various factors and variables while taking a complex
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Group decision making could be analysed as a very complex process whereby individual contributions play a big role in it. Wood et al. (2010) explained that group decision effectiveness equates to individual contributions add group process gains and deduct group process loss. We felt that the decisions made in groups contributed to a major part to mould the behaviour of individuals in future group activities. Hence‚ it is crucial to focus and analyse on the key factors that created effective group
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Discuss the problems and opportunities facing the global advertiser The prevailing arena in business this millennium has powerful forces‚ which are transforming markets and spectacularly changing ways of doing business. There has been increased movement of people‚ goods and organisations across borders‚ which have resulted in the emergence of global market segments and the growth of globally integrated markets. In order to discuss the problems and opportunities facing the global advertiser in today’s
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Chapter-1 Introduction 1.1 Introduction Motivating high performance in pharmaceutical sales teams is a growing issue in the pharmaceutical industry. The challenges facing the pharmaceutical industry in motivating sales teams are compounded by a variety of factors that many other industries do not face including: government regulation of sales practices‚ non-direct tracking of sales results‚ and the impact of managed care on sales performance. By impacting a few key team process and compensation
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