The Stakeholder Group has the main goals of supporting business‚ enriching the creative economy and growing the economy. The three goals steer the economic growth direction for the City. The City also has a Development Commission that was created in 1958 by the voters. It is Portland’s economic development and urban renewal agency. The commission has an executive director who is accountable to the Board of Commissioners that is made up of five (5) members who are nominated by the mayor and accepted
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Key Concepts | Key notions/ ideas/ points | Comments | InertiaWhy is it difficult to change? | To understand why there is organisational inertia and why it is difficult to change‚ it is necessary to first identify them so that they can be individually addressed. This can be done by categorising the inertias identified into ‘socio-technical’‚ ‘cultural’‚ ‘political’ and ‘economical’ with the ‘today’ and ‘tomorrow’ scenarios mapped out for each category. (refer to Appendix A for notes on the various
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Concrete solidifies and hardens after mixing with water and placement due to a chemical process known as hydration. The water reacts with the cement‚ which bonds the other components together‚ eventually creating a robust stone-like material. Concrete is used to make pavements‚ pipe‚ architectural structures‚ foundations‚ motorways/roads‚bridges/overpasses‚parking
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Unit 1- The Business Environment P2- Describe the different stakeholders who influence the purpose of two contrasting businesses Key stake holder’s introduction A stakeholder is any person who has an interest in a business. A stakeholder usually is an individual‚ a group or an organization. These people usually have an interest in a business because they are an owner‚ manager‚ worker or customer. These people have interest in the business because for most of them their profit or salary is
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Outline and Evaluate research into the relationship between the immunes system and stress-related illness. Stress has been widely identified to be linked with illness‚ which has therefore attracted researchers to investigate the relationship between the immune system and stress. Cohen et al for instance conducted a study where 369 participants were asked to complete a questionnaire which measured their Psychological Stress Index‚ consisting of a scale measuring their own perception of their stress
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Today’s business environment requires organizations to undergo change almost on a daily basis in order to remain competitive. These changes are typically unplanned and gradual. The content or what to change that I identified in my personal case is the shipping method for service parts that are exported to Europe. This particular type of change is referred to as an evolutionary change which is an ongoing‚ evolving process. The process of changing the shipping method for export service parts is with
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Internal controls and accounting systems AAT Level 4 Diploma in Accounting Assessment book Candidate This sample assessment is for familiarisation purposes only and must not be used in place of a ‘live’ assessment. When you feel prepared to sit the live assessment please contact your Training Provider who can schedule a live assessment for you. Guidance The unit being assessed by this report is Internal Controls and Accounting Systems. Assessment is by a formal business report
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CHANGES—AN ANALYSIS OF TUPAC Historians and cultural critics trace the post-modernist hip hop movement which pioneered sampling and graffiti art to the 1970′s‚ New York‚ a movement rooted in the black nationalism of the black panthers post civil rights movement (Price‚ 2006). Hip Hop has become a dominant global youth culture with music‚ art‚ fashion‚ films and Tupac an icon within this culture a “Black Elvis”. Hip Hop has many different sub genres such as conscious‚ gangsta‚ party rap and with
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Introduction: Principals are responsible for facilitating their school’s interactions with parents and others in the school community. This responsibility includes working with parents when disciplinary issues arise‚ when students are not succeeding academically‚ and when parents have concerns. Situation: In one school‚ the parents got so involved that collectively‚ they interfered with the transfer of the classroom location because they have contributed so much to its improvement. The school
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year of High school‚ her life is turned upside down. However‚ as she matures from being a very rebellious and determined girl to a more responsible and experienced young woman‚ perspectives of her own identity‚ her culture and the people around her change drastically. In "Looking for Alibrandi" changing perspectives is demonstrated through the concept of cultural background‚ Josie has to come to terms with her Italian heritage including Tomato Day or as she likes to call it National Wog Day‚ because
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