ORGANISATIONAL ANALYSIS OF ZENITH BANK PLC BY GINA PEARCE SUBMITTED MAY 4TH 2009 An Action Learning Assignment submitted to Business School Netherlands‚ Nigeria in partial fulfillment of the requirements for an MBA Degree TABLE OF CONTENT CONTENTS PAGE 1.0 INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………………….. 4 1.1 Background……………………………………………………………………
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Matheson I S S U E S IN CULTURAL AND MEDIA STUDIES S E R I E S E D I T O R : S T U A R T A L L A N Media Discourses Analysing Media Texts Some of the most important questions regarding the relationship between media and culture are about communication. How are the meanings which make up a culture shared in society? How is power performed in the media? What identities and relationships take shape there? Media Discourses introduces readers to discourse analysis to show how media communication
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Wed. 9/1 -Sovereignty -Territory -Monopoly of Violence Governance -Governance is about rules (rules aren’t there until they’re put there.) -Setting the rules -Applying and interpreting the rules -Enforcing the rules -Key Questions: ~Which Rules? ~Who will do the things above? ~To whom do the rules apply? -Meta-rules: rules about setting‚applying‚interpreting the rules. -Governance is about managing the rules in order to enhance the legitimacy of the public realm.
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Hidden in Plain Sight: Racism in International Relations Theory Errol A. Henderson Dept. of Political Science Pennsylvania State University eah13@psu.edu ABSTRACT: This essay addresses the centrality of racism in international relations (IR) theory. It examines the extent to which realism‚ liberalism‚ and constructivism are oriented by racist precepts grounded in the intellectual foundation of IR. Specifically‚ my argument is that a racist dualism inheres within the philosophical assumptions
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Sociology of Sport Journal‚ 1994‚11‚356-375 O 1994 Human Kinetics Publishers. Inc. Homogenization‚ Americanization‚ and Creolization of Sport: Varieties of Globalization Barsie Houlihan Staffordshire University The paper explores the relationship between globalization and the concept of cultural imperialism. In addition‚ the paper addresses the problem of assessing the significance of particular sports and forms of organization of sport in the relationship between the global culture and recipient
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Balance of Power Theory As a theory‚ balance of power predicts that rapid changes in international power and status—especially attempts by one state to conquer a region—will provoke counterbalancing actions. For this reason‚ the balancing process helps to maintain the stability of relations between states. A balance of power system functions most effectively when alliances are fluid‚ when they are easily formed or broken on the basis of expediency‚ regardless of values‚ religion‚ history‚ or form
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Sociology is the science or study of the origin‚ development‚ organization‚ and functioning of human society; the science of the fundamental laws of social relationships‚ institutions‚ etc. It generally concerns itself with the social rules and processes that bind and separate people not only as individuals‚ but as members of associations‚ groups‚ and institutions‚ and includes the examination of the organization and development of human social life. The sociological field of interest ranges from
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The Potential of Social Media Platforms in the Internet in Facilitating Social Change: An Observation of the “Pro-RH” Facebook group. Introduction The year 2011 is remembered as the year of the ‘Arab Spring”‚ a period in the world’s history marked with a series of revolutions‚ protests and wars aimed in overthrowing corrupt and autocratic governments and an increased demand for equality and social rights in the Arab world. Starting in a “self-immolation” act of a market seller in Tunisia‚ the
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3 1 Semiotic Analysis I face this assignment—explaining semiotics and showing how it can be applied to television and popular culture to those who know little or nothing about the subject—with a certain amount of apprehension. I’m not sure whether semiotics is a subject‚ a movement‚ a philosophy‚ or a cultlike religion. I do know that there is a large and rapidly expanding literature on the subject and that many of the writings of semioticians are difficult to understand and highly technical
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Small States in International Relations INTRODUCTION Lilliputians in Gulliver’s World? IVER B. NEUMANN AND SIEGLINDE GSTÖHL 1. Small States in the International System Edited by CHRISTINE INGEBRITSEN‚ IVER NEUMANN‚ SIEGLINDE GSTÖHL‚ and JESSICA BEYER 2006 UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS • SEATTLE International Relations (IR) is a state-centric discipline as well as a powercentered discipline‚ and this volume will not challenge either of those two foundations. Our aim is rather to draw attention
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