Using pertinent academic literature‚ critically discuss the following question: “Should sports development focus on the development of elite sport or the development of a wider social agenda?” The main purpose of sports development is to focus on increasing participation and physical activity for children‚ younger adults and older people creating stronger and healthier communities. “Development encourages more people to take part in sport generally” (Sports Development Officer‚ n.d). Sports development
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1. What qualities should an effective leader possess? “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.” The pre-eminent spiritual leader of India‚ Mohandas K. Gandhi‚ tells us what leadership really is – being a people person. Leaders are not those who achieve success by underhand methods‚ but they are the ones that understand his followers before undertaking the difficult job of leadership. Certain qualities are necessary to help effective leaders understand
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Wal-Mart efforts to Green Supply Chain As America’s and the world’s largest retailer‚ Wal-Mart employs more than 2.1 million associates worldwide‚ including more than 1.4 million in the United States. With $405 billion in sales for fiscal year ending January 2010‚ Wal-Mart operates 8‚400 retail units around the world and works with 100‚000 suppliers. In 2005‚ Lee Scott‚ Wal-Mart’s Chief Executive Officer‚ outlined a series of environmental sustainability efforts the company would pursue to lessen
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I started going to back to Phoenix with the intention of getting my MBA with an emphasis in IT Security. I then decided to just do an MBA and put of my “concentration” off to a later date‚ if ever. Like most people‚ there are many reasons to go back to school. Going further with my current job‚ possibly going on to a bigger and better job‚ and getting a feeling of self-satisfaction that I “did it” are the reasons I kept trying. This week we learned how to advance our positions in our individual
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have to evolve and do whatever necessary to succeed. Malachowski’s view on the evolutionary paradigm sheds light on the how business’ use their evolutionary beliefs to oversee‚ if not‚ completely ignore moral behavior. Moral competitive behavior should drive all businesses to develop strategic marketing and advertising skills with the goal to surpass its competitor and create a niche for its services and products. A healthy rivalry can generate consumer interest for the product and services
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Functional areas in Tesco and Oxfam 1. Introduction In this report I am going to compare functional areas of two contrasting organisations Tesco and Oxfam. Tesco is aiming at achieving profit‚ investing and offerring services and products to customers.Oxfam is a non-profit organisation‚ helping people in crisis. Tesco is a British multinational grocery and general merchandise retailer‚ it has stores in 14 countries across Asia‚ Europe and North America and is the grocery market leader in UK‚ where
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countries in a geographic region to reduce and ultimately remove tariff and non-tariff barriers to the free flow of goods or services and factors of production among each other (Ghani et al.‚ 2008). It can be also refers as any type of arrangement in which countries agree to coordinate their trade‚ fiscal‚ and/or monetary policies are referred to as economic integration. Obviously‚ there are many different levels of integration as listed below: Free Trade Area: A free trade area occurs when a group
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Brand Management across geographic boundaries and market segments The "Apple Halo" Apple’s encouragement of differentiation between product designs and its promotion of secrecy around new product launches heightens the Apple mystique. These create the Apple "halo effect‚" where a buyer of one Apple product has a high probability of returning to Apple for other products as well. Apple’s has emphasized its unique retail stores through design for several of its flagship locations as well as tailoring
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1. How does "Casablanca" support the war effort? Recall any scenes or lines that contain pro-war messages. Casablanca starts as a news reel. You see a slowly turning globe that highlights the ally countries and the axis countries during WW II. Also‚ there is a documentary-style narration at the beginning of the movie‚ which sets the tone for a war time movie. Also‚ there is a scene in the movie where Germans are at Rick’s bar sing a German song. Then Victor causes the bar band to begin playing
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56108 Assignment 1: Focus on the learner Background For this assignment I chose Fernando; a 25 year old Spanish male from Seville. Fernando is an upper intermediate student‚ and is currently preparing to undertake his First Certificate examination. Fernando has been living in England for 6 months‚ since he graduated from university in Spain last year. He has been learning English since he was 11‚ but has only recently become his primary academic focus. Fernando is currently
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