Wal-Mart’s acquisition of Massmart: will the effects be detrimental rather than beneficial? The recently approved acquisition of a 51% stake in Massmart by Wal-Mart has brought about a lot of speculation as to whether this deal will mainly positively impact South Africa’s GDP or not. By investing in the African market‚ Wal-Mart will to a greater extent impact South Africa’s labour market as well as lead to the growth of the retail industry at a faster rate‚ thus positively impacting growth in the
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Second Language Acquisition and the Critical Period Hypothesis When learning a second language a native-like level is hardly ever reached. Various research has been conducted into this phenomenon which has resulted in a number of hypotheses concerning the possible cause thereof. One of these is the Critical Period Hypothesis which states that there is an optimum period for learning a second language that ends after puberty. Can the Critical Period Hypothesis adequately explain why people acquiring
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the way the employees will behave the customers. In order to achieve this‚ there are some subtle behaviors that can send the most powerful messages to the customers. These involve the prompt initiation of the conversation‚ verbal greeting‚ getting customer committed which are all to welcome the customer as a guest. Hi is a good word with a smile on face to greet. Apart from these‚ icebreakers are also important which dispel the suspicious thoughts of the customers by using some compliments‚ comments
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Speech (motherese); CHILDES 5. Gordon Wells & The Bristol Project ============================================================== Summary of Theories of First Language Acquisition Three broad theories of L1 acquisition: 1. behaviourist (e.g.‚ Stimulus-response conditioning- Skinner) 2. innatist (e.g.‚ Universal Grammar- Chomsky) 3. interactionist (e.g.‚ Constructional learning- Tomasello) 1. Behaviourism Behaviourism doesn’t explain
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JORIND 9(2) December‚ 2011. ISSN 1596 – 8308. www.transcampus.org.‚ www.ajol.info/journals/jorind PUBLIC RELATIONS STRATEGIES AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN NIGERIA Ezekiel S. Asemah asemahezekiel@yahoo.com Abstract Public relations is a planed communication that can be used by both government and nongovernmental organisations to build and maintain mutual understanding with the publics. It is a tool which can be used to facilitate development in any country that
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Second Language Acquisition Second language acquisition or second language learning is the process by which humans all over the world learn a second language in addition to their native languages. Second language‚ target language or L2 are all synonyms which are used to refer to any language learned in addition to the native language called mother tongue‚ first language or L1. Furthermore‚ second language acquisition can also include a third language‚ which is then called heritage language or multilingualism
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“EFFECTIVENESS OF CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME IN STATE BANK OF INDIA” Submitted In The Partial Fulfillment Of Degree Of MBA Batch 2006-08 SUBMITTED TO: - SUBMITTED BY:- Mrs. Riya Sharma Rishi Gupta (Project Guide) Roll no. 0471483906 [pic] MAHARAJA AGRASEN INSTITUE OF TECHNOLOGY PSP AREA‚ SECTOR-22 ROHINI‚ DELHI—110085 Ph: 25489493- WHOM
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British Journal of Management‚ Vol. 9‚ 91-114 (1998) Attributes of Successful and Unsuccessful Acquisitions of US Firms^ Michael Hitt‚* Jeffrey Harrison‚^ R. Duane Ireland* arid Aleta Best§ *Lowry Mays College of Business Administration‚ Texas A&M University‚ College Station‚ TX 77843-4221‚ •College of Business Administration‚ University of Central Florida‚ Orlando‚ FL 32816‚ ’Hankamer School of Business‚ Baylor University‚ Waco‚ TX 76798-8004‚ and ^College of Business and Industry‚ University
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The following are the other important reasons for mergers or amalgamations: 1. Economies of scale. An amalgamation company will have more reasons at its command that the individual companies. This will help in increasing the scale of operations and the economies of large scale will be available. These economies will occur because of more intensive utilization of production facilities‚ distribution network‚ research and development facilities‚ etc. these economies will be available in horizontal
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Based on the information given but in your own words‚ explain what approaches to recruiting might be best suited for Apple’s talent acquisition Based on the information given I would choose Electronic recruiting‚ and the internal source approach as the two recruiting methods for Apple’s talent acquisition. The overall goal is to identify and attract applicants from among individuals already holding jobs with the organization Internal source recruiting allows hiring from within the organization
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