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    Recuritment & Selection

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    Recruitment & Selection Process at Tata Teleservices Ltd. (Tata DOCOMO) and measure the effectiveness of Recruitment Process A final summer internship report Tata Teleservices Ltd. The Guman 1‚ Amrapali Circle‚ vaishali Nagar‚ Jaipur – 302021. b ------------------------------------------------- A Report on ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Recruitment & Selection at Tata Teleservices

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    What Is Confirmation Bias?

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    “Confirmation bias is a beast” (Tyler‚ 2016). There’s bias in the media‚ in education‚ in the environment and in law enforcement. Recognizing bias is inescapable. Bias is when we favor information that agrees with our hypothesis‚ even if proven wrong. “Confirmation bias contributes to overconfidence in personal beliefs and can maintain or strengthen beliefs in the face of contrary evidence” “Confirmation Bias”‚ (2017). There are philosophies of morality that are social practices of right and

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    Employee Selection

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    The human resources‚ or HR‚ selection process is important because of the production and performance value companies get by making good hires and the high costs of replacing employees following bad hires. These considerations are especially heightened for small businesses. HR has taken on a more strategic role in many early 21st century companies‚ with hiring and selection integral to that role. Sponsored Link Have An Eye For Business? Choose From 8 Business Majors. Dual-Award Biz Degree In INTI

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    Bias In A Short Story

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    As a terminology‚ “Bias” is basically used as a word of judgment toward objects and people. In these short stories bias is served towards race‚ gender‚ and age; showing that discrimination towards the littlest things can change the perspective in someone’s eye. In the short story‚ ‘’Birthday party” racial bias is being told to us. The children’s Aunt May is in town for the summer and she went outside overheard the colored kid say “hey sis” towards Josephine but her aunt did not know that she and

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    Media Selection

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    Factors Influencing the Media Selection: [pic] The problem of selection of the best medium or media for a particular advertiser will vary greatly‚ depending on the particular situation‚ circumstances and different other factors in which a person is conducting individual business. Media selection involves a basic understanding of the capabilities and costs of the major media. The problems which the advertising has to face in the selection of media are: 1. Profile of the target market 2.

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    Recruitment and Selection

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    Recruitment and Selection In the competitive business environment nowadays‚ companies need to present themselves as serious players with edges in various aspects‚ one most important of which is quality of their workforce. The quality of an organization’s workforce ‚to some degree‚ determines how far it can go and this kind of quality depends mostly on an essential element in an organization’s operation‚ which is human resource management (Martin‚ J. 2008). Human resource management refers to the

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    In this essay the paradoxes and difficulties associated with the ongoing debate between ‘Indigenous Knowledge’ and scientific knowledge will be thoroughly discussed. An attempt will be made to take a stand and decide whether ‘Indigenous Knowledge’ and ‘Scientific Knowledge’ should have distinct boundaries or whether they are able to co-exist successfully. In order to do this‚ reference will mainly be drawn from readings by L. Green (2012)‚ M. Leach and J. Fairhead (2002). I will draw on evidence

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    knowledge

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    Know-how is more than knowledge. It puts knowledge to work in the real world. It is how scientific discoveries become routine medical treatments‚ and how inventions — like the iPod or the Internet — become the products and services that change how we work and play. The saying "Knowledge is power" is first attributed to philosopher Sir Francis Bacon in 1597. It was true then and it’s true now. Most firms recognize that knowledge in the form of Thought Leadership - delivering new ideas and

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    Media Bias

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    On September 11‚ 2001‚ the citizens of the United States witnessed a horrific attack on two symbolic buildings in New York City. These tragic events have galvanized the creation and implementation of a myriad of prejudicial and unconstitutional policies designed to provide the illusion of national security while simultaneous creating more instability and animosity between the West and the Middle East. In the wake of 9/11‚ a multitude of Americans have been overtaken by hysteria and fear. These

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    Racial Bias

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    When our class visited Joan and Robert Rechnitz Hall I felt as if this would be a hard assignment because I felt as if none of the artwork would catch my attention‚ seeing as I’ve never had an interest in artwork while growing up. This visit was really eye opening because not only did I enjoy the time we spent there‚ surprisingly I was actually interested in some of the work that was being displayed at that time. Although all the art exhibits were simply amazing the one that stood out the most

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