Extra Credit Paper # 1: Film # 1 – Hidden Figures Summary of Key points: 1. The movie shows how prejudice and hate can interfere with effective intercultural communication in a work space 2. The movie shoes how racism and segregation in the US was used as a way to maintain power distance between those oppressed and those oppressing. Personal Reflective Statement: Hidden Figures does a great job telling a story of a group of incredibly smart Black Women who helped put the first man into space that
Premium Film English-language films Race
Alisa Ochoa Biology 3 Professor Mitch Voda 08 December 2011 Epigenetic: Hidden Switches Matt is a history teacher. His twin brother Greg is a drug addict. Growing up in the Boston area‚ both boys did well in high school: they were strong students in the classroom and decent athletes on the field‚ and they got along with their peers. Like many young people‚ the brothers drank the occasional beer‚ smoked cigarettes and experimented with marijuana. Then‚ in college‚ they tried cocaine. For Greg
Premium Drug addiction Epigenetics Addiction
section of the assignment reviews good practices in recruitment and selection‚ and I will illustrate it and complement it with TESCO´s case study‚ as the biggest private sector employer in the UK‚ and I will compare it with my current company INDITEX GRUOP‚ acting under my personal view as an employee‚ as well as in an objective way. By following good practices in this matter‚ companies may avoid issues such turnover‚ high costs in recruitment and selection or low morale of the workforce‚ which
Premium Job description Discrimination Employment
Introduction Six-week group discussion blazes a trail to understand the significance of effective group collaboration and associated performance appraisal. The post of leader rotates among group members and organizes group activities targeted at the specific topic for each week. Each weekly leader in our group would regularly send a motivated email on Monday‚ which briefly explains the main points of journal article and the flow path of group discussion. Basically‚ different forms of weekly meeting
Premium Performance appraisal Performance management Human resource management
Kyle McCall 2/20/13 During war times‚ nations hold the weapons or technology needed to win in high regard and closely guard them by keeping them secret from their enemies. Hitler was a charismatic leader of the Nazi regime with the pipe dream of world supremacy by the “superior race‚” Aryan‚ that had multitudes of secret programs‚ projects‚ and covert operations that he held very close as to avoid discovery from opposing nations. It has been concluded‚ from documents and evidence found post World
Premium Nazi Germany World War II Adolf Hitler
Early in December 2001‚ one of the biggest companies in the world went bankrupt. Enron was a world leader in natural gas and oil‚ or so the investors thought. What seemed to be a booming company in a booming economy turned out to be one of the biggest financial scandals in the history of the world. Executives at Enron misled investors into thinking they were continuously growing‚ when the real numbers insured that they were losing money every quarter. Enron‚ founded by Kenneth Lay in 1985‚
Premium Enron Kenneth Lay
The Strategic Development of Mid-Level Talent (A Project on MakemyTrip.com) Prof. Jenny Benoy and Ms.Apeksha Poojary KEYWORDS: Talent pipeline‚ Talent Management‚ Strategic Development ABSTRACT: Organisations are made up of people creating value through proven business processes‚ innovation‚ customer service‚ sales and many other important activities. As an organization strives to meet its business goals‚ it must make sure that it has a continuous and integrated process for recruiting
Premium Management Human resource management
Taylor Sheridan English 201A Professor Jim West 15 May 2012 The Hidden Cost of Convenience Human beings have had a relationship with the Earth through farming since 10‚000 B.C.‚ and to this day humans remain dependent on that very relationship. The development in farming techniques has exploded since the early 1900’s with the development of chemical pesticides and Genetic Engineering (GE). GE crops treated with pesticides produce larger quantities of food at an immensely faster rate. Approximately
Premium Pesticide Genetically modified organism Organic food
1) Once hired‚ why do people work so hard at Microsoft? What motivates them? Answer: First‚ the culture of Microsoft. As the vision Gates mentioned: a computer on every desk in every home‚ running on Microsoft software‚ spirited many young to work hard. Second‚ rigorous and firm recruiting policy and process. As Ballmer said‚ “ We want people who are smart‚ who work hard‚ and who get things done.” Third‚ Challenging work assignments and tasks. Microsoft believed that individuals were
Premium Bill Gates Microsoft Management
The Teachers’ Role in the Hidden Curriculum Abstract This paper examines the comments of a class of 27 students of one class. The responses centre around the hidden curriculum related to the role of the teachers and the teaching strategies they use and how they impact the attitudes of the students towards the subjects they teach. Key Words: hidden curriculum‚ teacher’s role "What you are shouts so loudly in my ears I cannot hear what you say." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Schools spend a valuable
Premium Education Teacher