THE BALANCED SCORECARD For Operational Control (evaluating performance and taking corrective action) most companies traditionally relied upon Financial measures of performance ( Return-On-Investment‚ Net Income‚ Total Revenues‚ etc. ( particularly at the strategic company-wide level. The problem with financial measures of performance is that they are: lag indicators of performance • are not operational – that is‚ they do not readily tell the nature of corrective action
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Cited: Grossman‚ Lev et al. “Grow Up? Not So Fast” Time. 2005 p42-54. Print Nickson‚ Christopher. “The History of Social Networkin
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Reflections of culture in Nigerian video films • Emmanuel Alozie‚ Governors State University • For more than 25 years‚ Nigeria has emerged as one of the world’s leading video film producers. Since its inception‚ the cultural messages and values contained in these films have been a subject of interest. Several studies have been conducted to examine the contents. This study relies on a collection of these studies to extract the most common themes that have emerged. It uses the information and communication
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White horse (mythology) From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search The 3‚000-year-old Uffington White Horse hill figure in England. White horses (which are rarer than other colours of horse) have a special significance in the mythologies of cultures around the world. They are often associated with the sun chariot‚[1] with warrior-heroes‚ with fertility (in both mare and stallion manifestations)‚ or with an end-of-time saviour‚ but other interpretations exist as well.
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With a strong sense of nationalism‚ artists painted beautiful scenes of American wilderness and desired to become independent of European schools of painting. (1) The Hudson River School was founded in the early 1820’s. (2) Artists Thomas Doughty‚ Asher Durand and Thomas Cole were the first leaders of the school. (2) Studying the wilderness around the Hudson River valley and nearby
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& Hummel‚ J. (2003). Piaget ’s theory of cognitive development. Educational Psychology Interactive. Valdosta‚ GA: Valdosta State University. Retrieved [date] from http://www.edpsycinteractive.org/topics/cognition/piaget.html McLeod‚ S. A. (2007). Lev Vygotsky. Retrieved from http://www.simplypsychology.org/vygotsky.html McLeod‚ S. A. (2008). Classical Conditioning. Retrieved from http://www.simplypsychology.org/classical-conditioning.html McLeod‚ S. A. (2011). Bandura - Social Learning Theory
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1.0 HUNGRY GHOST FESTIVAL The Hungry Ghost Festival or Yue Lan is under the categorized of fairs and festivals which the local community will assemble in particular area for any reason such as religious. It comprises of performances‚ arts and demonstrations by the community to celebrate any festivals. The fair often is non-profit event and festival primarily is non-profit event and it gives the opportunity to the communities to celebrate their culture. Hungry Ghost Festival is a festival that posses
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CHAPTER 1 Introduction Facebook as the world’s biggest social network creates an impact to every individual who become a user. This network serves as a connecting link between users and their peers to be updated on what is going on. In this manner‚ many people feel that they have to join the site and stay there in order to jive with the trend and be up-to-date on what is going on in their circle of friends which leads for them to become a facebook addict. One area in the life of individual
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Piaget developed the Cognitive Development Theory in how a child’s mind evolves‚ but Vygotsky took a different approach to parenting. As a Russian psychologist‚ Lev Vygotsky lived from 1896 to 1934‚ building the
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forget‚ and what thinking tool kit we need to utilize in order to solve problems. The cognitive approach builds on the behaviorist school of thought yet ignores biology. There have been many pioneers in this school of thought including Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky. The cognitive approach can produce empirical data but does not necessarily follow the scientific method and may lack a humanistic quality. The biological approach focuses on physiology‚ hormones‚ the CNS and the physical structure of
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