private labels play an important role in customer loyalty toward private labels in convenience goods‚ increasing consumers’ propensity to buy private labels in new categories such as durable goods. Generating trust and commitment‚ which ultimately result in loyalty‚ is therefore a strategic goal and a source of longterm profitability for retailers. © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction Retailers are aware that a strong brand is a source of competitive advantage for any company
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PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE Personal Productivity Software allows an individual to perform personal tasks with ease. Certain activities such as writing a memo‚ creating a graph and creating a presentation are made simpler with Personal Productivity Software. Many popular Personal Productivity Software tools include Open Office‚ Microsoft Word‚ Microsoft Excel‚ Internet Explorer and Quicken. Advantages • Familiarity as most professionals already use some method of Personal Productivity Software
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HOW PRODUCTIVITY IS DETERMINED Productivity is the quantity of goods and services produced from each unit of labor input. Productivity’s key role in determining living standards is as true for nations as it is for stranded sailors. Recall that an economy’s gross domestic product (GDP) measures two things at once: the total income earned by everyone in the economy and the total expenditure on the economy’s output of goods and services. GDP can measure these two things simultaneously because‚ for
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Mary Kelley Alec Fleschner Composition 1 Jan 20‚ 2013 Higher Education From a young age I knew higher education was important to be successful in life. I am one of seven girls‚ five of which are older than me. As I grew up I watched them all graduate high school and go on to college. Also‚ both of my parents graduated college. I felt as if it was expected of me to do the same as the rest of my family. Hearing about my parents’ college experiences to watching my older sisters
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of watching it on television? As a mental health counselor‚ clients depend on us as their last hope for answers to the issues they may be dealing with. However‚ we don’t possess the answers but only solutions that can help a client themselves cope and deal with their issue. In this essay I will discuss what it is like to counsel the character Remy from the movie “Higher Learning” (Singleton‚ 1995). I will give an overview of the movie and character‚ the presenting issues of the character‚ my approach
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1. Costs of Quality: There are four major categories: 1. Prevention costs are associated with preventing defects before they happen (need additional time‚ effort‚ and money). Companies employ many techniques to prevent defects for example statistical process control‚ quality engineering‚ training‚ and a variety of tools from total quality management (TQM). 2. Appraisal costs (Inspection costs) are incurred when the firm assesses the performance level of its processes 3. Internal failure costs
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Quality Management and Quality Enhancement in Higher Education: The Role of Social Media and Blog in Enhancing Learning Experience Dr. Maria Teresa Matriano Middle East College‚ Muscat‚ Oman (00968) 92142753 / maria@mec.edu.om / teresamatriano2004@yahoo.com ABSTRACT The higher education system of Oman has experienced a rapid increase in enrollment volume since its inception in 1986 (Al Shmeli‚ 2009). However‚ as the Sultanate of Oman’s HEIs experience an unprecedented growth
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bigger over time‚ TI had to perform competitively among other companies from all over world while reducing the costs of the products. At TI‚ quality was major focus during the international competition. Moreover‚ management also understood that‚ in order to obtain the long-run competitive success‚ it had to encounter greatly on expanding quality control. Thus‚ the company came up with “Total Quality Thrust” in which they developed the quality control system (i.e. they recorded cost of quality arose by
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Labor Productivity Grows by Increasing Investments in People What is Labor productivity: Labor productivity is defined by measurement of economic growth of a country. Labor productivity measures the amount of goods and services produced by one hour of labor. Specifically labor productivity measures the amount of real GDP produced by an hour of labor. Growing labor productivity depends on three main factors: investment and saving in physical capital‚ new technology and human capital. In order to
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This paper explores trends in higher education in terms of Max Weber ’s theory of rationalization. It is Weber ’s contention that there are four basic motivators for human behavior. People are motivated by custom or tradition‚ by emotions‚ by religious or ethical values‚ and by rational goal oriented behavior (which Weber calls "zweckrational"). All human behavior‚ Weber claims‚ is motivated by various combinations of these four basic factors. Weber ’s thesis is that bureaucracies increasingly centralize
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