. Literature review: A literature review discusses published information in a particular subject area‚ and sometimes information in a particular subject area within a certain time period. A literature review can be just a simple summary of the sources‚ but it usually has an organizational pattern and combines both summary and synthesis. A summary is a recap of the important information of the source‚ but a synthesis is a re-organization‚ or a reshuffling‚ of that information. It might give a new
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Role of Human Resource Function in Improving Business Performance Table of Contents 1. Introduction 1 2. Discussion 1 3. Literature Review 3 3.1. Technological Advancement 4 3.2. Work-force Diversity 5 3.3. Sustainability and Human Resource Management 6 3.4. Recruitment and Selection 7 3.5. Employee Retention 8 4. Conclusion 9 References 10 Role of Human Resource Function in Improving Business Performance 1. Introduction Human resource (HR) function is one of the key aspects in every organisation
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Literature Review Google INTRODUCTION IT company Google‚ are ranked amongst the best workplaces in both Australia and the USA. In 2009‚ Google Australia finished top of the list in the 2009 Great Places to Work study. This follows the lead of its US parent company‚ which ranked first in Fortune’s 100 best Companies to Work For list in both 2007 and 2008. Attributing to this success is the fact that Google has managed to create an environment that encourages highly motivated employees. Google
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Literature review: Literature review sets out as the main tool of the research study. Data allied to the Textile Sector was scrupulously collected. Sources of data include newspapers‚ journals‚ textile journals‚ research reports. Articles in the newspapers and journals appropriate to the subject have also been examined in detail. We have been listening in news for the past 4 years that the textile industry which used to be the backbone of Pakistan is not growing rather have gone on a declining
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Literature Review Functionalist‚ Emile Durkheim‚ was one of the first sociologists to study the issue of suicide and this work has become known worldwide. Many have either refined his work or criticized it. Although Durkheim’s book Suicide: A Study in Sociology (1970) focused on suicide rates in some European societies‚ he was able to distinguish four types of suicide and he spoke about the type of person who would commit suicide. Two of the types of suicides Durkheim defined occurred in industrial
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This literature review addresses several issues related to the study of aging. Theoretical perspectives‚ research methods‚ and current controversies are reviewed. One issue that has beset the development of research on aging is a definition of old age (Scanzoni & Scanzoni‚ 1988‚ p. 549). Research in the United Kingdom and the United States has found that the older a person is in a chronological sense‚ the later is the chronological age at which that person tends to think old age begins. The concept
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influence on body image across a wide age range is investigated. It is hypothesized that the mass media and peer influence have a negative effect on the way the general population feel about their body in terms to weight‚ and the following five literature reviews make an effort to validate the hypothesis. In a research study by Dohnt & Tiggemann (2006)‚ two questions served as guidance for the study. First‚ would the exposure to television and magazines produce a negative effect on children’s body image
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Literature Review on Marketing This part of the thesis deals with the research and critical comments on various literatures related with the marketing activities that can be implemented by a firm to improve their business performance. Marketing Strategy: According to Ferrell and Hartline (2010) Marketing Strategy is both art and science where the firm finds or plans ways to deliver their value by fulfilling the needs & wants of their potential customers. This helps in determining the marketing mix
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The link between population growth and economic development was the subject of intense research from the 1960s to the 1980s. A common view was that rapid population growth – of two percent or higher per year then prevailing in many developing countries – was more likely to hinder than foster economic development. This negative effect operates via reduced child care and human capital investment‚ lower household savings for private and public investments‚ and constraints on allocative efficiency‚ entrepreneurship
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uDoodle is a social networking site that allows users to socialize with friends and meet new people. The website offers features that are common to social networking sites and also introduces new and unique features. One of them is the Doodle Board‚ which lets users draw on a canvas like interface. Users are not limited to drawing on their own Doodle Boards because they may do the same to Doodle Boards of other users as long as they are permitted to do so. This lets people share their creativity
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