Section A Question 1 (70% of exam marks) The scenario is intended to be realistic and the date is 28 November 2012‚ though assumptions of strategy and acquisition intent are fictitious. Scenario You have recently joined the Strategy Department at Koninklijke Ahold NV‚ the Dutch retailing group. The company has “strong local consumer brands in Europe and the United States” and states in the 2011 annual report that it has “embarked on a new strategy to build upon our success‚ and significantly
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kind of people. They design the criteria which is best suited for a specific job description. Their other tasks related to recruitment include formulating the obligations of an employee and the scope of tasks assigned to him or her. Based on these two factors‚ the contract of an employee with the company is prepared. When needed‚ they also provide training to the employees according to the requirements of the organization. Thus‚ the staff members get the opportunity to sharpen their existing
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The humanistic perspective appeals to me since the basis for this theory is that we have free will‚ and our behavior isn’t predetermined. This theory assumes that people are unique‚ and all possess a drive to reach their maximum potential. This theory also favors studying the results from individual cases‚ in lieu of the average performance of a group. This method of measuring results reinforces the concept that all people are unique and capable of making our own decisions. After all‚ one of the
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Eclectic Theoretical Orientation An orientation that does not follow any one theoretical approach but rather selects from each theory whatever is considered the best in it. There are many forms of eclecticism but it is not really important to know or understand the differences between them all. Psychologists and therapists use a pragmatic approach to therapy‚ meshing all of the above approaches together to fit the individualistic human being that sits before them for the first time with their
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Aquino gov’t falls short of jobs‚ spending targets JOBS NEEDED. While the Philippine economy enjoyed highs in 2012‚ millions of Filipinos are in search of decent jobs. Photo by AFP. MANILA‚ Philippines - The Aquino administration has fallen short of its employment generation target of a million per year‚ while its public spending ratio continued to slide. In the Socioeconomic Report (SER) 2010-2012 released by the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA)‚ the agency said the administration
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in households with smokers were more likely to smoke‚ but parental disapproval of smoking was associated with a lower smoking rate (Martini & Sulistyowati‚ 2004). In addition‚ according to Da Silva Pinto and Aparecida Ribeiro (2007)‚ the following factors were related with smoking initiation and current smoking: curiosity‚ presence of smokers as social contacts‚ not being praised for not smoking‚ and perceiving oneself as having poor or average scholastic performance. With regards
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My personal theoretical orientation to counseling is Cognitive-Behavioral therapy. Cognitive-Behavioral therapy helps the client to uncover and alter distortions of thought or perceptions which may be causing or prolonging psychological distress. The theoretical foundations of CBT are essentially those of the behavioral and cognitive approaches. CBT leads to a clear‚ persuasive‚ and evidence-based description of how normal and abnormal behavior develops and changes (Kramer 293). The term “cognitive-behavioral
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Since Behaviourism‚ there has been a shift in the way psychologists view things which leads onto our new approach psychodynamic. The -psychodynamic approach arose by Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud who was born in 1856 and in 1880 took a liking in psychiatry. The theories accentuates the unconscious motives and desires alongside also highlighting the vitality of our childhood experiences and how they impacted our personality. The main key assumptions of this theory is the endless determination
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These components may also be used as an education learning system that offers various information and explanations that can also be found in different educational books. Internet is one of the best components of mass media that is mostly used by the large number of people in our society‚ but in our present generation‚ internet is not just used to gather different information but it is also used for pleasure and entertainment. This paper intends to explain an issue due to the used of mass
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Chapter I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND This chapter presents the problem and its background. Introduction Fast food industry has been in existence for the past years. The growing popularity of the industry gave way for many businessmen to put up many branches or chains in different parts of the country. This leads to birth of fast food chains‚ by which Jollibee‚ McDonalds‚ KFC‚ Mang Inasal‚ Chowking‚ and WOK Express and Greenwich are few examples. People prefer to go into fast food chains
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