What is Management? 1. Describe what management is Management is EFFICIENCY and EFFECTIVENESS – Getting work done through others 2. Explain four functions of management Planning‚ organising‚ leading and controlling 3. Describe different kinds of managers Top managers‚ Middle‚ Managers‚ First-Line Managers‚ Team leaders 4. Explain the majour roles and sub-roles that managers perform in their jobs. Mintzberg’s Managerial Roles Interpersonal – Figurehead‚ leader‚ liaison Informational
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Practical Ethics H.Narayanan‚ EE Department IIT Bombay‚ Mumbai (Text of a lecture delivered on 16th Oct 2012) A dilemma faced by young people‚ usually at the stage when they leave home for the first time‚ is that rules that they have lived by thus far seem questionable. On the one hand the impulses that tempt and torment them seem natural while on the other‚ breaking rules that the parents have taught them in their childhood seems very wrong. Further‚ those who break their shackles are in danger
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WHAT ARE THE HEALTH BENEFITS OF EXERCISE? Physical exercise is very important for a healthy body. To stay healthy and fit‚ we need to exercise regularly. Most people believe that exercise and work are the same. They believe that if they exert effort‚ flex their muscles during work‚ it is already an exercise. But exercise and work are not the same thing. Although both expend energy‚ exercise has an element of pleasure. When you work‚ you become tired‚ the same as when you exercise. But in exercise
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1.2 Describe underpinning theories of change Undermining is; repairing of faulty foundations. There are many theories that explain the reasons for change and the way people react to changes. Mckibben explains reasons for changes in three ways Firstly it is the incremental changes‚ these are small changes. It may be a change in Timetable‚ change in a parents feedback form so that more information is gathered‚ area being cordoned off because of a leak. This would mean changing or tweaking things for
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MPH 5506 u06d1 Psychosocial Underpinnings of Program Evaluation Program evaluation is determined based on several criterion; criteria that is dependent upon the population‚ behavior‚ acute or chronic disease studied‚ as well as funding source. “Assessment activities‚ both needs and asset based‚ can play a valuable role in helping agencies make decisions by providing valid information to better target services and efforts. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) identifies assessment as one of three
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manager is merely the retailer with no opportunity to temper with the contents of the red wine. The law of negligence dates back as far as 1856 when Lord Baron Alderson in Blyth v Birmingham Water Works Company gave a simple and precise definition of what constitutes negligence in the following terms; Negligence is the omission to do something which a reasonable man guided upon those considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct of human affairs would do‚ or doing something which a prudent and
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Senestraro‚ Intro Phil F2012 Jeffrie Murphy on “Forgiveness” 1. What is ‘forgiveness’ and when is it best to forgive? Jeffrie Murphy defines forgiveness as the “principled overcoming of feelings of resentment…directed towards a person who has done one a moral injury.” (JM) 2. JM distinguishes forgiving a person from excusing the act and from justifying the act. To (successfully) excuse an act is to show that the wrongdoer is not fully responsible for the wrongdoing: “He was tired.” “She
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Singer’s principle of equality appears intuitively practical and convincing as it favours the dismissal of many types of discrimination based on innate characteristics such as gender and ethnicity. However‚ it can have radical consequences deeming it far less attractive than its prima facie appeal. Singer’s moral concepts and ideologies have often been termed useful for normative ethics as they are founded on presumptions that are simple and universally acknowledged (Schaler‚ 2009). Nonetheless‚
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Student Number - T/11/14/0118 December 11‚ 2014 DMT 104 Practical Life ASSIGNMENT: According to Montessori‚ Practical life exercises are seen as the cornerstone of the Montessori Method. Why are Practical Life exercises so important to a child? Maria Montessori said that ‘an adult works to perfect the environment‚ but a child works to perfect himself’ (Maria Montessori‚ Absorbent Mind). She illustrated it by a boy on the beach. The child clings to the shovel. No one tells the child
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The Constitution‚ “The system of fundamental principles according to which a nation‚ state‚ corporation‚ or the like‚ is governed.” (Dictionary.com) Within a three-year span ranging from 1787 to 1789 the United States Constitution was written‚ ratified‚ and put into practice. Within the United States Constitution‚ congress members hold the following responsibilities: organization of both the Executive and Judicial branches‚ the raising of revenue‚ creating laws to execute power‚ etc. In return‚
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