competitive advantage and business success through strategic HRD: an Indian experience Biswajeet Pattanayak Indian Institute of Management‚ Indore Abstract: This article offers a case study of a strategic HRD initiative to enhance organizational performance. Based at a corporation in India‚ the initiative involved an action research component to understand factors hindering current performance and HRD interventions aligned to business strategy to address the identified factors. The case study illustrates
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What is really meant by success? We are different individuals with different views and ideas about a certain matter. And every time we are asked about our dream in life‚ we often say that we want to be successful in life. The question is what is meant by success? When can we say that you are already successful? Our professor (Ma’am Jimenez) asked this during our last class prior to our examination in her class. We had offcourse our own definitions and indicators of success. Well‚ some of my
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BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS MARKETING Analysing Marketing Issues for Hewitt Associates INTRODUCTION Business-to-Business (B2B) marketing is a discipline in its own right and one of the fastest developing fields of marketing. A business-to-business marketing organisation focuses on relationship building and communication through marketing activities. Nowadays‚ focus of marketing has shifted from tangible things to intangibles things like skills‚ information and knowledge. Business-to-business marketers
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ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET Surname Thango First Name/s Sifiso Student Number 130675 Subject Human Resources Management Assignment Number One Tutor’s Name Shamila Singh Examination Venue Johannesburg Date Submitted 08/09/2015 Submission First Postal Address 08 Gibson Street Westonaria 1779 E-Mail sifiso.thango@gmail.com Contact Number 0736562498 Course/Intake MBA Yr1 – July 2015 Signature: Sifiso Thango Date: 08/09/2015 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION QUESTION 1 (Strategic Human Resource Management)
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Binaries are the classification of sex and gender based on two distinct groups based on masculinity and femininity. Queer theory is critical of gender binaries because these theorists feel that gender identity and sexual orientation are not definitive. Therefore‚ queer theory explains “that gender and sexual orientations are variable instead of fixed” (Queer Theory: What is Queer Theory?). Additionally‚ Queer theory is critical of heteronormativity. Heteronormativity is the idea that heterosexuality
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managers put great efforts into finding out what can influence project success. Through their continuing work and precious experiences‚ what factors dominate the success of projects is well documented in literature. The use of these guide texts can help project managers to deal with difficult tasks. Moreover‚ it is unanimous consensus that project critical success factors are necessary for management team to achieve project objectives and ensure success. If they are well considered and addressed‚
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causing stress but they are not helping the students to improve their academic abilities. They also only measure a small portion of what a meaningful education is. A meaningful education involves creativity‚ motivation‚ critical thinking‚ leadership and many more. Students are now so focused on how to test rather than how to use their creativity to help them learn subjects like math‚ science‚ history‚ and english. All of the subjects which are tested on in the state’s standardized tests. Standardized
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1800’s‚ there was a series of occurrences that influenced women across the U.S. The Women’s Suffrage Movement was a major turning point in the lives of women. There were many rights that woman were being deprived of during that 1800’s. Women were raped‚ abused‚ called names‚ sexually assaulted‚ and given poor education. They were underestimated in many different aspects and were thought to be incapable of making their own decisions. The ongoing attack and criticism against women was what triggered
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emissions. The other dirty side of this “power generation coin” is nuclear power. The process itself‚ when regulated and maintained correctly‚ is quite safe. Incidents like the 1986 Chernobyl plant meltdown and the incident mentioned in this book‚ the 2011 Fukushima Accident caused by the tsunami can have disastrous consequences. So what can be attributed to the closing of coal plants and the decline in construction of nuclear power plants? Well‚ the price of natural gas‚ which by the way is a cleaner
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Effects on Same Sex School Does anyone think about what is same sex school? Why any students want to go there? Both single sex school and co-ed school have advantages and disadvantages. If we were parents‚ we would think that which school is better to let children go. Some of them do not care about the issue‚ but it may happen some problems to their children. In other word‚ if parents think about it carefully‚ their children will be successful. Going to same sex schools have had several positive
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