At first glance of this book‚ “The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains‚” I started to get the overall impression that the author‚ Nicholas Carr‚ was totally opposed to idea of technology. As a lover of technology myself‚ I dreaded reading this book because I thought that it was going to be a negative interpretation of technology. And while this book doesn’t exactly shed the most positive light on that subject‚ I’ve started to understand the overall views of Mr. Carr and identify with
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SYNOPSIS ON A STUDY OF THE VARIOUS ASPECTS OF TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT AND ITS IMPACT ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE‚ WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO SECL JAMUNA KOTMA (M.P.) [pic] Submitted Towards the partial fulfillment for the award of Master of Business Administration degree (U.P. Technical University‚ Lucknow) (2011-2013) SUBMITTED TO: - SUBMITTED BY:- Mrs. ANJANA SHAHU NAVEEN VERMA ASST. PROFESSOR
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Abstract Training and Development are of the most important aspects of the organizations as they represent the strategy organizations adopt to build a pool of skilled and highly qualified employees. This research paper tries to elaborate the effect of training and development on employee’s performance and accordingly on organization’s performance. Another objective of this paper is to stress on the importance given by the Egyptian Organizations to training and development as well as their opinions
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based on minds changed. The audience voted 36% for the motion‚ 33% against the motion‚ and 31% undecided. Nicholas Carr‚ author of The Glass Cage: Automation and Us (2014) and his previous book‚ The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (2011) writes about technology and the impact it has upon our culture and argues for the motion that smart technology is making humans dumb. Andrew Keen is an internet entrepreneur and author of three technology related books‚ one of them being The Internet
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understanding of sustainable design and emotional durable design. The course also presents how to use emotions in design and how to collect data from consumer. In Design experimentation the collected data will be used to create emotional durable design cases. Learning outcomes After passing the course‚ a student understands the emotional level of consumption and how to design for deeper person-product relations. Furthermore a student understands‚ in what kind of applications the results obtained
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enhancing the lives of the poor and therefore a major tool for economic and social development mostly in rural areas. Lately‚ contrary to this widespread belief‚ critics have raised eyebrows against this growing popularity of microfinance as a major tool for enhancing economic development. Contrary to belief‚ they are of the opinion that microfinance is a ‘make-belief’ that is hindering economic and social development rather than enhancing it. It is to this regard and in light of these growing controversies
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Investigate the Environmental and Ecological Impacts of Coastal Development Development along the coast is very popular due to the natural beauty of the area‚ and the opportunities that the coast has such as importing and exporting. Development includes things such as the building of human settlements‚ which would be encouraged by the fact that there would be jobs in the form of primary industries such as fishing but also in docks‚ which would be more development as they would have to be built. The coast
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Emotional Maturity Emotions are the foundation of each relationship in our lives‚ and the power of those emotions cannot be overlooked. Emotions often override our thoughts and profoundly influence our behavior – often without our awareness‚ and whether we like it or not. Most people seek relationship advice to find answers to problems they believe are responsible for their conflicts—without realizing there are more fundamental issues at the root of those problems. They are attempting to heal
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Meditation and the Brain Caitlin Scofield BACK-STORY "It is the face of our shadow that stares at us from across the iron curtain." - Jung I have never known nor feigned to know what it is I step into when I step forward. Last night I happened upon a question that shook me and left an unsettling feeling in my bones‚ like a call to look in‚ to traverse through darkness unarmed. I was beckoned to seek the meaning of my life. I have a way of intellectualizing things‚ of making them
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What is Psychosocial Development? Erik Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development is one of thebest-known theories of personality in psychology. Much like Sigmund Freud‚ Erikson believed that personality develops in a series of stages. Unlike Freud’s theory of psychosexual stages‚ Erikson’s theory describes the impact of social experience across the whole lifespan. One of the main elements of Erikson’s psychosocial stage theory is the development of ego identity. Ego identity is the conscious sense
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