KENYA METHODIST UNIVERSITY FACULTY: BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT STUDIES DEPARTMENT: BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION COURSE CODE: DPBA 018 COURSE TITLE: INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS COURSE OUTLINE Purpose To equip students with statistical skills (Techniques) that will enable them solve problems arising from day to day business operations and also make sound managerial decisions. Objectives By the end of the course the student should be able to: 1. Perform basic statistical calculations 2. Identify
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Case 13 - Does cheating in golf predict cheating in business? 1) This case reports one of the worst problems of the society during the last decades - cheating. Nowadays you can find it anywhere‚ in business‚ in sports‚ everywhere if you can get an advantage of using it. This case describes a very interesting comparison between the ethical behaviour of business executives in a golf field and in their job. As everybody knows‚ golf works many times as a business sport‚ a golf field is a place where
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“The Art of Cheating” How this cheating in the electoral system could be minimized if not totally eradicated? In Philippine politics‚ it has been a conventional wisdom that no one loses – they just get cheated. Cheating in the Philippine elections has been so common that they have mastered the so-called “The Art of Cheating.” Charges of fraud and cheating have characterized the past elections in the country often citing irregularities in the manual counting of votes. This so-called “art of cheating”
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novel’s purpose from the very first page: "Hatred can be ordinary and evil can be commonplace”. In other words‚ racism is the main theme of the novel. He wants to demonstrate how the evil of racist violence strolls into Oakfield. Understanding why racism reigned in a town from a first-world country was difficult to comprehend. For this reason‚ we looked into some reasons that were explained in the novel. In the novel‚ many causes are responsible for a racist atmosphere. They range from world events
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The author points out the importance of ethics in modern society‚ providing examples of academic dishonesty. Cheating is a learned behavior picked up at a young age in the educational system‚ where one can be rewarded for cheating. The only concern for most people is the threat of being caught. The author provides an example of sub-prime mortgage crisis‚ being the result of massive cheating. According to the author‚ people once cheated their way through the education can be held accountable for economic
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Bob and Karl skipped town‚ each with a thousand dollars. 1a. Which is worse‚ stealing like Karl or cheating like Bob? I would say both. 1b.Why is that worse? Both are immorally wrong. This is what I think... Stealing is bad because you’re taking from the economy. It’s good because you’re getting vengeance for the underpaid foreign countries (mainly China) and you’re saving money. Cheating is bad because you’re STEALING answers that aren’t rightfully yours. You’re getting credit for somebody
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LONG TERM EFFECTS OF EXAMINATION MALPRACTICES ON THE EDUCATION SYSTEM AND THE ECONOMY The calamity of examination malpractice is not just the havoc it wrecks in our educational system but the gradual introduction of youths into the practice of fraud. Now so rampant‚ it has become a normal practical way of passing an examination; in simple terms these practices include linking of examination questions prior to writing‚ bribing of invigilating staff‚ possession of cheating material‚ impersonation
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From watching the movie‚ I’m even more upset with our current government system‚ because it shows that the government doesn’t care about us at all. They are only focused on the money that they can get from different companies and corporations. I found it repulsive that Nestlé secretly came into town and took the people’s water‚ without them even knowing about it. I believe that there should be no secrets kept from the people‚ because if this truly was a democracy‚ everyone would have a say in what
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Information Technology (EMEIT-2012) Design and Implementation of the Network Examination System Based on B/S Fanqi Meng Baicheng Normal University Baicheng‚ 137000‚ China asdf0195 @163.com Keywords: reform of test; B/S; database of item pool; network examination Abstract. Today the changes of the test mode are common. Many exams have adopted computer test‚ so the reform of text mode will be a trend in universities. Based on the working practice‚ the paper showed a project about the reform. It
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Parental Pressure within High School Students Should Stop. Back in High School‚ I had a best friend named Blen. We were very close. We were more like sisters. She used to tell me everything that happened in her life especially about her parents. I can say that her parents were very strict. The only person they need her to be with was just me. They used to tell her not to make a lot of friends. Even though Blen was a socializing person‚ she didn’t get a chance to make a lot of friends
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