... ) 3. Liberation linguistics vs. Deficit linguistics To use Kachru's model, the controversy is carried out between a scholar from the inner circle (Quirk) and a scholar from the outer circle (Kachru). The start of this debate dates back to the 1980s when, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the British Council a volume entitled English in the World: Teaching and Learning the Language and Literature was published. This volume ... to understand the English used by a fellow Indian delegate. Afterwards she demanded that the Ministry of Education should do something about the standar...

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... reduction, increased productivity, and in assisting an agency in staying organized, it seems appropriate to touch on the question of what types of systems are the most useful. Of course, this question will depend to a great extent on the type, size, and scope of the nonprofit and its core mission. For example, an organization that deals with large amounts of clerical data concerning clientele, mass mailings, and ... Review that in his opinion businesses could learn a great deal from the commitment that nonprofits have to their missions (in McLaughlin, 1995), particularly as this applies...

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... we have a problem with market share and over production, quality is now the issue not quantity. The areas which are expanding at the moment are the knowledge and service based industries where a totally set of management techniques need to be implemented compare to the days of Taylor. Henri Fayol was a Frenchman and was another great contributor the the development of Scientific management. His five major categories of administration have become ... than quantity. Another great contributor to the early development of organisational theory was Max Webber. In both America and Europe large...

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... her great sense of humor. In her teens, she attended boarding school in Virginia and later a French School in New York City. Juliette spent several years searching for something useful to do with her life. Her search ended in 1911 when she met Sir Robert Baden Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides (Pradick). Less than a year later, she returned to the United ... of association with great and good men, he is the one, more or less, invisible figure to whom I owe an incalculable debt (Manske 10). It should be emphasized that real skill in leading others has to be natural and si...

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... when an organization is in a resistance mode, no matter how skillful and creative the human resource management professionals are in developing diversity programs, they will not meet with great deal of success. The organization must be committed to diversity and its employees for any training program to be truly effective. There must be a shared responsibility between policy makers and employees ... must be dialogue throughout the organization. Diversity training can be an instrument in getting people to recognize that the world we live in is different today that a decade ago. As the wor...

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... as yours; what behaviours will be approved of in the company and which disapproved of; what sort of people are likely to get promoted and indeed what sort of people are likely to stay with the company in the long term. It is a mistake to think that all companies are the same. In fact, there are very great differences in the cultures of companies. Culture controls what people do ... and how they act in a company. An example might be a new employee working within a group of long serving employees, and if the group had a set way ... productivity and satisfaction among workers. In some oth...

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... to furnish a bunch of quality services to the patients. A physician must have lifelong learning and responsibility from a recognized institution to be enough experienced and to be able to provide quality treatment to a patient otherwise patient might be go under crucial and risky zone even to death. Not only health care organization but also individuals have to identify the competencies to manage the care for the patient ... are careless as well as its management body also irresponsible to the patients' pre requisition. Bearing the Trust of Patients Another important part of the assessm...

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... and Kelloway, 2002). Virgin Trains vision provides all employees with clear direction, backed by the support and encouragement of managers from the top down to challenge existing practices and suggest new ideas. Linked closely to the vision is the organization's culture. A clear vision enables an organisation to change organisational culture in a positive way. The organizational culture at Virgin Trains provides leadership programs for front-line staff and managers ... team climate consist of three dimensions: affiliation, trust, and innovation (Bock et al., 2005). Affiliation is equiv...

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... Rule recognizes and values all differences, but does not require that people be assimilated into the dominant culture. It allows for the individual mosaic of people. A "tool" in the truest sense of the word is the technology we have available today. Technology is the great equalizer. Technology can eliminate differences among us that do not matter; it can neutralize favoritism and bias. Targeted use of technology can ... ). Some examples of ineffective training include training that attempts to help the victim, by trying to get the individual to conform to the organization's culture. Som...

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... human resource demand would be needed over the next five years. By applying the steps to HR planning, and determining the factors that might arise to affect the supply of human resources, Restaurant Brands International could effectively develop and implement their strategic HR plan. Recommendations to improve or maintain the strategic plan of this merger would be to implement the Three commitments to Canada principles to the best of their ability. Since 90 ... years in Canada. Tim Hortons has almost reached market saturation in Canada so a better option would be to focus on developing ...

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... impact the risk exposure of the business. Monitoring helps to identify these new risks and the need for new control procedures. For example, upgrading to a new financial management application may expose an organization to new risks related to the accuracy of accounting records, or may increase opportunities for fraud or abuse to occur and remain undetected. The responsibility for overseeing the monitoring function generally falls to the CEO and the chief fiscal officer. The CEO ... should communicate to all ... ...

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... Congress would be unrelenting. While the adoption of a managerial labor organization would be the harder route, the potential benefit of full coverage could be worth the fight. The difficulty in assessing the exact measures to take in this case comes from the ambiguity of the supervisor position, as well as the blanket definition given to supervisors under the LMRA. Regardless of whether the change comes from altercations to the LMRA or the adoption of a management-friendly ... labor relations model, the continuous growth of managerial positions ... ...

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... 's workforce becoming increasingly diverse and organizations doing more to maximize the benefits of the differences in employees. In future organizations, Human Resource managers will evolve from the "old school" sideline player to the front-line fighters. Organizations are relying on more managers to get the people who get the job done, and of course, make the company money. People have always been central to organizations, but their strategic importance is growing ... they identify as necessary (Straus, 1990). An organization should take stock of all training and development provided a...

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... more cost effective. 5.4 Graduate recruitment United Utilities offers a placement scheme to graduates which allows them to enter a reputable company. The company will then put money into developing them to the highest standard of which they would employ. Each year the company recruits the best and the brightest from new graduates to enter the two-year management training programme. During the two year scheme graduates will be further developed and trained in ... to the employer could be that the employee may start to abuse the system and this would result in valuable lost time to the em...

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... and effect relationships and a mixture of outcome measures and performance drivers. The important idea here is the linking of the Balance scorecard to strategy. There is generally thought to be three enabling principles in this regards: With regards to the Cause and Effect Relationships the balance scorecard is much more like a network of linked indicators rather ... indicators) and performance drivers (leading indicators) that have been customised to the business unit's strategy. Linking To Financials: Ultimately, casual paths from all of the measures on a balanced scorecard should be li...

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... , responsiveness to change, etc. The prevalent technologies today are Lotus Notes and the Internet, while there exist various specialised applications/utilities to supplement them. 3. Summary of the Comparative Analysis Ten examples of knowledge management efforts in consultancies from the literature were selected as the sample for this study. Four had to be discarded due to the lack of adequate information in the respective literature references. The remaining six firms were studied according to the defined ... framework. An appendix to the present paper ... ...

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... were appropriate. For example, Bob Noyce (the initial CEO) knew that when the company reached a certain size, his management skills were not up to the task and that he couldn't lead a formal system. At that point he stood down for Gordon Moore to take the lead (Rijamampianina course notes). 5. Succession planning - difficult but crucial The mining industry has been poor at succession planning ... - harder than you might think Some books advocate that for a company to turn around, all it needs to do is find itself a great leader. This is not the case unless the leader is also a good manag...

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... leaders born or made? Do people have specific personality traits that make them good leaders? The book notes that a great deal of research was conducted prior to the 1950's that failed to find any distinct traits about leaders, other than the fact that they are slightly taller and more intelligent than their followers. (An interesting point to note in Old Testament writings is that leaders were selected on ... model of leadership (the Great Person Theory), but notes the importance of leadership behaviours. The Great Person Theory: Also known in older texts as the Great Man Theory. This ...

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... no better example of individuals using teamwork to accomplish a task, than those individuals responsible for the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Although the other six wonders are gone, the great pyramid of Giza was probably the most impressive wonder of them all. One reason why the Giza pyramid was so fascinating was that it was one of the earliest buildings ever to be made by precisely cutting and putting ... of Work teams, this collaborative effort will propel most organizations and industries well into the 21st Century and those organizations or industries that do not take ad...

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... ), valproate, and for tonic status - clonazepam. However, it should be pointed out that one of the unfortunate features of LGS is its great resistance to anti-epileptic medications (Lerman, 1986). The Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia (1985) detail that these afore mentioned medications can lose their effectiveness after the initial period of administration, necessitating frequent changes in dose and type of medication prescribed. This ... an inclusion of medication regime changes noted on the graph to assist in establishing the correlation between medication and seizure frequ...

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... lacking on what SPC is and its benefits.  Automated Charting: Issue: Automated Charting was not available for the first line of defense employees Plan: Charting should be made available to the employees involved in the process and help make notes on the chart any special causes.  On the Prowl: Issue:  Concentrated on individual responsibilities than process.  Managers were reading it as failure on ... created and implemented to improve the process. RECOMMENDATION AND IMPLEMENTATION Now that the causes of the problems have been identified, the team must come up with recommend...

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... f** smoke!!" Clearly Mr X was extremely distressed and agitated during my contact. In a sense I was expecting that this might have been the case prior to my contact with him. This was primarily because I had reviewed his notes and saw that he was a heavy smoker, and that he had not had a cigarette for approx 24hrs. From my clinical experience I ... (2001) reveals symptoms of nicotine withdrawals include depressed mood, irritability, frustration or anger, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, insomnia, restlessness, and increased appetite or weight gain. In addition to the abovementioned sy...

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... track record of turning companies around. On the other hand, Eitel had all of his experience in the floor-covering business and he had no bedding industry involvement. Right after taking over the company, he launched a $9 million ad campaign on a redesigned version of Beautyrest. Simmons received an immediate 25 percent increase in sales. In addition to the great success in sales, he spent a lot of ... time and resources to change the organizational structure at Simmons in his first months at Simmons. He also ... worked on blending a new set of core values that reflected his philosophy...

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... any other competitor. It has taken a great international strategy and the application of theories of international management for the company to achieve this feat. Coca-Cola's International Strategy It is without doubt that the strategy that Coca-Cola has adopted in its international venture has been successful because it has helped the company reach great heights. The path to the company's success has not been an easy ... one, as it has encountered many challenges. However, Coca-Cola has always found a way out. For instance, the Coca-Cola products have been banned in ... a number of c...

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... any other competitor. It has taken a great international strategy and the application of theories of international management for the company to achieve this feat. Coca-Cola's International Strategy It is without doubt that the strategy that Coca-Cola has adopted in its international venture has been successful because it has helped the company reach great heights. The path to the company's success has not been an easy ... one, as it has encountered many challenges. However, Coca-Cola has always found a way out. For instance, the Coca-Cola products have been banned in ... a number of c...

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