... 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 included Randolph Quirk's ... It needs new perspectives for linguistic and pedagogical research in order to be able to understand the multilingual situation acr...

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... are willing to share knowledge in situations where they can trust the recipient of knowledge (Connelly 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 ... ...

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... means of conducting details method or may be managing structure and counsel. Personal and Organizational Practice Systems and procedures vary from one workplace to another while implementing and communicating health and safety policies. Most of the time, the organizations do not follow necessary rules and procedures while they are managing their organization. For example, Individual practices along with ... patient and social trust. Professional Competence A proper health care centre required some efficient Doctors and Nurses to furnish a bunch of quality services to the patients. A phy...

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... 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 to leaning from the use of computers in nonprofit management. In the for profit world, businesses change and modify their mission statements at will to suit the latest trend or whim, but the nonprofit on the other hand has a mission that is not only ... these entities become ever more demanding in their need to understand the objectives, mission, and fiscal stability of the organizations which benefit from their funds, they wil...

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... return on capital employed, operating income, project profitability, and cash flow. In the balance scorecard the financial measures play a dual role. First they identify the financial performance that is expected from the strategy that the organisation implements and secondly they provide the goals and targets which the other 3 perspectives objectives strive for. The Customer Perspective looks at the question of how do we appear to our customers? Its primary aim ... and services to existing customers. Postsales Service: This includes the services that the company provides to the custome...

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... environment will be more controlled, and the workers will take direct orders from their supervisors. Communications in this structure will be more of a " do as you are told nature" with the management instructing the subordinates. The informal structure within the organisation would run along side the formal structure. This is an important part of the organisation because it represents the human elements of the organisation. There are two specific forms ... of communications within the organisations the first being the briefing groups ... ...

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... 000 legal and illegal immigrants are expected to enter the United States by the year 2000, primarily from Latin America and Asia. This cumulative impact of the changing ethnic, gender, and racial composition of the labor force will be dramatic. Because we have moved from an era in which the majority of the population were assumed to be similar yet different ... professionals to review previously designed training programs for the traditional workforce. In the past, the workforce was more homogenous with visible minorities. Individuals who were different were either assimilated into the w...

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... on developing menu options to keep up with trends in the market and shifting expansion on the potential growth to the U.S. and global market. The third recommendation is to renegotiate with the government on combining locations. Combining locations will potentially increase sales, as customers will purchase items from both restaurants in the same purchase period. Introduction Human Resource (HR) Planning ... of Restaurant Brands International, Tim Hortons President & CEO Marc Caira will become the Vice Chairman & Director, Burger King's current Executive Chairman will become Executive Ch...

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... in managerial responsibility by including managerial staff in bargaining agreements. Given is a description of the organization from the official MHP website (translated from Dutch): The MHP is the third Confederation of Netherlands and defends the common interests of all secondary and higher educated professionals. Early 70's of the last century were the interests of the hardworking middle class and higher staff under pressure. That was reason for a new federation to ... labor organization would be the harder route, the potential benefit of full coverage could be worth the fight. The d...

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... by (Rasmussen, 1996). This definition has three noteworthy points. First, it describes diversity as a mosaic, which is different from the traditional label of a melting pot. A mosaic enables people to retain their individuality while contributing collectively to the bigger picture. Second, this definition of diversity applies to and includes everyone; it does not rule out anyone. According to ... at lower salaries than men; therefore, they tend to see the organization from the bottom. Minority employees are fewer in number, so, they view the organization in an isolation perspective. Secon...

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... Today'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 ... , complex transactions with lawyers and multiple parties, which rely on access to key documents. What are the key characteristics of successful le...

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... set of bonusable and non-bonusable objectives every year. These contain a mixture of personal objectives agreed at the Performance Review stage and Company objectives, which will in many cases be cascaded down throughout the business from the various levels of management. Personal objectives can range from having a certain turnaround period for a specific piece of work, completing training courses or putting together new ... HR system which employees use to request leave. However, it is always reiterated that should an external contractor be employed the same guidelines should be followed...

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... to be very successful even today. Taylors scientific management had an emphasis on "time and motion" and had strong industrial influenced. The historical context for tailors ideas of the organisations is the manufacturing industry in America from the late 19th century. Form a current day perspective his ideas are limited for two reasons. Firstly less people today are employed in ... (1996) It is equally important to point out that Fayol's general principles pf management take a perspective which essentially looks at organisations from the top downwards. Nethertheless they do have the mer...

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... of justice. Only a few months after these scandals, Wall Street was rocked with arrest of several high-level officials from the leading stock brokerage firms for alleged insider trading abuses (Dubrin 22). Corruption and dishonesty seem to occur when the leader loses sight of the fact that he or she is given power for one purpose, to serve others. Harry Truman put it another ... exceptional leaders seem to have their fair share of it. First, leaders are willing to "stand up and be counted" for what they believe in. Courageous leaders do not suffer from the crippling need to be loved by ...

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... of HRM. 3. Take care in recruiting All too often, the mining industry falls into one of two traps; employing the only candidate that presents themselves in the timeframe required; and falling into the Bruce Clarke trap' in that we tend to employ people we know from the past or through mutual colleagues and think that they will fit ... management systems play a crucial role in developing an organizations people. Theory says that a performance management system should have three objectives (Rijamampianina course notes); a strategic purpose, aligning the individuals activities and results ...

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... resources so that information can be distributed, consonant with the organisation's requirements for team-based management, 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 s...

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... personal ties can impede the proper interpretation of the data. The metrics chosen will illustrate the areas that the best practice firms are surpassing the organization performing the study. While management must be committed to the performance improvement initiative, the team must convince them that the benchmarking initiative they have prepared is the correct course of action for the organization. Their hypothesis detailing the removal of constraints from studied processes by modeling ... in postal regulations. Their value proposition is to provide the customer with the best postage...

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... that personality may actually affect leadership potential. The text focuses on the trait 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 theory is based on the notion that great leaders have an aura about them that sets them apart from their followers. This aura has several dimensions ... : 1) Leadership motivation: Great leaders appear to be motivated to lead. They may simply want the power that ... describing personality traits we argue that people are eithe...

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... businesses or massive global companies or even of world powers, our work is being completed and our goals are being accomplished by teams. The ability to collaborate has become the key to the success of an enterprise (Excerpt from the 12th International Conference on Work Teams, http://www.boeing.com/news/speeches/2001/koellner_010911.html There is probably no better example of individuals ... goal of any team assembled by any organization should be that to be able to operate autonomously with very limited interaction and guidance from higher authority inside or outside of the company. I...

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... contact, positive programming, environmental management (routines, noise reduction, freedom of movement, `quiet places', relaxation music), massage therapy, and activity therapy programmes at a therapy centre and in the residential setting. From the perspective of the health care worker, one of the main priorities in the management of LGS, is the management of seizures. The use of pharmacological interventions, combined with other management programmes (as previously mentioned) designed to reduce ... and seizure frequency, 2. educating care workers in the area of epilepsy and in the pro...

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... assignment. Findings and Discussion On analysing the personal, professional and demographic characteristics based on the responses received it was noticed that the majority of the responses came from the age group 20-29 which constituted 37% and rest were age groups 30-39, 40-49 and > 50 which made up 25.5, 29.0 and 8.5% of the responses. There was a 45-55 ratio of the male to female responses as compared ... to the 75-25 % ratio of the male to female supervisors ... . The study specifically encouraged more responses ... ...

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... value in order to provide standardized results among sub-groups. P-Charts identify values in the process that deviate from the mean. P-charts show how a process changes over time. P-Charts have several applications: assessing the stability of a process; analyzing the results of a process improvement; comparing how process is running now to the past; providing standardization through a continuous collection and analysis of data; and enabling users to pinpoint ... on what SPC is and its benefits.  Automated Charting: Issue: Automated Charting was not available for the first line of def...

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... zaibatsu groups to grow as gigantic business enterprises. Mitsui made wealth from textile and money exchange businesses; Sumitomo from copper refining and mining business; and Mitsubishi from the shipping business and expansion into more profitable areas through related product diversification. As Mitsui and Sumitomo grew into zaibatsu, the owner families were no longer involved in direct management, and ... of them have been with Mitsui dating back from the prewar zaibatsu period, which shows the importance of an internal promotion system in Mitsui's managerial development (Yasuoka, 198...

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... now was an ideal time to cease smoking "for good". Symptom Experience from the Patients Perspective: My initial contact with Mr X was about 24hrs after his last cigarette. The nursing staff had informed me during the referral process that he had been very demanding and "was going to be a real problem". On entering the room and introducing myself, Mr X loudly yelled "I either need a F*** smoke or ... 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...

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... the very popular quote of leaders being born, not created establishes the idea that leadership tendencies and qualities are an inborn personality trait. Those who are successful in their pursuit of leading have a natural ability to command a room and motivate those who are under them to achieve success. Although personality plays a pivotal role in determining factor in distinguishing managers from leaders, the ... with ideals of duty and responsibility that they can ultimately identify with and gain rewards from. This sense of accomplishment allows them to be comfortable and competent wi...

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