...organisations, procurement has evolved from a transactional function to one which is contributing to the current and future health of the organisation. Procurement Teams have done this by adopting a strategic approach to managing procurement. Below is a list of commonly used strategic procurement tools that will aid decision-making and support the efforts of commissioners. 1. Spend analysis 2. Collaborative procurement 3. Procurement strategy and plan 4. Category Management 5. Supplier Relationship Management 6. Supply/Value Chain Analysis 7. Competition 8. e-Procurement 9. Standard Terms and Conditions of Contract 10. Framework agreements 11. Preferred supplier lists 12. Sustainable procurement In addition the following section contains information on how to apply the tools above: 13. Applying Strategic Procurement Tools in Practice 1. Spend analysis When used at a strategic level this is a powerful and invaluable tool for identifying and manipulating detailed spend data by, for example, category, provider, cost unit and time period and combinations/permutations of these. This information is the key foundation for other strategic procurement decisions such as category management, supplier relationship management and the procurement strategy. It forms an important part of resource mapping and planning as it allows organisations and their commissioning partners to identify where financial resources are being allocated...
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...Leading and managing change in organizations: Importance of human resource capacity building Term Paper (Individual Assignment) MCP 2135 – Leading and Managing Change in Organizations MBA in Human Resource Management Semester II – 2010/2012 Course Director : Prof. Sudatta Ranasinghe Professor of Management Name of the Student : Gamini Hettiarachchi Student Registration No. : 110046980 Date Submitted :16.05.2011 Word Count : 1662 words, 5 single side A4 pages Leading and managing change in organizations: Importance of human resource capacity building Term Paper (Individual Assignment) Abstract This term paper addresses human resource capacity building as a strategic instrument in leading and managing change in organizations. After describing the process and the basic steps in leading and managing change, the article has taken an effort to identify the role of leaders and the managers to derive a conceptual frame of reference to develop arguments in strategic importance of human resource capacity building in the process of leading and managing change in organization. To meet the challenges, negative as well as positive, HR capacity building is needed in most of the steps and stages in the process of leading and managing change in organizations. Further, developing human capacities has highlighted as one of the major roles and core functionalities of leaders and managers. Viewing human resources as human capital and beyond, the term paper argues that without...
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...ASSIGNMENT 2 (EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT) 1. What is employee engagement and how does it differ, if at all, from related concepts like employee involvement, employee participation and employee consultation? How far is employee engagement something which is genuinely new and distinctive, or is it merely a repackaging of old and well-established ideas? (C) Dilbert.com Employee Engagement – A sanity check Before we look at employee engagement, two things to take into account: A quote attributed to Benjamin Disraeli (despite never appearing in any of his memoirs) “There are lies, damned lies and statistics.” (Wikipedia) There are an increasing number of publications, surveys and studies on employee engagement, with the number steadily increasing for at least a decade. Google Scholar currently lists some 99,100 articles related to employee engagement, with 6460 already in 2012. (Google) Employee Engagement - Origin Employee engagement is neither a new concept nor repackaged old-hat – it is an evolution of how employees have been treated within a company, and how they respond to that treatment. “Before the Industrial Revolution, most, if not all, business was local – the corner shop (store), the family farm. Then the industrial revolution changed what we did, where we lived and what businesses focussed on.” (Achievers) In the post war era, main industry was formed around the mass production model where an employee would perform a set task and have no need to know about how other...
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... About us Advertise Contact Us Send Comments/Tips Home My FDL Firedoglake News TBogg La Figa Book Salon FDL Action The Dissenter Pam's House Blend Elections FDL TV Just Say Now Password Remember Me Login Username: « Is the UK Torture Inquiry an Attempt to Limit Further Disclosure? Another Obama Recess Appointment For Someone Not Named Johnsen » Wikileaks Leaker Bradley Manning Finally Charged By: emptywheel Tuesday July 6, 2010 12:14 pm submit Tweet 93 The government has finally charged Bradley Manning, the Wikileaks leaker. He is charged with two counts of violating the UCMJ, one related to loading onto his own unsecure computer a set of information and adding unauthorized software to a military network computer, and the other related to accessing and passing information onto someone not entitled to have it. I find the charge sheet particularly interesting for two reasons. What the government says that Manning did with the material he accessed, and an apparent discrepancy between the government’s depiction of the timing and Wired’s depiction of it. What the government knows about what Manning did with the information First, it describes the information he accessed differently as follows: The video of the July 12, 2007 Apache killing of Reuters journalists (obtained via unauthorized access, loaded onto his unsecured computer, transmitted to someone unauthorized to receive it) The Rejkjavik State Department...
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...Аббревиатура в словообразовательной системе английского языка Оглавление Введение Глава 1. Сокращение и его место в системе английского языка 1.1 Понятие сокращения в современной лексикологии 1.2 Типы аббревиатур Глава 2. Аббревиатура в словообразовательной системе английского языка 2.1 Структурно-семантические классификации английских сокращений и их место в словообразовательной системе английского языка 2.2 Аббревиация как один из способов категоризации специальных понятий Глава 3. Основные способы перевода и переноса аббревиатур с английского языка на русский 3.1 Перевод аббревиатурой и перевод развернутой формой 3.2 Транскрипция сокращений Заключение Библиография Введение В наше время в языке научной, технической, экономической литературы, как английской, так и русской, встречается большое количество разного рода сокращений. Рост числа сокращений, находящих применение в современном английском языке, совершенно закономерен. Следствием развития науки и техники, международных интеграционных процессов в области экономики и народного хозяйства является появление все новых и новых понятий, которые нуждаются в терминировании. Большинство новых понятий и в русском, и в английском языках выражается при помощи словосочетаний или сложных слов, так как именно эти виды терминов дают возможность отразить необходимые и достаточные признаки того или иного понятия с наибольшей полнотой и точностью. Но термины - сложные слова и словосочетания - громоздки. Поэтому и появляется...
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...Todd Terje-Inspector Norse (Dope as Fuck) Twin sister – lady day dream (coo) Twin sister – I want a house (coo) Mr twin sister – Blush (Dope AF) Mr twin sister – Sensitive (nice AF) Clark – winter linn (coo) Mr twin sister – Rude boy (Dope) Jodeci Acapella on soultrain(the intro) Boyz 2 Men – Don’t go/can you stand the rain (live) Jodice – What about us (This is a hit!!!) Jodice – Alone (dope) Isaac Hayes – Ik’s Mood (dope) Mark Asari –Revive (dope AF) Michael Jackson – The Lady in my life (Dope) Ericka Baduh – didn’t u know (ill) Switch- I call your name(coo) Erick Sermon – Fat gold chain (Dope AF) Silver Convention – Fly robin, fly (Checkit) SWV – Weak Mikey Dread – Roots and Culture (nice) Charles Earland – Happy ‘cause I’m goin’ home (Dope) Cortex – Juit Octobre 1971 (dope AF) Cortex – Triypeau bleu (coo) Cortex – Chanson D’un jour D'hiver (This shit is crazy!!!) Carole King – It’s to late (nice) The Shirelles – Baby it’s you (???) Tony! Toni! Tone! – Pillow (???) Luther Vandross – So Amazing (The Montserrat session) (nice) Melvin Sparks – Cranberry Sunshine Kaskade-Fire and Ice (kaskade mix) (Coo) Blank & Jones – Face La Mer (this shit is ill) Zeb – The Circle (This is it!!!) Smadj – Sel (Dope AF) Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – Summertime (the end is trill) Joe – All the things (the break down in the middle is ill) Earl Klugh –A Certain Smile (intro) Earl Klugh – Another Time, Another Place Earl Klugh – Could it be I’m falling...
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...class—Before reading each section in the textbook, read the code to get a flavor of what it contains. b. Also, read the regulations to get a flavor of what it contains. c. Then, go back and read the code and the regulations after being taught. 2. In tax, everything is income—Then you exclude some thing to get an adjusted income—Then you take deductions to figure out taxable income. II. Identification of Income Subject to Taxation: A. Gross Income: The Scope of Section 61: 1. We need a definition of income because of due process concerns—We need a law that everybody recognizes. 2. WHAT IS INCOME? a. §61 defines gross income as “all income from whatever source derived.” 1) §61 lists 15 specific items that are considered income. b. Cesarini v. United States: The Cesarinis found $4,467 in cash in a used piano purchased by them. 1) The court held that the found money is taxable as ordinary income in the year in which the taxpayer attains uncontested possession of it. 2) INCOME: Treasure Trove: It is considered income in the year that it is reduced to undisputed possession. c. Commissioner v. Glenshaw Glass Co.: Glenshaw Glass Co. recovered compensatory and punitive damages as a result of a fraud and anti-trust suit. It did not report the...
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...Research report: November 2010 Creative clusters and innovation Putting creativity on the map Caroline Chapain, Phil Cooke, Lisa De Propris, Stewart MacNeill and Juan Mateos-Garcia Disclaimer This work contains statistical data from ONS which is Crown copyright and reproduced with the permission of the controller of HMSO and Queen’s Printer for Scotland. The use of the ONS statistical data in this work does not imply the endorsement of the ONS in relation to the interpretation or analysis of the statistical data. This work uses research datasets which may not exactly reproduce National Statistics aggregates. Copyright of the statistical results may not be assigned, and publishers of these data must have or obtain a licence from HMSO. The ONS data in these results are covered by the terms of the standard HMSO ‘click-use’ licence. Creative clusters and innovation Putting creativity on the map Foreword No one doubts the economic importance of the creative industries to the UK. At 6.2 per cent of the economy, and growing at twice the rate of other sectors, they are proportionately the largest of any in the world. But there is some evidence that the UK’s creative industries support innovation and growth in other parts of the economy too. The significance of these spillovers has only recently begun to be examined rigorously. And we know next to nothing about their geographical dimensions. This gap in our understanding is what NESTA set out to address in Creative Clusters...
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...IIBM Institute of Business Management Business Communication www.iibmindia.in SYLLABUS Business Communication S. No. Description 1 Communication in Business Organizations: Introduction; Meaning of Business Communication; Types of Information Exchanged in Business Organizations; Role of Communication in Business Organizations; Importance of Communication in Management of Business Organizations; Scope of Communication in Organizational Setting; Characteristics of Effective Business Communication; Ethical challenges and Traps in Business Communication; Role of Communication in Three Managerial Roles Defined by Henry Mintzberg 2 Nature, Scope and Process of Communication: Introduction; Defining Communication; Nature of Communication; Objectives/Purpose of Communication; Functions of Communication; Process of Communication; Elements of Communication Process; Process of Communication: Models; Thill and Bovee‘s Model of Communication Process; Working of the Process of Communication; Forms of Communication; On the Basis of Expression/Medium Used; On the Basis of Organisational Structure; On the Basis of the Number of Persons 2.13 (receivers); On the Basis of Direction/Flow of Communication 3 Channels and Networks of Communication: Introduction; Channels of Communication; Communication Flow in Organizations: Directions/Dimensions of Communication; The Concept of Ombudsperson; Patterns of Flow of Communication or Networks; Factors Influencing...
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...She's Dating The Gangster Color coding † Athena Dizon (17) † Kenji delos Reyes (18-19) † Lucas Lazaro (18) † Athena Abigail Tizon (18) † Sara Jung (17) † Jigs Bala (18-19) † Kirby Araneta (18-19) † Grace Matic (18-19) † Nathan Dizon (20) † Carlo Paez (15) † Athena's parents † Kenji's family † others Prologue love is happiness... love is smiling when you hear that person's voice... love is the butterflies in your tummy no matter how many times you see that person... love is when you look at them and smile for no reason... love is seeing an imperfect person perfectly... love is painful.. love is hard... love is sacrifice.. love is sadness.. “Can I live without the happiness? Can I live with that sadness? I don't know...I don't know anything anymore” I remembered that once I fell in love with a Gangster. I don't know how and when it happened. But I do remember saying that "I have fallen for this one of a kind stupid gangster. Oh wait, let me correct that. I LOVED this stupid gangster.. I gave him happiness while he gave me suicide in return. I know, It sucks. But I never regretted loving him in the first place, well… maybe I did." I also remembered loving everything about him ncluding his flaws.. Friends told me that we met in a very spontaneous way.. And then everything happened so fast.. But... Who's this gangster?? I know two gangsters but.. Which one am I dating? Chapter ONE You wanna know...
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...SG She's Dating The Gangster Color coding † Athena Dizon (17) † Kenji delos Reyes (18-19) † Lucas Lazaro (18) † Athena Abigail Tizon (18) † Sara Jung (17) † Jigs Bala (18-19) † Kirby Araneta (18-19) † Grace Matic (18-19) † Nathan Dizon (20) † Carlo Paez (15) † Athena's parents † Kenji's family † others Prologue love is happiness... love is smiling when you hear that person's voice... love is the butterflies in your tummy no matter how many times you see that person... love is when you look at them and smile for no reason... love is seeing an imperfect person perfectly... love is painful.. love is hard... love is sacrifice.. love is sadness.. “Can I live without the happiness? Can I live with that sadness? I don't know...I don't know anything anymore” I remembered that once I fell in love with a Gangster. I don't know how and when it happened. But I do remember saying that "I have fallen for this one of a kind stupid gangster. Oh wait, let me correct that. I LOVED this stupid gangster.. I gave him happiness while he gave me suicide in return. I know, It sucks. But I never regretted loving him in the first place, well… maybe I did." I also remembered loving everything about him ncluding his flaws.. Friends told me that we met in a very spontaneous way.. And then everything happened so fast.. But... Who's this gangster?? I know two gangsters but.. Which one am I dating? Chapter ONE You wanna...
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...She's Dating The Gangster Color coding † Athena Dizon (17) † Kenji delos Reyes (18-19) † Lucas Lazaro (18) † Athena Abigail Tizon (18) † Sara Jung (17) † Jigs Bala (18-19) † Kirby Araneta (18-19) † Grace Matic (18-19) † Nathan Dizon (20) † Carlo Paez (15) † Athena's parents † Kenji's family † others Prologue love is happiness... love is smiling when you hear that person's voice... love is the butterflies in your tummy no matter how many times you see that person... love is when you look at them and smile for no reason... love is seeing an imperfect person perfectly... love is painful.. love is hard... love is sacrifice.. love is sadness.. “Can I live without the happiness? Can I live with that sadness? I don't know...I don't know anything anymore” I remembered that once I fell in love with a Gangster. I don't know how and when it happened. But I do remember saying that "I have fallen for this one of a kind stupid gangster. Oh wait, let me correct that. I LOVED this stupid gangster.. I gave him happiness while he gave me suicide in return. I know, It sucks. But I never regretted loving him in the first place, well… maybe I did." I also remembered loving everything about him ncluding his flaws.. Friends told me that we met in a very spontaneous way.. And then everything happened so fast.. But... Who's this gangster?? I know two gangsters but.. Which one am I dating? Chapter ONE You wanna know...
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