...Why are jobs easy to find in some years and hard to find in others? Why a package tour costs less as compared to individual booking of air ticket and hotel? Moreover, as one go about his/her life, he/she make many economic decisions. During student carrier one has to decide how many years to stay in school. After joining in a job, one has to decide how much of his/her income to spend, how much to save, and how to invest his/her savings. When running a small business or a large corporation, and one will decide what prices to charge for his/her products. The economic tools, which will be discussed in this course, will give you a new perspective on how best to make these decisions. Following ten economic principles can be applied in many of life’s situations, whether the future finds you reading the newspaper, running a business, or sitting in the work place. These economic principles are (i) managers...
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...Contents 1. Introduction 2. Project background 3. Problem statement 4. Project idea and justification 5. Project process 6. Timeline 7. Expect outcome and improvement 8. Team structure and role 9. Technology issues 10. Conclusion Introduction Being a student of System Analysis and Design course, we have been required to come up with a concept whereby understanding an organization business function and purpose is set as the baseline. We are also required to propose an idea of a potential project to overcome the existing problem or to improve the business value. Keeping that in mind, we opted on treating Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) itself as our organization business. What is the problem in Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS that we are going study and analyse? Currently, the Hostel Registration process is done manually and there is no system available for students to register their hostels. There are setbacks in the manual hostel registration systems which complicates the whole process and makes the life’s of the students much more difficult. So, we are taking up this context as our problem and proposing an idea to overcome it which is to introduce an online hostel registration portal. The team consisting of Vijay Nair, Siva Kumaaran and Kugarubaan worked on a project in order to analyse and the possible opportunities to add value to the system and to cater better registration process for the students...
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...study………………………………………………......................5 About UC Campus Recreation Center…………………………………….............. 5 Scope of Simulation……………………………………………………….............. 6 Data Collection Fitting Distributions for Wait times…………………………………………8 Challenges Faced…………………………………………………………….9 Assumptions………………………………………………………………..10 Fitness Center Model…………………………………………………………….....9 Basic Model………………………………………………………………….9 Updated Model- More Realistic……………………………………………10 Swimming Pool Model……………………………………………………………13 Output Analysis…………………………………………………………………...14 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………...18 References………………………………………………………………………...19 Page | 2 Acknowledgements With sincere gratitude, I would like to express my special thank you to Professor Dr. W. David Kelton. This project would have never been completed without his direction, assistance, and encouragement. I would also like to thank my parents, for their endless support during each and every one of my life’s endeavors. Page | 3 List of Figures Figure 1. Triangular distribution observed in Input Analyzer for Fitness Center Wait times...………………………………………….. 8 Figure 2. Triangular distribution observed in Input Analyzer for Swimming Pool Wait times…………………………………………...8 Figure 3. “Assign” Module to choose second and third work out Dependently…………………………………………………………..11 Figure 4. Fitness Center- Updated Model in Arena...........................................................12 Figure 5. “Hold” Module to wait for empty lane………………………………...
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...1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Company Brief History Ben & Jerry’s (B&J) Ice Cream first started in 1978, where their very first scoop shop opened in a renovated gas station in Burlington, Vermont. It was founded by two friends, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, who started the business out of their passion for eating. It has slowly expanded its scoop shops to other states and started distributing its ice-creams in pints. In 1988, B&J introduced its 3-part mission statement which shows their desire and dedication to being socially and environmentally responsible in running its business. B&J also produces its ice-creams from fresh Vermont milk and cream. With its funky and interesting themes and its high quality ice-cream at affordable prices, it quickly gained popularity and have succeeded in expanding internationally, including countries like Singapore. 1.2 Mission Statement B&J’s mission statement is made up of 3 components; social, product and economic mission.[pic] Figure 1.2a: Ben & Jerry’s Mission Statement The factor that sets B&J apart from its competitors is its strong emphasize on its social mission. It did not just make an empty claim but has delivered its social mission through its development of a more recyclable packaging and entering a partnership with Nature Energy which provides clean energy alternatives. 1.3 Company Business Portfolio [pic] Figure 1.3a: Ben & Jerry’s Business Portfolio B&J is in a highly...
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...Introduction How can you debate the death of two children in a way that it makes sense ethically? This is a rare situation that no one likes to discuss but it still happens. This situation came to be back on February 1st 2010 when “RCMP are called to a home in Millet after Curtis McConnell discovered the bodies of his two sons in home. According to a neighbour, the bodies were found in the bathroom of the house” (Donnelly, 2012). From here Curtis’s wife Linda was found after she had attempted suicide by jumping off of a bridge in Edmonton, Alberta. During the fall she had broken numerous bones and appears to have caused amnesia through concussion. She was taken into custody soon after and started psychiatric evaluations. (CBC News, 2012) This is where the situation becomes harder to understand, how can we say that what she did was ethical in any sense? After psychiatric evaluations it was found that she had tried to commit suicide many times in the past, including after being raped by her father when she was a girl. That situation led to her becoming pregnant and suffering a miscarriage months later. When she was under evaluation her doctor by the name of Dr. Alberto Choy concluded that Allison “saw [her children] as an extension of herself, of her own life, so killing Connor, two, and Jayden, 10 months, was an extension of her own suicide.” (CBC News, 2012). Therefore this becomes a situation where the ideals of Suicide come to the table and because she saw the children...
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...that assumes no prior theoretical background to what is often called ‘change management’. Introduction The Why of change The What of change 3 5 8 10 14 16 17 the booklet is based on HLsP’s experience in supporting individuals and organisations in several countries including nigeria and Russia. Most recently, HLsP designed a successful change management programme conducted for over 400 Iraqi clinicians, administrators and policy makers during 2007-2009. the aim of this programme was to assist participants to become Agents of Change in re-establishing their healthcare system1. there is a wealth of tools and techniques to help with planning and achieving change. Based on HLsP’s experience, the team refined the approach and focused on the tools that really help clinicians to formulate, sell and negotiate their vision of change, and then to plan for successful implementation. the tools presented in this booklet are the ones that clinicians and managers participating in change management programmes considered most helpful. We recommend that you read the Introduction since this summarises the key issues and approach taken. thereafter you have a choice. either follow the booklet from beginning to end, or go to the sections where you feel you will get the most benefit. The Who of change The How of change The What If of change Case studies 1 For more information watch the film...
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...Social Indicators Research (2005) 73: 43–70 DOI 10.1007/s11205-004-4642-9 Ó Springer 2005 ROBERT E. GOODIN, JAMES MAHMUD RICE, MICHAEL BITTMAN and PETER SAUNDERS1 THE TIME-PRESSURE ILLUSION: DISCRETIONARY TIME VS. FREE TIME (Accepted 6 October 2004) ABSTRACT. People’s welfare is a function of both time and money. People can – and, it is said, increasingly do – suffer time-poverty as well as money-poverty. It is undeniably true that people feel increasingly time pressured, particularly in dualearner households. But much of the time devoted to paid and unpaid tasks is over and above that which is strictly necessary. In that sense, much of the time pressure that people feel is discretionary and of their own making. Using data from the 1992 Australian Time Use Survey, this paper demonstrates that the magnitude of this ‘time-pressure illusion’ varies across population groups, being least among lone parents and greatest among the childless and two-earner couples. KEY WORDS: discretionary time, free time, leisure, time pressure, time use INTRODUCTION Being ‘money poor’ is a familiar phenomenon, a simple matter of not having enough money to meet one’s needs in any of the many ways those might be specified. Being ‘time poor’, by analogy, is a matter of not having enough time to do all the things one has to do (Vickery, 1977). It is said to be an increasingly common phenomenon in modern societies. There is some controversy over whether time in paid labour is actually increasing or not...
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...LITERATURE REVIEW Literature Review – Trauma Felt by a Counselor Marie C Klemens Walsh University Abstract The purpose of this research is to identify that a counselor can be a victim of trauma, as well as their client. By taking care of oneself in a physical, mental and spiritual manner, they are preparing for a potentially well maintained professional life as a counselor. Knowledge and acceptance of these traumatic occurrences, is the first part of healing. The literature that I had obtained provided the reader, with great knowledge pertaining to the subject matter of vicarious traumatization and counter transference. By identifying both of these subjects as different forms of trauma, I also learned that they have similar qualities. With the knowledge that I am basing this research on and further exploration of this subject matter, counselors can be more prepared for their future. Literature Review - Trauma Felt by a Counselor The counseling profession is based on the realism as a powerful, but yet private relationship between a counselor and a client, but with ethics being a factor, all efforts are centered on being impartial and having good intentions (Jaffe & Diamond, 2011). Because of the tight relationship between a counselor and his or her client, it is humanly impossible that a client and a counselor will not endure feelings and reactions towards each other (Jaffe & Diamond, 2011). Trauma is the occurrence in which an individual is confronted...
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...mineral water etc. Nestle also a major producer of pet food.Nestle management provided their employees functionally with good environment, they also influences their employees various steps,like gives their employees various training and knowledge’s .For this reason these employee more motivated and ready to make much more contribution to the organization Mainly we focus this report how to maintain and what types of methods follow in training and development process. We also focus five steps. How to evaluated their employees performance appraisal. And tried to our best think,what types of training and development process should be followed for their employees increasing knowledge and skills. We are acquired more experience to research and analysis this report, that help us future job performance. We also learn various things. We collecting data and some valuable information by internet from Nestle Bangladesh Ltd. Official web-site,friend and annual report. We create these report by Microsoft office 2003. Finally,We thanked those people who are help through valuable information.Also special thanks our honorable Teacher Ayesha Bintte Saifullah for her guideline. INTRODUCTION 1.1: Background of the Report An employee might more knowledgeable and skilful by training and development program or process that maintaining an effective level job performance. So it acts an important role in HR department. As a part of BBA program, our Human Resources practices in Bangladesh course teacher...
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...Assorted authors Pdf files and website links (Optional: Stephen Bodian Meditation for Dummies 3rd ed., but other editions will work January 13 Introduction to Course 15 The Four Goals; The Vedas and Upanishads: WR 12-26; Zaehner, Upanishads pdfs 20 Brahman, Atman, Maya, & Mystical Experiences/ NDEs: BG 22-30; Merell-Wolff, Berman (to p.42), Schmicker (to p.199) pdfs (H1) 22 Advaita Vedanta and Non-Locality: Shankara, Schmicker (on ESP, from p. 74), Targ pdfs 27 The Gita: Caste, Dharma: BG 13-22; BG 71-92B; WR 50-59 29 Dharma and Karma: BG 31-36; 92-93; Chopra, Leder/aging, Leder/prayer, (M1) (s-l orientation posting) February 3 Karma and Reincarnation: BG 235-241;WR 63-75; Fox, Bache pdf (H2) (G1) 5 Karma Yoga: WR 26-29, 37-41; BG 93-109 (S1) 10 Karma Yoga and Gandhi; BG 48-63t (H3) (G2) 12 Jnana Yoga; BG 111-131; WR 29m-32m; Ramana Maharshi link (M2) 17 TEST #1 (S2) 19 Raja and Bhakti Yoga WR 41b-50m; BG 133-45; Muktananda pdf 24 BhaktiYoga/Gods and Goddesses; WR 32t-36; BG 169-77; Sanatan, Ramakrishna link (G3) 26 The Cosmic Vision: Gods and Gurus BG 191-209; 262-65 Ram Dass (Neem Karoli Baba) pdf (M3) (H4) March 10 Introduction to Buddhism and the Buddha; WR 82-99; Leder/Buddha pdf; Buddha film 12 The Four Noble Truths, Anicca; WR 99-103b; Sogyal Rinpoche pdf (H5) 17 Anatta, Interbeing, Nirvana; WR 112-119; PS 95-104; Bresnan pdf (S3) 19 Right Views, Intent,...
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...Week 1 Chapter 1: The selection of a research design Three types of design: Quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods. Although it is difficult to separate the first two, often a research study tends to be more quantitative than qualitative or vice versa. Mixed methods is somewhere in the middle, a combination of both qualitative and quantitative methods. In detail: Qualitative research is about exploring and understanding the meaning individuals or groups ascribe to a social or human problem. Quantitative research is a means for testing objective theories, deriving hypotheses from these theories, and examining the relationship among variables. Mixed methods research associates both research design. Often, in qualitative research, the researcher needs to interpret the data (evidence) collected during the research process. The final report may have a flexible structure. With quantitative research, the final report is more or less structured; introduction, literature survey and theory, data description, methods, results and discussion (for future research). These models pretty much cover the available areas to researchers in selecting the type of research design. In each research design, it helps to identify, list and associate the three components of the research design. The first component is the way the research views the problem of interest. This is called under different names, research paradigm, epistemologies (the origin) and ontologies (how you know what you know), etc...
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...wrong! It was a brutal scene. He made a crash landing onto the deck. There was no more bravado. His body was crumpled in a heap in the midst of the splintered pieces of his sled. What was he thinking? His passion to attempt the impossible overshadowed his ability to think at all. We often have to set aside our passion to think clearly, to think critically, in order to make wise decisions. Critical Thinking It is a common practice we do every day, but we may never even be aware of it. For example, in the English language, how do you know whether the word “r-e-a-d” should be understood as a directive to “read a book,” or if it is to be understood as a past-tense word describing a moment that someone “had already read that book last week?” Critical thinking. Another example is with the word “conflict.” Do we have a “conflict” (i.e. a moment of tense disagreement) occurring between our children? Or, does our view “conflict” with another’s view (i.e. to be contradictory, used as a verb)? How do we know the difference? Critical thinking. What is the difference between “supervision” and “oversight?” Break those two words apart (super-vision and over-sight) and you have...
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...INTRODUCTION Welcome to Research Rundowns, a blog intended to simplify research methods in educational settings. I hope this site can serve as a quick, practical, and more importantly, relevant resource on how to read, conduct, and write research. The contents are an expansion and revision of my class materials, intended for use as a refresher or as a free introductory research methods course. Topics are organized into five main sections, with subsections (in parentheses): * Introduction (INTRO)–a brief overview of educational research methods (3) * Quantitative Methods (QUANT)–descriptive and inferential statistics (5) * Qualitative Methods (QUAL)–descriptive and thematic analysis (2) * Mixed Methods (MIXED)–integrated, synthesis, and multi-method approaches (1) * Research Writing (WRITING)–literature review and research report guides (5) Most subsection contains a non-technical description of the topic, a how-to interpret guide, a how-to set-up and analyze guide using free online calculators or Excel, and a wording results guide. All materials are available for general use, following the Creative Commons License. Introduction (INTRO)–a brief overview of educational research methods 1. What is Educational Research? (uploaded 7.17.09) 2. Writing Research Questions (uploaded 7.20.09) 3. Experimental Design (uploaded 7.20.09) ------------------------------------------------- Experimental Design The basic idea of experimental design involves...
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...IN WORK AS WELL AS LIFE FOR A HAPPY AND A SUCCESFUL LIVING CONTENTS 1.0 – INTRODUCTION 2 2.0 - WORK LIFE BALANCE 4 2.1 - WHAT’S IN IT FOR EMPLOYERS? 6 2.2 - BOTTOM-LINE BENEFITS 7 3.0 - HOW SHOULD THE ORGANIZATION WORK TOWARDS IT ? 8 3.1 - FLEXIBLE TIMINGS. 8 3.2 - FLEX THE PLACE 12 3.3 - FLEX THE JOB 14 3.4 - FLEX THE BENEFITS 17 3.5 - OTHER IDEAS BASED ON PUBLIC SURVEYS 24 4.0 - EMPOYER AGENDAS TO IMPROVE WORK LIFE BALANCE 27 4.1 - STEP 1 CHECK IT OUT 27 4.2 - STEP 2 FIGURE IT OUT: PLAN THE RIGHT MIX 28 4.3 - STEP 3 TRY IT OUT: IMPLEMENTATION 30 4.4 - STEP 4 SPELL IT OUT: COMMUNICATION 31 4.5 - STEP 5 WORK IT OUT: LEAD BY EXAMPLE 32 5.0 - 10 TIPS TO THE HR MANAGER 33 6.0 - ARGUMENT AGAINST THE HYPE FOR WORK LIFE BALANCE 35 CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT - HRM is the process of managing people in a company as well as managing the existing inter-personal relationships. These two processes are key in the success and growth of a business. When viewing HRM from the point of ensuring that structures and processes are identified and instituted to manage an organization’s personnel, the following elements are included: * STAFFING is the core component of HRM. Staffing is about setting guidelines and procedures to guide recruiting and placement. The presence of these staffing...
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...Ethics, Moral Dilemmas, and Tough Decisions: The Many Challenges on Working on IT I. Introduction Information technology in combination with changes in organizational structures and methods of working has led to an increasing amount of information and also to totally new forms of information and in the creation of records. Much of the information previously produced on paper is now being produced in electronic form, for example as e-mail and in databases. The Dutch archive theoretician Eric Ketelaar [1999] has invented the word “archivalisation” to describe the phenomenon where more and more material is deemed to be worthy of documenting and archiving. This means that a considerably larger amount of information requires handling. Electronically generated and stored information is also exposed to change and manipulation in quite a different way to that involved with paper-bound information. The e-government services, where the whole idea is to exchange information electronically, will radically redirect paperbound information and documents towards electronically generated and managed information and documents. A 10-year period is a long time when dealing with the preservation of electronic records. This is of course due to the rapid technological development, and includes, for example, the problems associated with obsolete software and file formats. Goldstein [2004]0 stresses the need for a quick solution to the problem of archiving electronic information for the future...
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