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Toyota's production system: espoused values versus competitive reality

Toyota's dominance of global auto industry has often been attributed to the culture of customer centricity supported by cultural values, systems and processes that permeate the company (Liker, 2003).

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Hemingway's "Hills like White Elephants": selfishness, naivety, and symbolism

Ernest Hemingway's short story, "Hills like White Elephants" draws largely on the themes of selfishness and naivety, which can be seen in looking at the story's main characters.

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Servant leadership theory and organizational behavior interrelation

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the servant leadership theory and organizational behavior theory. The first part of the paper is focused on a description of the features of both theories. The second part seeks to point out how both theories are interrelated.

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United States v. Microsoft: Antitrust charges and monopoly allegations

On May 18, 1998, The United States vs. Microsoft trial began. The computer networking and software company, Microsoft, was being charged with numerous allegations, the most salient of which included monopolizing the market for computer operating systems and engaging in illicit practices that were…

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Company X's HIPAA-compliant medical image capture application

The successful outcome of medical processes largely depends on complete, relevant, and timely medical data. Up-to-date and accurate data allows for images of surgical wounds, surgical pathology, and operative techniques to be used in the most efficient ways for patient management.

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Historical patterns of ethnic diversity and immigration in America

One of the things that I have always had a difficult time understanding is the animosity that exists between different races and ethnicities, and why that animosity would exist.

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Colin Powell's military leadership and controversial rise to political prominence

"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand." -- Colin Powell

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Science can help us distinguish between right and wrong

Many people argue that moral concepts allowing us to distinguish between right and wrong come from religion, humanities, philosophy, law, and ethics -- but not science. Science, they argue, does not deal with morality because it does not make any value judgment.

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The use of "them" as a nonstandard demonstrative adjective in English

TMA2, I attached book, material needed. Demonstrative adjectives have always been a tricky thing for me to decide how to use properly. A lot of this influence has come from my personal life, and the usage of grammar and of English of my family and friends.

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Sexual harassment in the workplace and hostile work environments

The term sexual harassment refers to unreasonable intrusion into a person's personal space in relation to comments or actions of a sexual nature. There are laws dating back to the 1960s under the Civil Rights Act that target this issue in the workplace.

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