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Training needs analysis practices in Saudi Arabian private firms

Training needs analysis (TNA) is defined by Mabey and Salman (1995:158) as a "process of collecting data which allows an organization to identify and compare its actual level with its desired level of performance." The authors also indicate that this performance could be interpreted as meaning the…

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GlobalNova: entrepreneurship, corruption, and voice over internet protocol

GlobalNova was conceived by a Brazilian Engineer while working for IBM. He allied himself with a Brazilian Politician from the southernmost State of Rio Grande do Sul (RS).

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Historical patterns and prevalence of workplace racial discrimination

Until fairly recent times, blacks and other minority groups were denied almost all economic and educational opportunities, including government programs that distributed homestead lands, oil, gas and mineral rights, television and radio licenses, federally-guaranteed mortgages and business loans…

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Tourism industry business opportunities in India and Indonesia

Apart from this fact book present important data and statistics related to the overall international tourism industry of that Asian tourism industry.

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State budget deficits and fiscal crisis during the recession

The telephone survey showed that the then $9 billion budget deficit was perceived as being a result of the "bickering" amongst Democrats and Republicans in Albany. The voters showed their concern by electing a new governor last fall, Andrew Cuomo, the son of a former governor, Mario Cuomo.

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Addressing high turnover among DIY Supermarket shop-floor workers through supervisor training

Recently I surveyed our cashiers and clerks and found upsetting results. We have a very low morale with our shop-floor workers. Our staff is 80% part-time older women.

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The relationship between ethics and law in business

Business is a generic term that refers to enterprise relationships between a provider of either a good or service and the client/customer or to another business.

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Social exclusion theory and health disparities in the lesbian community

The additional burdens placed on the lives of minorities as a result of social exclusion can lead to health disparities.

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Tetra Tech's crowdsourced risk management and compliance process

The risk management and compliance process at Tetra Tech is -- if you want to use a buzzword more often associated with the digital revolution than with a waste management enterprise (like, frankly, Tetra Tech) -- "crowdsourced."

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Sustainability of China's economic growth since 1978 reforms

In the past thirty years the Chinese economy has exhibited phenomenal growth, especially when compared to what the country had seen for the century before that. China has become a model of economic efficiency and stability.

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