Productivity Literature Reviews Samples For Students

Understanding the relationship between agricultural growth, rural development and poverty reduction has become very difficult because of the lack of reliable data to describe the entire scenario in the subSaharan African region. Bart Minten’s (2008) paper, Agricultural Technology, Productivity, and Poverty in Madagascar, attempts to demonstrate the existing relationship of agricultural growth, rural development, and poverty reduction by quantitatively using a spatially-explicit dataset. The objective is to study how such adoption of agricultural technology and crop yield shape the food prices, real wages of unskilled workers and key welfare indicators of Madagascar. Rice industry in Madagascar was used as a ...

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Introduction
Organizational stress, commonly known as work stress, is one of the top reasons for stress among people. In a survey conducted by Pleiter, it was found that 64% of the stress can be attributed to financial problems and 60% of the stress can be attributed to organizational issues or work related stress (Pleiter, 2015). Organizational stress and its impact on employee productivity and organization’s profitability has been a topic of research for many decades. Causes of ...

Literature Review

Overview
The research question is essential for any study; as it will enable the researcher to focus on a particular subject to do research. The research question for this study is the effect of direct communication between the CEO and the employees when it comes to Job satisfaction. The question allows the researcher to focus on the concept of job satisfaction, internal communication the roles of both the CEO and the employees, and the factors that influence communication enhancement.
Internal communication is the frequency of interaction between the upper level of management and the lower level of management (Bloom, ...

Introduction

Organizational culture denotes the procedure an organization follows in conducting its daily activities (Alvesson 2011). Corporate culture impacts the efficiency of the staffs, which subsequently affects the output of the business. A well-ordered culture motivates workers to improve their performance; hence, attain higher output. The external environment refers to the relationship developed by the company and stakeholders such as suppliers, retailers, and customers. The external environment has an important impact on the business since it affects the organizational culture. This paper will provide a literature review on organizational culture.

Literature review

Culture has a long-term effect on the business. It determines ...

Introduction4

Employee engagement .4
Importance of employee engagement.6
Leadership ...9

Leadership types9

Participative (Democratic) leadership type9
Transformational and Transactional leadership types10
Authoritarian (Dictatorial) leadership type..11

Situational leadership type, Organic leadership type 12

The relationship between employee engagement and leadership13
Summary15
References..16
Literature Review
Introduction
Organizational leadership effectiveness is one of the most significant aspects of the fast growing organizations experiencing competitiveness regarding employee engagement. In the governmental sector, leadership remains the major determinant of employee engagement (Catteeuw, Flynn & Vonderhorst, 2007). One of the most common leadership styles used in governmental sector is the traditional leadership, which enforces the effective concepts of authority and power (Germano, 2010). Nonetheless, the leadership ...

2.1 Effective Change Management 12
2.2 Structural 13
2.3 People-Centered 14
2.4 Process-Oriented 15
2.5 Strategy-Oriented 15
2.6 Summary 16

References 18

Introduction
What is change management and how does it relate to operational efficiency? When change is introduced to an organization, management itself on various levels normally decides on altering how operations and related work is practiced. The main categories of change management are organizational structure, job descriptions, operational systems, and processes. Change management varies from project management, where the former is defined as a process associated with the tools and techniques to regulate any ...

HR and Information Technology (HRIS)

Introduction
Business undertaking involves various pitfalls such as poor organizational traditions, the big squeeze, identity crisis, and organizational failure. These pitfalls continue to be inevitable in an organization until effective HR is adopted. Research has established that the creation of consistent and sustained competitive advantage is achievable through effective HR (Pouransari, Al-Karaghouli, & Dey, 2016). Human resources must be managed well for the success of an organization. Every individual working in an organization plays a contributory role in its management. Tarawneh (2012) argued that since human resources are needed in all aspects of business operations ranging from production to marketing, ...

According to Jiandong Ju, the low movement of capital inflow from rich countries to poor countries can be explained using the assumption of one sector in the economy. He came up with three major propositions as to why there is little capital outflow from the rich countries to the poor countries. According to Lucas, the capital flow is determined by the marginal product of capital. The first factor he proposed for the low capital outflow was the sovereign risk assumption. Sovereign risk is the assumption that the government bills and bonds are risk free. He explains that the sovereign ...

Workplace behaviour is a common topic of modern psychological studies behaviour within an organisation is an important aspect of human psychological functioning. Work psychology is mainly concerned with several relationships, but the main issues are the relationship between the individual and the individual’s work and the relationships among the members of an organisation (J. Arnold et al., 2005). Other areas of interest for work psychology are personnel selection, education, performance appraisals, organisational development, personal development, workplace safety, and motivation (J. Arnold et al., 2005). Despite the amount of different factors that define workplace behaviour, knowing leadership skills, employee motivation ...

Business Process Management

Abstract
The literature review on the topic of enterprise resource planning (ERP) of business process management (BPM) as part of information systems (IS) strategies in South African businesses covers both scholarly and professional management discussions about outsource administration of IT systems operations. The rise of outsource IT in the business sector is predicted to realign business and trade into the future. The trend in emergent market outsource IS data management in and by South African firms is fast becoming a lead topic in a nation formerly characterised as an industrial economy with developing country challenges.
The enactment of South ...

Summary

This paper extracted evidences from Liu et al.’s The value of human resource mangement for organizational performance (2007), Chen’s Evaluation of Human Resources using Development Performance Management: a study among schools in Taiwan (2011), Hameed and Waheed’s Employee development and its effects on employee performance: a conceptual framework (2011), Shah et al.’s The impact of human resource dimensons on organizational performance from an international perspective (2011) and Tiraieyari et al’s A. Relationship between human development competncies and work performance (2011). Evidences were selectively extracted from these journals to serve as backup to the arguments in this ...

Literature Review

Introduction
Employee turnover can be defined as the rotation of individuals around the labor market, between jobs, organizations, and careers. Besides, it is the amount of movement of workers in and out of a company, normally occur in terms of the employee turnover rate (Ronra & Chaisawat, 2010). Employees may involuntarily leave the company as a result of discharge or layoff, or voluntarily because of retirement or resignation. In most cases, voluntary turnover takes place when a worker feels dissatisfaction with his current job and has attractive alternatives in other companies.
Employee turnover and retention have always been key issues ...

Literature review

Over the past number of years, the issue of violence has generated a lot of concerns in the workplace. Different sectors experience different levels of workplace violence with 85 percent of non-fatal assaults occurring in retailing and service industries. The health care sector falls under the service industry and workers in this sector are at higher risks of workplace violence. It becomes hard to estimate the true incidence of violence towards health workers because of different definitions and data collection systems (Hartley, D., & Ridenour, 2011 #1).

Violence among health workers triggers most psychological and physical outcomes. Some of the ...

Reflection Paper: Study Review, Reaction, and Extension

Reflection Paper: Study Review, Reaction, and Extension
The purpose of the study by Isen and Levin (1972) was to determine whether the positive affective state affects the subsequent helpfulness to other people. Previous researchers established that there is a significant relationship between success and helping, but subsequent studies found that the relationship between success and helping did not exist when there was no previous relationship between people or when helping was low-cost or unsolicited.
Based on those studies, researchers proposed that a positive affective state may significantly determine helpfulness. However, a positive mood state was induced by reports of success ...

Article Reviews

Strategic HRM Practices and Their Impact on Company Performance in Chinese Enterprises
Summary

In the article Strategic HRM practices and their impact on company performance in Chinese enterprises, Akhtar, Ding, & Ge (2008) “examined the factorial validity of strategic human resource management practices and their effects on company performance” (Akhtar et al., p. 15) by sampling 465 Chinese organizations. They conducted a study using the best practices approach in order to determine the influence of HRM practices on company performance “in the context of Chinese enterprises using a large sample” (Akhtar et al., p. 16). The best practices approach included “internal ...

Chapter 2: Literature review

Introduction
This chapter presents the literature review appraisal that exists and is linked to work contentment and inspiration subjects and how these issues are closely related to industrial performance. The chapter discusses the concept of motivation, job satisfaction, and project management and employee satisfaction. Organizational performance as well as its continuity largely depends on critical assets, employees and the managers' capabilities to create and sustain motivating environments of the employees and other human assets. The primary challenge that managers are faced with today is keeping their human capital such as the employees satisfied and motivated. Therefore, all managers must ...

Chapter 1

1.0. Introduction
The researcher followed a survey which was given out to the employees within magic care solutions care home. The researcher seeks to find out if the management within magic care is very effective. It was done through an analysis method which comprises of qualitative and quantitative. The analysis was built on primary data which was carried out through doing a questionnaire on effective leadership within magic care homes. The questionnaires were given out to staff within the care home. The results of the respondents was converted to qualitative data
Leadership styles can be different with all different ...

Introduction to the literature review

Working mothers have called for UAE companies to be more flexible. They want companies to establish flexitime, a system that allocates the number of hours a woman would work in a week. For a long period, Emirati mothers have always dedicated their child-rearing duties to their nannies. The flexitime is said to help women balance between home and work responsibilities. In situations where women are expected to work for longer hours, they are constrained to perform domestic roles. According to Khoori (2015), the new system guarantees job satisfaction and improved productivity in the workplace. There are numerous uncertainties associated ...

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Literature review
Several works can be cited in the study of workplace nurseries with researchers exploring the same field to seek for evidence in support of the need for workplace nurseries. This section seeks to review the data as presented by various authors.

Necessity for workplace nurseries

Workplace nurseries serves a very crucial role in the work life of a woman. They not only encourage the women's productivity, but also motivates the women to perform even better, the presence of such centres in the workplaces will minimize the challenge of balancing life with work. Gives more time to attend to the kids and ...

Introduction

Society compels individuals to engage in productive activities to provide for their needs and those of their families. In fact, close to 65 percent of the United States population engages in full and part time works to secure a living (Kossek, Pichler, Meece & Barrat, 2008). In addition to meeting financial essentials, there is a need to meet one’s caregiving and social responsibilities regarding their families. Specifically, parents ought care for their children, spend time with them while monitoring their growth, attend their doctors. In infancy the level of responsibility is heightened and the parents, especially the mother in ...

The concurrent society compels individuals to engage in productive activities to provide for their needs and those of their families. In fact, close to 65 percent of the United States population engages in full and part time works to secure a living (Kossek, Pichler, Meece & Barrat, 2008). In addition to meeting financial essentials, there is a need to sustain one’s social responsibilities regarding their families. Precisely, parents have a responsibility to care for their children, spend time with them while monitoring their growth. In cases where the children are infants, the level of responsibility is heightened and the ...

Psychology's Role in the Workplace: Promoting Well-Being and Raising Awareness

Any psychologically healthy business should foster its employees into the well-being while boosting organizational performance and productivity. Psychologically healthy and balanced workplace practices may be grouped into several categories: employee engagement, work-life balance, staff growth and improvement, health and basic safety, and employee recognition.
You should note that there is no basic approach to creating an emotionally healthy workplace. Accomplishment of this goal is based, in part, in addressing the problems unique to the organization and drawing awareness to programs and insurance policies to meet their employee’s needs. One problem in the workplace is stress. This may ...

Abstract

This paper, is aimed at reviewing literature on the topic of soft skills and emotional intelligence employed by the project leaders in order to improve the outcome of the people working under them. The paper starts with an introduction about the topic while highlighting few soft skills that are exhibited at the workplace environment. The paper then proceeds to reviewing literature available on the topic of soft skills in project leaders. Few books, articles and researches have been selected for inclusion in the literature review. A brief review of each source is mentioned in the literature review section of ...

Introduction

Employee engagement can be defined in various ways. However, it can be generally referred to as the ability and willingness of employees to help the organization in which they are employed achieve its objectives. This is achieved by the employees providing their services in a discretional way and in sustainable circumstances. Employee engagement entails two main aspects; psychological and HR practice. The psychological aspect involves the kind of job one is doing, the resources at the employee’s disposal and the experience one goes through during the engagement. Furthermore, the ability of the organization to empower its employees and its ...

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Research Question
The purpose of this paper is to establish the effect of the North American Free Trade Agreement, otherwise known as NAFTA on the foreign direct investments that Mexico has received as an effect of the implementation of the NAFTA. Mexico, along with the United States and Canada, has created a trilateral trade block that came into force on January 1, 1994. The goal of the NAFTA is to promote trade and investments between the three member countries through several mechanisms that include removal of tariffs for export and import of goods, elimination of non-tariff trade barriers, improved ...

Leadership refers to the ability of a designated person (with authority) to influence a functional group of an organization to work towards achieving the set objectives of the organization (without coercion). It is a process, which encompasses strategic thinking and requires a visionary person to create a vision and provide direction to the followers to implement in the quest of actualizing the vision. Leaders therefore, must have leadership motivation and be empathic coaches to support functional teams to achieve organizational goals (Stojkovic 192).
The trait theory of leadership presupposes that some people are born leaders. This implies that they have extra ordinary traits ...

Thesis Statement

Introduction
In the recent economic times, the advanced technology has been able to facilitate innovative online business platform where consumers can easily purchase products over the internet. However, this has developed various impacts with regards to the economy due to the increased online shopping by a majority of the modern consumer. It is believed that online shopping will continue to present tremendous impacts to the economy due to its acceptance by the majority of consumers in the global markets. This study will therefore, seek to reveal the impacts of online shopping to the economy by taking an in depth ...

Introduction

Green building is currently emerging and changing the construction, the design, the renovation process and operation of existing and new buildings and it is reshaping the whole communities and its cities. The terminology currently attached to this new facility is highly performance green building. As the movement is worldwide, the idea is trending at an alarming rate, as it a topic of discussion, for actors, designers, politicians, manufacturers and academicians. This paper will give a background perspective and the development of green building in the world considering what several writers have written about green building.
Green buildings are facilities depicting a ...

2. Literature review
The phrase Quality of work life (QWL) according to Stephen and Dhanapal (2011); Bagtasos (2011), originates back in 19th century labor conference at Arden House, Columbia University. Stephen and Dhanapal states that people use the term to refer to the well-being of organization employees. Nevertheless, Normala (2010) uses business perspective to define QWL as employee satisfaction and their work related behaviors. Stephen and Dhanapal indicates that QWL also affects employees in the way they response to their work in terms of job performance, job effort, organization identification, job involvement, job satisfaction, personal alienation, intention to ...

TITTLE; Deep insights into how managers deal with cross cultural issues in a multinational company. DHL being the multinational company focused on.
- Introduction
- Importance of considweragtion of culture
- Issues in organizations due to cultural differences
- Cultural practices in other multinational organizations:
- Cultural discrimination in organizations:
- Measures taken by managers to solve cultural issues:
- Methods used for employees:
- DHL cultural strategy:
- Conclusion:
- References

Introduction:

Multinational organizations often employ people from various countries across the globe and are often in search of top ...

I. Introduction
Many employee studies revealed that training and development have a considerable impact in improving job satisfaction and employee retention. Thus, training and development is important in the hospitality industry, not only as a means avoid the high cost associated with employee turnover, but also to reduce the time spent in hiring and training new staffs. A better understanding of the significance of training may lead to the implementation of high quality training in hospitality industries. This paper aims to analyze the staff and management view of training for employees’ satisfaction and motivation in Ritz Carlton Seoul, Korea.
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Literature review: Effects EHR may have caused to the community or other organization.

The electronic health records, also known as HR has had both positive and negative effects to community and health related organizations.

The positive effects:

It has contributed to a great accessibility of data.
This has been of a great advantage to the organizations since it makes the access to data to be very fast, accurate and minimize space for storage compared to the medical charts (Davis & LaCour, 2014). In which case, the records increases availability of data.

Charge capture

The EHR has made it possible for the organizations to keep track of the use of the hospital resources by the patients. This makes it ...

Using the Service Encounter Model to Enhance Our Understanding of Business-To-Consumer Transactions in an eEnvironment

Nelson Massad and Kevin Crowston
What the article is about:
Internet plays a progressively greater role in human life. Currently it is complicated to think about a person who is not aware of the terms “search engine”, “site” or “Web Page”. It was noted that the number of Internet users increases annually, so the number of customers, who wish to have the access to a huge amount of information on different products and services through service providers, also increases. Today the number of online start-ups and complement companies is magnifical, so consumers can do business with such providers, but they ...

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Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions on Operating Performance: a Case Study of UK
Literature Review
There could be multiple reasons of M&A, but the main reasons of merger and acquisition could be acquiring the brands, market access and the knowledge of the market. M&A can cover The possible loss in the company's image or product services. Merger and acquisition is one of the reasons to cover the business financial losses. The increase of foreign companies in mergers and acquisition is that these companies have the ability and power to expand the deals. Mergers and ...

Literature Review on Carbon Fibers

This paper sums up a literature review on a unique and astounding development in the field of Science, known as carbon fibers. Although, they were discovered during late 1800s for the first time, their true potential was not realized until mid 20th century, and even today, researchers are experimenting over new areas of application for carbon fibers. The paper will further discuss; different areas of application, the composition, structure and characteristics of the carbon fibers used, along with a list of merits and demerits of using carbon fiber in place of a traditional alternative in modern engineering.

Carbon fibers have molded into many ...

Slide 2: Frederick Winslow Taylor – A Brief Introduction

- Frederick Winslow Taylor was an American mechanical engineer.
- Known as the father of Scientific Management, he was a proponent of efficiency.
- His interest in efficiency led him to experiment
- with various motions that are useful for laying bricks
- with various elements of jobs to find out an optimal way of completing a job.

Slide 3: Principles of Scientific Management

- 'The Principles of Scientific Management' published in 1911 best described his belief that simplification and optimization of jobs would increase productivity and work efficiency to a great degree.
- His publication was meant to touch upon three points:

Slide 4: Principles of Scientific Managementcontd.

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Introduction

Safety is organizational requirement that helps in reducing risks to employees and customers. Organizations need to determine appropriate criteria that help in enhancing safety culture. Safety culture entails prioritization of safety measures within an organization through showing an obligation of security at different levels in the organization. Safety culture is part of the core values that all employees and customers should observe by performing their obligations. It incorporates characteristics and attitudes in an organization and individuals towards the creation of safety priorities and their significance. Safety initiatives are favourable with the existence of a workplace culture that reduces errors and ...

Human Resource Management

Introduction
Human resource management refers to a planned approach to managing people effectively for performance. Managing human resource is aimed at establishing a flexible and a caring management style in order to motivate staff so as to make them perform to their best. In order for the business to achieve its set objectives, there is need to develop strategies which aims at enabling the available human resource to perform to their fullest. However, certain factors ought to be considered such as the low performance organization and high performance organizations. This paper aims at answering some questions related to human resource management.
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INTRODUCTION

Inflation has been described by economics in various ways. A simple description of this condition is a reduction in the value of money of a country. An underlying cause of this is imbalance between the quantity of goods and services and the volume of money in circulation in an economy. Increased volume of money in circulation with respect to the goods in the economy causes inflation.
Hyperinflation is considered an extreme case of inflation. Many economists only regard it hyperinflation when the rate of inflation is at least 50% per month or 1000% per annum. Most hyperinflations are caused by ...

Abstract

During the just concluded presidential elections in America, one of the principal matters in the agenda of either presidential hopeful was the issue of immigration. Debatably, the United States is the country experiencing the highest rates of immigration in the entire world. One of the consequences of having high inflows of foreigners is the fact that some individuals find their way illegally into the United States. As such, the aspect of illegal of immigrants has been described as one of the most serious menaces facing the United States. Typically, immigration is a concept that concerns itself with the movement of ...

Training Methods

Training of managers is very essential for the success of an organization since it ensures a strong management team. There are various ways to conduct training for managers to ensure short-term and long-term benefits for the organization. On the job training is the most commonly used mode of training where employees undergo training while undertaking their usual duties. Many studies support this form of training since the individual learns practically and can be able to apply the knowledge in their work (Gruicic & Benton, 2015). Pederson, Dresdow & Benson (2013) indicate the importance of conducting training as the managers develop their ...

Literature Review

Abstract
Nowadays attracting and retaining professional and skilled staff has become a challenge for many companies. Many organizations experience significant turnover that adds complications to their business activity. Providing employees with the rewards of different kinds helps companies to deal with this problem, assists with retaining talent, and reduces expenses for hiring. The rewards offered by the organizations can be of different kinds and serve various goals. Rewards can be financial and non-financial, extrinsic and intrinsic. Management of these rewards differs from company to company and is usually designed to serve the certain goals of the organizations. One more ...

High quality relationships are very important for young people and since they play a great valuable role in their academic and social lives. According to Diego and Sanders (2002) stable and solid friendships can lead to success at school. Having a great connectivity and special relationships can be a great formidable source of greater higher academic motivation, achievement and engagement. Having Creating good satisfactory relationships is important for in order to enjoy a normal and healthy human functioning. Relationships are a great source of happiness, meaning and support. and Wwithout a doubt, the loss of a friendship can be ...

What are the three main lessons that you learned from Creativity Inc.? Try for a thoughtful explanation that relates to your studies and your work experiences so far.
The work of Ed Catmull together with Amy Wallace titled Creativity Inc. (2014) encompasses new insights about the creativity in business. The book offers interesting and important lessons that can be useful for anyone studying or professionally engaged in the field of business management. First lesson taken away from the book is learning the importance of collaboration. Catmull mentioned that the primary characteristic of a creative and healthy organizational culture is ...

LITERATURE REVIEW: Determinants of health

In this paper there will be the analysis of cardiovascular disease and how it occurs in the UAE. This paper will be tasked with describing its nature, prevalence and importance as a public health issue; describe the individual factors that lead to this health issue (biology/behavior); a description of the determinants as the disease occurs in the society; prevention of the disease; how the society is working on limiting occurrences and also treating the disease as the cases occur. This literature review will look into this case in the United Arab Emirates, working with the statistics and what is ...

Information Technology

The case can be summarised as an initiative by Intel to allow its employees to bring their own devices to work. The devices will be allowed to access the company’s information and data and thus lead to security issues within the organisation. This idea is fuelled by the fact that employees were already bringing their own devices to work and using them during office hours. The chief information officer is faced with various dilemmas in the implementation of this proposal. The issues that arise might be beneficial or detrimental to the organization while employee privacy will come at ...

Introduction

One of the largest social problems facing the modern society is illiteracy. By wide definition, illiteracy refers to the inability of an individual to read and write. However, as will be seen later, this definition is relatively outdated. In the current modern society, every single human being has the right to acquire the basic knowledge of writing and reading. Those who do not have this knowledge or have been deprived of this knowledge are usually referred to as the illiterates. Despite the enormous modernization of the current society, the problem of illiteracy stills persists and there are ...

The issue of global justice in the context of international environment is the central theme in Arnold’s article. According to him, global justice is seen to happen if the concerns of those who happen to be in the lower part of the pyramid are addressed (Arnold, 2013). Arnold argued that some models such as the deliberative democracy advanced by theorists of political aspect of corporate social responsibility (CSR) are not satisfactory. Furthermore, he believes Rawlsian theoretical failed to provide a clear obligations on how corporations execute the global justice. International business has been used to refer to both ...

Labor Market

Labor market is a form of the economy that functions through demand and the supply of labor. Labor demand is the companies demand; labor and supply focus on the supply of the labor workers. The bargaining power is likely to have high influence on both supply and demand. Majority of the nation is aware that the labor market institutions that have equalizing effects tend to encounter challenges (Peitchinis, 2005). Policy change is required in relation to equality since it ensures that the status quo focuses on both national and international change. Labor market comprises of employees searching for work, employers ...

Literature Review

Introduction
A perfect place which is made to have the significance of employees particularly, in which the employees that would get the things in the right manner is known as an Organization (Aswathappa, 2002). Apart from this particular definition, there is yet another important definition related with the organizations, which is that organization is a core place wherein lots of employees work together which are bifurcated into different departments in particular is known as an Organization (Aswathappa, 2009).
There are numerous departments that collectively make and transform such strategies from which they can execute the things in the ...

Greenfield Development vs. Brownfield Development

There are many factors to consider while doing planning for an upcoming development. These factors have led to the development of policies around to try to maintain minimum environmental effect depending on the type of development that is to be put in place. In addition to the environmental and ecological factors, the type of land and the developments present determine the mechanisms and techniques that will be put in place to ensure that the project is successful while minimizing the cost. If it is a Greenfield development, projecting the overall impacts on the undeveloped land is essential. Furthermore, while considering a ...

Business Planning

Food industry is one of the largest and most lucrative industries of the world in terms of revenue recognition and size, and the industry is booming in almost every part of the world. Though, restaurant industry is one of the largest industries of the world, but still there is a huge gap among the utilization of this particular industry (Abrams, 2004). Developed countries like the United States, United Kingdom (UK), Germany and others are some of the largest countries of the world in terms of effectiveness and power. However, other parts of the countries like Asian region are very attractive ...

INTRODUCTION

In broad terms, the concept of sustainable economic growth is an attempt to combine growing concerns about a range of environmental issues with socio-economic issues (Bill Hopwood, Mary Mellor and Geoff O’Brien, 2005). However, the phrase sustainable economic growth or development has many meanings attached to it. Sustainability itself (as a strategic concept originated in the Brundtland report in the year 1987) means a degree of growth which can be retained without creating other substantial economic or environmental problems for future generations. In other words, it is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future ...

Tinham, B. (January 01, 2005). Visibility gives thought for food: Lean and agile multi-site supply chain operations are being delivered at Grampian Country Food, following implementation of new systems. Manufacturing Computer Solutions.
The article involves a study on implementation of Lean and agile multi-site supply chain operations at Grampian County Food, a leading European chicken industry. The business has multiple businesses, and in different geographical locations with dependencies on each other. Each of the businesses was acquired over different times, with its unique systems market routes and business processes. The article provides a program on the appropriate time to integrate the ...

Literature review

Globally, education can be considered as one of the significant factors that can be used to improve the economic performance in a particular area. Therefore, Academic City through facilitating the academic facilities in the Western Region is anticipated to increase the level of productivity in the region and neighboring region. The primary objective of the Academic City is to provide educational resources to the people of Western Region. Availability of skills in the labor force greatly affects the productive capacity of the economy. In the contemporary world, production systems have become more complex than before, and, as result workers with a ...

Literature Review on Discovery Based Learning and Student Centred Learning with a Focus in Mathematics at a High School Level

Abstract
Mathematics is a logical form of reasoning which involves making of judgments and justifying conclusions. Mathematical behaviour therefore is expressed when we can describe and recognise patterns, manipulate, represent and reflect on ideas while solving problems through the invention of procedures (Battista, 1999). Mathematics, as a subject has never been mentioned as one of the easier subjects – if anything, it is to the contrary as students are more prone to fail mathematics than many other subjects. Many critics have blamed the methods applied in the teaching of mathematics as the reason behind unsatisfactory performance. This essay will look into ...

Literature Review

The rapid emergence of the new media and the accessibility and the “must have” trend regarding the innovative, breakthrough electronic devices (smartphones, tablets, netbooks, laptops, etc.), fulminated in the students’ environment with using these devices in the classroom setting, for various purposes or activities, not directly related, or totally not related with the education purposes.
Information communication and technology (ICT) is considered to be a sound element leading the way to modernization throughout the world, even in the third world or fourth world countries, where, as a Microsoft report (2007, p. 7) indicates, ICT enables growth and social and economic ...

The necessity for the improvement of quality and safety of health care is an essential aspect of the modern day health care industry. Quality healthcare is one in which the services offered increase the probability of achieving desired health outcome and consistent with modern professional knowledge. Measuring the quality of health care presents a challenge due to different actors in the industry as medical errors result from not only from human error, but also faulty systems and processes. Professional nurses face myriad of challenges as it is one of the most stressful profession especially critical care nurses. This results from ...

INTRODUCTION TO MACHINE LEARNING

Introduction
Machine learning refers to the development of learning algorithms, which enable computers to automatically execute tasks without the need for human intervention (Schapire 2003). With application learning techniques, computers are able to come up with their own programs for solving a problem, and these are based on the examples that the computers are provided.
In particular, some of the questions that the discipline of machine learning aims to answer are: 1.) How computer systems that automatically improve with experience can be built; and 2.) What the fundamental laws are that govern all learning processes (Mitchell 2006).
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Paramedics are mainly a group of individuals who face many challenges due to the unpredictable nature of their work. The paramedics have to perform a variety of tasks in the environment of pre-hospital (Patterson et al., 2012). Research has proven that a high percentage of healthcare providers suffer from fatigue. Scientific evidence indicates that the leading cause of medical errors in the field is fatigue (Lamond & Dawson, 1999). Sleep deprivation among the emergency medical providers is due to the variety of shifts they work in order to provide the community with a continuous 24-hour service (Lockley et al., 2007). The paper explains how ...