Talent Literature Reviews Samples For Students

Introduction

Organizations, instead of running themselves, require employees with a diverse mix of “abilities, intrinsic gifts, skills, knowledge, experience, intelligence, judgment, attitude, character, drive, and ability to learn and grow; collectively called talent” (Michaels et al., 2001, cited in Beechler & Woodward, 2009, p. 274)” to do the same. However, “sustaining this talent is more challenging than creating it, considering the dynamically complex and perilous global business environment, that most of the companies operate in, thus, necessitating a carefully crafted talent strategy or talent management process, on their part, that precedes every other organizational strategy, 24*7, regardless of the prevalent business conditions” ( ...

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“The Tale of Kieu”: A Study on Karma

Right or wrong is purely cultural, yet there are certain things or actions which are considered either right or wrong universally in all cultures. In “The Tale of Kieu,” the author Nguyen Du describes a female named Kieu who suffers innumerable tragedies for paying back the sins she committed in her previous life.
“The Tale of Kieu” narrates the life, trials and tribulations of Thuy Kieu, a beautiful and intelligent young woman, who sacrifices herself to save her family. To save her imprisoned father and brother, she sells herself into a marriage with a middle aged man, a pimp who forces her ...

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

Staff turnover is vital for a hospitality organization, especially when the organizations aim at a high-quality service. The focus of the hospitality business must be to provide outstanding service that will give a memorable experience to the guests. For offering such experience, trained and happy people are required. A high rate of employee turnover has negative and immediate effect on the organization.Hospitality industry is a labor intensive industry, requiring a variety of skills, knowledge and attitudes, and levels of competency. The labor turnover rate in the hospitality industry is observed as higher than other segments. Many positions are available in the hospitality organizations ranging ...

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 ...

Two Kinds is a short story by Amy Tan in the book The Joy Luck Club. Tan writes about the intricacy of a daughter and mother relationship who migrated from China to America. The short story is about a Chinese-American girl named Jing-mei. Jing-mei lived in American and her mother believed that, as long as one lives in America, he/she can be anything she could ever wish to be and therefore, she was working hard to find her daughter’s talent. Jing-mei’s mother constantly tests her daughter for any talent, but any time she tries, no talent is found. The lack ...

Introduction

The teacher is crucial in ensuring a proper learning environment for the student. It is the duty of the teacher to ensure equality for all students in the learning process without regard of their social status, class, religion, race or gender. In that perspective it is paramount that the teacher understands the methodologies that are suitable in a multi-cultural and multi racial setting (Banks, J. A., & Banks, C. A. 2004).

Literature review

Over the years, racial inequality in education has been a pertinent solution (Teranishi, R. T. 2010). It has remained so and it still seems to haunt the education sector and the nation ...

LITERATURE REVIEW

Advantages of Home Schooling
The first advantage of homeschooling that emerges from literature is the need for family members to bond. According to Arai (2014), keeping children at home rather than at school helps parents to have a close-knit family. Many parents regard homeschooling as an opportunity for them to learn more about their children and for the children to learn more about them. Arai (2014) notes that parents whose children have undergone homeschooling would make comments such as “we’re much stronger as a family now” or “homeschooling has brought all of us together as a family” (Arai, ...

Impact of Technology on Supporting First Grade Students’ Creative Thinking in Mathematics

Abstract:
This research provides an in-depth examination of the impact of technology in supporting the acquisition of mathematical creative thinking skills among first-grade student. It examines how technology can be properly integrated with mathematics to promote math’s performance without declining creative thinking skills in mathematics among the elementary students.
Social constructivism theory as the method of learning in first-grade mathematics students is advocated; it defines the developmental stages of a child and relates to his or her learning and problem-solving ability. Its requirements can properly be integrated to Computer-aided learning processes.
The value and importance of ...

Introduction

The Australian construction industry has been for the past few years encountered many challenges starting from the economic restrictions construction industry. Many construction companies that aim at flourishing in this industry have claimed to encounter a similar problem through inefficiency. Inefficiency has been noted in all areas of the company’s activities that vary from inefficiency in business processes, supply chain, communication channels. All these forms of inefficiency incur huge costs on the Australian construction companies. Achieving efficiency remains one of the major goals of the Australian companies in that the most efficient companies receive huge benefits. Efficiency within a company ...

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 ...

Introduction

Canada is a developed country whose economy resembles that of the United States of America. Canada is a high-technology industrial economy, generating trillions of dollars in annual revenues. The country’s living standards and economic systems are very similar to the US, having economic sectors that complement its manufacturing, mining and service industries .
Canada, along with the United States and Mexico, signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994 which opened trade and economic integration among the three participating countries . Ever since the NAFTA happened, Canada experienced a very dramatic increase in trade with the United States. This increased ...

The acknowledgements at the end of the book tell us that the names of people who disappeared (mentioned on p.41) are taken from an actual list in Amnesty International reports (see p. 310). Similarly, the description of the assassination of the president [p. 291-95] is based on true events, though the president's name has been changed. Why does Ondaatje insert the names of real people, and the real situations in which they died or disappeared, in a work of fiction?
The aim of this essay is to present you with the reflections driven upon some of the ways reality ...

John Milton, in the poem On His Blindness, talks of the frustration of the speaker who is blind and hence unable to serve God. The speaker’s frustration finds a reply from “Patience” who tells that the Almighty does not really require man’s work. All he asks for is the perseverance to bear with the “mild yoke” and embrace what the God asks for with faith in heart. The poet puts to use the form and his quintessential touch in language and content of his work. The poem is considered one of Milton’s immortal literary works. A close ...

Social media is the means of interactions among individuals through which they develop, share and exchange ideas and information in virtue networks and families. As it continues getting popular, it has become a reliable way of connecting with customers as well as fans in various companies. Therefore, it is an extremely significant tool for marketing. Social media has had extensive impact to marketing in the sports industry. There are various reasons that make it crucial and paramount requirement in the sports industry. Most teams and sports leagues have taken the idea keenly and have implemented it as a method to connect ...

Literature Review

Literature review
Theoretical Concepts of the Topic
Definition of millennial
Before digging into the details of the topic, first, it is essential to understand the idea of a millennial. According to the definition of Smola and Sutton (2002), people who born between 1979 and 1994 are considered as millennial generation. These are the people that are self absorbed and overly self-confident; hence, they are considered as “look at me generation”. Millennial are continued to enter at the workplace in a larger amount (Smola and Sutton, 2002). The generation has an immense ability to develop organizational performance and to build ...

The topic selected for the overview of the existing literature is retaining millennial -understanding millennial engagement in the workforce and the purpose of the topic selected is to create a better understanding of how organizations achieve success by engaging young talent in projects in the workplace. The paper highlights the literature available for millennial perception about the workplace to get a broader understanding of retaining millennial in the workforce. With the advent of new standards of workforce management and demands of new generations, organizations have adapted to new millennial, and it has become essential to attract the new generation ...

Literature Review

Nowadays social media is becoming more and more important either for individuals or for businesses worldwide. It plays a significant role in the life of almost every person. Therefore it is natural that it attracts much attention of the researchers, especially those trying to study its influence upon the business activity of the companies. This Literature Review is an attempt to research the effects of social media on employment in the UK.

Social Media in the World

According to Diercksen et al. (2013), websites of social media may be considered to be a huge resource to the world of business. Employees that use social ...

Literature Review

Before indulging in gender-related issues within the hospitality industry, it is important to understand the role women play in it. According to Baum and Cheung (2015),
Within the industry, women make up nearly 70% of the workforce, however paradoxically there is a marked under-representation of women in senior positions, with women holding less than 40% of all managerial positions, less than 20% of general management roles and between 5-8% of board positions .
An immense amount of literature exists on gender-related issues encountered in the hospitality industry, especially by females. From discriminatory recruitment policies to salary differentials to sexual harassment ...

Synopsis

Franny and Zoey were written as two different stories, the first being a short story about Franny, a college student dissatisfied with the pretentious American society as epitomized by her boyfriend, Lane. He even pretends he does not remember the letter he was just reading before the train arrived. The events of the story take place at a French restaurant where Lane takes Franny during their date, and the conversation that ensues is indicative of just how the two are different. Lane talks incessantly about his school work and assumes that Franny does not understand some of the words ...

E-Recruitment refers to the situation where a firm posts job vacancies on an online platform so as to attract competent recruits, who then submit their resumes electromechanically. E-Human Resource Management is a modern system that characterizes the workplace with more innovative technologies (Dhamija, 2012). The technological advancements have enabled the automation of Human Resources procedures and processes through a database. Thus, this article focuses on addressing various innovations like the introduction of Virtual Human Resource and Human Resource Management System. The article is relevant to the modern day workplace since every firm strives to have an efficient technological system, ...

Information Technology Management

Management Concepts and Models
IT portfolio management
IT portfolio management is the efficient management application to deal with the investments, activities and projects of the department of information technology (IT) in the enterprise. It is the application of all the IT resources including planned and current to provide a framework for the planning, analysis and execution of portfolio of IT in the organization (Casco-Arias et al 2012).

Business/IT alignment

Business-IT alignment is a vibrant condition in which the ability of the organization begins to use information technology (IT) for achieving the objectives and purposes of the business. It is the capability ...

The aim of this essay is to present you with a close reading of a specific paragraph from the short story by Katherine Mansfield ‘The Woman at the store’. The paragraph which has been chosen to be presented in this essay is the one of the first meeting of the three men with the Woman, the main female figure and protagonist of this short story. It is a paragraph which describes the situation of confronting each other. The essay is structured in three steps. Each step emphasizes and highlights one particular aspect of the essay. The first step is the writing of ...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

Dyslexia and Motivation
When one thinks of a motivated individual, one often thinks of a stereotype. The individual is usually formally educated, sharply dressed, and on the fast track to an Ivy League university. They do not have any special needs that hold them back from their studies, because how could anybody with difficulties in math or reading ever succeed in the real world? Actually, individuals with difficulties in school sometimes end up being quite successful in the real world, particularly those with dyslexia. Dyslexic individuals are prone to thinking outside the box, being pushed harder by their teachers, making ...

Abstract

Contemporary business environment demands from organizations more flexibility and higher responsiveness to the external pressures. Management capabilities cannot address these challenges. In the crisis situations, when there is a need to make fast and difficult decisions in difficult situations, companies have to rely on effective leadership to drive organizational development. The history illustrates various examples of the organizations, which are over managed and under led and it is a challenge and the task of the modern corporations to develop an internal framework for development of the leadership capabilities, which can take the organization to success through crisis.
One of the ...

Learning disabilities refer to an assortment of disorders which are usually evidenced by pertinent difficulties in attainment of educational knowledge. This can be manifested through complexities in; reading, listening, writing, speaking or reasoning. Learning disabilities can be classified into various categories based on the information processing ability of the students. Some students may experience difficulties in the input and synthesis of information. Whereas others may find it difficult to integrate and interpret the information given. Consequently, some students may have disabilities in the storage of educational information thus they find it difficult to memorize what is taught in class ( ...

At the beginning of Miles Corwin’s book, And Still We Rise, he includes the Proverbs 13:12 quote, “Hope deferred maketh the heart sick; but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.” To me, hope differs from desire because hope is a feeling one has if they feel there is a possibility of change or growth. Hope does not have to be specific. On the other hand, desire can only truly come if there is hope, and tends to be about a specific thing. I believe Corwin included this proverb because in writing about Crenshaw High School, he saw a demonstration ...

Abstract

The main core of this work keenly and thoroughly addresses the issue of E-recruitment, which currently has replaced the physical recruitment. Top level management despite its act of embracing change and its prevailing aspects has really faced great challenge, thereby becoming to some bothersome due to managing complexities. Apart from the efficient operations made easier through E-recruitment and minimization of costs contrary to the past, where colossal sums of money went into maintaining and sustaining recruitment exercise, the problems affecting it have to be well handled if the business world is at any cost to benefit from it. The ...