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Improving Knowledge Management Through Organizational Structure

Improving Knowledge Management Through Structure In today’s information-rich and competitive business environment, successful knowledge management is vital to an organization’s performance. Firms must find effective ways to manage the large amount of available information and get it in the right hands so it can be utilized for the company’s benefit. The efficiency of knowledge is creation and employment is affected by many factors, including technology, leadership, and culture. One avenue to improving knowledge management performance is through the manipulation of organizational structure.

Knowledge has become a core resource for businesses. Knowledge in this context “is defined ...

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Water sustainability is a crucial issue in Nigeria as well as in other developing countries. The significant issues of water sustainability in Nigeria include many factors as desertification; the depletion of critical wetlands, forests and vegetation covers at a fast rate. In addition, it includes the pollution of water sources from point sources such as industrial effluent and urban domestic wastes; unregulated utilization of groundwater for domestic purposes. There is also an issue of unavailability of portable water for citizens in most parts of the country particularly those in the rural areas and so forth (Ajai). These water sustainability issues are ...

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Francisco de Goya was a Spanish romantic painter, to whom the specialists regard as to the last from the Old Masters. Being a court painter to the Spanish Crown, he painted multiple churches, done portraits of monarchs of those times.

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes a Spanish painter and printmaker was born on March 30th 1746 in Fuendetodos - a small village in northern Spain. In the family of Jose Goya, Francisco was the youngest out of three sons. All of Goya brothers managed to get a basic education. In 1763 Goya moved to Madrid, where he tried to enroll the ...

The aim of this paper is to critically assess the research studies, formulate the hypothesis as well as the research methodology concerning the false memories. Benjamin, A.S. (2001) in the article ‘On the dual effects of repetition on false recognition’ presented findings of the impact of study list repetition on false recognition using two factor including aging and time pressure. The experiment reveals dual bases for the decision regarding recognition of words including semantic similarity and decision criteria. Both were affected due to time constraints and old age of participants. The article named “How are false memory ...

A manager is usually an individual regarded as one who takes control of the management processes in an organization or a firm. In most circumstances, he is the supreme planner, organizer, a decision maker and a supervisor who monitors various humanitarian activities, information and finance resources of the organization (Mohammadi, 2007). According to Budding & Groot, a manager is one who is well acquainted with leadership skills and holds an administrative position of an organization and ensures the main objectives are realized in confined conditions despite all the risks encountered (Budding & Groot, 2008). G. Baillod however, holds a different opinion and states that not ...

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The relative capacity of the modern world business to unravel the concept of Expatriate failure extensively is worth understanding. Thus, the exploration of the defining the Expatriate failure from a business perspective and the discoveries generated to provide an insight at which a business literature is designed. From a business perspective, the expatriate failure concept or definition has produced a point of argument or critique raising concerns in the world of business. Therefore, analysis presented in this document is helpful in understanding the concept or definition of expatriate failure and its comprehensive or sophisticated understanding (Tran, 2013). On a broad front, Expatriate failure associated ...

Sepsis is a clinical condition that evokes an inflammatory response of the host immune system in response to clinically-suspected infections. It usually occurs in an individual with a weak immune system such as a post-surgery patient, organ transplant patient, cancer patients or an AIDS patient. It spreads throughout the body via the bloodstream. There are several degrees of sepsis such as severe sepsis, septic shock and refractory septic shock (Morrell, Micek & Kollef, 2009) that together make up the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) (Mayr, Yende & Angus, 2014). Sepsis and septic shock are some of the leading causes of death in the world, ...

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Racism denotes discrimination and prejudice that are anchored on social apprehensions of biological dissimilarity between people (Newman 1). Racism is orchestrated in the form of social actions or practices or political systems that perceive certain races to be inferior or superior on the account of qualities, abilities, and presumed shared inheritable straits (Newman 1). In addition, racism may prompt the treatment of others differently from the rest. Racism in the world soccer/football has raised eyebrows. Despite FIFA, the world’s soccer governing body’s policies and penalties, racism on the global stage in soccer has been on the rise. ...

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Psychology was in its rudimentary form in the early nineteenth century. It was just beginning to separate its own identity from the discipline of Philosophy. Various concurrent developments were happening in Europe and the US. Major advancements were initiated by Germen psychologists Wilhelm Wundt and others, who believed in experiments as a way to develop theories by actively interfering in the natural phenomenon. A few decades before Wundt established a laboratory for psychology, rapid strides in understanding of the nervous system was happening. By 1830s, human physiology was turning into an experimental discipline from being a descriptive science. The emerging physiology influenced ...

The German car manufacturing company Daimler has a power structure with formal authority in practice; the company has centralized control of power where control of the strategic decisions as well as operational decisions rests with the management. The management has high power to change the structures, rules and regulations as all the power rests with them and is not transferred at all to lower staff. For the resource indicator, the management has high power to control the budgets, technology and the scarce resources. It is not possible to bypass the management and make any decision regarding the resources as all ...

While an individual can be certain that their recollection of events is accurate, eyewitnesses can often get large details incorrect, such as gender, clothing colors, and race. According to research by Frenda, Nichols, and Loftus (2011), there are several aspects of human nature that contribute to what is referred to as the Misinformation Effect. Memories often deteriorate over time, even when the events feel like they just happened yesterday to the individual recounting the experience. However, due to a variety of variables, such as the amount of stress associated with the experience, information provided by fellow eyewitnesses, investigators, and even ...

“Hills like White Elephants” is a short story written by the eminent writer Ernest Hemingway. The story is set in a city of Spain, Zaragoza. As Hemingway wrote after the World War I, many of his stories focus on the depression and despair which was caused by the war. Hemingway portrays how people lost faith in themselves and in God. Due to this they started to indulge in faithless and vulgar activities like mindless physical intimacies and they just let go of their norms and traditions.

“Hills like White Elephants” revolves around two characters; a girl named Jig and a boy who is ...

Over the years, many people either win or lose cases as a result of the information provided by the witnesses given a chance to testify against them or in their favor. It is true that human being is prone to forgetting. As a result of the many activities they are engaged in, it becomes necessarily inevitable for individuals to retain all that they have heard or seen throughout their lifetime.

Similarly, there have been a lot of rumors based on stereotypical beliefs that the more elderly a person is, the more they lose their retention credibility. It is therefore, believed by many people that ...