Essay: Approaches to Human Resource Management

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Human Resource Management today involves a variety of activities from hiring the right employees, to creating an environment in which they gave their best to the organization and training and developing their potential. In addition to this there is a significant amount of research which provides various theories and approaches to handling each of these activities. An integrated and contingent approach would be one which would keep all these and activities in mind and not simply have one solution.

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Essay: Brief about Basel Accord

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As far as the second pillar is concerned, the supervisory review process aims at helping banks develop better risk management techniques and capital management. Capital targets are set and internal assessment procedures are encouraged. Likewise, supervisors can arbitrate for issues that they deem appropriate.

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Essay: Competitive Position of Apple

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Apple is already a market leader in certain products that it sells, such as the MP3 player market as discussed above (Bulik, 2010). Advertising has three main functions, such as; ‘informing’, ‘persuading’ and ‘reminding’ while it depends upon which one to pursue depending on the competitive position in the market. Therefore, Apple as a whole need as needs to adapt to a gradual proactive change thereby, reminding and informing the already brand loyal customers  about new product offerings and new product lines, for instance, the design and colour of the upcoming iPod models and iPhone models.

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Essay: Contingent Approach to HRM

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This is also an example of a contingent approach to HRM. All managers should always be aware that each situation is unique and requires different solutions and that there is hardly ever one best fit solution for all the problems. If demand slows down for example an employer might consider keeping more employees on a part time basis to deal with the situation.

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Essay: Drinking Age and Effects on Health

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The major argument that should be considered in support of lowering the legal drinking age, is that if an individual can be expected to serve in the army and survive the mental trauma that is experienced in wars likeIraqandAfghanistan, then is it really fair to not allow someone of that age to drink. We can further stress on the absurdity of this contrast when we analyze some of the impacts that the war has on young men and women even after they return. An example of this impact is the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Around 12,422 war veterans have been in VA counseling with this disorder.

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Essay: Corporate strategy; Merck

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‘Strategy is the direction and scope of an organization over the long term: which achieves advantages for the organizations through it configuration of resources within a challenging environment, to meet the needs of markets and to fulfill stakeholders’ expectations.’( Tutor2U, 2009)

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Essay: Forms of Threads

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Thread takes one of the two forms either single or multiple. Single threaded processes can perform one task at a time where as if a process has multiple threads of control then it can perform more than one task at a time Support for threads is provided either at user-level for user threads or at the kernel-level for the kernel threads. User threads are supported above the kernel and are managed without kernel support, where as kernel threads are supported and managed directly by the operating system.

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Essay: European Fiscal Policy

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European fiscal policy has varied according to a variety of economic circumstances. There is also some variation in fiscal policy depending on the what geographical region we are referring to. For example eastern European nations with roots in communist dictatorial economies tend to have more state intervention when compared to Western European nations.

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