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Workplace Violence - Acknowledge, Anticipate, and Act
Organizations of all kinds must develop policies and contingency plans to deal with the potentialities of workplace violence. This article, designed as a three-part series but easily adaptable to a single-article format, reviews government and industry data on workplace violence and provides readers with strategies they can use to prevent, or deal with, violence in the workplace.
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Do You Need an MBA to Run a Successful Business, or Vision?
Should you pursue your MBA before you start your business? More importantly, will your lack of business education prevent you from being a successful business owner? Just like the question of nature vs. nurture, there is more to business success than a formal education.
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Essential Office Equipment for a Home Business
You've come up with a name for your business, and you've laid out a business plan. Now, its time to put together your home office. Many people just starting out spend too much money on their office equipment. A good home office is not only cost effective, it's space saving.
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How To Avoid Getting Unsolicited Email
Should you gotten hundreds of emails and wondered how do they get into your inbox? You might think that someone you subscribed with had sold your email for a buck profit.
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Tax Tips for 2006 - This Will Shock You
While 90% of the U.S. population is bemoaning the quickly approaching April 15th tax deadline, I am waiting for my gift from the IRS. I big fat refund. How you ask? I take advantage of the one last tax shelter available to the average person.
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Corporate Gift Ideas
Giving gifts is an incomparable scheme, the goal of that is to bring a smile to the person who will receive the gift. In turn, it leaves a lasting impression on the person that tells how much you value him or her...
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Success Delusion
All of us delude ourselves about our achievements, status, and contributions. We overestimate our contribution, and take credit for successes that belong to others. We have an elevated opinion of our skills and our standing among our peers. We ignore our costly failures and exaggerate our impact on net profits.
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Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) On Sustainable Development
At the same time, income inequality in Malaysia is narrowing, although University of Texas Income Inequality Project (UTIP) indicators still show somewhat high inequality among Malaysians.
The UTIP data estimates overall income inequality, primarily using annual manufacturing wages since wages are the main component of income, as opposed to the traditional method of estimating income inequality from the twice-a-decade Household Income Surveys conducted by the Statistics Department of Malaysia.
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Drafting History: The Magic of Drafting and Design
Drafting can be defined as a descriptive way to deliver an idea through the use of illustrations and drawings that show in detail the process of turning the idea into reality. This process dates back to thousands of years ago when primitive drafters illustrated on the walls of caves the processes by which they lived, hunted, worshipped, and died.
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Packaging
Packaging is very important for the sale, storage and shipping of supplies. The importance of packaging increased significantly after the Industrial Revolution but its usefulness is not new. Even in the times of yore, clay, glass and leather containers were used for these purposes. In modern times packaging has become a complete science which studies all aspects of the product to be packaged; for example, its sensitivity to light, air, moisture, chemical reaction, degree of fragility and more. It also tries to find a solution to increase protection and decrease cost. Apart from the science and economics of packaging, its aesthetic sense and creativity is equally important.
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Returns Issues in the Consumer Electronics Industry
Returns issues in the Consumer Electronics Industry. Trends, topics, and issues with current data gathering techniques. It is estimated that returns cost the Consumer Electronics industry more than $10 billion annually, and although returns are unavoidable, it is essential that a means to capture the “true” reason for product returns be developed and implemented. Information obtained from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) indicates that over 60% of all returns reflect a reason code of “defective.”
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