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Business Bursts: Failure
Health, Sports & Psychology

Business Bursts: Failure

...become a target for takeover, it may be a failure to secure a market for the products being offered, or it may be a lack of attention to that market, so that the precise needs in the market are not being addressed. And finally it may be inadequate products, which could be a result of a lack of innovation. Leslie Budd In the last ten years, in all the advanced economies,...
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Can you resist zombification?
History & The Arts

Can you resist zombification?

...becoming zombies just as their ancestors feared enslavement. There are different theories about the nature of zombies. Most commonly it is thought that they are dead people whose corpses have been dug up, magically re-animated and forced to labour for merciless owners. Others claim that a potent brew causes victims to appear to die so that, after their untimely burial,...
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Psychological research, obedience and ethics
Society, Politics & Law

Psychological research, obedience and ethics

...students, psychologists and psychiatrists. He asked them to speculate on how far they thought most people would go if asked to administer shocks. Most ordinary people said that participants would generally refuse to administer shock, or at least not go very far beyond the point where the ‘learner’ experienced pain. Also, most said that participants should rebel, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Basic science: understanding experiments
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding experiments

...students, currently studying with The Open University – http://www.open.ac.uk/ choose/ ou/ open-content 2. Enjoyed this? Find out more about this topic or browse all our free course materials on OpenLearn – http://www.open.edu/ openlearn/ 3. Outside the UK? We have students in over a hundred countries studying online qualifications – http://www.openuniversity.edu/...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Can you predict the outcome of a Brexit deal with a little logic and a bit of arithmetic?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can you predict the outcome of a Brexit deal with a little logic and a bit of arithmetic?

...become so bloody arrogant about it all that no one cares anymore about recognising its special status as a former member state or great power. Especially if it uses as a bargaining chip the threat of a race to the bottom on such policies as corporate taxation, the continent’s willingness to cut it slack will swiftly diminish. This would be freeriding in its purest form...
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The hostile environment for immigrants is drawn from a well of taken-for-granted assumptions
Society, Politics & Law

The hostile environment for immigrants is drawn from a well of taken-for-granted assumptions

...become in the UK to claim benefits. Rather than social security, as we used to call it, being a safety net for those in need it has become a bureaucratic means of humiliating individuals whose only crime is to have fallen on hard times. A recent ONS Report gives some idea of the scale of a ‘problem’ created by the Government’s obsession with targets. The Department...
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Workplace Survivor Syndrome
Health, Sports & Psychology

Workplace Survivor Syndrome

...become overwhelmed with the fear that they may be next, they become less productive There is also the effect that employees are working longer hours than before but get less done. They will get their heads down and become invisible in case another round of redundancies is imminent. They will do as they are told, but the commitment to the organisation can be lost, with a...
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Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...become aware that you are interacting with a member of a different community whose ways of thinking are quite distinct from your own. These experiences often occur when you go abroad, but they can take place in any society that has many different cultural groups, such as the UK, for example. During an intercultural encounter, you become aware that you and the other person...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs