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Human Resource Management and EDI
Money & Business

Human Resource Management and EDI

...adult workforce than the traditional white males who had historically been the majority. Managers would therefore be faced with having to manage a diverse workforce. Work processes also became more complicated, requiring an increasing use of multifunctional and multi-skilled teams often drawn from different parts of an organisation. Collaboration, team work and an ability...
Exercise and mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exercise and mental health

...adults in Great Britain suffers from a mental health condition, such as depression or anxiety (Cooper and Bebbington, 2006), which makes the effective treatment of these conditions an issue of great importance. Anti-depression medication is often prescribed to treat depression, but compliance with taking these medications is often poor and they can have negative side...
Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life

...careful persuasion of the medical profession and scientists.” Now, though, she says she is contacted almost weekly by groups hoping her dogs might become involved in studies to investigate whether there are odours associated with the early stages of a wide range of diseases, including Parkinson’s disease (a collaboration on this with the University of Manchester is...
Does prison work?
Society, Politics & Law

Does prison work?

...care to the individual. That's not to say that the programmes within prisons don't in fact help individuals, and our experience here is that many men derive considerable benefit from what we're able to provide at Grenden, but for the vast majority of people coming into prisons there isn't that opportunity and there isn't that experience for them and therefore the...
Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
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Money & Business

MSE’s Academy of Money

...care to assess your energy costs taking into account the support that you may receive from the Government for these. Even with such support, consumers’ energy bills will be higher than in previous years. Add in an amount for unexpected spending, e.g. to cover replacing household goods that break down. Having this emergency fund for unexpected expenses means you don’t...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
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Money & Business

Working in teams

...adult career guidance for over 20 years, including for the Careers Service at The Open University. LYNNE: If you've had recent experience of looking for work, then you're likely to be fairly familiar with the expectation from employers that you can evidence your ability to work in a team. You may have even been asked a competency question, beginning with the dreaded can...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Education & Development

Teaching and learning tricky topics

...careful not to give the student your view on the topic as this can lead towards a teaching session and will not elicit the students’ own ideas on the topic. This may be the hardest thing to remember as a teacher but the teaching must be left to a later point in time so that the students feel free to give you their ‘real’ understanding (or misunderstanding). However,...
Critical criminology and the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Critical criminology and the social sciences

...adults in the household, not children, who are responsible for food preparation, even when the children are older. And often, it is women who are responsible more than men. In turn, those roles imply particular social relations- patterned ways in which one group of people relate to another, often hierarchically. The social roles of food preparation imply a relation in...