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Managing care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Managing care

...Managing care... Managing care A short introduction to this album Moving into management Anita's frank and personal audio diary charts her progress in the world of management and highlights the challenges and decisions she now faces. Caring for quality How is the quality of service offered by providers maintained and assessed? Managers and staff ......
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Audio 2 hrs 47 mins
International Management
Money & Business

International Management

...management in intercultural contexts... Introduction to International Management In this series we are going to take a look at three different perspectives on managing across cultures. In each we will hear from experienced international managers and from academics around the world who have studied these problems. Cultural Differences Culture affects how we behave ......
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Audio 41 mins
Risk management Badge icon
Money & Business

Risk management

...introduction to common risk management standards. By the end of this session, you should be able to: explain what a risk is (and its different definitions) understand the importance of managing risk understand how risk-based decisions are part of everyday life. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Waste Management
Science, Maths & Technology

Waste Management

...Management A short introduction to this album. Waste Minimisation Cutting down the amount of waste we create per household is our biggest challenge. Waste Re-use How your recycling gets separated and processed. When to re-use packaging, opt for composting, or incinerate waste to produce energy. Waste Incineration Harnessing the power of your rubbish. The steam from...
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Audio 59 mins
Liquidity management
Money & Business

Liquidity management

...management: Introduction - In this free course, Liquidity management, you will focus on liquidity, one of the fundamental aspects relating to risk management that has come under intense scrutiny in the past few years. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course B862 Derivatives and risk management...Liquidity ......
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Managing for Sustainability
Science, Maths & Technology

Managing for Sustainability

...management? How do companies operate while maintaining corporate social responsibility? From understanding the need for sustainability, and environmental auditing to learning how organisations integrate health and safety policy. This collection/album explores many of the issues that face modern businesses and gives some insight into how these companies function while...
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Video 23 mins
Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!
Money & Business

Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!

...management: I'm managing thank you!: Introduction - This course provides you with a set of ideas for developing your approach to managing your own work – what we might call ‘self-management’. In order to do this, we will examine some of the key processes of management decision making – allocating time, staff, physical and financial resources; ......
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Search Engines of the Future: The Pharos project
Science, Maths & Technology

Search Engines of the Future: The Pharos project

...The Open University is one of fifteen European partners in The Pharos project which aims to advance audio-visual search using an integrated search platform paradigm... Future technologies: The Pharos project This track demonstrates some of the ways in which the Pharos project is advancing audiovisual search engines, we take a closer look at photo recognition software....
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Video 7 mins