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Contemporary issues in managing
Money & Business

Contemporary issues in managing

...health programs, it can also be about shaping their bodies (Zoller, 2003). Hence employees come to embody the organisational cultural ideals (James & Zoller, 2018), sometimes through intrusive practices...Contemporary issues in managing: 1.3 Session 1 quiz - You have now looked at managing through organisational culture. To test your understanding of this managerial...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
What is openwashing - and how can you avoid it?
Digital & Computing

What is openwashing - and how can you avoid it?

...public accolades and increased profile from that success, “openwashing” becomes more prevalent. As far as I know, Michelle Thorn, Mozilla’s Director of the Webmaker Program, was the first to define openwashing in 2009: “Openwashing: to spin a product or company as open, although it is not. Derived from “greenwashing," which should not be confused with "The Open...
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Queen Victoria on the Chartists
History & The Arts

Queen Victoria on the Chartists

...Public Peace will not be seriously disturbed." We went up to the Nursery & found "Pussy" much better, and quite merry, in her bath. Besides Mama, & Charles [the Queen's half-brother] , & c, Lord Melbourne, and Lord and Lady Beauvale, (who stay till the 25th) dined. Lord Melbourne is looking so well. Lady Beauvale is very pleasing, and speaks English, perfectly well; her...
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Are old voting machines a threat to democracy?
Science, Maths & Technology

Are old voting machines a threat to democracy?

...public records, spoke with independent technology experts and analyzed data collected by the Verified Voting Foundation. Based on this research, we project that in November 43 states will use voting machines that are at least a decade old. [ Diebold Elections System AccuVote-TSx DRE voting machine with a VVPAT attachment] Diebold Elections System AccuVote-TSx DRE voting...
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Methods in Motion: Remaking self-help
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Remaking self-help

...public in an accessible way. For example, The Secrets of Enduring Love presents the findings of Jacqui Gabb’s OU Enduring Love? Project. Queer: A Graphic History (with artist Julia Scheele) is a comic about what queer theory is and how it might be useful in people’s lives. Moving anticlockwise to the top left, I’ve also conducted my own research into self-help,...
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The Lords against the gunboats: When the House of Lords took on Lord Palmerston
History & The Arts

The Lords against the gunboats: When the House of Lords took on Lord Palmerston

...public estimation. For - the majority was a majority in the Upper House of Parliament. It was a majority in that assembly whose sympathies are, with scarcely one exception, on the side of the most arbitrary and despotic governments of Christendom. The House of Lords knew well enough by that by voting as they did on Monday they would further the wishes of the Russian...
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Election days: 1779 - Save Britain from crisis!
History & The Arts

Election days: 1779 - Save Britain from crisis!

...public money (which has, alas, been too disgracefully lavished away, in company with our national honour) are greater than were made to support the full glory of conquest in Mr Pitt's administration; although those immense inlets to wealth which then were open are now shut up. Add to these considerations, that fatal precipitancy, whereby we seem hastening to unavoidable...
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Protest Banners: Trade Union
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Trade Union

...public during the 1920s. I thought about it while demonstrating for the NHS on February 3rd this year, as the tradition of witty and creative placards and also new and historic banners are still very much a part of protest. They are a visual feast, every picture tells a story, and they also cement solidarity and identity amongst the marchers, communicating a strong sense...
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