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Hybrid working: organisational development
Money & Business

Hybrid working: organisational development

...social and organisational environment in which people work and live. These elements interact and are interdependent, and the organisation understands this and acts accordingly. Ensure that health, safety and wellbeing are business priorities The organisation takes the necessary steps to protect individuals (both inside and outside the organisation) from hazards to their...
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Level 1: Introductory 21 hrs
Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...social context. In the 1990s, organisations paid more attention to the effect that work culture and environment have on the potential for creativity on people in organisations. In the current millennium the focus has shifted towards understanding creativity as an emergent phenomenon that builds on what has gone before and arises from ongoing interactions, a perspective...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...social groups and classes demonstrate an awareness of the inequalities of services – in terms of both quality of care and access to different services – open to different social groups and classes assess the significance of the roles of central and local governments, the private sector and voluntary associations in providing medical services understand the concept of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
A tour of the cell
Science, Maths & Technology

A tour of the cell

...interactive component to look at the uniformity and diversity within cells. Fundamental to understanding how cells 'work' is a knowledge of the subcellular components and how they are arranged. This is introduced through a series of in-text and self-assessment questions...This free course, A tour of the cell, contains a blend of text and a multimedia interactive component...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Motivation and factors affecting motivation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Motivation and factors affecting motivation

...Interactional view Comment Table 2 Summary of the three approaches to motivation NAME OF APPROACH BRIEF EXPLANATION APPLICATION CRITICISMS Trait-centred view Theory says that motivation is due to a person's individual characteristics, e.g. their personality Personality will predict whether or not they will be motivated Ignores the influence that the situation may have on...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing
Money & Business

Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing

...Social interaction to improve your wellbeing - Mixing with other people is a good way of boosting your mood and general feeling of wellbeing. With the recent pandemic we’ve all been forced to stay at home and have become more isolated. This has been hard for so many and you might feel that as a result your social network has reduced. Social contact is so important so do...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
OpenLearn Ireland

The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

...social and political upheavals of Irish politics at home—from the Easter Rising to the Troubles—contributed to a truly distinctive form of Gothic writing produced in Ireland. You will be looking specifically at two examples of this writing: the short story ‘The Demon Lover’ (1945) by Elizabeth Bowen and the play The Weir (1997) by Conor McPherson. You will also be...
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Article 45 mins
Who is in the wrong in the Ashley Madison hack?
History & The Arts

Who is in the wrong in the Ashley Madison hack?

...have been duped not only by what they have been sold but also by their own naivety. I also wonder how many of ALM’s members have told their children to be careful about what websites they sign up to or reveal on social media, as nothing is private on the web.[The Conversation] This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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Article 5 mins