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What's the difference between a tall organisation and a flat organisation? The one-minute guide
Money & Business

What's the difference between a tall organisation and a flat organisation? The one-minute guide

...work is delegated. On the other hand, career paths are less explicit: employees may have to look sideways or even outside the organisation for career development opportunities. What is delayering? In recent years, there has been a trend towards delayering, whereby tall organisations have tended to become flat organisations by the removal of various levels in the...
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How do you read a person their rights when English isn't their first language?
Languages

How do you read a person their rights when English isn't their first language?

...working with non-native speakers of English in legal settings, the group articulated seven recommendations for how the police can better communicate rights to non-native speakers of English. The group hopes that the Guidelines will contribute to a better understanding of difficulties for non-native speakers of English in police interviews, and result in moves to better...
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PodMag April 2016
Society, Politics & Law

PodMag April 2016

...works for them. Dr Edward Wastnidge Karen speaks to Eddie about Diplomacy and Reform in Iran, his new book on Iranian foreign policy under former reformist-president Mohammed Khatami. Eddie explores how ideas translate into foreign policy, the way Khatami’s ideas about opening up civil society, increasing rights for women, increasing democratic participation and opening...
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Past-Time Lover: Albert Einstein
History & The Arts

Past-Time Lover: Albert Einstein

...working in the patent office, eventually my academic career bloomed, and I became respected and acknowledged by many – I even received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921. During the rise to power of the Nazis under Adolf Hitler, I renounced my German citizenship and also convinced Churchill and other nation’s leaders to seek out Jewish scientists who were being forced...
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Systems explained: What do we mean by feedback?
Money & Business

Systems explained: What do we mean by feedback?

...work and other areas of life. Conclusion Similarly, the greater the deviation from a healthy, less stressed frame of mind, the more difficult it becomes to correct it (through drugs, relaxation, change in lifestyle, etc). The danger of overcompensating in the other direction also increases through, for example, dependence on anti-depressant drugs or rash changes in other...
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How can we address racial inequality and racial disproportionality?
Education & Development

How can we address racial inequality and racial disproportionality?

...working on a ‘plan of action’ to ‘tackle the wrongs of racism, bias and discrimination wherever they are found in policing’ (https://news.npcc.police.uk/releases/update-on-the-plan-of-action-for-inclusion-and-race-equality-in-policing). The plan of action is forthcoming in 2021. References Macpherson, W. (1999) The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry: Report of an Inquiry by...
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Seeing the bigger picture: exploring the stories of children from migrant backgrounds
Education & Development

Seeing the bigger picture: exploring the stories of children from migrant backgrounds

...worked closely with the children’s teacher, practitioners and parents to listen to children’s photo conversations and the making of their personalised photo storybooks. Stories are conveyed through the layered images within, and connections between, individual photographs. In the photograph below, four-year-old Sasha communicates visually and emotionally the close...
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Living in a globalised world
Society, Politics & Law

Living in a globalised world

...work during the fruit harvest. Protecting the border The river border patrol on duty. Second line of defence An interview with Mexican detainee at a border checkpoint. Hazardous crossing A presbyterian minister explains how migrants get channelled to cross at the most dangerous border points by aggressive policies. The death toll Why the death toll at the border is large....
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