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Business ethics
History & The Arts

Business ethics

...world? Is there anything that people in business can genuinely learn from philosophy? Alex: Well I know from experience that they can. What a business person can learn from a philosopher is the need to be able to explain and justify what it is that their particular corporation is doing. What are their motives? There’s a lot of confusion, I think. There’s a lot of...
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Understanding society: families
Education & Development

Understanding society: families

...world and, most importantly, they result in quite significant differences in how families divide up the work. We cannot ignore the inequalities that may be a product of the traditional ideologies, but being aware of gender ideologies does help us to understand why change might be slow moving or resistant to change. Gender refers to the expectations of a particular society...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Human Resource Management and EDI
Money & Business

Human Resource Management and EDI

...world’, Gender, Work and Organization, 26(8), pp. 1212–20. Tatli, A., Özbilgin, M.F., Worman, D. and Price, E. (2008) State of the Nation, Diversity in Business: A Focus for Progress. London: CIPD...Human Resource Management and EDI: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Charles Barthold. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
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Money & Business

Working in teams

...world we live and work in continues to change at a great rate and this impacts on the teams we work in today. In this course you will consider why diversity has increased and consider both the benefits and difficulties of working in teams of an increasingly diverse character and teams that operate at a distance. Transcript Enrolling on this course will give you the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Money & Business

Effective communication in the workplace

...world is entirely dependent on our level of self-awareness. So you think about communication or influence or collaboration, all types of skills that we need in the workplace, we can only be as good at each of those as we are self-aware. And so if we work on self-awareness, it has a ripple effect to almost everything in our lives. So I would give three tips to increase...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...world, although many of the ‘locks’ and other countermeasures take a different form...Network security: 3.2 Important terminology and information for making the most of this section - Before we move on to consider specific issues of network security, I need to introduce some important terms that I shall use when describing how data is stored, processed or transmitted...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
In the night sky: Orion
Science, Maths & Technology

In the night sky: Orion

...world. Because they are easily recognisable patterns, people have used the night sky for navigation when no landmarks were available. Celestial navigation has helped sea captains for centuries, and also aircraft pilots during the early days of aviation. The Plough (or the Big Dipper) is part of Ursa Major, the Great Bear. It can be used to locate the ‘Pole star’ (or...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Listening for form in popular music
History & The Arts

Listening for form in popular music

...World of Nat King Cole 02:56 6 ‘Fiddle Blast’ Aly Bain, Jenna Reid, Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and Stuart Duncan Transatlantic Sessions 4: Volume 1 04:53 Be sure to work with the correct versions of the songs, some of which exist in different versions or have been recorded by more than one performer. You can confirm that you are working with the right recordings by...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs