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Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!
Money & Business

Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!

...business studies: the essay and the report. The activities in this course are designed to support you in the development of the type of extended writing skills needed for both these forms. We will also offer you some guidance on the acknowledgement of your sources of information, a vital ingredient in successful writing for both academic and business purposes. A case...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Leadership and followership Badge icon
Education & Development

Leadership and followership

...business experts, and there are many books and research papers available. This course is intended as an introduction to leadership and followership, combining practical advice with a taste of some of that academic research. If you want to cover any of the topics discussed in greater depth, references are given to support further reading, and there are other OpenLearn...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Diversity and inclusion in the workplace Badge icon
Money & Business

Diversity and inclusion in the workplace

...business that just get it, that you’re preaching to the choir. And there’s a group of people in any business that will never get it. It’s not for them. They’re not interested. Both of those groups are important, but that’s not where your focus really needs to be. Focus is needs to be the majority of the people that sits in the middle who don’t spend too much...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Personal branding for career success Badge icon
Money & Business

Personal branding for career success

...business if you’re self-employed. Personal branding is a popular theme for online blog posts and articles. Individuals are encouraged to use tried and tested marketing techniques to promote themselves effectively to the world. However, care must be taken to ensure that the process doesn’t go too far, ending with you presenting yourself in an overly polished, corporate...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...business environment outline the skills and contexts involved in translating and interpreting professions...Exploring languages and cultures: 1 Intercultural encounters - An intercultural encounter takes place when you become aware that you are interacting with a member of a different community whose ways of thinking are quite distinct from your own. These experiences...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Commercial awareness
Money & Business

Commercial awareness

...business. Between the levels of plastic conversion and retailer lies ‘Brand owner/OEM’. We will learn more about the value added at this stage in Activity 1. OEM stands for Original Equipment Manufacturer, and represents companies that make a component which is used in another company’s final output. Note the two recycling arrows to the right of Figure 2. These...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Hacking under your skin?
Digital & Computing

Hacking under your skin?

...a 2015 article summarising the need to secure insulin-delivery devices http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37551633 - a 2016 article about a security flaw in a Johnson & Johnson insulin pump https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-highway/ - 2015 WIRED article about a vulnerability that would allow remote control of a Jeep Cherokee...
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Article 5 mins
Light: Wave-particle duality
Science, Maths & Technology

Light: Wave-particle duality

...busy helping to translate the hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone, investigating elasticity, describing how colour vision works, or proposing a new universal phonetic alphabet, Young was experimenting with the diffraction of light by narrow apertures and the interference of light due to reflection by thin films. His observations of coloured fringes in these experiments...
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Article 10 mins