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Human resources: recruitment and selection
Money & Business

Human resources: recruitment and selection

...Manager, Project Engineer, Design Engineers. Suppliers and subcontractors. Clients (occasional). Site staff. 9. Working conditions Head Office based, in city centre; fortnightly visits to suppliers. Pace of work is often demanding, working with strict time pressures; involves overall responsibility for a large number of contracts simultaneously. 10. Organisational...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Leadership in Health and Social Care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Leadership in Health and Social Care

...managers, from frontline roles across health and social care in the UK, are real people in real roles. By sharing their experiences through short videos, they help to bring alive the ideas studied in the course and help you to explore how they might play out in real-life situations. This material forms part of The Open University course K313 Leadership and management in...
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Audio 32 mins
Supply chains: the supermarket
Science, Maths & Technology

Supply chains: the supermarket

...management and impact of supply chains presents fundamental organisational challenges. This material forms part of The Open University course T882 Supply chain innovation, strategy and management... Supply chains: the supermarket A short introduction to this album Shaping Tesco overseas How leading retailers have been expanding their global reach, introducing Tesco's...
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Audio 1 hr 14 mins
How can I support bereaved neurodivergent children?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can I support bereaved neurodivergent children?

...project. DEAD GOOD are death workers and death educators, and have experience in supporting bereaved neurodivergent children and families. DEAD GOOD retains the copyright for the images used. The Grieving Divergently pilot project work has been supported by funding from the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness. [The Foundation for the Sociology of Health and...
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Article 5 mins
Active Citizenship in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Active Citizenship in Wales

...project at The Open University, aimed at improving the political understanding of young people aged 16-24 in the UK, through the development of resource(s) that help them to better understand how to be active citizens. More Initially focusing on Wales and young Welsh people aged 16-24, the Changemakers project has used a variety of research methods, such as online surveys...
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Article 5 mins
What is ROWE - and does it deliver results?
Money & Business

What is ROWE - and does it deliver results?

...manage, management styles have ebbed and flowed in popularity. There are nearly as many strategies as there are businesses that use them. One of the most recent is ROWE, or results-only work environments. The theory behind ROWE? Employees should be evaluated – and compensated – on the work they produce, not the number of hours they work. It aims to dismantle the idea...
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Article 5 mins
Surfaces
Science, Maths & Technology

Surfaces

...projective plane and the Klein bottle, may be unfamiliar, but they crop up in many places in mathematics. Our aim is to classify surfaces – that is, to produce criteria that allow us to determine whether two given surfaces are homeomorphic. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 3 study in Mathematics...Surfaces: Learning outcomes - After studying this course,...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Opening up history: eighteenth century ideas of national independence
History & The Arts

Opening up history: eighteenth century ideas of national independence

...project about? I recently finished writing a book examining movements for independence in Corsica, Poland, America, France, Ireland, and Haiti. Rather than treating each revolution separately, I focus on how contemporaries thought about the legitimacy of independence: what made a claim to self-rule valid, and how they justified separation from foreign domination. By...
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Article 5 mins