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Financial methods in environmental decisions
Nature & Environment

Financial methods in environmental decisions

...business also demand that a firm makes a profit. If a company is unable to return a share of its profits through dividend payments to its shareholders or ensure that the value of its shares continues to rise, shareholders will sell their shares and invest in some other venture. As well as ensuring that it doesn’t lose money, a firm has to make sure that owning shares is...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...business, or the group of employees that administers and controls a business or industry, for example. It is also used to refer to the working or cultivation of land, in particular, control of a forest, environment or nature reserve, and, over time, has been extended to include maintenance, conservation and encouragement of natural resources, such as game, fish and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Effective communication in the workplace Badge icon
Money & Business

Effective communication in the workplace

...business practises. For example, discuss the role of empathy in your workplace during orientation and training. This is a time when new employees are actively trying to understand norms and expectations. Share stories regularly about the people your profession helps. These stories remind us that our work has meaning, which motivates us to work even harder. Empathy in the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn
Education & Development

The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn

...business interest for the OU (Perryman et al., 2013; Law and Perryman, 2015). Today, OpenLearn’s audience is global, and its video content is also shared on YouTube, collectively reaching over 14 million people a year, rising to 22 million during the first 12 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. The activity, now a business-as-usual function for the OU, has been researched...
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Article 10 mins
How can Theresa May escape from the Fixed Term Parliaments Act?
Society, Politics & Law

How can Theresa May escape from the Fixed Term Parliaments Act?

...business of government to a standstill, the SNP say they vote against the legislation that formally repeal Britain’s membership of the EU. And unelected members of the House of Lords have vowed to fight us every step of the way.” The background to Mrs May’s decision to call a snap election is the government’s small majority of 17 and the abiding weakness of the...
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Article 5 mins
Tim Peake’s spacewalk is no stroll in the park
Science, Maths & Technology

Tim Peake’s spacewalk is no stroll in the park

...busy week at work, and you get a call from home: “You know that fault on the sequential shunt unit? Looks like this Friday would be a good time to get it sorted. It’ll be easy to fix – just one bolt needs to be undone.” If you are handy about the house, undoing a bolt to change a bit of kit is easy and may just take five minutes. Unless the bolt is buried deep...
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Article 5 mins
Redundancy - what are your next steps?
Education & Development

Redundancy - what are your next steps?

...busy or develop new skills, you could consider studying while looking for work. Studying Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and Badged Online Courses (BOCs), are a great way to maintain your continuing professional development. Free online seminars such as TED Talks are also an excellent way to increase your knowledge and awareness of current issues. Finally, do...
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Article 5 mins
Can the Economy be Irish?
Money & Business

Can the Economy be Irish?

...business and financial services. It follows that a thorough underlying narrative is an imperative in trying to understand the economic implications of this global brand possibly retreating from Ireland following Brexit. A similar argument can be made for the crucial Agri-food sector, whose production crisscrosses the Irish border and the rest of the UK. Brexit appears to...
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Article 10 mins