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Taking a Fresh Look at Managing Employee Engagement and Wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Taking a Fresh Look at Managing Employee Engagement and Wellbeing

...business operating models, supporting innovation; delivery of business processes; virtual customers and suppliers; and virtual employee communication and engagement. There is also an increase in the use of contractors, virtual teams and homeworking, flexible working and project-based contracts, with many employees having portfolio careers with multiple employers. How do...
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What made Muhammad Ali "The Greatest"?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What made Muhammad Ali "The Greatest"?

...business investments and, while prolonging his sports career seemed suicidal, he managed one more fight, again ending in defeat. He was 39 and had fought 61 times. In 1984, he disappointed his supporters when he nominally supported Ronald Reagan’s re-election bid. He also endorsed George Bush in 1988. The Republican Party’s policies, particularly in regard to...
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Ramadan: What do you need to know?
Education & Development

Ramadan: What do you need to know?

...business. If this is the case, flexible arrangements should be agreed and granted in accordance with local flexible working policy, and staff members must continue to work their contracted hours. Staff may also wish to take annual leave during Ramadan or to celebrate Eid. Requests for leave should be handled in the usual way, though managers should have regard for the...
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Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...business practices, workplace organisation or external relations. Open source software is organised very differently from conventional software development and has become an important source of software such as the Linux and Android operating systems and a wide range of applications (including the Firefox browser and Zotero reference management system). The OECD...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Developing high trust work relationships
Money & Business

Developing high trust work relationships

...business environment. Understanding trust from both an organisational and individual perspective will help you to develop as a leader within your organisation and can impact on the bottom line. Improving levels of trust in the workplace has become increasingly recognised as key to long-term organisational effectiveness and success. In this free course, Developing high...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Information security
Science, Maths & Technology

Information security

...business transactions or their intellectual property, information is – almost casually – shared when it shouldn’t be. In this free course, Information security, you’ll explore what it is about information that makes it so valuable. Given that information security is critical in organisations, this course assumes that you have an organisation that you can study....
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Newry: Frontier town or border city?
Society, Politics & Law

Newry: Frontier town or border city?

...business, while decreasing the journey time between Belfast and Dublin would encourage shoppers to continue en route to their final destinations. Initial predictions, however, are positive. The reduced journey time to Newry from Belfast and Dublin is encouraging shoppers to travel to Newry, safe in the knowledge that the level of traffic congestion within the city has...
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Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the Covid-19 pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the Covid-19 pandemic

...business closures. Around the world all but essential workers stayed at home. But what exactly is “essential work”? Employers and authorities were slow to ensure adequately safe working conditions for many of them...This content is associated with The Open University's Economics courses and qualifications. On 22 June 2022, OU Economics hosted a seminar with Dr Sara...
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