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Understanding operations management
Money & Business

Understanding operations management

...techniques, such as total quality management (TQM), just-in-time (JIT) and employee involvement were emulated elsewhere in the developed world, with mixed results. More recently, the mass production paradigm has been replaced, but there is as yet no single approach to managing operations that has become similarly dominant. The different approaches for managing operations...
Human resources: recruitment and selection
Money & Business

Human resources: recruitment and selection

...techniques should be concerned with accessing and measuring these personal factors, which can then be compared with those required for the job. The person-job fit approach has been criticised for a variety of reasons. In particular, the amount and pace of change in organisations mean that the jobs for which people are recruited often change. Consequently, organisations...
How places affect well-being
Health, Sports & Psychology

How places affect well-being

...technique used in both therapy and research to understand how people relate to the places they live in. Have a go at producing an emotion map yourself following the instructions below. 1. Draw a simple map of your home. [Drawing of a floorplan of a house.] 2. Now think through a typical week in your home. Pick up to three emotions represented by the emoticons below,...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Art and life in ancient Egypt
History & The Arts

Art and life in ancient Egypt

...techniques but even more so with a disposition to ask the right kinds of question. Watch this video in which Richard Parkinson and Paul Wood talk about daily life in ancient Egypt. INTERVIEWER: Yet, the paintings do tell us something about daily life, don't they? It sort of leaks out around the edges. There are things that we... RICHARD PARKINSON: Oh, yes. INTERVIEWER:...
Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Everyday English 1
Languages

Everyday English 1

...techniques to help you communicate more effectively in everyday life. Working through the examples and interactive activities in this course will help you to understand the different ways in which we communicate and how to use simple techniques to improve your self confidence in taking part in discussions or writing letters or emails. Enrolling on this course will give...
Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Introduction to adolescent mental health Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introduction to adolescent mental health

...techniques such as those you may have already heard of including CT scans and MRI scans, have allowed detailed images to be made of living brains. These images have allowed scientists to understand more about how brains function and develop. The brain is the ‘control centre’ of the entire nervous system, which comprises nerve cells that transmit messages within the...
Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise

...techniques like yoga. Lifestyle solutions, such as exercise, nutrition, stress reduction and management, strategies to promote good sleep (e.g. developing ‘sleep hygiene’) and use of relaxation techniques...Session 2: Symptoms and strategies: 3.1 The NICE Guidelines - In 2019 in the UK, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence ( NICE) updated their...
Algorithmic Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Algorithmic Design

...techniques. She draws inspiration from old media devices, such as the phenakistoscope, to reinterpret them via code. In this course, you will adopt a similar approach, using the history of computing and patterns to inspire your creation of modern algorithmic wallpaper. Aleksandra’s creative process involves using randomness within defined constraints. This allows her to...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs