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Employee engagement
Money & Business

Employee engagement

...account of the modern workplace. However, it is worth reminding ourselves that for many work remains hard physical labour suffered through economic necessity as we see in the following documentary. Watch the next film, where workers in France account for their experiences in the car, food, fishery and electronics industries. What do you think it means to be ‘engaged’...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Data analysis: visualisations in Excel
Science, Maths & Technology

Data analysis: visualisations in Excel

...accounting and finance. Moreover, it is flexible enough to be used with all types of data, irrespective of whether the data is qualitative or quantitative. In this section, you will make extensive use of Excel spreadsheets. Therefore, your task is to learn and familiarise yourself with the basics of using Excel. This will enhance your analytical skills as well as your...
Essay and report writing skills
Education & Development

Essay and report writing skills

...account of an investigation or experiment that you have carried out, whereas a business report may require you to imagine that you are making recommendations to your boss or colleagues for a particular course of action. You need to strive for relevance and conciseness, and your report should proceed in a logical and ordered way...Essay and report writing skills: 4.3...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

...accountability which is missing in other accounts of leadership. With this in mind, we will encourage you to think about an ideal, albeit imaginary person evoked by your organisation and ask that you reflect on how (a) this person is brought to life through practices and processes and (b) how this image might be challenged, questioned and adapted. After completing this...
Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations

...account which draws out different kinds of collaboration, and some of the possibilities and challenges of collaborative working relate that account to the current environment for voluntary organisations and to acting and leading within that context offer a critique of the account of collaborative leadership introduced in this week’s studies...Week 1: Thinking about...
Succeed with maths: part 1 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 1

...account, add a zero to the beginning of the 2nd line of working, as shown below. multiline equation line 1 3965 line 2 multiplication multiplication 25 low line line 3 19825 line 4 super four three two line 5 79300 low line line 6 super one one one line 7 99125 low line line 8 super one one The next activity will give you a chance to practise this. Here’s a reminder of...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...account of Wakefield's hypothesis. Wakefield claims that research has found measles in the guts of 75 of 91 autistic children with bowel disease. 19 June 2002 Wakefield presents evidence to a US congressional committee claiming that the measles virus identified in the guts of autistic children had been identified by a team led by John O'Leary as originating from the...
Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...account that ‘diagnostic and therapeutic differences between the two entities’ were deemed ‘too small to warrant separate classification’ (Bschor et al., 2014). NOTE: (*) The time at which depression becomes ‘chronic’ by definition has been set, more or less arbitrarily, at two years. Chronic and treatment-resistant depression present the same symptoms as an...
Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs