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What the Window Tells About Me
Introduction
Knowing oneself would be difficult without the consultation of the people around. The Johari window activity helps in determining and own personality better based on the feedback from the people around. There are things and personality that we are not aware we have, until someone tells us what kind of person we are and that we have such personality. What I have learned from this activity is that I can be very adaptive in different social environments because of the flexibility and adaptability I have in interacting with different kind ...

Terrorism is a global threat that involves acquiring individuals especially the youth to carry out terrorist and violence attacks for various reasons. Recruitment into terrorist groups is a process met by both successes and failure by the recruitment personnel. The positive side involves the fact that the terrorist groups can attract new members, and consequently the terror groups can acquire approbation to help them carry out their activities. The downside of the terror groups involves high chances of the arrest of the terror suspects and offenders and compromise of intelligence chattels. There are various techniques used by terrorist groups ...

Executive Summary

Procurement and Supply Chain Management P&SCM are two of the most important functions that inevitably lead to the creation of a high level of value proposition for an organization’s customers and stakeholders. The objective of this paper is to focus on a preselected organization that can make use of improved ways how to do their operations from a procurement and supply chain management perspective. In this paper, the organization that the author chose to focus on was Education Above All Foundation (EAAF).
In this report, the EAAF’s fundraising and partnership building department were emphasized. The goal was ...

Introduction

Endpoint protection platform remains a security technology, which ensures that security of an endpoint device is superb in its functionality as a unit. The unit is composed of antivirus, personal firewall, anti-spyware, control application and intruded preventions styles, hosted in it. A number of Enterprise endpoint protection platforms (EPP) with higher advancement are combining patch, vulnerability and capabilities that manage configuration; this eventually enhances the protection. The current products of the EPP have included features of protection like data loss prevention, file and disk encryption and also device control, besides fighting malware. Higher number of EPP market focuses on ...

SWOT Analysis

Strengths
Microsoft has the 90 percent market share in the operating system industry and there are more than 1.2 billion users. Microsoft also holds significant market share in the productivity software industry as they have a large number of loyal enterprise customers. Microsoft has a strong brand reputation and loyalty as customers are unwilling to leave their services for competition. The organization also has well-developed channels of distribution that helps them to reach their present and potential customers (Sun, 2015).

Weaknesses

Microsoft remains overexposed due to their dependence on the Personal Computer market. In coming years, the market growth of PCs is ...

Day-Month-Year

JoHari Window Test (JWT) being a standard graphic model of awareness in interpersonal relations helps to understand the different aspects of individual’s or groups’ personalities. Generally, people get along fine working with others without thinking much about the next steps in communications and interactions. When problems arise and when usual methods don’t work, when we want to learn more, there is no alternative but to examine our own behavior in relation to others. The standard representation JoHari window, developed by Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham, has four ‘regions’ or ‘areas’ or ‘quadrants’, namely open (public), hidden (private), blind ...

The process of giving and receiving feedback is essential component of communication. It is also important in training such that through feedback processing we see ourselves as other see us. It is through feedback that we can learn how other people see us as well as give other people an opinion of how we see them. Feedback is a reaction by others usually expressed in terms of feelings and perceptions. It can tell behavior effects, feelings and perceptions.
Johari is a metaphor of a window through which we look at ourselves and others. It divides knowledge into four panes. 1 and ...

1) Ansoff’s matrix is a business tool that is used to plan precise growth strategies (Doole & Lowe,2004, p. 170). The precise growth strategy is dependent on whether the targeted market is new or existing (represented by the vertical axis of the matrix) and whether the proposed product is new or existing (represented by the horizontal axis of the matrix). Thus, if the growth project is an existing product in an existing market, the suggested growth strategy is market penetration, as shown in the upper left quadrant of the matrix. If the growth project is a new product in an ...

Question 1.ii

Three further considerations beyond financials include (1) stability and history of the SoAAS provider, as it will be very important that they stay in business and provide good service over the course of the contract to get the benefits; (2) the openness of the IT department to have primary IT functions controlled off-site, and how this would effect the relationship of this department with the rest of the company and (3) how confidential is the information to be stored and what are the back-up set ups of the service provider in case of catastrophe. If the information is highly ...

Article Summary

In his speech, Shaub discusses the four developmental phases of the acculturation process of immigrants in America. In particular, Shaub discusses how some immigrants want to be bicultural, that is, to retain their original personality while developing an American one. Shaub further discuss how culture and religion can influence the bi-culturality of Muslims.

Cited Passage

“Imagine groups of related individuals living together in primitive conditions but still developing some kind of coherent culture. In many cases there would come a day when the tribe had to move---perhaps the food ran out or there was some natural calamity. For whatever reason groups often ...

Declaration
This is to certify that the dissertation entitled “Gaining Strategic Advantage through Customer Value”, presented by me to the University of South Africa for the award of the degree of Master of Business Leadership is a bona fide record of research work which was carried out by me under the supervision of Dr Sidney Shipham. The contents of this dissertation in full or in parts have never been submitted to any other Institution of higher learning for the award of any degree or diploma.

Acknowledgement

I would like to express my gratitude to my study group members of the ...

According to Belasen and Alan, the internal process quadrant proposes that managers should pay particular attention to the laid down rules and regulations that govern their working environments. Decisions in such environments are arrived at in a very rigid manner thus allowing little room for creativity and innovativeness of subordinates. There are particular benefits to this system. Key among them is the predictability of the system and the ability to arrive at an objective decision. Management is able to make consistent decisions that bringing out an element of certainty in decision making.

The internal process quadrant also helps management to ...

BCG matrix is a management tool that provides a framework for assessing performance of different businesses within a company’s portfolio. It considers two parameters in the evaluation: market growth rate and market share of a particular company. The upper right quadrant of the matrix is characterized by high growth and low market share and the businesses in this quadrant are called “question marks”. Businesses in the lower left quadrant of the matrix enjoy high market share, but a low market growth, therefore they are considered “cash cows” (Griffin, 2010).

The electronics division of the company is a question mark business, therefore its future is ...

Electric vehicles (EV) are receiving a great interest as an alternative to conventional transportation on oil with the purpose to decrease noise, environmental pollution by reducing carbon emissions and to reduce dependence on oil (Lowry & Larminie, 2012). Moreover, using nuclear and alternative energy including renewable allows to produce zero release of carbon dioxide by vehicles. Currently, road vehicles just reached the stage when electric cars are produced in quantity but still not widely used. First, electric cars have significantly less range. Second, it takes much more time to recharge batteries (several hours for lead acid battery) than to put ...

Ice Breakers

Ice Breakers
An icebreaker is an activity that is used to help people ease into a group setting. Some icebreakers involve a group while others are individual, others can be physical or purely mental.

The “Me Shield” is an activity based on the focus on strengths and self-acceptance among the group participants. It encourages them to examine their inner resources and boost their attitudes and behaviours while empowering them and increasing their confidence. The activity focuses on questions such as “Who am I?” and “What can I become?” (Erikson, 1968) and helps address the developmental crisis that adolescents develop ...

The situation is Pepsi –a renowned beverage company recently penned down a sponsorship contract with Beyoncé worth a reported fifty million dollars. This mutual deal will see her become a close associate of the organization. It’s not the first time she has associated with the company as the two have previously worked together on various projects. Beyoncé is one of the most successful and influential personalities in the world. Many young and youthful Americans perceive her as their role model. Pepsi is one of the most profitable beverage companies in America and world over. However, recent scientific studies have shown daily consumption ...

Introduction

One of the most important part of protein assay is the determination of protein concentration. There are diverse methods used for protein concentration determination, but the most widely used are the spectroscopic methods of analysis or spectroscopy. Spectroscopy usually involves the determination between the correlations of the degree of interaction of light with the analyte, which is the proteins in this particular experiment. There are different types light to analyte interactions and one of these is the absorbance of light or electromagnetic radiation by the analyte. This type of spectrometry is called absorbance spectrometry.

Principle involved in absorbance spectrometry and spectrometers

The majority of substances absorb ...

Introduction

Every business organizations aim at increasing its competitiveness in the market. Equally important is the need to retain its competitiveness. For this reason, business organizations need to assess themselves continuously so as to identify possible areas where they need to improve on. The Strength Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats, (SWOT) matrix and the Grand Strategy are some of the matrices which are used to analyze an organization (Anonymous, n.d, p.2). The following paper will give an analysis of Research In Motion Company with respect to the above 2 matrices upon which it will identify and discuss appropriate recommendations which Research ...

Balancing skills across the four quadrants of the CVF is surely not an easy task. It is quite common for people to show superior performance in one of the quadrants, while lagging behind in the qualities associated with the others. Therefore, specialization and focus on one quadrant may seem like a logical step for many of us. However, there are numerous reasons why it is advisable for a person to leave his/her comfort zone and to work on balancing skills across all quadrants.
Strategies for personal development can be compared to those of companies. While success is strongly linked to ...

1. a) Z1 = 2-5i, z2 = 1 =2i

Z1 = 22 + 52 = 4 +25 = 29

b) = (2-5i)(1+2i) = 2 + 4i-5i +10 = 12-i

c) (2 = {(2-5i) + [3(1 +2i)]}2

= {(2-5i + 3 +6i}2

= {(5 +i}2

=25 +10i – 1

=24 + 10i

d) {2 = +2(1+) + (1 + )2
= (2-5i)2 = 4- 10i +25 = 29-10i

2(1+) = 2(2-5i)(1 +1 +2i) =(4- 10i)(2 +2i) = 3 + 8i -2oi + 20

= 28- 12i
(1 + )2 = (1 + 1 =2i)2 =(2 +2i)2 = 4 + 8i- 4 = 8i

{2 = 29-10i + 28- 12i + 8i = 57-14i

2. a) = =

= +
b) (2 +i)3 = 23 + 3(22i) + 3(2i2) +i3 = 8 +12i-6-I = 2 + 11i

c) 3 + = 3i + i
= + i
=15 +6i
=21 i
d) - = = =
3. a)

z = +i and w =1 +

Z =r[cosθ + isinθ]

θ = =

r = ...