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Tqm Analysis Of Lucent Technologies
1,387 wordsThe following is an attempt to analyze AT&T's use of Total Quality Management throughout its organization. Since AT&T is an elaborately enormous corporation I will focus my study to AT&T Power Systems/Lucent Technologies. This division of AT&T has been the industry standard for excellence since TQM was first introduced to the company. AT&T Power Systems has become one the world's most dynamic companies because of its use of TQM. I will provide a brief description of who AT&T Power Systems is, a ...
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Moral Education Learning Environment
1,430 wordsThe concept of excellence in education is one that, on the surface, seems to be unquestionable. After all, who would not accede that students within our schools should, in fact, excel? Certainly teachers, parents, and administrators can agree on excellence as an aim to shoot for. The interpretation of the term excellence is, however, less obvious. How do we regard excellence? Is it the college bound student with a broad liberal arts education? Is it the student who graduates high school trained ...
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Plato Aristotle Ralph Waldo
1,616 wordsIn what sense and how far is the genius master of his madness? For it goes without saying that to a certain degree he is master of it, since otherwise he would be actually a madman. For such observations, however, ingenuity in a high degree is requisite, and love; for to make observation upon a superior mind is very difficult. -- Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling Madness in great ones must not unlatch'd go. Poetry is not inspiration. Poetry is neither reasonable, irrational, or a result of some so...
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High School Students U S Government
1,650 wordsIn the mid- 1980 s, the condition of schools in the United States became a major issue. Some educators reacted angrily or defensively to the sudden scrutiny of the institution for which they were responsible. They treated this new concern for the schools as attacks on them. Others realized that this should be the time to initiate some long-overdue reforms in the way schools function. They also thought this could be the chance to build public support for better education. According to the Educati...
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Unjust Man Young Men
1,322 words... w on justice. But first Thrasymachus wants to be paid for his information. The young men, not wanting to be denied a good fight, agree to put up the money. Like Polemarchus before him, Thrasymachus thinks that the notion of justice can be summed up in a few words. He says "the just is nothing else but the advantage of the stronger. " As is the philosopher's fashion, Socrates inquires into the meaning of Thrasymachus' definition. Thus begins a lively discussion, again exemplifying the Socrati...
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Believed That Man Principle Of Justice
2,053 wordsPlato was a philosopher in the time of the distinguished Greek philosophers. He wrote a book entitled The Republic in which he explains some of his philosophy on subjects ranging from education to government. The Republic discusses the nature of justice and the institutions of society. In some ways it is idealistic in that it describes Plato's ideal society. But it also deals with human knowledge, the purpose and composition of education, and the nature of science. The principle of justice is th...
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Performance Enhancing Drugs In Sports
1,460 wordsIntroduction Performance enhancing drugs in sports has become a controversial topic in todays professional sports world, as pros and cons are discussed in the media and among professional organizations. Todays athletes continue to push the boundaries of excellence in performance and physical fitness. Helping these athletes are more refined training methods and technologies. Never have athletes had more training aids at their disposal. The down side is that never before have athletes had more opp...
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R Amp D Creative Thinking
2,238 words... l tone of his unit, and that tone may encourage creativity or may actively discourage it. Junior level professionals are easily intimidated or disheartened in attempts to sell their ideas. The senior scientists studied by Pelz and Andrews who were the most effective in implementing ideas were those whose superiors "stayed out of the way, " with respect to the actual conduct of the research. For this level of employee, the proper role of leaders would seem to be limited to encouragement, frie...
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Knowledge Management Knowledge Workers
960 wordsOverview It is becoming more apparent that in the post industrial era, a firms success or failure lies in its intellectual assets rather than in its physical assets. The predominance of high skill labour requirements, new computing and telecommunications technologies and an accelerating pace of change have initiated a dramatic shift in the ways companies compete in todays market place. Firms are now recognising the need to organise and co-ordinate their information and knowledge sources in a way...
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Kind Of Thing Innate Ideas
2,126 words... "Principles of Community"), one has a right to govern one's own body, etc. As stated above, the social contract requires that power be conferred on an individual or assembly, the sovereign. Otherwise, there can be no confidence that surrendered rights will yield security in return. This security is needed for there to be any hope of enjoying the fruits of one's labors. Hobbes listed various rights of the sovereign, including censorship, lawmaking, judging, and making war and peace. There is ...
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Wal Mart Amp Amp
1,109 wordsQuestion # 1 In Customer Intimacy and Other Value Disciplines, Treacy and Wiersema highlight three distinct "paths" or strategies to market leadership. They include operational excellence, customer intimacy, and product leadership. This paper will highlight how Wal-Mart has successfully implemented the operational excellence strategy, as well as consider future initiatives within this strategy that Wal-Mart can still incorporate. The discussion will than focus on the customer intimacy strategy a...
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A New Mandate For Human Resources
886 wordsHuman Resources have never been more necessary. The competitive forces that we face today and will continue to face in the future demand organizational excellence. To achieve this excellence by focusing on learning, quality, teamwork, and reengineering are driven by the way organizations get things done and how employees are treated. To achieve this excellence we look at the work of Human Resources. By designing an entirely new role and agenda that results in enriching the organizations value to...
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Years Of Age Achievement Gap
1,259 wordsThe No Child Left Behind Act has stacked the deck against schools with special needs. At this point in time with the 2004 elections right around the corner, it seems that this Act is taking a lot of criticism for it's rigid approach to the educational progress of our children today. No Child Left Behind has some wonderful goals and aspirations: to "close the student achievement gap, make public schools accountable, set standards of excellence for every child, and put a qualified teacher in every...
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Great Salt Lake Devils Lake Volume
2,588 words... density functions of the AR components. The Devils Lake data was transformed using a square root transform (as also done by Wiche and Vecchia, 1995) prior to the ARCOMP analysis. Excellence probabilities of different DL levels were computed from the simulations from the end of the model-fitting period to enable comparisons with the USGS model forecasts for 2000 and beyond. Split sample analyses were used to assess the performance of ARCOMP on historical lake fluctuations using only prior per...
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Happy Person Perfect City
1,251 wordsThe Republic by Plato is a book that examines the idea good life, justice and pure reasoning that might bring harmony and peace into life. The ideas and arguments presented center on the social conditions of an ideal republic - those that lead each individual to the most perfect possible life for him. In The Republic, Plato attempts to demonstrate through the character and discourse of Socrates that justice is better than injustice and is the good which men must strive for, regardless of whether...
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Driving While Intoxicated Aristotle Believed
1,159 wordsAn ethical issue that is debated in our society is the concern of driving while intoxicated. Although this was naturally not the case during Aristotle s time, many of his ethical beliefs can be applied to refute this dilemma. I will prove the standing issue to be unethical through Aristotle s discussion of virtue and his concept of voluntary / involuntary actions in the Nicomachea n Ethics. Aristotle believed that of the virtues learned in our youth, each has a respective excess and deficiency. ...
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Aspects Of Life Equal Opportunity
1,111 wordsMy personal philosophy of education is that every child has the right to an education. This education should be such that every student has the equal opportunity to succeed and learn at the highest level they are capable. I believe that the purpose of education is to educate people who are well-rounded individuals. By well-rounded, I am referring to graduates who will be able to apply their education to numerous aspects of life. This includes people who are going to college and people who will b...
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Western Civilization A Brief History Civilization A Brief History Hektor
1,143 wordsThe hero of an epic poem repeatedly endures many trials that can prove his ability to be worthy of the title hero. In the passage 6. 440 - 481 in The Iliad of Homer, Hektor's heroism is tested, especially when he faces the choice of returning to battle or staying with his family. When analyzing what drives Hektor to return to the battlefield and what makes him a hero, it is obvious that the Greek educational ideal known as are? greatly influences him (Western Civilization: A Brief History, Perry...
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Search Of Excellence 7 S Framework Business
667 wordsIn Search of Excellence Knowledge about organisational behaviour has become very important to a managers performance and success. Therefore, it is not surprising that writers often claim to have the information that managers need if they are to excel in their jobs. In Search of Excellence is one of the most well known books of this type. In the book, Peters-and Waterman outlined seven principles that they claimed to be excellent management tactics and a 7 -S Framework. In Search of Excellence is...
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Francisco Jossey Bass San Francisco Jossey
4,955 words1. Introduction So where do you want to go tomorrow? This is the question business people are asking each other these days. Well, they are right, because not a whole lot of time left before the end of the millennium and the anxiety surrounding this big event is affecting everyone including the business people of today. While I was doing my research on this topic, on the question of where we want to be tomorrow in the new millennium, I have come across with many books, many websites, many article...
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