Posts Tagged ‘study’

There’s no excuse not to learn

I posted a couple of days ago about how the Web can be a great equaliser when it comes to opportunities. Well, today I was also thinking how the whole of society has become more homogenous in this respect, and what sparked the whole thing was the MBA I’m doing...

Social Sources of Power

Another interesting snippet from my Organisational Behaviour text. These are the sources of social power within an organisation: Legitimate Power The power your superior has due to his position within the organisation. This is formal power delegated to a particular role. Reward Power: The power someone has to allocate rewards....

Performance and Rewards

I’ve just finished revising a chapter from my Organisational Behaviour text that’s all about measuring employee performance, goal settings and rewards. Pretty informative, but I’m going to struggle to memorise it all for my exam next week! I think the most interesting section talked about different trends in executive rewards,...

Organisational Behaviour

Phew, studying for Organisational Behaviour is tougher than I expected. It’s not that the subject is particularly hard, but I gave myself 2 months to read the text and prepare for the exam and it’s proving to be a hard slog. Anyway, I’ve pretty much cleared myself for the next...

A in marketing

Woohoo .. just found out that I got an A in marketing. I was a bit worried about this one, not because of the subject-matter, but because I actually had fever the day of the exam, so don’t quite remember what I wrote in the exam. Anyway, seems like I...

Getting ready to start studying again

Just signed up to do an MBA with the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburugh, kicking off with Account, Economics and Finance .. should be a fun few months coming up...

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