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AAH pharmaceuticals, based in the UK, work with The Open University on the development of their staff. Listen to an interview with Mark James, Managing Director of AAH pharmaceuticals about his experiences of working with The Open University.
Our courses are studied around the world in English by flexible distance learning. Many organisations sponsor staff on them.
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Creative writing
The tracks on this album offer an invaluable insight into a wide range of techniques and practices surrounding Creative Writing. Writers as diverse as Alan Ayckbourn, Ian McMillan and Tanika Gupta...
Management in Chinese cultures
What can we learn from the way business is done in Asian cultures? The dominant management philosophy in the Asia-Pacific region is a Chinese one, emphasising Confucian values, the family and...
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Working life and learning
This unit assumes that you have some experience of work, irrespective of whether you have a paid job or not and whether you work within an organisation or not. At times it asks you to draw on that experience to undertake some learning activities aimed at comparing some of the ideas you’ll be reading about to your own experience of working life. It also assumes that one of your reasons for studying this course is an interest in improving your working life.
Human resources: recruitment and selection
This looks at the first stage of managing people – attracting and selecting staff. It makes the distinction between the initial planning of staff recruitment and the process of selecting an individual from a pool of applicants. Recruitment needs to be carefully planned in order to attract the right type of applicant. Your involvement may be limited to a discussion of the need for a particular job, or you may be required to interview job applicants. Whatever your involvement, this session makes it clear that it is important for you to understand the whole process.
Share This PageThe Study Experience
As part of some Bachelor degree programmes, there is an opportunity for students to participate in a week long residential school. In this extract you can hear from students who were studying music, physics or geology and see the type of activities they undertake at a...
