Sentences with phrase «culture program in»

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By focusing on outcomes for Canadians and making evidence - based decisions that are anchored in meaningful data and indicators, the Government is moving to a culture of measurement and impact, and is putting in place the tools to deliver on priorities, align resources to programs and activities that deliver real value for Canadians, and provide meaningful information to Canadians and Parliament.

Another culture that treats women as less than men (such that female infanticide still happens regularly), India, nevertheless, finds females in 30 percent of programming jobs, compared with 21 percent in the U.S.

The changes, and the culture of regular reinvention that enabled them, earned platinum status in Deloitte's Canada's Best - Managed Companies program, a recognition given to firms with seven or more years on the list.

Hourly and half - hourly news bulletins, combined with programs on a host of topics, from sports to culture and cookery to comedy, mean that the radio is arguably still as relevant today as it was in the years before podcasts, the web and streaming.

Jon Levs, author of All in: How Our Work - First Culture Fails Dads, Families, and Businesses — And How We Can Fix It Together, studied the effect of paid leave in California and New Jersey, which have paid family leave programs, and found that the majority of businesses reported that their state's paid leave programs had either no effect or a positive effect on their business.

In fact, here are three tips to get an employee volunteer program (EVP) off the ground, so your startup can grow its impact right away and make a culture of service part of its DNA.

For the fall of 2016, UPEI is offering students a one - time opportunity to take a special focus in public sector management, with three sector - specific courses: Managing and Creating an Innovative Culture in the Public Sector, Public Policy Management, and Program Development and Evaluation.

In addition, Great Place to Work scores a Culture Audit management questionnaire from each company, which reports details such as compensation and benefits, hiring practices, recognition, training, and diversity programs.

This reduction in force is consistent with an overall turn - around program that began a year ago to correct regulatory compliance issues, reset our culture and values, increase operational efficiency, and introduce a new SaaS product and business model.

So, through a number of in - house programs, Connors integrated education into the culture of her company - which counted 1998 revenues in excess of $ 6 million.

3 Investing in Ethical Corporate Culture: The Imperative for Instituting an Anti-Corruption Compliance Program for Canadian Businesses Venturing Overseas, Osler Corporate Review, June 2010.

This national program recognizes best - in - class Canadian organizations for having a company culture that has helped them enhance performance and sustain a competitive advantage.

Manulife is proud to be the recipient of many awards that recognize the Company for its overall excellence and specific achievements in areas such as culture, corporate governance, customer satisfaction, and charitable and community programs.

3 See Osler Corporate Review dated June 2010 «Investing in Ethical Corporate Culture: The Imperative for Instituting an Anti-Corruption Compliance Program for Canadian Businesses Venturing Overseas»

That's why, in order to have a successful company culture, organizations need to implement flexible work programs.

Not only is there a different skill set between search for a business model (or in my case collaborative literacy program model) and executing that model, there's a different skillset in documenting, training, and codifying the culture and practices of that model.

The animation studio that Jobs sold to Disney for $ 7.5 billion in 2006 runs Pixar University, a professional development program that offers courses in fine arts and filmmaking as well as leadership and management to steep employees in the company's culture, history and values as well as its craft.

We invest considerably in celebrating our teams through programs (such as weekly «SOULccolade») that reward hard work, creativity, resourcefulness and actions that embody the culture and spirit of our brand.

Somehow this is akin to the culture in many companies where you have a new program every quarter based on the whims of the Chief Executive.

«We're fortunate that the ministry is headed by somebody who is probably taking a stronger stand within government in defence of the programs than would be expected,» says Rob Gloor, executive director of the Vancouver - based Alliance for Arts and Culture.

Heather didn't realize it at the time, but momentum was already building within Zillow Group for creating a pilot program for employees like her — highly motivated culture carriers who are interested in transitioning from non-tech to tech roles.

With an employee social media program, you can showcase your culture and employer brand, improve brand health, increase lead generation, find better sources for talent, improve efficiencies in work and communications, and have an on - going investment in employee knowledge.

B.C. continues to foster an entrepreneurship culture, including the declaration of Small Business Week in October, and supporting programs that connect women and youth to business training so they can become the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.

GFI believes these presentations played a key role in the firms investing more than $ 15 million into cultured meat.37 Another notable accomplishment was the development of plant - based meat and fish courses at UC Berkeley.38 The courses were popular enough that UC Berkeley decided to introduce a permanent «Program for Meat Alternatives» course, co-designed by GFI and which GFI plans to replicate nationally.39

A culture's educational canon is an orientation program for membership in its community.

In addition to publishing ten issues of First Things each year, the Institute hosts educational programs that promote religiously informed analysis of culture, society, theology, and politics.

13 How effective AA will be in non-Western cultures (with different attitudes toward guilt, pleasure, and the goals of life, for example) and what modifications will eventually occur in the AA program in such cultures has yet to be determined.

The effort of these programs is to present theological terminology and formulations that will have «cash value» in terms of contemporary culture.

In one of those moments that remind us that there's a culture war going on, National Public Radio decided in 1994 to hire Mumia Abu - Jamal» serving time for the 1982 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner» as a political commentator on its program All Things ConsidereIn one of those moments that remind us that there's a culture war going on, National Public Radio decided in 1994 to hire Mumia Abu - Jamal» serving time for the 1982 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner» as a political commentator on its program All Things Considerein 1994 to hire Mumia Abu - Jamal» serving time for the 1982 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner» as a political commentator on its program All Things Considered.

It is a conscious reference to a revolutionary moment in British culture, a short - lived TV program called That Was the Week That Was, also called TW3, which was screened late on Saturday evenings for a few short months in 1962 and 1963 and has never been forgotten by those (including this writer) who watched it.

On the one hand, it is necessary to handle program material in such a way that the products of one culture are comprehensible to other cultures.

Not in the form of some «how to» guide or some «five step» program, but, first and foremost, by way of metaphor: «If the state of contemporary Catholic literary culture can best be conveyed by the image of a crumbling, old, immigrant neighborhood, then let me suggest that it is time for Catholic writers and intellectuals to leave the homogeneous, characterless suburbs of the imagination, and move back to the big city — where we can renovate these remarkable districts which have such grace and personality, such strength and tradition.»

24 / The program policy of the Commission must also be based on the premise that mankind consists of many diverse cultures, most of which represent in actual numbers very large numbers of persons.

In part, as Noah Feldman's Divided By God suggests, the «legal secularism» of the Warren Court emerged precisely because of the failure of a secularist program for the broader culture.

This is because by emphasizing the Spirit's role in creation and redemption evangelical revivalism and its offshoot of the Pentecostal and charismatic movement have advanced a program that both democratizes Christianity and inculturates it in a way that preserves and fosters folk culture.

Instead of reaffirming central American values, mainline programs often presented the fringes of American life and culture, making them seem out of place in the context of general television programming.

Even writers and artists who have never read a word of Nietzsche are carrying out the program he dubbed the Transvaluation of All Values, and his influence can be found in every corner of the culture.

Lawrence K. Frank, a leader in the mental health movement has observed that if a community's mental health program is to draw on the strengths of our culture and to have meaning for the majority of people, it must be presented as more than a psychiatric proposal.

These are the programs which appeal to many members of the mainline churches, people who go to church almost every Sunday, yet give little evidence of being uneasy about their deep involvement in secular culture and values.

In the face of diverging national cultures co-operation can not continue if its only basis is a common program of activities.

But while the programs of the «Christ of culture» advocates are rich in the vocabulary of 19th century Christian evangelism, the images — and hence the real messages — resonate with The Technique, the gambits of modern television advertising.

In answer to the criticism that WCC is syncretistic because of its program for inter-religious dialogue, Thomas said that if the word syncretism denotes all processes of interpenetration between cultures and religions, the only answer to a wrong syncretism, which means the uncritical, superficial, normless mixing of basically incompatible religious concepts and cultural attitudes, is a Christ - centered syncretism which grapples with and evaluates all concepts and attitudes critically in the light of Jesus Christ and converts them into vehicles for communicating the truth of the Gospel and for expressing its meaning for lifIn answer to the criticism that WCC is syncretistic because of its program for inter-religious dialogue, Thomas said that if the word syncretism denotes all processes of interpenetration between cultures and religions, the only answer to a wrong syncretism, which means the uncritical, superficial, normless mixing of basically incompatible religious concepts and cultural attitudes, is a Christ - centered syncretism which grapples with and evaluates all concepts and attitudes critically in the light of Jesus Christ and converts them into vehicles for communicating the truth of the Gospel and for expressing its meaning for lifin the light of Jesus Christ and converts them into vehicles for communicating the truth of the Gospel and for expressing its meaning for life.

In the light of oldline Protestant churches» losses of membership and influence, William McKinney briefly traces their «disestablishment,» and suggests if these churches are to have hope of reversing the trend, they will need to address five issues, including mission agencies, funding of programs, support of congregations, understanding denominational culture and sharing methods of coping.

A multitude of local programs, differing according to the national cultures and social systems in which they sparing up, struggle to improve public education, deliver medical care, reduce crime, and enhance economic opportunity.

How can they maintain institutions and programs that were born out of an establishmentarian impulse when they no longer enjoy the dominant position in culture and society?

In a ritually impoverished society, television lends ritualisitic elements by broadcasting civic ceremonies, sports events, and even commercial advertisements.5 Such programming provides the images and iconography by which individuals become connected to the shared values of our consumer culture.

De Bary also points out how John Erskine, one of the pioneers of the new program at Columbia, though he had little knowledge of Asian cultures, felt that a core curriculum based only on Western classics was inadequate for the global world in which we live.

And even the «negative» programs on TV — the game shows and «Miami Vice» and Music TV — should be included in the curriculum, so that students will begin to understand their culture and become capable of separating the good from the bad from the indifferent.

Another Christ of Culture manifestation is evident in the «Be Happy» radio and TV programs that appeal to many members of the mainline churches — people who go to church regularly, yet give little evidence of being uneasy about their deep involvement in secular culture and Culture manifestation is evident in the «Be Happy» radio and TV programs that appeal to many members of the mainline churches — people who go to church regularly, yet give little evidence of being uneasy about their deep involvement in secular culture and culture and values.

It altered its program to supply the managerial and therapeutic ethos that, Robert Bellah argues, pervades a culture that has lost its communal values.3 In Bellah's view, American culture is dangerously individualistic.