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Japanese Language: Introduction to Japanese Scripts
1.5-3 hrs 46,270 learners
By NPTEL
You Will Learn How To

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • List the three Japanese scripts
  • Describe how each Japanese script is used and written
  • Explain the meanings of various conversation phrases
  • State the Japanese words for numbers 1-70
  • Recognise the correct pronunciation of Japanese vowel and consonant sounds
  • Explain the meanings of various Japanese words
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Beginner Level
Japanese Language: Introduction to Japanese Scripts

191 liked this course

1.5-3 hrs
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Human Resource Management - Discipline in Organizations
1.5-3 hrs 44,314 learners
By NPTEL
You Will Learn How To

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Discuss why disciplinary procedures are necessary
  • Explain how you can have "just cause" for discipline
  • Outline how discipline is administered
  • Discuss issues involved in handling difficult employees
  • Describe how to manage insubordination in the workplace
  • Recall the management of workplace bullying
  • Discuss ways in which to prevent the need for discipline
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Beginner Level
Human Resource Management - Discipline in Organizations

280 liked this course

1.5-3 hrs
44314 enrolled
International and Strategic Human Resource Management
1.5-3 hrs 53,460 learners
By NPTEL
You Will Learn How To

At the end of this course you will be able to:

  • Identify reasons why businesses may need to be internationalized
  • Discuss challenges to human resource management in multinational enterprises
  • Discuss employment standards and laws in relation to international human resource management
  • Discuss jobs international human resource staff will need to do in the future
  • Discuss different strategic theories of human resource management
  • Discuss the multilevel model of strategic human resource management
  • Discuss networked organizations and challenges they face
  • Discuss the paradoxical tensions and coping strategies in human resources management
  • Discuss sustainable human resource management
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Beginner Level
International and Strategic Human Resource Management

290 liked this course

1.5-3 hrs
53460 enrolled
Diploma in Japanese Language
10-15 hrs 107,740 learners
By NPTEL
You Will Learn How To

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Identify different Japanese time expressions
  • Translate commonly used Japanese words to English
  • Count to a hundred in Japanese and refer to multiples of a hundred and a thousand
  • List and describe the three Japanese scripts
  • Pronounce Japanese sounds
  • Explain the meanings of different Japanese conversational phrases
  • Describe Japanese grammatical concepts
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DIPLOMA
Beginner Level
Diploma in Japanese Language

270 liked this course

10-15 hrs
107740 enrolled
Diploma in Quality Management
10-15 hrs 103,989 learners
By NPTEL
You Will Learn How To

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Explain what the service quality gap means
  • Describe what is meant by customer satisfaction
  • Define the dimensions of service quality (reliability and responsiveness)
  • List examples of service industries
  • Define what Service Quality is
  • Describe what Cost of Quality means and how it is measured
  • Describe Six Sigma Quality
  • Explain service quality management
  • Describe and explain ISO 9000
  • Explain Total Quality Management tools and external benchmarking
  • Define Total Quality Management and its tools
  • Describe an overview of Quality Management
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DIPLOMA
Beginner Level
Diploma in Quality Management

1,256 liked this course

10-15 hrs
103989 enrolled
Diploma in Supply Chain Management
10-15 hrs 151,209 learners
By NPTEL
You Will Learn How To

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Explain what the terms supply chain and supply chain management mean
  • Describe what supply chain networks are
  • Define what supply chain ecosystem is
  • Describe how modern manufacturing and services are intertwined
  • Describe what Governance Formation involves
  • Describe risks to supply chains
  • Describe the aim of Supply Chain Risk Management
  • List the elements of a Supply Chain Ecosystem
  • Describe and give examples of economic and political related uncertainties
  • List the six strategies to reduce overall risk exposure
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DIPLOMA
Beginner Level
Diploma in Supply Chain Management

1,623 liked this course

10-15 hrs
151209 enrolled
Diploma in Six Sigma
10-15 hrs 57,661 learners
By NPTEL
You Will Learn How To

Having completed this course the learner will be able to:

  • Describe the basics of Statistical Process Control.
  • Describe to use Design of Experiments to understand and optimize process settings.
  • Explain and apply the statistical techniques used in Six Sigma. - Outline the steps in planning Design of Experiments.
  • Describe the development of Taguchi Methods by Genichi Taguchi.
  • Describe typical Quality Engineering applications.
  • Define benchmarking and list its benefits. 
  • List the steps of widely used benchmarking procedures. 
  • Define what supply chain management is.
  • Describe how Six Sigma can be used in supply chain management.
  • Describe management's challenge of integrating Six Sigma processes into supply chain systems.
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DIPLOMA
Intermediate Level
Diploma in Six Sigma

515 liked this course

10-15 hrs
57661 enrolled
Introduction to Quality Management
1.5-3 hrs 45,176 learners
By NPTEL
You Will Learn How To

Having completed this course you will be able to:

  • Describe an overview of Quality Management
  • Define Total Quality Management. - Describe Quality specifications and costs
  • Explain Total Quality Management tools and external benchmarking
  • Describe and explain ISO 9000
  • Explain service quality management
  • Describe Six Sigma Quality
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Intermediate Level
Introduction to Quality Management

409 liked this course

1.5-3 hrs
45176 enrolled
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