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The globalization trend is not limited to product-making industries. Well-publicized exporting of call center and software programming jobs from developed countries to emerging economies attests to the trend. Service businesses of all stripes also have lessons to learn from the SCM... 

The job of a marketer (and the job of a health care professional as well) is not only to understand and respond to people s expressed needs but also to help customers learn more about what they need and want. In essence, marketers also must understand and respond to people s latentne ls. Narver, Slater, and MacLachlan (2004) call the former a responsive market orientation and the later a proactive market orientation. Marketers do not create needs, but they do help consumers to understand their latent needs and to translate needs into wants. An understanding of this issue is helpful in explaining pharmacy s current experiences with patient-centered services. 

The AAPCC Certification Examination for Specialists in Poison Information is intended for poison center staff whose primary job is handling calls involving human toxic exposures. The exam is administered annually at 40-50 test sites throughout the United States, and Canada. The exam takes place each year in the afternoon of the second Wednesday in May. Successful completion of this examination will lead to the designation of Certified Specialist in Poison Information. To maintain certification, the examination must be passed every seven years. Applicants must meet the following criteria to sit for the examination ... 

In the context of an iterative design cycle (as advocated in BS/EN/ISO 11064-1 2001), additional strategies can be deployed to provide feedback of a sociotechnical or affective nature into the design process. Hnman factors best practice in this regard centers around various self-report questionnaire methods, administered to individuals who have had an opportunity to use the system in the context of trials, simulations, or other phased delivery methods. Nnmerous job satisfaction questionnaires exist and have been widely applied, from the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (with up to 100 questions see Weiss et al., 1967) to the Job Descriptive Index (requiring simple yes/no answers see Smith, Kendall, and Hulin, 1969). A concept called cohesion (Siebold and Kelly, 1988) also maps well onto the core job characteristics mentioned earlier. 

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