Understanding Business
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ISBN: 9780078023163
Author: William G Nickels, James McHugh, Susan McHugh
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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To determine: The challenges to work with someone much younger or much older than you.
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Demography represents the static estimation of human population with respect to difference in the age, race, gender, size of the overall population in a country.
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