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by reminding all employees of what sexual harassment in the workplace encompasses and how to act if you have either been a victim of or witnessed such an act (University of Minnesota: 2014). The training programs also need to remind everyone of the strict rules that are in place.Finally, supervision is a huge part of preventing and eradicating sexual harassment in the workplace. Without enforcers or supervisors, many of the other measures taken by a company to combat sexual harassment may be…

Every state in the nation now is part of the Amber Alert system which broadcasts information about abducted children. Recently in Florida the Jessica Lunsford act was signed into law which heightened Florida's laws relating to sexual offenders and predators. Even with the new Jessica Lunsford legislation in Florida some citizens feel that it is not enough to keep their communities safe. Many cities are now looking at limiting the areas in which sex offenders and predators can live in hopes of…

INTRODUCTION “Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great”(R W Emerson 1944). In everyday life, trust and ethics are usually conceived as closely related, intertwined concepts—one cannot go without the other (Van den Akker et al 2009). While there is much research on trust in leaders (Den Hartog, 2003; Lewicki, 2006; De Hoogh & Den Hartog, 2008; Dirks, 2002; Lapidot, 2007), few have paid attention to the importance of trust in ethical…

Statutes of limitation or procedural hurdles may impede the reopening of a case and the introduction of any new evidence. Strict rules may limit the opportunity for a post-conviction review, hindering the presentation of evidence that could prove innocence. Forensic evidence plays a crucial role in many trials; however, it may not be subjected to rigorous scrutiny during the initial trial. The re examination of forensic evidence can be challenging, particularly if methods used at the time are…

Lumina Foundation Financial Standing and Management Educational nonprofits in the United States exist in a space in which they may generate enormous change in the current culture. Educational nonprofits come in as the second most populous type of nonprofit in the United States, behind only religious organizations. Even with such prevalence, only a bit more than half of the nearly 212,000 educational nonprofit organizations operate in the financial space where the IRS Form 990 is required.…

of the High Court or Supreme Court, the courts are essentially concerned with the “decision making process” and not the “merits” of the decision. As a merit court, the NGT becomes the primary decision maker and therefore can undertake an in-depth scrutiny into not just the law but also the technical basis of a particular…

Jorge Francisco Isidore Luis Borges (24th August 1899-14th June 1986)’s Other Inquisitions (1964) [originally published as Otras Inquisiciones in 1952] forms a necessary complement to the fictional entities of Fictions (originally published as Ficciones in 1944) and The Aleph (published as El Aleph in 1949) which made him a towering personality in Latin American avant-garde literature. Poet, essayist, critic, translator- Borges is truly a virtuoso. His fiction, a vortex for seemingly the entire…

them is the Democratic Senator Mark Warner who portrayed uncertainty on the best option to take. Del Marcia of D-Newport News put across that blaming mental illness on mass shootings is too ‘shortsighted’ and simplistic. She advocated for further scrutiny of the issue before opting for a solution. Van Cleave, the president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League at the time reflected that in the 1960s people including the mentally ill walked with guns and there were no reported cases of mass…

[8] Ecomagination program targets society and business challenges such as depletion of known oil and gas reserves, lack of clean water availability, new demand on natural resources, infrastructure and access to energy in emerging and rapidly growing economies. Ecomagination puts into practice GE’s belief that financial and environmental performance can be integrated to accelerate profitable growth for the company as well as serve the society. Eric Ortman, Supply Chain Executive with GE Oil…

These differences are summarized in Table 1.1. The tension around definition persists in the literature and a central theme in this volume is highlighting the contradictions between these two broad understandings of HRM. We argue that for ethical and sustainability reasons, more stakeholder orientated approaches to people management are preferable, with shareholder dominant approaches facing both quotidian micro-crises at firm (encompassing problems of human capital development and commitment)…