...Hiroshima and memory Background During the final stage of World War II 1945, the United States conducted the atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. Such events are the only use of nuclear weapons in the world. The atomic bombs were created by the Manhattan Project, which was a research and development program established by the United States with the United Kingdom and Canada that produced the first atomic bomb during World War II. The United States called for a surrender of Japan in the Potsdam Declaration on 26 July 1945 by threatening Japan with “prompt and utter destruction”. However, such ultimatum was ignored by the Japanese government. Thus, two nuclear weapons that developed by the Manhattan Project had been deployed by the United States. Hiroshima was the primary target of the first atomic bomb mission and Nagasaki was the second target of the mission. The first nuclear weapon named Little Boy was dropped from an American B-29 Superfortress, known as Enola Gay on the city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 and followed by another nuclear weapon named Fat Man dropped from the B-29 Bockscar on the city of Nagasaki on 9 August. The official figures by Japanese at the time put the death toll at 118,661 and the later estimates the final toll was about 140,000 of Hiroshima’s 350,000 population including military personnel and those who died later due to radiation. On the other hand, the explosion of Fat Man event killed 39,000 and caused a further...
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... both the employer and the employee have mutual expectations. When an employee’s expectations are not fulfilled, he will have a grudge against the employer because of the disagreement or dissatisfaction it causes. Similarly, when an employer’s expectations about an employee are not fulfilled, the employer will have a grudge against such employee. It may be a problem of indiscipline. According to Dessler (2001), discipline is a procedure that corrects or punishes a subordinate because an error or procedures has been violated. Meanwhile Rue & Byars (1996) states that discipline should be viewed as a condition within an organization whereby employees know what is expected of them in terms of the organisation’s rules, standards and policies and what the consequences are of infractions. Discipline should never be used as a show of authority or power on the supervisor’s part. A formal discipline procedure usually begins with an oral warning and progresses through a series of activities. As Rue and Byars point out (1996, p.424), preventive discipline from progressing beyond the oral warning stage is obviously advantageous to both the employee and management. In general, discipline should be restricted to the issuing of...
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...consent and usually apply in unionised workplaces where an agreement has been reached about pay or terms and conditions. 2. Works Rules. Many organisations have a set of rules governing the way in which they require employees to act e.g. not smoking on the site. These rules vary amongst organisations and can differ depending on industry and the needs of the business, the size of the organisation may also play a part in how stringent the rules can be. These rules are unilaterally determined by the employer and can be lawfully changed by management at any time. A refusal to adhere to the revised rules amounts to a breach of contract i.e. failure to obey lawful and reasonable instructions. External 1. Statute. Statutory rights are legal requirements. All employees, regardless of the number of hours per week they work, have certain legal rights, for example: • the right to a written statement of terms of employment within two months of starting work • the right to be paid at least the national minimum wage • the right to a paid holiday • the right to Maternity/Paternity/Adoption leave 2. ACAS Code of...
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...Police Brutality against minorities? A research paper submitted advocating the issues among police agencies in North America. This paper analyzes the protocol that determines the appropriate procedures for a safer community for the victimized minorities through use -of- force incidents. HSB4U1 December 11/12/2015 Summative Report Mrs. Kim By: Julianne Silva Table of Contents Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………Pg. 3 Chapter one: Police Issues American CCPSA Fixing Problems…………………………………………………………Pg. 4 America’s Flawed System……………………………………………………………………Pg. 6 Controlling the Police…………………………………………………………………………Pg. 7 Chapter two: Police Solutions The Debate over Body Cameras…………………………………………………………….Pg. 9 Changing Policies and Regulations...……………………………………………………….Pg. 10 Chapter Three: Community and Behaviour Police Subculture……………………………………………………………………………….Pg.12 Impact on Minorities…………………………………………………………………………….Pg.12 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………….Pg.14 Works Cited………………………………………………………………………………………Pg.15 Appendix A: Julianne Silva Survey Summary………………………………………………..Pg.17 Appendix B-1: ………………………………………………………………………………….... Appendix B-2……………………………………………………………………………………... Introduction One of the most controversial topics in police enforcement throughout history has been the issue between racial minorities and the misconduct of police officials. Throughout North America, high incidents involving police use of force has led racial minorities...
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...Statement of Glenn A. Fine Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice before the Senate Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State and the Judiciary concerning The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Trilogy Information Technology Modernization Project I. INTRODUCTION Mr. Chairman, Senator Leahy, and Members of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State and the Judiciary: I appreciate the opportunity to testify before the Subcommittee as it examines the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Trilogy information technology (IT) modernization project. The Trilogy project was designed to upgrade the FBI’s IT infrastructure and replace its antiquated case management system with the Virtual Case File (VCF). Successful implementation of the Trilogy project is essential to modernizing the FBI’s inadequate information technology systems. The FBI’s systems currently do not permit FBI agents, analysts, and managers to readily access and share case-related information throughout the FBI. Without this capability, the FBI cannot perform its critical missions as efficiently and effectively as it should. In March 2004, this Subcommittee held a hearing on the status of the Trilogy project, and I testified about the schedule delays and cost increases of the Trilogy project. At that time, I stated that I was skeptical about the FBI’s proposed schedule to deploy a fully functional, complete version of the VCF before the end of calendar year 2004. Shortly before the...
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...crisis of credibility being faced because society perceived accountants to have lost their commitment to public service. The credibility of the profession is threatened when the ideals of integrity, independence, public service and ethical standards come under suspicion. Well-known scandals of one of the major leading accounting firms in the United States Arthur Andersen coupled with alleged unethical acts committed by Enron have arouse the conscious of the public and stakeholders as to the moral decline and unethical posture of public accountants unveiled a decline in moral reasoning and ethical standards of public accountants (Dellaportas, 2006; Esmond-Kiger, 2004). Over the last few years, the accounting profession has been beaten up badly in the media, somewhat justifiably. The forces at work were numerous and complex and a variety of phenomena created the entire profession had its reputation tarnished. Some forces were not new: delivering services that acted to impair independence; becoming too cozy with clients, active participation in finding ways to circumvent accounting standards, and even simple greed. The profession has paid dearly for failing to meet the expectations of investors, creditors, and other users of financial statements. Finally, the public lose their trust and confidence on the accounting profession and thus, the professional standing of accountant is jeopardized. There are several ethical issues faced...
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...culture of Motosuzhou will influence negotiation attitudes and positions, some intercultural research needs to be done beforehand. In assessing these cultures at an informal level as well as a business or formal perspective, I need to become aware that not all actions or behaviours can be directly explained by cultural differences alone. Sometimes it is a party’s incapability of correctly identifying its position or leverage points within the negotiation which causes rudeness or misunderstandings. Given that in this case (Electrowide VS. Motosuzhou) a linguistic barrier has to be overcome as well, makes finding the right conclusions even harder. Therefore I first need to have studied both cultures intensively in order to come up with a revised preparation for a new negotiation. China To start with I will talk about The People’s Republic of China. With its 1,300 million inhabitants, ancient history and innumerable traditions and customs it is perhaps the most difficult culture to study and to understand as a Westerner. Nevertheless it is a country that has intrigues us all over the course of history. Giving us many great inventions in the past and probably also in the future, as it is manifesting itself in becoming the world’s biggest economy. The question remains, how did China change so rapidly in the last 20 year considering their high level of Autarky it ones had? But more importantly, with the country becoming more liberated and open, we want to know how much of their...
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...Introduction Malaysia economic development strategy, since the introduction of New Economic Policy has hastened the development process in the following years especially 1980s - 90’s decade. Development was further speeded up in 2000s with the nation vision of achieving an industrialized status by year 2020. However, the rapid development process sometimes was carried out without really taking into consideration, that the possibility of such development will impacts on the environment, in this case, impacts towards the rivers. Table 1 below shows the number of polluted river (suspended solids) from year 1998 – 2008. Table [ 1 ]: Number of clean, slighly polluted and polluted basin in Malaysia (Suspended Solids) A) Economic Growth and Water Pollution As the country which moves towards the realization of its vision 2020 to becoming a developed nation through the implementation of its policy agenda for heavy industrialization, infrastructures, and urban-expansions, the water demands increase steeply. There is greater pressure to preserve the current water resources as well as to find alternative course of actions to improve the water quality. In other words, the consistent and rapid growth of urban-industries in Malaysia has undoubtedly resulted in an increase in economic well being of the citizens on the one hand. After all, for the first time in years, the external value of Malaysia’s currency, the ringgit, shrank by nearly 50 per cent while the stock market contracted...
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...Human Resource Management Assignment 3 Report to Board of Directors Subject: Pay, Appraisal, Discipline, Grievance and Personnel records Job Descriptions and Pay Findings | |Softworks |Barnsley MBC (Comparator) | |Job Description |No Formal job descriptions |Formal agreed job descriptions for every post in| | |Staff undertake duties where they are required |the organisation detailing duties of post | | | |Staff work to JD but are sometimes given the | | | |opportunity to undertake further tasks | |Pay |Pay set by Dept managers |Pay set at national scales | | |Pay is awarded to more valued members of staff |Pay agreed with trade unions | | |whom the organisation wishes to stay. |Increments set within scales to reward | | | |experience....
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...STUDY GUIDE OFFICE ADMINISTRATION LEARNING HOURS |Course Materials |Lecture |Tutorial |Self-study|Library |Exam |Assignment|Total SLT | | | | | |Search | | |(hours) | |Planning, organising and monitoring of work |3 |4 |7 |2 |1 |10 |27 | |Identify and apply methods to ensure an efficient workflow. | | | | | | | | |Identify and describe legal requirements relating to the | | | | | | | | |workplace. | | | | | | | | |Maintenance of a healthy, safe and secure environment |6 |4 |6 | |1 |6 |23 | |Describe methods of encouraging the maintenance of a healthy,| | | | | | | | |and safe working environment. | | | | | | | | |Identify and explain methods used to maintain secure | | | | | | | | |workplace...
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...JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION A Publication of the Society for Scientific Exploration Instructions to Authors (Revised February 2013) All correspondence and submissions should be directed to: JSE Managing Editor, EricksonEditorial@gmail.com, 151 Petaluma Blvd. So., #227, Petaluma CA 94952 USA, (1) 415/435-1604, fax (1) 707/559-5030 Please submit all manuscripts at http://journalofscientificexploration.org/index.php/jse/login (please note that “www” is NOT used in this address). This website provides directions for author registration and online submission of manuscripts. Full Author Instructions are posted on the Society for Scientific Exploration’s website at http://www.scientificexploration.org/documents/instructions_for_authors.pdf for submission of items for publication in the Journal of Scientific Exploration (including “Writing the Empirical Journal Article.” Before you submit a paper, please familiarize yourself with the Journal by reading JSE articles. (Back issues can be browsed in electronic form with SSE membership login at http://journalofscientificexploration.org, click on Archive link; issues before 2008 are freely accessible at http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/articles.html) Electronic files of text, tables, and figures at resolution of a minimum of 300 dpi (TIF or PDF preferred) will be required for online submission. You will also need to attest to a statement online that the article has not been previously published and is not...
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...corporate governance that are considered critical to business growth and integrity. The company does not treat CSR as a gesture or add-on; it is part of its core business to achieve sustainable organization success. Vodafone's success is supported by its commitment to ethical conduct in the way it interacts with stakeholders and the way it carry on its business operations. Pressure has been continuously applied on telecommunication industry to improve business ethics through new public initiatives and laws. There are many important ethical and social responsibility developments that forced Vodafone to continuously incorporate and update their corporate social responsibility policies. Vodafone takes a strategic approach to its ethical and corporate responsibility issues. It has a much publicized and unique CSR policy, and its social responsibility strategy...
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...Restructuring and change management Toolkit for PSA organisers and delegates April 2009 To contribute resources or suggested changes contact the PSA Policy Team Restructuring and change management Toolkit for organisers and delegates This kit contains information and resources to help PSA organisers and delegates plan and organise around change. The first section of the kit provides guidance on the PSA approach to change and how we organise our activity. The second section brings together support materials to be used by organisers and delegates. Contents Our approach to change Planning our activity Sharing information Legal issues Collective agreement change clauses Members with grandparented terms and conditions Pregnant members and members on parental leave Redundancy tax credits 4 5 6 6 6 7 8 8 Support materials Organising checklist Flowchart of standard change process – consultation phase Flowchart of standard change process – implementation phase Advice from the legal team Examples of collective agreement change clauses Brief guidance on value for money and expenditure reviews Information sheet for members and delegates – role of the union in change processes Communications plan template Post-change de-brief sheet Submission tips and template for members Short change management development module Example of an additional engagement protocol 11 12 13 14 19 25 26 28 29 30 32 30 3 Our approach to change Change is a feature of modern organisations...
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...Introduction To Corporate Social Responsibility Management Essay Organizations always have an important Role in the lives of the society in which it is operating especially when the business is growing and thinking about globalization. Organization’s performance and production is linked with enviourment, social, cultural and governmental variables. When an organization operates its operations in a particular community, due to the business processes there are some responsibilities to the organization. 1.1 Definition of Corporate Social Responsibility In general term CSR refers to: ‘The comprehensive approach which organization takes to meet the expectation of stakeholders by putting away such measures as revenues, profit and legal obligations. Community development, welfare, human rights and ethical conduct are key factors which come under the CSR umbrella’ (Laurie J. Mullins). I would like to discuss the CSR issues in Aviation Industry that’s why I have chosen Air France-KLM and Ryanair. 1.2 Air France-KLM Overview: Air France and KLM merged together in 2004 to form Air France-KLM Group while both airlines operate individually to retain their brands and identity (Air France-KLM CSR Report 2010). Air France was elected best airline of the year 2010 in Business Travel Awards (The Financial). Air France-KLM is the only airline which is selected in Dow Jones Sustainability Index in 2008.This group is the biggest in the whole world according to their profit growth which is €24...
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...46 Appendix C — Paper I — Evaluation Guide EVALUATION GUIDE COMPREHENSIVE SIMULATION — SABLETEL PRIMARY INDICATORS OF COMPETENCE The reader is reminded that the solutions are developed for the UFE candidate, therefore all the complexities of a real life situation may not be fully reflected in the following solution. The UFE Report is not an authoritative source of GAAP. Memo to: From: Subject: StarNova Executive Committee CA SableTel’s 2010 Year-End and 2011 Strategic Plan As requested, I have assessed the strategic plan as formulated by the CEO of SableTel, Dan Wilson. I have also identified issues associated with the 2010 financial results and I have assessed the financial condition and future prospects of SableTel. Primary Indicator #1 The candidate provides an audit plan, recalculates the CRTC Fee, and provides auditing procedures to test the accuracy of the Fee calculation. NOT UPDATED The candidate demonstrates competence in Assurance. Competencies VI-1 – Analyzes, evaluates and advises on assurance needs (A) VI-2.2 – Evaluates the implications of key risks and business issues for the assignments (A) VI-2.4 – Develops guidelines to set the extent of assurance work, based on the scope and expectations of the assignment (A) VI-2.5 – Designs appropriate procedures based on the assignment’s scope, risk and materiality guidelines (A) VI-2.10 – Prepares information for meetings with stakeholders (A) SableTel has received a letter from...
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