...A case study is an intensive analysis of an individual, group, person or event. This research method is common to science; this research strategy is an empirical enquiry that investigates a phenomenon within its real life context. Case studies began from the period of Maliknoski, Raddclife Brown, rather than using samples and following a rigid protocol to examine limited number of variables, case studies involve an in depth, longitudinal (over a long period of time) examination of a single instance or event, they provide a systematic way of looking at events, collecting data, analyzing information and reports, as a result the researcher may gain sharpened understanding of why the instance happened, why it did and hence which is more important to look at extensively. An extended case study is a series of cases which treats each case as a stage in an ongoing process of social relations between specific persons and groups in a social system and culture. This technique requires taking a series of specific incidents through a period of time and showing how these incidents or cases are related to the development and changes of social relations among these persons and groups acting within the framework of their social system. In addition the ethnographer not only presents the reader abstractions as inference from his field material but also provides some of the material itself. This puts the reader in a better position to evaluate the ethnographer’s analysis, not only on the basis of...
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...Conclusion……………………………………………………… 10 Reference ……………………………………………………… 11 ABSTRACT This paper provides an overview of how the high HIV/AIDS prevalence rate adversely affects the economic growth of Botswana. HIV/AIDS is a growing problem in Botswana as the country has the second highest HIV/AIDS infection rate in the world. There are different sectors in the economy which can be affected by HIV/AIDS namely; the household, the firm and the macro economy. This paper will look at the various components affecting these sectors and explain what impact they have on Botswana s economy. INTRODUCTION In light of recent studies, that establish a direct correlation between health and development, it brings about the question of how much the epidemic of HIV and AIDS- which has been haunting the nation for decades, has negatively affected the prospects of economic growth in Botswana. There have been various studies that have been conducted which evaluate the different ways in which HIV and AIDS has affected the economy of Botswana. This paper, shall highlight the theories of how HIV and AIDS affects the economy, namely at the household-level, firm-level and finally at the macroeconomic-level, and...
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...Conclusion……………………………………………………… 10 Reference ……………………………………………………… 11 ABSTRACT This paper provides an overview of how the high HIV/AIDS prevalence rate adversely affects the economic growth of Botswana. HIV/AIDS is a growing problem in Botswana as the country has the second highest HIV/AIDS infection rate in the world. There are different sectors in the economy which can be affected by HIV/AIDS namely; the household, the firm and the macro economy. This paper will look at the various components affecting these sectors and explain what impact they have on Botswana s economy. INTRODUCTION In light of recent studies, that establish a direct correlation between health and development, it brings about the question of how much the epidemic of HIV and AIDS- which has been haunting the nation for decades, has negatively affected the prospects of economic growth in Botswana. There have been various studies that have been conducted which evaluate the different ways in which HIV and AIDS has affected the economy of Botswana. This paper, shall highlight the theories of how HIV and AIDS affects the economy, namely at the household-level, firm-level and finally at the macroeconomic-level, and...
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...A Case Study On Green Computing Project Project Management By Kashif Ali Syed Under the guidance of Dr. Thomas Kraft Case Study A project commencement meeting is the best open door for a task director to invigorate his or her group. Amid this meeting, the task administration can make a feeling of normal objective and begin seeing every person. Albeit a task commencement meeting seems, by all accounts, to be a basic meeting with all the partners of the undertaking, an effective venture commencement meeting obliges fitting arranging. The accompanying steps are a percentage of the imperative planning focuses for a fruitful task commencement meeting. These steps help you to stay centered, build and show administration, and help incorporating individual individuals into the task group. At the point when the meeting begins, the venture administrator ought to assume responsibility of the meeting. Next, all the members ought to be invited and a round of presentation toward oneself ought to occur. Despite the fact that you have officially imparted the meeting motivation to the members, quickly take them through the plan while giving a concise prologue to everything in the motivation. Give careful consideration towards presenting the venture parts and underline the reasons why the term individuals were allocated to separate parts. In the event that there are individuals assuming extended parts, recognize about it...
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...The changes in family dynamics at the birth of a child as they affect each of the following: newborn, mother, father, siblings, and extended family of the new parents. Although a newborn baby is a bundle of joy, some adjustments should be done to welcome the new member of the family. With a new addition to the family all members should expect and be prepared for tremendous changes. These changes directly affect the mother, father, siblings and extended family of the new parents. First, we can start with the changes in the newborn’s life. When the mother delivers the baby it underdoes a huge amount of stress. But until the delivery the newborn is in the mother’s uterus safe and sound. While in the mother’s womb the newborn will receive nourishment from the mother. As soon as the baby leaves the uterus there are changes that he/she goes through. The newborn will have to learn to breathe independently, adjusting to different temperatures and the difficult feeding process. Fortunately, most infants are resilient and possess many capabilities that help them adjust and embark on the growth journey. And good-quality prenatal care, a normal labor and delivery process, warm and positive interactions with parents, and good-quality medical care are critical ingredients for the newborn’s optimal adjustment. Secondly, we examine the mother, the most important figure in the early stages of the baby’s life. The mother’s adjustment to her new life can be the most difficult one. During the...
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...the situation in an ethically acceptable policy. In such cases, societal and personal ethical guidelines can provide no satisfactory outcome for the chooser. Ethical dilemmas assume that the chooser will abide by societal norms, such as codes of law or religious teachings, in order to make the choice ethically impossible * Some unethical behavior within the organization: * Lying to supervisors * Recording more expenses * Stealing * Accepting gifts against company’s policy * Favoritism * Taking credit for others work * Whistle blowing * Terminating employees without any reason * Using company property for personal use Placing unreasonable expectations on me as a Trainee officer: Suppose I’m a trainee officer in my 8 month of training within a office. A more senior trainee has been on leave, and I’m due to go on sick leave. I have been told by my manager that, before i go on leave, i must complete some complicated reconciliation work. The deadline suggested appears unrealistic, given the complexity of the work. I feel that I’m not sufficiently experienced to complete the work alone. I would need additional supervision to complete it to the required standard, and my manager appears unable to offer the necessary support. If I try to complete the work within the proposed timeframe but fail to meet the expected quality, I could face reaction on my return from study leave. I feel slightly intimidated by my manager, and also feel...
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...A Review On Providing Paid Maternity Leave and The Benefits of Valuing Parents In The Workplace Amanda Fredericks Brittany Larue Christina Herron Emmalee Ilar King University Business Law Vonda Laughlin Abstract Paid maternity leave is a hot button debate in the political and business arenas for good reason. The Family Medical Leave Act requires companies with greater than 50 employees to provide 12 weeks unpaid leave for new mothers. The act, as it currently stands, excludes many workers that are employed by smaller businesses and inadequately supports those that do essentially penalizing the mother and child which can result in social inequality. This paper explores why providing paid maternity leave is a better ethical and economic decision for businesses and society in general. Using a comparative analysis on maternity leave in other countries and the potential positive outcomes of providing paid maternity leave by working to achieve a stronger work-life balance. This paper also explores ways in which payment of maternity leave benefits can be addressed. A Review On Providing Paid Maternity Leave and The Benefits of Valuing Parents In The Workplace Maternity benefits, once believed to be only a consideration for young women who were contemplating a family, is now an issue for both men and women who will either biologically have or adopt child(ren). Most of us are familiar with the Family Medical Leave Act issued in 1993 in the United States that states “roughly...
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...Why the Current FMLA Policy is not Enough? Annette Fininen Prof. Davenport ENG 215 May 26, 2013 Why the Current FMLA policy is not Enough? The dynamics of the American family have changed. No longer is a working father, stay at home mother, and kids considered the norm. Even the definition of “family” has changed dramatically. Changes in the American “norm” raise an important question, “Should the Family and Medical Leave Act be changed?” to meet our communities evolving needs. In the United States, the current Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) only provides up to twelve weeks of unpaid leave, but compared to other counties with similar policies the act does not have enough coverage to protect the average worker and should be changed. A woman walks into her human resources office crying, asking to speak to someone. She is currently on FMLA leave to care for her sick child who has been diagnosed with leukemia. She is a single parent with two other children at home to care for as well. Even with insurance coverage, the bills are mounting because FMLA is unpaid and she has exhausted all of her personal time off (PTO). With her steady income cut-off, she is concerned how she will pay her bills. She has no close family to turn to for support and does not qualify for government assistance. Her story is just one example. According to the United State Census, in 2010 single parent households comprised about 9.6 percent of the total...
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...child all the time that their child is in hospital, so bond disruption is minimised. Rutter and Tizard and Hodges show that adoption is a good outcome for children, even if the adoption takes place after the child is 6 months old. These studies showed that for children that were adopted (and the earlier the better) the negative effects of privation could be reversed. Ideally adoption should happen very quickly after it becomes clear that the child cannot stay with its birth parents, and after Bowlby’s ideas were published it was common for babies to be adopted when they were only one week old. Whilst this isn’t the case any more, it is recognised that adoption is good and that more needs to be done in the UK to speed up the adoption process, which is lengthy. Studies such as The EPPE Project showed that day care is good for children if it is high quality, including factors such as low staff: child ratio, low staff turnover, good resources, and good staff training. As a result of this from 2004 free pre-school places were available to every 3 year old. Campbell showed that day care at an early age could be associated with negative social effects, such as aggression. Therefore maternity leave has recently been extended to last for 12...
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...ASSIGNMENT 1 FAHEEM SEEDAT student number: SDTFAH003 1) Extended relatives for the African race decreased from 2.97 in 2001 to 1.77 in 2011,a decrease of 40%.For colored’s it decreased from 0.47 to 0.13, a decrease of 72%.For Asians it decreased from 2.21 to 0.93, a decrease of 58% and for whites it decreased 70% from 1.23 to 0.37 extended kin in a household b)African and coloured households have similar average family sizes with 5.77 and 5.56 per family respectively in 2001.The number of children in both racial groups is also similar with 4.06 in African and 4.36 in coloured households in the year 2001. The extended relatives is where we see contrasting situations, in African households an average of 2.97 extended kin was reported but in coloured households an average of 0.47 was reported,84% less than an African household. In Africa homes the number of non relatives was 0.34 in 2001 and in coloured homes it was 0.47 so not much deviation in that respect. In conclusion there is only significant deviation in the “Extended relatives’ category with the African group showing 84% more extended kin in the household. 2.1) 45% 2.2) 3% 3.3) 34% 18% live with neither parent b) Both sets of age groups 0-6 and 7-17 year olds have similar family conditions in terms of living with parent(s). 34% of 0-6 year olds live with both parents and 31% of 7-17 year olds live with both parents. 45% of 0-6...
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...performance have been widely explored across many nations, relatively little work has been undertaken within the Gulf region (Harb & El-Shaarawi, 2007). It is likely that region-specific socio-cultural factors will affect how, and to what extent, gender and marital status influence academic performance. Given that many of the Gulf nations are presently attempting to develop knowledge based economies, such research may inform the development of undergraduate educational strategy and policy. The small body of research within the Gulf region focusing on gender and marital status is fairly unequivocal. Using either cumulative grade point averages (CGPA), or specific course grades as indicators of performance, virtually all of the published studies report females as outperforming males. Hedjazi and Omidi (2008) found that amongst undergraduate agricultural students at the university of Tehran in Iran, female students significantly outperformed their male counterparts. Similarly, Harb and El-Shaarawi (2007) found that female undergraduates studying within the college of business and economics at UAE University, significantly outperformed their male colleagues. In Kuwait Al-Otaibi (1996)...
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...Differences in educational achievement refer to the significant differences in educational success and failure. This difference can be found between the two genders where it is a fact that girls outperform boys in the education system; some may argue that this is a result of factors outside of school. The validity of this or whether the differences are caused by factors outside school will be discussed. One reason as to why it can be argued that gender differences in educational achievement are caused by factors outside school is because of changes in society’s views on females. In past generations, girls would not attend school and instead stay at home and learn from their mother how to cook and look after children, they were nurtured to become housewives for their future husbands. This meant that women had low aspirations, however this has changed. Sue Sharpe argues that this is a result of a gender quake that society is experiencing. Previously, girls had aspired to get married at a young age and become mothers to children early on in their lives. However, girl’s priorities have changed to getting an education so that they can have a career (Francis and Skelton) and therefore being able to support themselves above all other priorities rather than relying on a husband. This therefore means society accepts that it is normal for girls to get an education and provide for themselves; therefore society’s views on women can be argued to be an important outside school factor to influence...
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...a certain way to gain power over another person. Bullies may behave this way out of jealousy or because they themselves are bullied. When they leave school, they will most likely carry on their bullying in the workplace. A number of cases on bullying specifically in schools had already happened and reported. However, there are still cases where students and even parents do not report these incidents of violence in the schools probably because of time constraints on the part of the “working parent” or maybe because parents look at the event as “petty”. In reality, cases of bullying and other forms of violence in schools should be viewed not just a “school” problem but as a “societal” problem. Bullying is now the number one non-academic issue that most educators face, and is one of the top concerns of many parents. Bullying that happened during childhood has a great impact on an individual’s adult life. The idea that childhood bullying is not at all confined to childhood is becoming clearer and clearer as researchers follow affected kids throughout the years, peeking into their lives as adults. One study, for example, showed that kids who play the roles of bullies and victims grow up to have more mental health problems in adulthood – anxiety disorder, depression, panic disorder, and suicidal behavior. Now, the same team has extended their work, illustrating the many areas of adult life that can suffer as an apparent result of childhood bullying. It turns out that not only do...
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...Guidelines for UBC Four Year Doctoral Fellowships (4YF) Table of Contents A. Guide for 4YF Award Holders 1. Eligibility for Funding 2. Selection of 4YF Recipients 3. Award Notification and Acceptance 4. Award Start Dates 5. Duration of Funding 6. Award Values 7. Payment of Funding 8. Requirement to Apply for Other Funding 9. Progress Reports 10. Interruption and Termination of Funding 11. Transferring between Doctoral Programs 12. Internships 13. Employment 14. Taxation B. Guide for UBC Graduate Programs 1. Allocation of 4YF places 2. Selecting 4YF Recipients 3. Making 4YF Offers to Students 4. Notifying the Faculty of Graduate Studies of Recipients 5. Re-offering 4YF Places 6. Banking 4YF places 7. Transferring between Doctoral Programs 8. 4YF Reports 9. 4YF Allocation Formula www.grad.ubc.ca/awards Last revised 3 October 2012 Page 1 Guide for 4YF Award Holders 1. Eligibility for Funding a) Four Year Fellowships may be held by PhD, DMA, and MD/PhD students b) Four Year Fellowships may be held by domestic and international students c) Four Year Fellowships funding is conditional on the recipient maintaining satisfactory academic progress Back to top 2. Selection of 4YF Recipients Students become 4YF recipients in one of three ways: a) Graduate programs select 4YF recipients from among their incoming and continuing PhD, DMA, and MD/PhD students (4YF-G) b) PhD, DMA, and MD/PhD students who are awarded a Killam Doctoral Scholarship...
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...Abstract The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate my grasp of the learning objectives The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) of 1993 is an act that was passed during President Bill Clinton administration. The bill was signed into law on February 5, 1993 and took effect August 5, 1993. The law was created for the purpose of protecting employee jobs in the event that they have a family emergency that requires the employee to be away from their job for an extended period of time. The Act was also created to offer a work-life balance to employees. It allows the employee to balance the responsibilities that they have at work as well as with their families. This more so became an issue because the traditional landscape of the workforce began to changed. Where years ago, the norm was a two-parent one-income family this is no longer the case. Young mothers, single parents, and two–income families has now become the norm for the current workforce. With the aging of the “Baby Boomers”, the burdens of their living and in some case death expenses are carried by their children. Many individuals in the workforce serve as caregivers for their elderly parents. Also, as it relates to single parent families, they have to deal with the pressures of taking care of all the responsibilities that was traditionally done by two individuals. Single parent families have to deal taking care of sick children, pregnancy, and other events that may require time away from work. These employees are...
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