Definition Concept Name Judgments based on positive and negative perceptions of a social group Prejudice Reacting to a person as though he or she was an indistinguishable member of a particular social group (Biases) Category-based Acting on cognitive expectations and emotional reactions to a person's perceived membership in a particular social group Sterotyping (Comparative fit) Bias affirms the satisfaction of belonging to the right groups; individual autonomy is balanced against group
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Literature Review on Bangladesh Stock Market Literature Review: 1 Before the decade of eighty much of the stock market literature viewed the present value of dividends to be the principal determinant of market return of stocks. LeRoy and Porter (1981) and Shiller (1981) found that under the assumption of constant discount factor stock prices were too volatile to be consistent with movement in future dividends. The decomposition of stock price movements is very sensitive to what assumption
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reform initiatives, particularly for economic, social and cultural rights, could prove prohibitive for many States parties. As a result, Article 4 elaborates that in relation to economic, social and cultural rights, measures must be undertaken by States parties “to the maximum extent of their available resources.” In so doing, the Convention takes up the wording of Article 2 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and introduces the concept of “progressive realization.”
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TOPIC: CURRENT TRENDS IN COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. INTRODUCTION. Definitions. Collective bargaining is broadly defined as the alternative to and a replacement of individual attempt at bargaining. To employers, it helps to avoid comparability issues. To the state, peaceful industrial relations are an outcome of labor and management’s efforts. In a study by Sydney and Beatrice Webb (1891), they saw collective bargaining as the main instrument used by actors, employee and government institution in industry
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the right to physical security, integrity, freedoms of expression and association, the right to hold and sell private property,” (85). Universalism has strong ties with politics, in particular, liberal and democratic practices; that being said, the concepts of universalism revolve around political rights for the individual with the main focus remaining human rights. On the opposition, Communitarians do not believe the views of largely liberal intellectuals. One of their biggest criticisms is against
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Adam Smith all the more prevalently known as the father of Economics The Wealth of Nations, which is believed to have laid the foundation of economic thought and led to emergence of various schools of economic thought. Smith was a lecturer at the University of Glasgow where his worry was profound quality and morals. Smith's compositions were viewed as progressive in those circumstances. It is reasonable for say that his perspectives affected the Europeans as well as on the individuals who mapped
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------------------------------------------------- BMAN31090 Comparative Industrial Relations To what extent does the current EU framework provide the basis for the reconciliation of social and economic rights in the areas of EU freedoms, posting of workers and industrial action? Discuss with reference to the situation in at least three of the core countries. Introduction: Since the formation of the European Union in the 1950s, there has been a constant tension between the market aim of the
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recent recession and financial crisis (Shaw and Barry n.d., 1). Its effects, structure, varieties, and possibilities provide for a large field of study and writers from several different disciplines have provided their input to the debate. Most fundamental is the question of whether our capitalist system is a morally justifiable one. This question can’t be answered by reviewing the efficiency and productivity capitalism provides, but instead requires a thorough analysis of ethics. A capitalist society
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Dr.Himanshu Raninga Assistant Professor in Economics Smt.J.J.Kundalia Arts & Commerce College, Rajkot-India Economics Of Knowledge Knowledge and information appear in economic models in two different contexts. The mostfundamental assumption of standard microeconomics is that the economic system is based on rational choices made by individual agents. Thus, how much and what kind of information agents have about the world in which they operate and how powerful their ability to process the information
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in the late 18th century as a movement towards self-government and away from aristocracy. It included the ideas of self-determination, the primacy of the individual and the nation, as opposed to the family, the state, and religion, as being the fundamental units of law, politics and economy. • Liberalism first became a powerful force in the Age of Enlightenment, rejecting several foundational assumptions that dominated most earlier theories of government, such as nobility, established religion, absolute
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