Employer's Duty of Care and Issues of Compensation 1. Explain whether Jake’s actions are in or out of “his scope of employment Jakes actions are within the scope of his employment as manager servicing. Being a manager, Jake is responsible for the end to end and orderly running of his department, including meeting the outputs expected and he cannot take shelter under ‘being overworked’. He has to plan his departmental functioning in a manner to cause minimum disruptions for meeting the business
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In ancient India, a social system was developed in order to divide people into a pattern of different classes. The system is called varn.a, or "color," where there are five different social levels. In English, this is known as a caste system. Within each level, there are sub castes that their people refer to as jâtis. These are subdivisions that make up the birth, life, or rank of people. Originating from Hinduism, this system has taken over the society of India. A person born into a class can
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long journey to become what we recognise as the welfare state today (Midwinter1994, Jones 2000). However others classify the beginning of the Classic welfare state by the report written by William Beverage (1942) which identified ‘five giants’ of social disorder; want, idleness, squalor, disease and ignorance. The main focus of the solution was flat-rate contributions as well as flat-rate cash benefits, (Titmuss 1950; Hennessy 1992; Powell 1998). Drawing from these two points of view the foundation
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the most recent changes affecting social work structure and practice have involved: * Increased bureaucracy within social work departments * An increased multidisciplinary approach * Domination of social work by performance related indicators leading to a tick box culture. * Increased use of the private sector. * Decreased contact between frontline managers and clients. * Greater focus on budget management then on clients. * Social worker /client relationship (due to
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Keller graduate school of management, Gm591 Mamun Chowdhury (Research question: How do differing perspectives affect out views of workforce diversity?) Introduction: Diversity relates to gender, age, language, ethnicity, cultural background, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief, including that people are different in other respects such as educational level, job function, socio-economic background, personality profile, marital status
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starting with nutrition and the environment, and began promoting environmentally-friendly processes by producing the first boxes of cereal in recycled packaging in 1906. Today, Kellogg’s uses 100% recycled packaging. In addition, Kellogg’s created a Social Responsibility Committee in 1979 that now deals with environmental concerns, health & safety, addiction and abuse, and other issues that impact employees and communities. Kellogg’s recently received an award from the National Association for
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SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS IN E-COMMERCE Social Media Tools in E-Commerce Richard Weyers, James Conner, Roselyn Singh University Of Phoenix Communicating in the Virtual Workplace Comm/470 Brooke Linderman July 05, 2010 Social Media Tools in E-Commerce Introduction Successful businesses are built on a common theme; customers! As is the case with just about everything in the world, the way in which businesses expand their customer base is an ever-evolving process. How does a business build a
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World Encyclopedia defines social mobility as “the movement of the members of a particular society in terms of their social status, usually defined in terms of occupation and income (vertical mobility), or from one social group to another, not necessarily with concomitant change in social position(horizontal mobility)”. Generally social mobility looks at the level in which a person family or a group social status can change within the timeframe of a person life Social mobility can also relate the
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Mattel’s Motivations for Outsourcing Companies outsource for a variety of reasons. Most companies primarily outsource manufacturing, labor-intensive jobs to companies located in developing countries at a lower cost. If quality level is maintained, outsourcing can be a great value-added strategy. Through outsourcing, companies can achieve flexibility and are able to focus on their main business. Outsourcing may also enable companies to have access to resources and technology, which may be not have
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Down With the People Who’s to blame for the political mess? You. By: Jacob Weisberg America wants everything to just fix itself or be fixed by the government but without the government growing. In fact most Americans would rather lessen government as a whole, though this is more of a republican view then a democratic one. (I guess everyone is bias based on his or her own wants, opinions, and favorable party.) Weisberg continues by stating in the article that one year ago 59% of Americans
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