develop policies on CR issues. Additional Group resources are also dedicated to key issues, such as radio frequency (RF) fields and health, social products and enterprise, supply chain management and content standards. For example, there is an ElectroMagnetic Fields (EMF) and a Health and Safety Boards and committees on Content Standards, Privacy and Social Investment, and specific individuals (8) within the Group CR team focus on these issues or other more strategic aspects. A number of the main
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for successful venture capital deals; women are often not comfortable talking about what they are worth. They'll go in to pitch a project and naturally put a lower value on it than men do. PREVIOUS APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF GENDER IN NEGOTIATION There have been two major streams of research on gender in negotiation. The first surged and largely subsided with trends in psychological research on individual differences in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Theory and Science by M. Humayun Kabir Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Business Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand Abstract This paper examines the development of positive accounting theory (PAT) and compares it with three standard accounts of science: Popper (1959), Kuhn (1996), and Lakatos (1970). PAT has been one of the most influential accounting research programs during the last four decades. One important reason which Watts & Zimmerman (1986) have used to popularize and
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“Language was developed out of the need to communicate and interact, and therefore, it is social by nature, and understanding some part of that allows us to more reflectively use the language”. This paper is an applied linguistic article focusing on exploring the relation between socio-linguistics and language teaching. Although there are too much to discuss, the work mainly concerns with a quick look at social theories of language, a definition of sociolinguistics and three aspects of sociolinguistics
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Care standards Act 2000 Care standards for dementia is an act which helps support individuals with making decisions and important ones too which they are unable to decide for themselves, the need additional help. In 2000 the care standards Act set up the commission for Social Care inspection which established a new system of national minimum standards for all residential and nursing homes. It created a General Social Care Council to regulate the quality and standards of staff working in Social care
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Many people change their appearances and lives due to the influences of the social powers that our society has created. The definition of what is beautiful can involve standards that may appear impossible to reach for most people. These standards can require people to go to the extreme of risking their lives with cosmetic surgery or developing eating disorders to obtain their goal of being what they perceive as beautiful. People do many things based off of the influences of society, these can
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presentations by Andrew Jackson, Senior Economist, Canadian Labour Congress, and Michael Polanyi Assistant Professor, Saskatchewan Population Health Research and Evaluation Unit, and Faculty of Kinesiology and Health Studies, University of Regina. The presentations were prepared for The Social Determinants of Health Across the Life-Span Conference, held in Toronto in November 2002. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Health
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profession has been aware of the increasing influence of "outside forces" in the standardsetting process. Two parallel developments have marked this trend. First, individuals and groups that had rarely shown any interest in the setting of accounting standards began to intervene actively and powerfully in the process. Second, these parties began to invoke arguments other than those which have traditionally been employed in accounting discussions. The term "economic consequences" has been used to describe
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Pakistan Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology 2011, Vol. 9, 21-26 Comparison of Study Habits and Academic Performance of Pakistani British and White British Students Shabbir Ahmad Rana GC University, Lahore Rukhsana Kausar Punjab University, Lahore The present study was conducted to compare Pakistani British and White British students on study habits and their academic performance. The sample comprised of 200 science students of 10th class recruited from four multiethnic schools
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Summary: The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices of some local banks and track the performance of these banks with superior ratings for environmental, social and governance practices in Bangladesh and these banks are: Eastern Bank Limited, One Bank Limited and Mutual Trust Bank Limited. The study specifically focused on the extent to which companies practicing CSR complied with basic legal labor standards involving their employees
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