Tony Blair's third way
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
When Tony Blair decided, in 1997, to challenge the electoral power of four consecutive Conservative governments, he pertinently chose to call his draft for Labor's electoral platform New Labor, New Life for Britain. Indeed, Labor or shall we say New Labor manifesto...
Theories and case studies on copyright issues in a digital environment, logo infringement and patents
Thesis - 11 pages - Other law subjects
Locke propounded the theory that protection of property is to justify it as a reward for the labor put in to create / generate it by the creator. Locke started his theory with the presumption that ‘every man has a property in his own person'. Locke claims that an individual's...
The New Labour and the Welfare State
Essay - 2 pages - Economy general
Firstly let us analyze the approaches the New Labor has chosen through a different ideological and pragmatic frame than earlier Labor governments when it comes to welfare provision and public policies. In this context, the New Labor has followed the Thatcherite tradition in...
Corporate social responsibility in India
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
Corporations can now have workers in India to execute production within hours via online matchmakers. From administrative responsibilities to executive orders, full-scale solutions have produced a huge infrastructure for inexpensive labor in India for multinational corporations. With...
David Ricardo (1772-1823)
Thesis - 7 pages - Economy general
David Ricardo was a prominent figure of his time. He participated in the great debates on the currency, the Corn Laws and so on. He associated with Smith and found numerous proposals that needed to be discussed. He published the 'Principles of Political Economy and Taxation' in 1817....
Underground Economy in the European Union: Moonlighting
Essay - 24 pages - Economy general
The black market, also known as the underground economy, has a substantial arsenal of words to describe it: black economy, illegal economy, unreported, unrecorded, ghost, invisible economy etc. Undeclared work also falls into the category of underground economy. This consists of different...
Slavery in its entirety
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
There are many events that occurred in the past that are hard to imagine today. Some of these events are easier to envision because of the stories that have been saved for centuries. Slavery is one event that is hard to believe occurred. Due to several journals and records it is possible to...
Facts about Overseas Outsourcing
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Market forces are the main determinant of outsourcing. For example, there is an increase in the need to lower the costs of production in order to produce similar changes in the costs of products. Companies are forced to move to overseas countries by market forces because they need to remain...
Journal Review: Making Differences Matter
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
David Thomas and Robin Ely address what it would take for organizations to fully reap the benefits of a diverse labor force. Managers are on the view that a more diverse labor force will actually increase the effectiveness of the organization. It also raises the morale of employees...
Performance appraisal at an inflatables company
Dissertation - 44 pages - Management
Different terms are use to denote human resource management. They are labor management, labor administration, labor management relations, employee employer relations, industrial relations, personnel administration, personnel management, human asset management, human resource...
Nike case : hitting the wall
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
A firm's success depends on its social legitimacy. Usually, in the consumer's mind, the importance of a firm relies on what it can bring to the society. Therefore, for Nike, relocations basically mean that the company takes away jobs from US citizens. Moreover, Nike's labor scandals have...
The International Workers' Association
Case study - 5 pages - Human resources
This document is a summary of the debates which took place within the International Association of Workers of the Congress at Brussels. It highlights the divisions within this authority by connecting them with the social position of the parties and traces the stage of evolution of the society....
Human Resource Management: Denmark and Japan
Internship report - 8 pages - Human resources
Human resource management is “A strategic approach to acquiring, utilizing and managing an organization's key resource-its People. HRM regards the creation of an environment, the continuous development, stakeholders' interests, and the management of change or the fact to provide supporting...
To what extent is Blair's New Labour party the true heir to Thatcherism?
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
Thatcherism may be defined as the economic, social and political ideas and particular style of leadership associated with Margaret Thatcher. The British Prime Minister who served the nation from 1979 to 1990, believed in a mixture of neo-liberal beliefs in the free market and neo-conservative...
Reasons behind the wage determinations in the manufacturing sector
Thesis - 5 pages - Human resources
The real wages of European workers have experienced a decline over the last few years. In real terms, the results show a decline of the labor compensation per hour - 16,5 per cent in 1996-1999, 28 per cent in 2000-2003, and 33 per cent in 2003-2006. Moreover, the workforce considered...
Evaluation of Wal-Mart's business strategies
Thesis - 23 pages - Business strategy
Wal-Mart was founded by Sam Walton in 1962. The group operates in sixteen countries including the United States, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and China. In 2005, the total number of stores amounted to nearly 5000, with more than a quarter positioned abroad. The group has around 180 million...
Gender discrimination in the workplace
Thesis - 5 pages - Human resources
Even today, there is discrimination between men and women in the workplace. The salary for a man and a woman holding the same station is not the same. Women find it harder to reach senior positions in the organization. Since 1967, the participation rate of women in the professional field has...
The management of the expatriation in France and Europe
Dissertation - 42 pages - Human resources
After 30 years of mass unemployment, mobility has become a reality. Viewed more as a threat than as an opportunity to advance in life, mobility is in fact often a prerequisite for a job that is both stable and of quality. The year 2006 was proclaimed by the European Commission as "European Year...
Hiring people with disabilities
Case study - 2 pages - Psychology
Disability is not inability. Disabled people have skills, ability and knowledge to carry out activities some of which average people do. With the advanced technology disabled people are now empowered more than ever. They can work in organizations if given a chance. Disability is a physical and...
Communitarianism: An overview
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
To the disbelief of many Americans, capitalism is not, in fact, the only successful system of economics in our world today. Though capitalism has effectively overridden the majority of other forms of economics, there still remain a number of communities that function off of subsistence...
Internship summary sheet - Amazon
Internship report - 3 pages - Management
The internship is in EU Indirect Procurement at Amazon. I was based in the EU Headquarter in Luxembourg. The two categories which I was working on were Temp Labor and Manned Guarding in all Amazon warehouses across Europe. Nowadays Amazon is growing a 30% this year. Many new sites are to...
Strategy proposal for an MNC who wants to invest or expand in a specific country - New Group Renault strategic plan: "Drive the Future"
Market study - 7 pages - International economy
In this work, we analyze Renault's strategic plan for 2017-2022, called "Drive the Future" on three levels: the company's source of competitive advantage (section 1), the reasons for choosing the target of investment in emerging country, such as China (section 2) and finally the content...
Marx and Morality
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
Marx has often been accused of overlooking human nature and morality in his theories. Many people seem to have this belief that Marx has no ethics, that he rejected morality, and envisioned communism as being beyond both ethics and morality. Within the 'Communist Manifesto' and 'Das...
Formal and Contextual elements about Holocaust
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
The Holocaust was the period of the World War 11 which caused various negative effects on the involved countries and its people and especially the Jews. Different authors had to write and publish books that concerned the Holocaust. Among them was Simon Wiesenthal who wrote, “Sunflower”...
Airlines and energy prices
Essay - 11 pages - Business strategy
Business environment is fraught with risks; each company in order to succeed in this unpredictable environment must mitigate risks. Risks can arise from varied sources; the airline industry is like any other industry, also confronted by pressures from several business areas. In the late 90's and...
Globalization and jobs
Thesis - 5 pages - Human resources
Over the past two decades, labor has become increasingly globalized. The integration of China, India, and the former Eastern bloc into the world economy, together with population growth, has led to an estimated fourfold increase in the effective global labor force, which could more...
My-Corp, Inc.: Ethical implications of offshoring from the view of the Financial Manager
Tutorials/exercises - 4 pages - Business strategy
Not long ago, offshoring was uncommon for companies. Today, however, it is becoming a more commonplace practice: as prices for manufacturing rise in the US; shipping these operations overseas becomes more appealing. If we talk about offshoring we can separate the practice in two distinctive types...
Employee welfare measures
Thesis - 7 pages - Human resources
“Welfare” is a broad concept referring to a state of living of an individual or group, in a desirable relationship with the total environment - ecological, economic and social. Labor welfare includes both the social and economic contents of welfare. Social welfare is primarily...
Launching of the store Ikea in India
Case study - 7 pages - Services marketing
I have decided to develop Ikea in India, and think that it would be interesting to focus on the following questions: How will IKEA's products and services integrate into the Indian market? What adjustments are or will be necessary to enter the Indian market of furniture? What threats from...
Commentary on the extract from 'The Downing Street years', By Margaret Thatcher
Internship report - 3 pages - Literature
In 'The Downing Street Years', published in 1993, Margaret Thatcher tackles the subject of the Brixton riots of 1981 and relates how she dealt with the proliferation of riots after the publication of the Scarman report. In the extract studied here, she argues that her economic policy is...
