Financial Innovation Essay: High Frequency Trading and its social impacts
Essay - 2 pages - Finance
A Financial Times article argues that HFT is beneficial for society, and that banning HFT from use would increase volatility. I agree with this point of view, as algorithms democratized trading by allowing a direct access to the markets and decreasing the costs of the transactions. Also,...
Statistical Product and Service Solutions (SPSS) Software Package and it's Impact on Social Sciences
Case study - 8 pages - Educational studies
This paper discusses the impacts of Statistical Product and Service Solutions (SPSS) on social sciences. Social life is full of analytical demands from day to day activities that many of the programs that were initially developed have not been able to meet. The world is in the cusp...
Analysis of uses of social networking sites
Worksheets - 8 pages - Design and digital creation
To begin my survey, I am going to present my method to identify effectively the major issues of my survey. I have been interested in the study of student's attitudes and student's behavior when they use social networking sites. I have been obliged to choose a way to collect qualitative...
Environmental Law and Social Justice - Mining and Tensions Between Globalisation and Sustainable Development
Summary - 1 pages - Ecology & environment
Instructions : Why is mining such a good illustration of the tensions between globalisation and sustainable development? On the basis of the information provided specifically concerning the mining industry, identify how globalisation can result in conflicts with local communities, and how such...
Can social media fulfill the functions of the 4th estate, and thus be considered as a part of the renewal of the press?
Essay - 3 pages - Medias
The press was referred to as the "4th Estates" for the 1st time by Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797), a British politician who declared that : "There are three Estates in Parliament, but in the Reporter's Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all" Burke calls the...
Strategic problems facing Human Resource Managers (HRM) operating in multi-national companies (MNC)
Essay - 7 pages - Criminal law
A multi-national company is a company that has been formed to operate across known international physical boundaries (Cooke, 2003). These companies are often located to other international countries apart from the parent country in which it was originally founded. These multinational companies...
How do social media and digital tools affect HR practices? Why and how should HR departments adapt their practices to use these tools to their advantage? What are the benefits and risks of an HR social media strategy?
Essay - 3 pages - Human resources
In the last decades, the functions of Human Resources departments have changed a lot. They are, in general, more involve in the group strategy. The HR manager now has a key role at the Board of Directors.. [...] Even if the digitalization is affecting each department of a firm, Human Resources...
The Film, "Class Action" - Problem Based Learning Task
Case study - 3 pages - Film studies
The film, “Class Action” by Michael Apted (1991) is a legal/law -themed movie that is concerned with injuries that a defective automobile causes. The lawsuit takes a rather interesting dimension when it becomes apparent that the defence attorney and the plaintiff's attorney have a...
Corporate Social Responsabilities of the comagnies
Book review - 3 pages - Management
1) To what ex tent is 'the institution of business and industry' responsible for the environmental and social issues of today? Explain your reasons for your answer 2) How effective is CSR in addressing these issues? Illustrate your answer with examples. 3) What other possibilities...
Social and Cultural Factors Giving Rise to Depression and Anxiety
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
The World Health Organization further explains that anxiety disorder and depression are characterized by factors such as emotional, physical, and behavioral symptoms that build an uncomfortable feeling that is usually described as uneasiness. Worry is usually followed by symptoms like fatigue,...
Questions and Answers for my Interviews on the subject of Corporate Social Responsibility
Case study - 2 pages - Corporate social responsibility
Does your company have a CSR policy? How do you start to develop a CSR policy? What can companies hope to achieve with their CSR policy? Who benefits from a company's CSR policy?
The social effect of the external public debt in Tunisia: An Empirical investigation
Case study - 18 pages - Educational studies
To judge the ability of a country to support the external debt burden and reimbursement in the agreed deadlines his service; most of the economists used many ratios such as the stock of debt to GDP or GNP as well as to the debt service reported to exports or current revenue. These ratios are...
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Human Resources
Case study - 3 pages - Human resources
In our era, CSR is not only a "trendy" matter but has a real impact on the positioning of the company and its impact on the society. Initiatives can be found in every department: Human Resources make no exception. This is related to my future first dream job: HR manager or Business Partner in a...
Social class - does it affect understanding of people's relationship with food and/or drink
Case study - 8 pages - Social, moral & civic education
A multi-national company is a company that has been formed to operate across known international physical boundaries (Cooke, 2003). These companies are often located to other international countries apart from the parent country in which it was originally founded. These multinational companies...
The use of social norms
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
There are various advantages that a hotel and the society can have from adopting environmental programs. These advantages include the saving of energy, reducing the amount of wasteful detergent that is released to the environment and increasing the hotel chain due to the economic benefits of...
How education reproduces inequalities and social difference
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Inequalities in the society have historically been based on stratification and the creation of classes within the society. The struggle for achievement and the existence of the society based on the individual achievements has led to the differences between different classes in the society. Class...
Promoting, Sponsorship, Use of Celebrities and Social Advertisements
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
A green car or an environmentally friendly car refers to a car that consumes less fuel or uses energy that is friendly to the environment (Becker, 2010). Hybrid cars, such as Toyota Prius use both gasoline and electronic sources of energy, and they are, therefore, able to produce higher mileage...
The United Kingdom's Drinking Problem
Case study - 2 pages - Medical studies
Alcohol has been a part of British society for many centuries. The idea of drinking was started by kings and queens in many different forms around the 1500's. Drinks range anywhere from mildly alcoholic beverages like beer and wine to a number of stronger drinks such as gin and rum. There are...
Is the Welfare State the best way to solve social issues?
Essay - 14 pages - Economic politics
All developed countries have adopted, at different levels and in different ways, the Welfare State as an instrument to solve social issues. Despite these differences, the logic of this instrument designed to tackle social problems is fairly the same everywhere. Nevertheless,...
Problems in How the African American Community Talk About Themselves
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Racial discrimination has been among the biggest problems to the American society. After the civil rights movement, the law provided a platform for racial equality in the country. However, almost fifty years later, the society is characterized by big differences between the racial groups....
Problems in the Way Poor People Talk about Education
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
The phrase “Education is the key to success” is a common theme in many schools in the developing countries. The theme illustrates important things about the perception of people in the developing country towards education. While the relevance of the theme is directing efforts towards...
Using structural social work as a means for understanding drug use among Aboriginals in Canada
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Oppression is something that affects all people within the framework of Western society who are not members of the dominant group. This can include people of color or those with disabilities; those of “other” sexual preferences; and especially the poor. In fact, there are many types of...
Problem definition and the Failures of U.S. Drug Policy
Case study - 10 pages - Educational studies
The “war on drugs” in the United States has not been successful because drug policy has focused on defining the problem of drugs as a criminal justice concern and not as a public health issue. By defining the drug problem in this way, focus has remained on enforcement and...
The structure of the social welfare - The welfare mix
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
Over the past century, the provision of social welfare has changed drastically in both the recipients of this welfare care and the scale of social protection services. This evolution is mainly due to the development of welfare states. In the 1910s and ‘20s the growing of...
Before teen pregnancy: Contrasting the social capital and empowerment theories
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
This paper will analyze two human behavior theories. Within this analysis, the discussion will review the history of these theories, their supporters, the stages of acceptance of the theories, and the strengths verses the weaknesses of each theory. Next, the paper will review the social...
The structure of the social welfare - The welfare mix - publié le 02/03/2007
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
Over the past century, the provision of social welfare has changed dramatically, in both the recipients of welfare care and the scale of the social protection services. This evolution is mainly due to the development of welfare states. In the 1910s and 20s the growing movements,...
The political influence on organization decision making towards corporate social responsability: a socio economic approach
Essay - 30 pages - Economy general
This research will look at the political influence on organization decision making towards social responsibility. To do so, a combination of social and economic theories will be used. In chapter three, the political field and the political actors in this research will be...
The problem of binge drinking, alcohol abuse among contemporary college transfer students
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
Except for scratches and wounds that occur during school breaks every year, the most notable outcomes of college drinking that frequently come to the public's attention are sporadic student deaths resulting from excessive use of alcohol like for instance alcohol poisoning or other alcohol-related...
To what extent should social work practice be informed by social research?
Essay - 19 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Within this work I will be looking to examine the effectiveness of using research in social work practice. I have chosen to do this by reviewing both historic and current research on the outcomes of adoption. Part 1 will consist of a literature review, detailing research findings on this...
Social movements' strategies to rally supporters to a cause
Essay - 10 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Regarding political participation, the conventional one including the system of elections is well-known but reductive in terms of democracy. However, there are other practices to influence the political system and decisions of governments. In that sense, the unconventional political participation...
