This report sets out the results of a small-scale research project commissioned by Acas examining the implications of social networking and mobile information and communications technologies (ICT) for employment relations. Social networking involves use of an online platform or website that enables people to communicate, usually for a social purpose, through a variety of services, most of which…
Communication and Human Rights is a collection drawn from the conference of the International Association of Media and Communication Research (iamcr) held in Mexico City at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in July 2009
Occupational health and safety (OHS) management protects the safety, health, and welfare of people at the workplace. In 1950, the first session of the joint International Labour Organization (ILO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) Committee on Occupational Health adopted a definition of occupational health. The definition was subsequently revised in 1995 and states:
Managing investment risk in defined benefit pension funds This paper inquires into the forces that drive the practice of risk management at defined benefit (DB) pension funds in Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom and the United States in the aftermath of the perfect pension storm. First, pension funds‘ risk management is grounded in the context of the development of modern risk manageme…
EMIS design in Ghana is an example of best practice for decentralised planning and budgeting, supporting reforms at various levels but challenges remain for successful implementation, notably in commitment, capacity development and dissemination. EMIS plays an important role in policy formulation, operational planning and subsequent monitoring of targets through periodic review although sta…
In present era of information technology where information is not considered as base for competitive advantage but it is considered as competitive necessity, role of information in decision making become more vital. In this article author discuss about the introduction, nature and types of information in organizations. How information requirements in organizations could be determined analy…
Organisations have a legal and social responsibility regarding the occupational health and safety of all employees in their working environment. This requires a sound occupational health and safety management system (OHSAS) due to hazards and risks that can have a detrimental effect on employ- ees. SANS OHSAS 18001:2007 has been written to be applicable to all types and sizes of organisations. …
Iam pleased to welcome this important collection of authoritative papers on enterprise risk management. This subject has, unfortunately, operated below the visibility screen of most CEOs for many years. In the financial institutions, where regulations require a risk management process, most bank CEOs viewed it as a compliance process, much like internal audit and internal controls. They did…
Organizations are increasingly using project management techniques within their operations and the specialist language of project management has become more and more commonplace in managerial and executive meetings. This trend is here to stay and it means that managers need to be familiar with project management roles, terms and processes. You will learn: How projects are defined and why …
The six chapters and its associated ten appendixes of this edition of field manual (FM) 5-0, The Operations Process, constitute the Army’s view on planning, preparing, executing, and assessing operations. Together with FM 6-0, Mission Command: Command and Control of Army Forces, this manual provides the Army with a common philosophy and language for the exercise of command and control thro…
There is a great difficulty in the way of a writer who attempts to sketch a living Constitution—a Constitution that is in actual work and power. The difficulty is that the object is in constant change. An historical writer does not feel this difficulty: he deals only with the past; he can say definitely, the Constitution worked in such and such a manner in the year at which he begins, and in …
Risk management today is in the spotlight, being tested by unprecedented turbulence in the financial markets, including depressed asset prices, reduced liquidity in many markets, and a contraction in the credit markets. The changed marketplace has affected every segment of the financial services industry including banks, insurance companies, and asset management firms. While the confluence of t…
The genius of revolution presided at the birth of the American Republic, whose first breath was drawn amid the economic, social and political turmoil of the eighteenth century. The voyaging and discovering of the three preceding centuries had destroyed European isolation and laid the foundation for a new world order of society. The Industrial Revolution was convulsing England and threatening to…
PREFACE The Committee on Disaster Studies of the National Research Council, during the spring and summer of 1953, undertook to carry on a series of exploratory field studies of disaster. Some of these studies were conducted by members of the Committee staff, some by persons retained as consultants, some by organizations under contract. These studies involved many aspects of disaster: evac…