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…
It is both a privilege and a pleasure to write a Foreword to Mark Hayes’s splendid monograph on the approach and method of The General Theory and, especially, on what they both owe to Keynes’s upbringing as a Marshallian
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:
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. …
Risk management may be defined as the reduction and control of the adverse effects of the risks to which an organization is exposed. Risks include all aspects of accidental losses that may lead to any wastage of the organization's, society’s and environmental assets. These assets cover personnel, materials, machinery, procedures, products, money, and natural resources: soil, water, energy, na…
The existence of words is usually taken for granted by the speakers of a language. To speak and understand a language means - among many other things - knowing the words of that language
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 …
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…