Impact of Technology on Knowledge Workers and Managers Frank Bannister and Dan Remenyi Trinity College‚ Dublin Frank.Bannister@tcd.ie Dan.Remenyi@tcd.ie Abstract: While the productivity paradox has now been officially pronounced dead‚ the argument and the evidence for this assertion are both at a macroeconomic level. What has been less closely examined is the microeconomic impact of recent developments in ICT on the productivity of office and knowledge workers. There is an assumption‚ readily
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Provisions‚ Contingent Liabilities and Contingent Assets The Standard This standard distinguishes between provisions and contingent liabilities. A provision is included in the statement of financial position at the best estimate of the expenditure required to settle the obligation at the end of the reporting period. A contingent liability is not recognised in the statement of financial position. However‚ unless the possibility of an outflow of economic resources is remote‚ a contingent liability
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labor strikes of the 1930’s was incredibly valuable to the migrant workers. They provided technology‚ leadership and foresight necessary to make changes that the migrant workers desperately needed. These changes included not only physical changes to the environment in which they worked‚ slept and rate of pay‚ but also the mind set in which the growers and owner thought about the workers. The biggest plight against the farm workers was that they were taken advantage of from all angles. They continually
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Culture of transgender as sex worker: a world inside a world Introduction: Gender is often confused with sex. Sex generally refers to anatomy and biology whereas gender refers to qualities and behaviours society expects from a female or a male. These roles are learned‚ change over time and vary enormously across and within cultures[1]. There are not too many people in the world who can say they’ve been both a mother and a father. But Jennifer Finney Boylan‚ née James Boylan‚ can (Beth Greenfield
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[pic] “CONTINGENT & QUASI CONTRACTS” [pic] Contents 1. Contract. 2. Types of contract. 3. Contingent contract. • Definition. • Illustration. 4. Essentials/characteristics of contingent contract. 5. Rules regarding contingent contract. 1. Uncertain event. 2. Impossible event. 3. Performance dependent on non-happening of
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MANAGERIAL COMPENSATION BASED ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCES IN VIET NAM BANKING SECTOR ABSTRACT Viet Nam banking sector was emerging rapidly after had joined WTO at the end of 2006 and performance contingent compensation is a widely accepted means for rewarding managers‚ but there is no empirical test of its effectiveness in Viet Nam banking sectors. Does managerial compensation to organizational performance lead to higher organizational performance? It appears to be a truism that
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Contingent reward is a reward that should be given to staff members when they earn them‚ that is the principle of contingent rewards. ("Motivating others through‚" 2011) This is a great way to get the desired effect when working with a staff that might not be motivated to get a task or assignment done. A trend in the United States is toward a larger portion of employees’ compensation to be provided in the form of “variable pay” such as bonuses and equity-based compensation. ("Motivating others
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Have Minimum Wages Benefited South Africa’s Domestic Service Workers? Tom Hertz Have Minimum Wages Benefited South Africa’s Domestic Service Workers? Tom Hertz Department of Economics‚ American University Comments welcomed at: hertz@american.edu First draft July 9‚ 2004 This version October 6‚ 2004 Introduction and Summary In September of 2002 South Africa’s roughly one million domestic workers – about 840‚000 predominantly African and Coloured women who work as housekeepers‚ cooks and
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Maids to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Migrant Workers by Nicole Constable Nicole Constable‚ in Maid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Migrant Workers describes the physical and psychological lives of those domestic workers in the homes of Chinese in Hong Kong‚ their attitude towards their own lives and work‚ and the attitudes of the workers and the Chinese toward one another. Constable’s primary purpose‚ from a scholarly perspective‚ is to document the particulars of the lives of these
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According to the National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics (2008)‚ social workers are required to “pursue social change‚ particularly with and on behalf of vulnerable and oppressed individuals and groups of people” (p. 3). This ethical standard is guided by the principle of social justice that is used to help those that are disadvantaged in society by ensuring they have access to equal opportunities as well as‚ social inclusion (CITE). Reflecting on this view and it’s connection to this
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