Human capital and performance: A literature review Dr. Philip Stiles Mr. Somboon Kulvisaechana The Judge Institute of Management University of Cambridge Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1AG Human capital and performance: A literature review CONTENTS Human capital in context: The resource-based view of the firm Human capital and complementary capitals Intellectual capital Social capital Organisational capital Knowledge Human capital and performance Bundles of human resources Contingency or
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Chapter 5 What is personality? * When psychologists talk of personality‚ they mean a dynamic concept describing the growth and development of a person’s whole psychological system. * The definition of personality most frequently use was produced by Gordon Allport nearly 70 years ago. Personality is the dynamic organization within the individual of hose psychophysical systems that determine his unique adjustments to his environment. * For our purposes‚ personality is the sum
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In School-smart and mother-wise: Working-class women’s identity and schooling by Wendy Luttrell‚ the author discusses how American education disadvantages working-class women as children and adults. The purpose of the study is to discuss the circumstances that led the participated women to drop out from schools and then attend the Adult Basic Education Programs and to examine the identity and schooling of working class women through stories. The central question that the research tends to answer
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In by reading the Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee‚ I gained a perspective of the people and culture of China. This book showed the analysis of Chinese saw and the background of Chinese history. Judge Dee‚ during the Tang Dynasty‚ was a well-known statesman and a magistrate to a town called Chang-Ping. He was known to be a famous detective‚ in which he could solve all crimes. In the Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee‚ he is faced with three murders‚ which develop throughout the book. First of the
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In this essay‚ I will be describing and analysing how Ken‚ from “whose life is it anyway”‚ used persuasive techniques to persuade the judge to let him die. Ken is trying to persuade the judge to let him die‚ and he persuades him with this quote “…and I find the hospital’s persistent effort to maintain this shadow of life an indignity and its humane.” this quote is clearly showing that he does not want to rely on other people. The word “maintain” stands for holding something like an object in your
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“The Human Rights Act has revolutionised the way in which judges interpret statutes.” Student Number: 111242632 Candidate Number: 110855 The statute is a piece of legislature that is set out by Parliament to legislate the laws of United Kingdom to be used by the courts in legal proceedings. Though written by the Parliament‚ the duty to interpret and apply the statutes fall on the courts‚ more specifically the judges to enact the statute and interpret it to suit the proceedings
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The theme presented in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee was that you should never judge someone until you’ve walked in their shoes. This theme presents itself multiple times throughout the novel in many different ways. One of the most obvious of these ways is with all of the stigma and gossip surrounding Boo‚ or Arthur Radley. From just the name we can see how widely misjudged he was‚ Boo‚ his name implies that those who don’t know him think him to be a monster‚ a spirit that is only talked of-not
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To what extent do judges establish the existence of a contract based on the intention of the parties? In 1893‚ the famous case of Carllil v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co.1 demonstrated the extent of the establishment of a legally binding contract based on the intention of the parties via advertisements. However‚ the formation of contracts is not solely based on the intentions between parties. After the invitation to treat‚ there should be an offer and acceptance‚ intention to create legal relation‚ consideration
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Introduction Judges do create law in the process of adjudication‚ especially when there are no precedent‚ competing precedents‚ or ambiguous law‚ Such judicial creativity‚ however‚ leads to a potential conflict between the judiciary and the legislature‚ since judicial law-making overlaps with the legislature’s function to enact law. To strike a balance between these two branches‚ self-restraint among judges is crucial. Whenever judicial law-making is unavoidable‚ it must be done subject to strict
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When people lose their job‚ it wreaks havoc on their lives. If a person is fired without reason or unfairly‚ they are likely to seek compensation. If a person hasn’t signed a contract or is fired‚ with exception to a few points in the employment at will doctrine‚ there is not much they can do about it. The law is on the side of the businesses in most cases of at-will employment. In the case of Elaine‚ she was fired without notice or reason for termination. Elaine had been promised career opportunities
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