The employment relationship is the context within which intricate interactions between employees‚ who may be unionised‚ and employers are conducted‚ both collectively and individually (Kelly‚ 1998 cited in Rose‚ 2004 p.6) Potential for conflict between employee and employer interests Unequal nature of the employment contract The ways in which the employment relationship is regulated The employment contract: Lecture aim: to examine the inequality of the employment contract to outline the
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Hayek and Rawls take different paths along their journey to reach what they believe the proper form of distributive justice would be. They both follow liberal ideology‚ focusing more on the individual. Hayek follows a line of thinking based on liberty‚ utility‚ and a “economic order based on the market‚” and with that with that economic order comes capitalism as the most viable option for the society (Hayek‚ LLL p.68). Hayek believes that this society will offer the best opportunities for access
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2000) said‚ “A natural law standpoint which‚ whether in its traditional or ‘post traditional’ version‚ ultimately takes only what is just from a certain moral conception as ‘valid law’‚ is not an acceptable basis for legal legislation in a morally pluralist society.” Nor should one identify ethics with religion. Most religions‚ of course‚ advocate high ethical standards. Yet if ethics were confined to religion‚ then ethics would apply only to religious people. But ethics applies as much to the behavior
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There are numerous theoretical approaches which attempt to define the term “collective bargaining”. The contributions are mainly pluralist in nature and propose the idea that collective bargaining is a necessary and desired activity for resolving conflict arising from the inequality in bargaining power between the ‘strong’ employer and the ‘weak’ employee [1‚ 2]. Trade unions are able to overcome this predicament by functioning as a third-party intervention‚ thus allowing the employees’ views to
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fundamentalist attitudes which decrease violence. It would then stand to reason that when religious violence decreases‚ governments will begin to lessen restrictions on religious freedom. Therefore‚ a loop feeds back into itself creating a hyper-pluralist and incredibly peaceful
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38 PUBLIC POLICY MAKING: THEORIES AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Ferdous Arfina Osman P ublic policy making is not merely a technical function of gov ernment; rather it is a complex interactive process influenced by the diverse nature of socio-political and other environmental forces. These environmental forces that form the policy context lead to the variation in policies and influences the output and impact. Due to the contextual differences‚ public policies of
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In normal times‚ examining the changing nature and purpose of business firms would be a very challenging assignment‚ but we are not living in normal times. As well as all the usual topics globalisation‚ sustainability‚ ethics and stakeholders‚ there is a need to assess the impact of the recent global recession on the nature and purpose of business firms. As business has moved from bartering rabbit skins for sacks of potatoes‚ to electronic trading of mortgage back securities‚ the purpose of business
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1. The Condemnation of Galileo Finocchiaro‚ Maurice. "A Galilean Approach to the Galileo Affair‚ 1609-2009." Science & Education 20‚ no. 1 (January 2011): 51-66. Education Research Complete‚ EBSCOhost (accessed March 22‚ 2014). This article describes the life and times of Galileo told from the Galilean approach. Finocchiaro travels through the discoveries of Galileo and how others perceived his explorations. After his creation of the telescope and the discovery of the rough side of the moon‚ the
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The United States is a melting pot of different cultures and religions. As an effect of globalization‚ different religions have been forced to interact with each other. In order for all of these different religions to successfully cooperate‚ they must understand each other. With that‚ the way we study religion needs to adapt to better accommodate this need. For the past twenty-five years‚ Harvard’s Pluralism Project has tried to reach this goal by having students immerse themselves into predominately
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Morality can be roughly described as a set of values common to society‚ which are normative‚ specifying the correct course of action in a situation‚ and the limits of what society considers acceptable. Law can be seen as the state echoing‚ and seeking to uphold‚ these values. These descriptions can be seen to be‚ however‚ not entirely correct‚ and the issue of law and morality is undeniably complex. It is this‚ therefore‚ that we shall be examining in this essay. What is the law and what is moral
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