5% of the gross domestic product. Under current trends, that will increase to 48% of GDP by 2050" (Tanner, 2009)
" Poor Statistics" (Sauders, P. 2002) Two Nations" The Poor Laws" (Tsumori, K 2003) www
" Poor Statistics" (Sauders, P. 2002) Two Nations" The Poor Laws" (Tsumori, K 2003) www
Thousands of children are born into poverty in the United States annually, and thousands more live in poverty, often drifting into homelessness as they become adolescents. (Crosson-Tower, 2009) Visibility of homelessness is one reason why this social issue has warranted greater quantities and types of attention, particularly in recent decades and especially in the United States & with respect to children's welfare
The second is that benchmarking drives firms to seek to improve performance. Having a target is an important part of motivating behavior, and this works at the firm level as well as the individual level (Andersen, 1999)
A strategy would be something like Wal-Mart's focus on cost leadership in general retailing, or Apple's focus on differentiation in consumer electronics. Strategies are high level and almost never include specific investment actions -- these are the tactics used to implement the strategy (Casadeus-Masanell & Ricart, 2009)
There is no uniformity of these measures, which can range widely between organizations. Indeed, corporations seldom talk about social justice (the term does not seem to come up much in business journals), but rather about social responsibility, and have taken the liberty of each organization defining social responsibility under its own terms (Dahlsrud, 2008)
Part III. The CDP website publishes an annual Carbon Report (Fox, 2013)
They cannot do this when there are no firm rules about measurement and reporting (hence why the SEC insists on strict guidelines for financial reporting). There is something called the Global Reporting Initiative, though this is strictly voluntary and not particularly widespread (Hys & Hawris, 2011)
One way is to use the data as a benchmark for organizational performance. It is a given that there is moral hazard in self-reporting, in terms of having outsiders hold the company accountable (Reynolds & Yuthas, 2008)
So these are two different forms of justice. Social justice has its roots in the philosophy of John Rawls, building on the social contract theories of Locke, Rousseau and Kant (Wenar, 2012)
What is soon discovered is that all these solutions applied to a fundamentally and inherently defective test will not bring about a positive result. (Bernhard) the thought that all members of every population will look at the world in the same way is false
" So Borden marked "none of the above. (Laturnau) This very simple example defines in clear terms one of the issues we are discussing in this essay -- cultural bias in testing
"They are choosing questions using a methodology that produces very consistent and predictable results." (RamMohan) Not intentional in most cases, but still pervasive
A test cannot be considered as culturally valid if these sociocultural influences are not taken into account throughout the entire process of its development. (Solano-Flores) We have discovered that most experts agree it is difficult, if not impossible, to compose a test that is free of cultural bias
retirement is not always the joyfilled time typical of American dreams. For some, it precipitates a life crisis that requires major readjustments in thinking, living patterns and relationships" (Brody, 1981)
.an event, a social institution, a stage in the life course, and the transition from work to nonwork" (Guillemard and Rein, 1993)
.without the socioeconomic supports of the past, the not-so-affluent elderly may find themselves insecure and anxious about their core identity in a postmodern world" (Polivka, 2004, p
. In many of the world's nations from the extended family-kinship system to the nuclear family kinship system" (Popenoe, 1988, pp
. If an older person has a strong sense of social identity, this may cushion (but not remove) the negative effects of a decline in physical health" (Stuart-Hamilton, 2006, p