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"Global Politics in the Human Interest" by Mel Gurtov, 1992.
A summary of the work on interdependence of nations and peoples.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, £ 28.95
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""Global Politics in the Human Interest"
Mel Gurtov's textbook, Global Politics in the Human Interest takes a broad and thorough view of world conditions. His background as professor of political science, RAND Corporation employee, and author of eleven books and numerous articles provides a solid basis for his lively, intelligent writing in this work. The purpose of this paper is to briefly summarize Gurtov's book and to discuss his major themes.
Global Politics in the Human Interest covers the conditions affecting world well-being. Gurtov steps beyond traditional political views and sees the world as a planetary unit, much as an astronaut on the moon. He rises above national viewpoints to a vision of global concerns--peace, food and employment for all, cultural dignity. He discusses the delicate concept of..."
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Knowledge and Human Interests, 2002.
This paper is about the explication and evaluation of the critical reconstruction that Jurgen Habermas carries out in "Knowledge and Human Interests".
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 2 sources, £ 37.95
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This six-page junior level paper is about the explication and evaluation of the critical reconstruction that Jurgen Habermas carries out in "Knowledge and Human Interests". Jurgen Habermas is the leading scholar of the second generation of the Frankfurt School, a group of philosophers, cultural critics and social scientists associated with the Institute for Social Research, founded in Frankfurt in 1929. The Frankfurt School is best known for its program of developing a "critical theory of society".
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Global Human Resource Management, 2008.
A case study analysis discussing the human resources issues related to Armstrong Holding's entry into the Mexican market.
1,215 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 4 sources, APA, £ 29.95
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This paper discusses the human resources (HR) issues that may accompany Armstrong Holding's entry into the Mexican market. It discusses the issues of culture dimensions as they relate to Gert Hofstede's cultural dimensions vis-a-vis Armstrong Holding's local workforce and choice of local or home-market management structure. Additionally, the paper makes several recommendations regarding the management, personnel and appraisal structures within Armstrong Holding's Mexico operations.
Table of Contents:
Executive Summary
Global Human Resource Management: Armstrong Holdings
Human Resource Issues
Recommendations
Opportunities and Risks
Market Entry Vehicles
Issue Summaries
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"A smaller company, such as Armstrong Holdings, should almost exclusively aim for a joint venture for several reasons. Opting for the licensing option typically results in a lack of operational oversight, far too much dependence on local manufacturers, local management, and exposure to competitive intrigue as well as the threat of loss of intellectual capital (Bjerke, 1999, p.112). The joint venture option allows for greater oversight, a greater degree of managerial control, as well as higher revenues. While not requiring as much in the way of financial resources as a wholly owned subsidiary would it does require more upfront capital than licensing. Yet, for Armstrong Holdings, the ability maintain decision-making and strategic control over a joint venture is much more desirable than the threat of lost intellectual capital that a licensee market entry strategy would entail."
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Human Resources and Global Business Strategy, 2000.
An examination of the empowerment, conflicts and corporate vision as factors in developing global business strategy.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 8 sources, £ 33.95
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The development and maintenance of a mission statement is a challenging task for the manager of any organization. The task increases in both difficulty and importance when the vision statement is associated with a firm?s global business strategy. This research reviews the human resources management issues that are crucial to the development and maintenance of a vision statement for a firm?s global business strategy.
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"Human Resource Management Issues Crucial to the Development and Maintenance of a Global Business Strategy
Introduction
The development and maintenance of a mission statement is a challenging task for the manager of any organization. The task increases in both difficulty and importance when the vision statement is associated with a firm?s global business strategy. This research reviews the human resources management issues that are crucial to the development and maintenance of a vision statement for a firm?s global business strategy.
Reframing the Firm?s Vision
A vision statement creates a frame of reference for the values and objectives of a firm. Developing a vision statement..."
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Managing Global Human Resources, 2002.
This paper addresses efficiency problems when an organization attempts to globalize.
2,367 words (approx. 9.5 pages), 8 sources, APA, £ 51.95
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The report written here covers the importance of communication in organizations. The paper suggests that problems in communication experienced by organizations during globalization may be ameliorated through effective human resource plans.
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"Problems in efficiency may emerge due to the lack of communication or the lack of skills with newer personnel employed in the firm. This is because they are not aware of exactly what the cultural atmosphere was at the original location of the firm. Since they have been newly employed they are bound to face problems such as these. It is therefore required that they be trained by concerned individuals within the organization, and these should be people who are aware of what the culture of the organization is."
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Krutch's "Human Nature and the Human Condition", 2005.
An overview of Joseph Wood Krutch's "Human Nature and the Human Condition"
3,375 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 1 source, APA, £ 85.95
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This paper presents a review of Joseph Wood Krutch's "Human Nature and the Human Condition". The paper discusses the author's main themes, provides a summary of the work, and addresses the strengths and weaknesses of the collection of essays as a whole.
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"Throughout history human beings have attempted to produce theories of knowledge and learning. Some of the most basic questions such theories have attempted to answer concern what knowledge is, where knowledge comes from and how we know what is true. Plato theorized that only things that do not change, that are immutable can be known. Limitations of the human senses and perception have always played into theories on knowing. So too has human capacity for ration and more..."
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Human rights vs. Human Nature, 2006.
A discussion regarding the justification of war and the issue of human rights versus human nature.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 10 sources, £ 50.95
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This paper reviews the question of justifying military intervention on the basis of protection of human rights, pointing out that such a question requires a prior assumption. The paper clarifies this assumption to be that countries are capable of benevolent, disinterested altruism. History refutes this assumption. The paper further discusses how individuals and groups within a country may very well have the best intentions to bring relief to the suffering citizens of a brutal dictatorship or civil war; but countless examples, from Vietnam, to Latin America, to Rwanda, to present day Iraq, show a road to hell paved with such good intentions. The political and military forces involved in such maneuvers, by their very nature, preclude truly altruistic actions.
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Human Rights And Human Trafficking, 2006.
A discussion on human trafficking and the international response to the problem.
5,084 words (approx. 20.3 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 90.95
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The paper discusses how human trafficking has increasingly become a problem for many countries throughout the world, with people being taken from their families, homes and communities and ensnared in a life of servitude to others in a strange and foreign country. The paper focuses on the question of whether there is enough being done to combat the increasing problem of human trafficking. The paper examines the international community's response to the problem. The paper details various countries and communities and how they have been effected by human trafficking.
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Objective
Introduction
Overview Of Human Trafficking Throughout The World
Haiti
Honduras
Hong Kong
India
Bulgaria
The Netherlands
Pakistan
Russia
Uganda
Poland - The Press And The Perspective In Media
Mexico - 20,000 Child Victims
Mongolia - 200 Mongolian Children Exploited As Prostitutes
Other Countries
What Is Being Done To Combat This Problem?
Bibliography
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"According to a separate report, "Migrant trafficking and smuggling has become a global business generating huge profits for traffickers and organized crime syndicates." (Counter-Trafficking, 2006) In fact in a study conducted by IOM reports "...an estimated 15 to 30 million irregular migrants worldwide." (Counter-Trafficking, 2006) Sadly a report of the U.S. Department of Justice states that an estimated "...700,000 women and children are trafficked yearly across borders." (Counter-Trafficking, 2006) The reason stated that so many of these migrants go unreported is due to the inherent "...clandestine nature..." involved in so many of the lives and migration of these individuals."
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Aggression in Human & Non-Human Primates, 1999.
Analyzes nature of violence, differences between humans & non-humans, biological, psychological & social causes, evolution, territoriality, survival and theories.
4,950 words (approx. 19.8 pages), 13 sources, £ 96.95
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This paper is an investigation of the topic of aggression in both humans and non-human primates with an attempt to understand the causes of such aggression and what links exist between the aggressive behaviors of different primate species.
The literature on primate aggression is reviewed and a number of bases for aggressive behavior are put forth, including psychoanalytic, biological, evolutionary and learned. The validity of each of these explanatory paradigms is examined and the evolutionary and social learning perspectives are established as being the most useful bases on which to create theoretical models of primate aggressive behavior.
A substantial amount of attention is paid to possible evolutionary causes of aggression and evolutionarily based links between the aggressive tendencies..:
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Global Trade and Self-Interest, 2008.
This paper discusses the collapse of the world trade negotiations between developed and developing countries.
1,881 words (approx. 7.5 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 43.95
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The paper attributes the failure of the world trade negotiations to the conflict of interest between developed and developing countries. The paper explains that while developed countries tend to focus on their profit margins rather than the reduction of worldwide poverty, developing countries have their own industrial upliftment in mind. The paper explains why it is much more sustainable and beneficial for all involved to uplift poor countries towards the international marketplace instead of offering financial aid. The paper contends that if delegates from the developed world can remove their mental barriers, they can perhaps also remove the trade and subsidy barriers that are currently keeping poor countries from alleviating their economic crises on a permanent, long-term scale.
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"There are a variety of elements that play a role in World Trade negotiations. The fact that many different countries from both the developed and developing world are involved in these negotiations tend to complicate the issues. Indeed, each country has different interests and focal points in mind when negotiating. Developed countries for example tend to focus on their profit margins rather than the reduction of worldwide poverty, while developing countries have their own industrial upliftment in mind. This is the core of the reasons for the latest failures in Global Trade negotiations."
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The Global South and the Global North, 2007.
An analysis of the impact of globalization on the inequality between the global north and the global south.
1,402 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 8 sources, MLA, £ 33.95
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This paper looks at globalization and discusses how it has exacerbated the pre-existing inequalities between the poor global south and the wealthy global north. It illustrates how globalization forces some people (predominantly in the southern regions of the planet) to work while permitting other people (predominantly individuals residing in the global north) to become wealthy.
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"To start with, it is commonly known that powerful multinational corporations in the global north habitually take their manufacturing operations from Europe and/or America and deposit those aforementioned manufacturing operations in global south countries where they can avoid the onerous regulatory regimes, high corporate taxes, and high wage costs they associate with the north. At the same time, the movement of jobs and plants to the south has the unhappy effect of not only costing workers jobs in the north but also of reducing the south to the subordinate position of being "hewers of wood and drawers of water" for multinationals that are looking for cheap human resources that can be utilized in a working environment that is more permissive than the highly-regulated work environments of America and/or Europe. A good example of this phenomenon can be found in the IT sector where skilled U.S. workers are losing jobs to individuals overseas (Sosbe, 4) - presumably because the "cost of doing business" vis-a-vis wage expenses is lower in global south nations which do not have a strong tradition of labor activism or of government involvement in employee-employer relations."
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Human Resource Development In A Global Marketplace, 2008.
A review of the role of human resource development in assisting an organization to achieve successful business performance in a global marketplace.
1,551 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 4 sources, APA, £ 35.95
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The paper discusses that today's global marketplace has changed the definition of the role of human resources in the business world. The paper then examines those changes and its effect on the role held by human resource managers.
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Introduction
The Role Of HR In Today's Marketplace
Assessment Of The Extent Of Global Participation
Challenges: Differences In Culture And Management Styles
Challenges Of A Global Marketplace
Summary and Conclusion
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"Bray (2006) states: "Barney (1991) developed a model that demonstrates that, for a resource to be the source of sustained competitive advantage, it must create value (V) for the firm; it must be rare (R); it must be inimitable (I); and it must be nonsubstitutable (S)." Bray states that when this model is applied that human resources has the "highest probability among all resources of being the source of sustained competitive advantage for the firm." (2006) With this in mind, Bray argues that a firm should "focus its entire pool of human resources..." (2006) When human resources is considered in the organization Bray states that human resources is distinguished as: "...individuals (or an elite group of individuals such as top management teams) and human resources as the total pool of human capital." (2006) However in Barney (1991) the emphasis was placed on HR resources referring to both manager and worker characteristics and the work of Wright McMahan and McWilliams (1994) posited that "...the larger pool of human capital that constitutes the entire organization is more likely to be a source of sustained competitive advantage." (Bray, 2006) A resource, according to Bray "must also be rare if it is to be a source of sustained competitive advantage." (2006) In fact, the organization that is globally based has a better change at acquiring the 'rare' human 'resource' because it has a larger pool to choose from. Bray specifically states: "Therefore, firms that, because of their international operations, can draw from more than one labor pool have a greater potential for developing a human-resource-based sustainable competitive advantage than do domestic firms that can draw from only one labor pool. Transnational organizations by virtue of transnational representation and a transnational process are particularly able to draw upon the rare components of their multiple labor pools, and are, thus, more likely to develop sustainable competitive advantages." "
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Globalization, State Security and Human Security in Asia, 2006.
An analysis of globalization and how it relates to state security.
3,997 words (approx. 16.0 pages), 54 sources, APA, £ 77.95
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This paper explores the relationship between globalization and security using the state and the individual as units of analysis. It argues that globalization has varying consequences on different actors. The paper challenges the assumption that globalization has a direct impact on state security. It shows that global processes challenge state security in an indirect manner but have direct effects on human security.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Globalization And State Security In Asia
Asian Security in a Globalized Context
Responses to State Insecurity
Globalization And Human Security In Asia
From Development Economics to Human Development: A Focus on Peoples' Livelihoods
Poverty Reduction and Inequality in Comparative Perspectives
Water Crisis as a source of Human Insecurity
Conclusions
Appendix
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"Globalization can be seen both as a historical project and as a process that affects social relations of peoples, groups and states.(Bello, 1998) It is conceived as a historical conjuncture of the modernist project (McMichael 1996) that promotes the ideological framework of neoliberalism (Kinvall 2002: 5-6). The principles of free market economics constitute the policy package called the Washington Consensus - trade liberalization, financial deregulation, privatization, and inflation and currency exchange stability policies - which became the cornerstone of structural adjustment policies (SAPs) implemented in many economies. While Latin America and Africa have severely suffered from neoliberal globalization, Asia stands as an exceptional case of successful integration in the global economy (Dittmer 2002). Asia Pacific projected itself to the world as the most dynamic region characterized by growth with equity: rapid and sustained economic growth, equitable distribution of incomes, and dramatic improvements in human welfare (Rigg 2003: Table 1.3: 10; World Bank 1993)."
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The Global Business Environment and Strategic Human Resource Planning, 2002.
A study of the constantly changing global business environment and how effective human resource planning enables organizations to achieve their strategic objectives.
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This paper critically evaluates the effects of technology and strategic human resource planning on the development of business enterprise in the turbulent global environment. It examines the effects of changes in human resource planning on the business environment and compares experiences within the United States and developing countries.
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"Today more than ever, organizations must capitalize on a changing business environment, improve profitability and overall productivity, formulate and implement a planning process and make better strategic decisions. Perhaps the most striking change in Human Resource Management today is its increased involvement in human resource planning, while developing and implementing the company?s strategy (the company?s long-term plan for how it will balance its internal strengths and weaknesses with its external opportunities and threats to maintain a competitive advantage ). The concept of human resource planning takes an added significance, therefore, in firms that build their competitive advantage around their people. However, there are several basic trends, which pose a threat to the accuracy and validity of human resource planning predictions, and which prove to be important factors in determining the strategic direction of most firms today. The most obvious of these trends is the globalization of markets. Firms in days gone by, that competed only with local firms, now face competition from foreign firms. As one expert puts it, ?The bottom line is that the growing integration of the world economy into a single, huge market place is increasing the intensity of competition in a wide range of manufacturing and service industries.? Deregulation has reinforced this trend, as nations eliminate the legal barriers that protected industries from unbridled competition. More globalization means more competition and more competition means more pressures to improve the quality of the business sector ? that is; lowering costs to make employers more productive, and to find new ways of achieving cost-effectiveness while creating an avenue for doing things in better and more dynamic ways. Similarly, the Internet and Information Technology have been forcing and enabling firms to become more competitive. Technology is doing more than merely reducing costs and opening up new ways to compete; it also changes the nature of work and creates brand new kinds of jobs. Technology, however, is not the only trend driving the changes in the business environment, as workforce demographics are also changing. Of note, the workforce is becoming more diverse, as women, minority group members and older workers enter the workforce. Today, it is the firm?s workforce ? that is, its knowledge, commitment, skills and training, that provides the competitive advantage, for World Class Companies, like Microsoft, Sony, AOL, and General Electrics (GE). For this purpose, increased attention has been given to the Human Resource Planning process: from the input stage, through analysis, forecasting, and implementation to evaluation and redesign of the Human Resource Plan."
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