Human Resource Management in Organisations" identifies & discusses key developments within a variety of organisations including the public sector privatised utilities Small Medium Enterprises & the not-for-profit sectors & looks at Human Resource Management within an organisational context. This text is designed to cater for students taking an international HRM module or learning about HRM in an international context. Written primarily for MBA students & Master students on HRM or business programmes the text gives a basic grounding in Human Resource theory & practice & assists managers in managing their people more effectively." ...

How can businesses & their shareholders avoid moral & legal complicity in human rights violations? This central & contemporary issue in the field of ethics politics & law is of concern to intergovernmental organizations such as the UN & to many NGOs as well as investors & employees. In this 2011 volume legal scholars & political philosophers identify & address the intertwined issues of moral & legal complicity in human rights violations by companies & those who invest in them. By describing the legal aspects of human rights violations in the corporate sphere addressing the complicity of companies with regard to such norms & exploring the influence of investors the book provides a thorough introduction to corporate social responsibility. Human Rights Corporate Complicity & Disinvestment will set the research agenda on socially responsible investment for years to come. ...

Human Rights Law creates controversy contention & counter-point like few other legal areas. Human Rights & Civil Liberties is a clear & comprehensive guide to this rapidly developing subject & covers the enforcement of human rights & civil liberties generally before examining the protection of specific areas of civil liberties in domestic law including (among others): the right to life freedom of expression; the right to demonstrate; privacy; & freedom from torture. The book places the study of the subject within the context of the passing & implementation of the Human Rights Act 1998 & the principles & case law of the European Convention on Human Rights providing you with an unrivalled framework to deepen your understanding of the area ...

Routledge Lawcards are your complete pocket-sized guides to key examinable areas of the undergraduate law curriculum & the CPE/GDL. Their concise text user-friendly layout & compact format make them an ideal revision aid. Helping you to identify understand & commit to memory the salient points of each area of the law shouldnt you make Routledge Lawcards your essential revision companions? Fully updated & revised with all the most important recent legal developments Routledge Lawcards are packed with

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Today it is usually not long before a problem gets expressed as a human rights issue. An appeal to human rights in the face of injustice can be a heartfelt & morally justified demand for some while for others it remains merely an empty slogan. Taking an international perspective & focusing on highly topical issues such as torture arbitrary detention privacy health & discrimination this Very Short Introduction will help readers to understand for themselves the controversies & complexities behind this vitally relevant issue. Looking at the philosophical justification for rights the historical origins of human rights & how they are formed in law Andrew Clapham explains what our human rights actually are what they might be & where the human rights movement is heading. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts analysis perspective new ideas & enthusiasm to make interesting & challenging topics highly readable. ...

It is 1998 the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president & in a small New England town an ageing classics professor Coleman Silk is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie but the real ruth about Silk would astonish even his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has a secret one which has been kept for fifty years from his wife his four children his colleagues & his friends including the writer Nathan Zuckerman. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silks secret & sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent upright man esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life & to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unravelled. & to understand also how Silks astonishing private history is in the words of the Wall Street Journal magnificently interwoven with the larger public history of modern America. ...

The Human Story" is a guide to mans ancestors from the earliest hominids such as Sahelanthropus dating back 6-7 million years through to our own species Homo sapiens. Over the past twenty years there has been an explosion of species names in the story of human evolution due both to new discoveries & to a growing understanding of the diversity that existed in the past. Drawing on this new information as well as his own considerable expertise & practical experience Charles Lockwood explains in clear easy-to-follow language what each of the key species represents & how it contributes to our knowledge of human evolution. He describes the main sites the individual fossils the people & stories involved in the key discoveries & the basic facts about each species
- what it looked like how & when it lived & what it ate as well as explaining how we know all this. There are drawings photographs & maps & charts throughout to illustrate & enhance the text & help demystify the fascinating cast of characters who hold the secret to mans origins."
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As young boys both Jacques Rebiere & Thomas Midwinter become fascinated with trying to understand the human mind. As psychiatrists their quest takes them from the squalor of the Victorian lunatic asylum to the crowded lecture halls of the renowned Professor Charcot in Paris; from the heights of the Sierra Madre in California to the plains of unexplored Africa. As the concerns of the old century fade & the First World War divides Europe the two mens volatile relationship develops & changes but is always tempered by one exceptional woman; Thomass sister Sonia. Moving & challenging in equal measure Human Traces explores the question of what kind of beings men & women really are. ...

A funny touching authentic story of life at Broadcasting House during the Blitz. The human voices of Penelope Fitzgerald's ...

Why should we believe in God without any evidence? How can there be meaning in life when death is final? With historical adherents including such thinkers as Einstein Freud Philip Pullman & Frank Zappa Humanism"s central quest is to make sense of such questions explaining the ethical & metaphysical by appealing to shared human values rationality & tolerance. Essential reading for atheists agnostics ignostics freethinkers rationalists skeptics & believers too this Beginners Guide will explain all aspects of the Humanist philosophy whilst providing an alternative & valuable conception of life without religion." ...