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Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour
Money & Business

Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour

...et al. and Kassem both focus on the human resources department, noting that this plays an essential role in maintaining an effective control environment. The human resources department should have adequate processes in place for conducting relevant background checks on relevant personnel before accepting them to the firm. The human resources department should have clear...
An introduction to public leadership
Money & Business

An introduction to public leadership

...et al. (2004) use the term ‘microsystem’ to refer to this smaller unit, and they argue that it provides a conceptual and practical framework for approaching change and innovation. The concept can be used to understand any public service. So who exactly is in your ‘microsystem’ and what do you have to deliver? Service microsystems The idea of a service microsystem...
Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...et al., 1972, p. 1) It is not difficult to identify similar contexts today, with an environmental dimension, though not necessarily at the level of a single organisation, for instance when considering our use of technology in the context of climate change. (iv) Personal beliefs approaches to decision making There are many other personal theories and beliefs around...
Hybrid working: skills for leadership
Money & Business

Hybrid working: skills for leadership

...et al. (2022), a hybrid culture will only work if you treat everyone as working remotely. This ensures that everyone gets the same information, tools and opportunities to succeed, and it doesn’t differ according to where they sit and whether they are working at a desk in an office, hot-desking in a collab space, or at home. They feel that a successful hybrid culture...
Cyflwyniad i greu newid gwleidyddol a chymdeithasol
Society, Politics & Law

Cyflwyniad i greu newid gwleidyddol a chymdeithasol

...et al, 2018). Gellir ei ddeall mewn ffordd syml iawn (gweithgareddau sy’n ymwneud â ‘chyfrifoldeb personol’, megis ufuddhau i’r gyfraith a thalu trethi), yr holl ffordd i synnwyr eithafol, gan ganolbwyntio ar fynd i’r afael ag anghyfiawnder mewn cymdeithas, a ddiffinnir gan Westheimer a Kahne (2004) fel dinasyddiaeth ‘sy’n canolbwyntio ar gyfiawnder’....
Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses’ experiences of Fitness to Practise proceedings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses’ experiences of Fitness to Practise proceedings

...et al., 2020). Whistleblowing is in the public interest because it legally protects people to raise concerns that affect the public or workers in an organisation. Raising concerns through appropriate routes is seen as important in protecting the public and people working in health and social care to ensure the quality and safety of care (General Medical Council, 2014;...
Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction
Digital & Computing

Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction

...et al., 1995). These proportions justify the emphasis we have given in this unit to the dispersion of releases and to fire. As a result, we shall return to the all too common problem of fires to illustrate the principles in developing a hierarchy of causes of incidents. There will always be a great temptation to view many of the incidents presented in this unit with the...
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...et al., UN (2013). Figure 10 Share of income owned by the top one percent. The United States of America is still the country with the wealthiest 1 per cent (United Nations, 2013). In the USA, the average income of the top 5 per cent increased at an annual rate of 1.5 per cent between 1980 and 2011. In contrast, the average real income of the bottom 99 per cent of income...
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