CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION “A bullet fired by the security forces becomes a massacre by the security forces & every act of a terrorist or insurgent is attributed as a colossal failure of security” The quote above describes the situation under which thousands of armed forces personnel, deployed to fight the anti national and anti social elements in low intensity conflict operations in the North Eastern region for over five decades and for two decades in Jammu & Kashmir. One of the greatest threats...
Section 3(1) of the Human Rights Act 1998 provides that: “So far as it is possible to do so, primary legislation and subordinate legislation must be read and given effect in a way which is compatible with the Convention rights.” Whilst this does not “affect the validity, continuing operation or enforcement of any incompatible primary legislation,” or “affect the validity, continuing operation or enforcement of any incompatible subordinate legislation,” national legislation must be completely ...
Warren Bennis. Warren Bennis has gone a long way in influencing the development of the way in which managers and leaders are viewed. His career in this instance has taken him across the fields of academics, consulting, writing, and administration. He defines leaders in his book, On Becoming a Leader as ‘an innovator. He does things other people haven’t done or don’t do. He does things in advance of other people. He makes new things and makes old things new’ He went further in the same book in...
1. Introduction As organisations continue to strive towards competitive advantage and increasingly high performance standards, collaboration and team-oriented project management are increasingly providing the flexibility and innovative potential necessary to excel. Yet in spite of the dynamic characteristics of teams in practice, many organisations fail to recognise the core determinants of a team-oriented framework, instead grouping employees into non-linked, non-dependent, individually-driv...
INTRODUCTION Human capital is an important element of the intangible assets of an organization. The other intangible assets include copyright, customer relations, brands and company image. All these, but especially the know-how, imagination and creativity of employees, are as critical to business success as 'hard' assets. The significance of human assets explains why it is important to measure their value as a means of assessing how well they are used and of indicating what needs to be done t...
1. Investigate how HRM contributes to the achievement of organizational objectives? A. Running a business of any size is the most challenging aspect to identify the best strategy for the organization to achieve the desired objectives. We usually prefer objectives such as increase in sales make money, start up with offers. All these need clarity in organizations intensions. The success of organization depends on clarity of vision, measurable targets, specificity, achievable, and challenging, e...
Section A Question 1.1 Standard Chartered Bank is an International financial institution. Standard Chartered using talent management programme to develop the employees. Talent management “often times referred to as Human Capital Management, is the process recruiting, managing, assessing, developing and maintaining an organization most important resources- it's people.” (Talentmanagement101.com, 2009) The talent management programme at Standard Chartered Bank shares several similarities with S...
In this essay I will be talking about the life of Anne Frank and how she was affected by the Nazi Holocaust. The Nazi Holocaust with Adolf Hitler in the front was trying to persecute all Jews in Europe, resulting in 6,000,000 million deaths(Museum 2009). Firstly I will talk about how the Nazi Holocaust started and how Adolf Hitler came to power and why he disliked Jews. Then, secondly, I will use Anne Frank as an example of how hard life became and how they had to hide to survive. Thirdly, I ...
Freightline Ltd. (FL) is an express delivery company specialising in next day and time sensitive business-to-business deliveries. It was established in the UK in 1978 and has since developed a leading position in the express delivery market through organic growth and the acquisition of smaller, geographically strategic companies. It now employs in excess of 10,500 people throughout the world. Most people operate from a depot and these range from employing just a few people to the larger depot...
Discrimination referred to bad treatment against a certain group of people of a specific category or class. There are two types of discrimination: the direct and the indirect discrimination. Direct discrimination according to the European Commission (2003) defined as ‘when a person is treated less well, in comparison with someone else, because of his or her racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation.'Indirect discrimination occurs when a person wa...
