Recently in the United States employers have started to require a degree for most jobs and will not necessarily accept alternative forms of higher education. ... Not every career can or should accept alternative training such as medical doctors, lawyers, and architects; however, for many jobs alternative education produces competent employees. ... In this same demographic there were 5,184,000 who were not working or going to school and who did not have a degree past high school ("Person Age 18 to 24"). ... This program will also help those who do not have a high school diploma either...

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Abstract Western governments around the globe have become increasingly focused on the successful transition of young people from school to further education and/or training. ... This paper examines one school's approach to establishing innovative careers pathways for young people. ... Community stakeholders were recruited by the school principal, in conjunction with the researchers, based on the stakeholders' work inside the school and their subsequent connections with career programs. ... According to the original service framework the role of safeguarding young people was not the r...

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Abstract Western governments around the globe have become increasingly focused on the successful transition of young people from school to further education and/or training. ... This paper examines one school's approach to establishing innovative careers pathways for young people. ... With these issues in mind, this paper reports on research undertaken between 2009 and 2010 involving one inner city school in the western suburbs of Melbourne. ... Community stakeholders were recruited by the school principal, in conjunction with the researchers, based on the stakeholders' work inside t...

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Why do many college students hold a job when they are attending school? ... Many collage students say that working while going to school is a necessity because it allows them to pay for school, which otherwise they could not attend. ... Second, working allows students to expand their career alternatives. ... In this study it was also found that when students work they seem to put off going to school or finishing school. ... If students plan to work while attending school they need to remember, "Certainly, working while going to school isn't for everyone. ...

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In order to assure that our children will contribute to society, we must make sure that our school teachers are educated not only in their fields, but also in ways that they will know how to identify problems among their students. ... By providing them with such assistance, families could have the chance to talk about the wrongs and negative things happening and they could potentially find alternatives on how to solve the problem as one single unity. ... To sum it up, one is able to see that restorative justice it is an alternative that can heal and restore wrongs committed in our every day li...

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The Larson article highlights particular individuals that have decided to return to school, even though they had fulfilling careers that did not require them to attend on-going courses. One woman, a doctor, returned to school to enhance her writing and to weave her creative side into her professional side. ... Most importantly, though, employers are becoming more receptive to degrees and certificates earned through online schools and this is helpful to the mid-career learner in this particular demographic. ... Employers, as well, are encouraging distance learning as an acceptable alternativ...

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The last alternative would be they had a date set for the unemployment office to come and talk about what they may do for us as well. ... Then there was the opportunity to meet a recruiter from a nearby community college he was there to talk about the help someone could get to go back to school and be retrained to do something else. ... The opportunity to have school classes paid for the next two years was too much to pass up. Returning to school after twenty years, who would have thought this is what, would have happened? ...

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The development of HRM departments into more than a lower functional department can be traced back to the development of the human relations school of management, and the experiments of Mayo known as the Hawthorne studies. ... All of these extended the human relations school of management thought and places a more employee centric role on the HRM departments. ... Core competences and the development of skills, alternatively it may be limited to merely the hiring and firing. ...

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The Situation Olympic Group (OG) is an Egyptian company that makes products such as water heaters and fans. IDEAL was a large state owned firm. It had established a well-known name among Egyptians and this was achieved through monopolizing the market for about 40 years with its refrigerators and washing machines. IDEAL had lots of potential for future growth. Olympic Group decided to purchase it in 1997. ...

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Some companies will completely cover the cost of children's education, or encourage and help families find local schools as another option. [2] First step in the process is the demand for such expatriation. ... The benefits consists usually of: significant rise in salary, housing, car, frequent flights in home country (1 per month) as well as coverage for children`s schools. ... Alternatively, it could also be chosen for a longer stay, if the family really enjoys the new country, but that also means total loss of any direct benefits like housing, tuition fees and extra income, the expat ...

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For example, McMenamin mentions that several employers have agreed upon alternative shifts outside the daytime shift range for their employees. These workers do so to accommodate school attendance, providing childcare, or an individual's preference. ...

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More companies are recognizing the reality of working spouses, elderly parents and school-age children, all of which may make the employee's family unwilling to relocate. ... Employers are also seeking alternatives to the more traditional form of short-term assignments to further meet corporate and employee needs. The most common alternatives include: 1. ...

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Therefore, workers who have those specific skills find it harder to find an alternative job. ... For example, Benson shows that hospitals do provide general education to nursing schools and faculty when there is asymmetric information, monopsony rents and shortages of nurses....

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Abstract This dissertation is attempting to delve into the prevailing attitudes and employee engagement with Topaz South Dublin service stations. The importance of employee engagement is highlighted in relation to the concept of Human Capital Management. The data collection was based on a survey which was carried out by the CIPD (2006) on employee engagement in the UK. The research seeks to understand aspects of working life at the Topaz service stations within the South Dublin catchment area. Aspects such as meaningfulness of tasks within the role, aspects of feelings towards the role, indivi...

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The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) The rights of handicapped persons to enjoy equal employment opportunities were established on the federal level with the enactment of the "Rehabilitation Act of 1973" (29 U.S.C. 701-794). Although "not designed specifically as an employment discrimination measure but rather as a comprehensive plan to meet many of the needs of the handicapped" (Twomey, 2001, p.540). The Rehabilitation Act provided three sections (sections 501,503,504) that prevented discrimination in employment. Section 501 was applicable to the federal government itself. Sect...

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Tribunals The EOC has looked at 54 employment tribunal decisions, in sexual harassment cases that were heard between 1998 and 2001, to see what those cases revealed. Successful cases The employee Thirty-four cases were successful. In three of those cases the person making the complaint was male. In most cases the harassment began while the person bringing the complaint had been working for that employer for less than one year, and their work tended to be low paid (e.g carers, shop and factory workers, office staff). Shift work was a factor in a third of cases. ...

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