Since universities were founded, it has been obvious that the majority of the learning is independent. This can involve more than one way of learning, whether it is listening and writing down notes from lectures, researching given topics or writing essays. However, this is not the only way to successfully learn. Learning in groups can provide people with transferable skills such as teamwork that would normally have been ignored in traditional ways of teaching in higher education. Independent learning can be taken as learning, not depending on the opinions and ideas of other people, in other wo...

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... labor to any society. Alas, the importance of labor and its market seem to be trifling for our policy makers. While we have made good progress in terms of setting institutions and infrastructure for reforming the capital markets, banking system etc, no significant move has been made towards addressing ... the opening up of insurance, some social security provisions should be farmed out. For example, the Employees" State Insurance Act hasn't worked at all well. The Contract Labor (Regulation and Abolition) Act It is now widely accepted that contract labor is an extremely flexible source o...

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... goal of this proposal is to keep employees working at, or near, their full potential while they are in the work place. Sounds like a good idea to me, but the idea of employee monitoring has become a very touchy subject in the world of ethics. So why would companies use ... and money spent on this can quickly add up. A third reason for employee monitoring is for the prevention of harassment (including sexual) as well as discrimination. Once again, cameras throughout the workplace will deter most types of intentional harassment and discrimination. Not only does this create a safe working ....

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... to give teachers a time to become students or work on projects they would not have been able to otherwise. The movement of sabbaticals has now extended to corporate employees as well. "We have seen a huge change in people's attitudes toward sabbaticals" (Moses, 1999, p. 4). Because sabbaticals have given room for creativity and productivity to flourish, many corporate employees embraced this ... idea to maintain their right to sabbaticals. Employer vs. Employee; How Much Is Too Much Employers must balance the needs of employees with the goals of the corporation. Giving people more time ...

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... October 1999, Dr Lee Boon Yang, Minister for Manpower, pointed out that "...Recent studies showed that workers' top concern is the flexibility to manage their work schedule and achieving good work-life balance is an important consideration for many workers". This calls for implementation of innovative Human Resource practices as Singapore progresses towards a more knowledge based economy, where human ... funded training schemes to manage their excess labour and minimize the need for retrenchment. The New Singapore Shares scheme is also a new initiative specially weighted in favor of les...

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