34 Academy of Management Perspectives February A R T I C L E S Building Sustainable Organizations: The Human Factor by Jeffrey Pfeffer Executive Overview Although most of the research and public pressure concerning sustainability has been focused on the effects of business and organizational activity on the physical environment‚ companies and their management practices profoundly affect the human and social environment as well. This article briefly reviews the
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Moving towards the goal of sustainability requires fundamental changes in human attitudes and behaviour. Progress in this direction is thus critically dependent on education and public awareness. The concept of sustainable development – as this document suggests – is not a simple one‚ and there is no road map to prescribe how we should proceed. Yet time is short‚ and we are called upon to act without delay. We must move ahead now‚ in a spirit of exploration and experimentation and with the broadest
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Educational Psychology Development 27 October 2013 Jean Piaget was an influential psychologist who created the Theory of Cognitive Development‚ which consisted of four stages. He believed that when humans are in their infancy‚ childhood‚ and adolescence‚ they try to understand the world through experiments. During cognitive development‚ children are little scientists that create experiments and conclusions on how to adapt to the world. By the time children become adults‚ they will be able
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W P S (DEPR) : 16 / 2012 RBI WORKING PAPER SERIES Sustainable Level of India’s Current Account Deficit Rajan Goyal DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC AND POLICY RESEARCH AUGUST 2012 The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) introduced the RBI Working Papers series in March 2011. These papers present research in progress of the staff members of RBI and are disseminated to elicit comments and further debate. The views expressed in these papers are those of authors and not that of RBI. Comments and observations
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2011 Sustainable Development in India: Stocktaking in the run up to Rio+20 Sustainable Development in India: Stocktaking in the run up to Rio+20 © Ministry of Environment and Forests‚ Government of India‚ 2011 All rights reserved. Enquiries may be sent to the address mentioned below. Ministry of Environment and Forests Government of India Paryavaran Bhawan‚ CGO Complex‚ Lodhi Road New Delhi – 110 003‚ India Website: www.moef.nic.in Overall guidance Smt Meera Mehrishi‚ Additional
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The applying problems and the resolving to implement sustainable tourism In this day and age‚ tourism is one of the largest industries‚ with an increasing number of tourists all around the world. Because of this‚ there are many impacts on humankind‚ with both positive and negative sides. Hence‚ the sustainable tourism‚ which is the concept of visiting an area as a tourist and trying to make a balance of the social‚ culture‚ economic and especially environmental dimensions‚ is gained in importance
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CAN TOURISM BE SUSTAINABLE IN THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY ? Tourism industry is one of the largest industry of the world in the 21st century‚ before the oil industry and the automobile industry. It is a vital sector for a lot of countries as it generates jobs and wealth. Nevertheless‚ Tourism can also engender environmental‚ social‚ and cultural degradations as more and more people travel all around the world. There was roughly 935 million of tourists in 2010‚ and there will be 1.6 billion tourists
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DEVELOPMENT: Development is associated with change. How the world‚ the people‚ the economic‚ the society and technology changes. How it improves with time. Between the 1950’s and 2000’s the analyst has characterized this time as the “age of Development”. After World War most of the world international development became a formal focus in the international relations. We see Development as good to the world that will make the world better‚ however in the Compiling second edition of the
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J. Kilbert in his book “ Sustainable Construction : Green Building Design and Delivery [(2005) John Wiley and Sons: New Jersey]. Introduction Developing a structure is part of development for the nation. Building will involve the structure for residential area‚ industrial area or township area. During this decade the awareness of sustainable construction is related to the green building design to suit the purpose. In other word‚ a green construction or sustainable building refers to a structure
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SHRM focuses on training‚ work design embedded continuous learning‚ and performance-based incentives(Wright‚ Dunford et al. 2001). Resource-based view of SHRM (Wright‚ Dunford et al. 2001) claimed the conceptual development of SHRM under resource-based view can achieve the sustainable competitive advantage. The HR architecture contains human capital pool employee relationships and behaviours and people management practise. First‚ human capital pool refers to the stock of employee skills in the
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