Hierarchy in organizations
Hierarchy in organizations: when it helps, when it hurts The animal kingdom is filled with hierarchies. The best known is perhaps the alpha male among gorillas and chimpanzees, suggesting a…
Social Problems: Causes and Solutions
Introduction Sociology seeks to discover, describe and explain the order which characterises the social life of man (Inkeles, 1964 cited in McNeil and Townley, p.21).Various attempts have been made to…
SOCIAL ISSUES AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Businesses are increasingly required to demonstrate sound understanding and good practice around human rights standards and wider social issues, both in managing their risks and impacts, and as an indicator…
Consumer Rights
Right to SafetyMeans right to be protected against the marketing of goods and services, which are hazardous to life and property. The purchased goods and services availed of should not…
Consumer Court India
Introduction The Consumer Protection Act, 1986 (COPRA) was passed by the Indian parliament and came into force on December 1986. The Act was passed to protect the consumers’ interest as…
National Commission for Minorities
The Union Government set up the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) under the National Commission for Minorities Act, 1992. Six religious communities, viz; Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Zoroastrians (Parsis) and Jains have…
Violence against children
Types of violence against children Most violence against children involves at least one of six main types of interpersonal violence that tend to occur at different stages in a child’s…
HUMAN RIGHTS IN POLITICAL-ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE
A decade of violent conflict and rough contours of human rights The Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-M) announced its armed struggle to overthrow the existing state and establish a new…
Dalit and the Women’s Movement
The NFDW is chronologically a post 1980's phenomena and has been active in a transnational arena with its particular presence in Durban 2001, it has been analysed by social scientists…
