This study examined the influence of physical attractiveness on selection decisions in two very different cultures, namely the United States and India. Most of the research on attractiveness bias has been conducted in western cultures like the United States. India was chosen for comparison because India continues to grow strong in the global marketplace and it is important to understand how decisions are made in the Indian environment. This was the first study to compare the attractiveness bias in India and the United States. 203 Indians and 129 Americans participants reviewed resumes and photographs of attractive and unattractive men and women. Different photographs were used in the American and Indian sample with separate pilot tests conducted in each study. Participants rated each ap...
The article explores the social, cultural and economical processes that lead Roma children into labour and their own interpretations of the value and risks of working. Based on qualitative research in several Roma communities in Romania the article analyses the different family strategies in coping with the economic difficulties of transition and the place of children in this process. The article is interested in the relationship between children and family, school and community and attempts to decipher what aspects in these relations encourage early entry into work. It argues that Roma children do occasional, poorly skilled, work that is relevant in their family economy, but invisible in and acceptable for broader society. Ultimately, the article argues that casting the situation of Ro...
Food and nutrition security are the basic requirements for human resource development. By food and nutrition security, physical and economic access of food and nutrition to all sections of the society is meant. Food and nutrition security is integral to livelihood security in terms of capabilities, assets and activities required for living. Thus, food security is a priority concept in developmental economy. Post-Smithian studies on supply-side approach present a uni-causal explanation for food insecurity and delve deep into the analysis of various causes, which lead to deficiency in food supply, where as, 'economic access' is the phenomenon of the 1980s, largely resulting from the pioneering work of Amartya Sen on food entitlements. It is in the silhouette of this issue, an attempt is m...
BANKING AND CREDIT NEWS-October 14, 2011--CARE assigns BBB rating to Ideal Institute of Technology Society's (C)2011 M2 COMMUNICATIONS http://www.m2.com
Recent economic crisis which caused the collapse of many companies around the world has once again alerted the business world about the importance of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Millions of employees of national and multinational companies were worried about job losses and retrenchment. Job secure problem has become the global issue, which each country's government devoting to solve it. Consequently, the burden is on the corporate world itself. While satisfying the shareholders requirement by profit maximization, companies have greatly increased the resources that allocated for CSR activities in order to satisfy their stakeholder expectation that each company to be responsible and contribute to the society. Malaysian government believed that the undergraduates would become th...
Intangibles are ideas or knowledge about the natural (physical and biological) and socio-cultural worlds that enable people to better accomplish their goals, both in primitive societies and in modern economies. Intangibles include basic research and technology improvements, as well as knowledge to better organise exchange and production, and over time become inextricably embedded in improved tangible assets. Accounting intangibles are legally excludable subsets of economic intangibles, which in turn are the subsets of cultural intangibles that can be used to create tradable goods or services. Because economic intangibles are cumulative, synergistic, and frequently inseparable from other tangible assets and/or economic intangibles not owned by any single entity, it is usually futile to e...
M2 EQUITYBITES-October 14, 2011--CARE assigns BBB rating to Ideal Institute of Technology Society's (C)1994-2011 M2 COMMUNICATIONS http://www.m2.com
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