Vodafone has a market value of seventy five billion by june 2008 and considered as the biggest provider of telecom service in U.K. The name Vodafone comes from Voice Data Fone, chosen by the company to “reflect the provision of voice and data services over mobile phones.” It had agreed to acquire a controlling interest of 67% in Hutchison Essar Limited (Hutch) for US$11.1 billion. At the same time, it agrees to sell back 5.6% of Airtel stake back to the Mittals. Vodafone retained 4.4% stake in Airtel
resulted in disruption and job losses, (McDonnell & Burgess, 2013), several studies indicate that talent management has gained a greater strategic role within organizations (Gunnigle, Lavelle, & Monaghan, 2013; Zagelmeyer, 2013). In the perspective of human resource (HR)
control on the management of the companies. They force the management to use corporate governance. That is, they put pressure on the management to become more efficient, transparent, accountable, etc. They also ask the management to make consumerfriendly policies, to protect all social groups and to protect the environment. So, the changing ownership structure has resulted in corporate governance. 2. Importance of Social Responsibility: Today, social responsibility is given a lot of importance. The Board
endorsed by National Land Council (NLC) has established Permanent Reserved Forests (PRF) (Tempatan, 2010) . The objectives of NFP is conserve and manage the nation’s forest based on the principles of sustainable management and to protect the environment as well as to conserve biological diversity, genetic resources, and to enhance research and education in Malaysia. According to this policy mangrove forests, both peat swamps and saltwater swamps are identified as permanent reserved forest (Tempatan, 2010)
In Emirates, the entire organizational structure has a designated role to play to make sure that every flight is in time and provides all customers with every facility. All employees including the top management tier are liable for every action taken. The Tall structure (comprehensive management tier) of Emirates works in a satisfactory modus operandi for decision-making as multicultural set of managers and employees can result in accumulation of different ideas. Vision based working with multiple
humans. Therefore, it is of great importance to acknowledge an enormous value of biological diversity both to present and future generations. However, ecosystems and species have never been under such threat as they are nowadays. Loss of species caused by human activities continues at an alarming rate (CBD, 2014). As a reaction to the seriousness of the problem, in November 1988 the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) brought together experts on biological diversity in order to create the Ad Hoc
the world. Out of these, about 1.4 million species have been identified so far. Each species is adapted to live in specific environment, from mountain peaks to the depth of seas, from polar ice caps to tropical rain forests and deserts. All this diversity of life is confined to only about one kilometre thick layer of lithosphere hydrosphere and atmosphere which form biosphere. Though the study of environment and ecology is quite old, the term biodiversity has been introduced by Walter Rosen in 1986
the last decades. Diversity can be described according to Kandola and Fullerton (1998) as: visible and non-visible differences which include factors such as sex, age, background, race, disability, personality and work-style.” A more accepted concept of diversity is not only the differences among individuals but the acceptance and inclusion of this differences. In order to have a better understanding of diversity an important model to consider is the four layer diversity model, first introduced
Global recognition for diversity in the workplace and its challenges Diversity in work place is often linked to increased productivity or outcome. Having a more diverse set of employees means the organization has a more diverse set of skills and could result in an organization that functions better. Diversity in workplace means much more than race or ethnicity. Diverse workplaces are composed of employees with wide range of characteristics and backgrounds. Workplace diversity include, but not limited
commonly ascribed to their management. In particular, the ‘three pillars’ of Japanese employment relations were held to be central in explaining the success of these companies However, during the period 1991-2000, the country’s GDP slump sharply following the so-called ‘burst of the bubble economy’, and the importance of emerging market is significantly increased for Japanese companies to stable the economy. Therefore, it is appreciated that traditional Japanese management must to be changed