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‘Bureaucratic Attitudes’—an Intermediary Variable of Policy Performance
Goel, Sangeeta - In: Vision 18 (2014) 4, pp. 299-308
individual carries a plethora of social identities, namely, caste, sub-caste, class, ethnicity, creed, language, religion, gender …
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Demographic Profiling of the Locus of Control of Employees
Keith C. D’souza; Agarwal, Upasna A; Chavali, Usha - In: Management and Labour Studies 38 (2013) 4, pp. 335-356
This study examines variations in employees’ locus of control (LOC) across the demographic variables of gender … formulated relating the demographic variables of gender, educational background and age with LOC. The results of this study …
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The Effect of Gender on Perception of Glass Ceiling, Mediated by SRO and Attitude toward Women as Managers
Maithani, Anoop; Misra, Manisha; Potnis, Saaylee; … - In: Management and Labour Studies 37 (2012) 2, pp. 107-123
Purpose: The purpose of this research paper is to determine the effect of Gender on Perception of Glass Ceiling … mediated Gender in relation to Perception of Glass Ceiling. However Attitude towards Women as Manager does not have any effect … on Perception of Glass Ceiling or Gender. Moreover SRO has a greater effect on Perception of Glass Ceiling than Gender …
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Part-Time Work, Wages, and Productivity
Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - In: ILR Review 67 (2014) 3, pp. 926-954
between wage/productivity differentials and the firm’s labor composition in terms of part-time work and gender. Findings … (relatively lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time work …
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Prevailing Preferences
Reynolds, Jeremy E. - In: ILR Review 67 (2014) 3, pp. 1017-1041
Studies of paid work hours have overlooked preferences partners have with respect to each other’s hours. The author uses the National Survey of Families and Households to examine how closely partners agree on the number of hours each should work. He also examines the extent to which...
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The Role of the Informal Sector in African Regional Integration: Scope and Limits
Chirisa, Innocent - In: Insight on Africa 6 (2014) 2, pp. 131-144
The major questions of concern in this article are: Whose responsibility is it to provide services to the international informal sector practitioners in given municipalities? What scope is there for taxing the informal sector players to manage ‘free riding’ effectively? Can regional...
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Lessons from the old Green Revolution for the new: Social, environmental and nutritional issues for agricultural change in Africa
Kerr, Rachel Bezner - In: Progress in Development Studies 12 (2012) 2-3, pp. 213-229
Recent efforts for an ‘Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa’ (AGRA) promote fertilizer, hybrid seeds, pesticides and biotechnology to increase agricultural production. This article examines the original Green Revolution to understand potential effects of a recent promotion of...
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Religion and a rights-based approach to development
Tomalin, Emma - In: Progress in Development Studies 6 (2006) 2, pp. 93-108
This paper is concerned with the observation that rights-based approaches to development have tended to ignore the ways in which religion and culture shape understandings of human rights. Although religious traditions often act against the pursuit of human rights, there are also areas of overlap...
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Time savings from easy access to clean water
Arku, Frank S. - In: Progress in Development Studies 10 (2010) 3, pp. 233-246
Individuals may have different perceptions of how development interventions meet their well-being. Using the Volta Rural Water Supply project in Ghana as a case study, it was found that women and men were able to save considerable amount of time by having easy access to clean water through the...
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The ‘gender lens’: a racial blinder?
White, Sarah C. - In: Progress in Development Studies 6 (2006) 1, pp. 55-67
While gender is highly visible in development theory and practice, race is rarely mentioned. This paper asks why this … is, and how far Gender and Development (GAD) itself is implicated in the lack of recognition of race. The paper begins by … acknowledging the complexity of the question: that race, gender and development are all contested terms and represent continuing …
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