Essays about: "social fairness"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 54 essays containing the words social fairness.
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16. Bracing for the inevitable: An exploratory multi-case study of local climate change adaptation plans
University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutetAbstract : Vulnerability to climate change and the capacity to adapt to it are the result of intersecting power structures, system dynamics, and social identity markers otherwise known as intersectionality; and thus, differ greatly between contexts. However, despite the stark contextual differences between small and metropolitan cities, and lower and higher income countries, the policy and study of climate change adaptive planning has often focused on capital cities and technocratic solutions as a default blueprint for adaptation processes. READ MORE
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17. Making Sense of Fairness Perceptions in M&As; A People’s Perspective
University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionenAbstract : The purpose of this study is to gain a deeper understanding of what leads an employee to judge an event as fair or unfair through the lens of sense-making, sense-breaking and sense-giving, within mergers or acquisitions. This study had an abductive qualitative case-study approach, mainly focusing on semi-structured interviews. READ MORE
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18. Workplace Burnout Within the Project Management Discipline: a Comparative Look at Sweden and the UK
University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionenAbstract : Research into burnout has often focused on the helping professions, such as medical care (Schaufeli, Leiter & Maslach, 2009). However, the cost of burnout to private organisations is high, since it correlates with lower productivity and increased turnover/turnover intention amongst others (Maslach, Schaufeli, & Leiter, 2001). READ MORE
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19. Addressing climate change through unilateral action: The implications of adopting a European Union-wide Border Carbon Adjustment
University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUSAbstract : In the European Union’s (EU) Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), free allocation of emissions allowances to avoid carbon leakage has resulted in a distorted pricing signal and a failure to reduce emissions in the most polluting industries. A Border Carbon Adjustment (BCA), a mechanism which would apply a tariff to imported goods based on their embedded carbon content, has been suggested as a solution. READ MORE
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20. DOES ICT USE AFFECT THE SOCIAL WELL-BEING AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN SWEDEN? EMPRICAL EVIDENCE FROM PISA 2015?
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och specialpedagogikAbstract : Aim: This study takes a quantitative approach, using PISA 2015 data in order to investigate the ICT use of Swedish secondary school students and the effects it has on social well-being as well as academic performance. Importantly, the mediating effects of different aspects of social well-being are taken into consideration to investigate the role they play within the relationship between ICT use and learning outcomes. READ MORE
