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Employee Participation and Equal Opportunities Practices: Productivity Effect and Potential Complementarities

British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2000
The relationships between employee participation, equal opportunities practices and productivity are explored. Data from the British Workplace Employee Relations Survey of 1998 provide strong evidence that equal opportunities practices improve productivity overall, and increasingly so as the share of female and ethnic minority employees increases ...
Virginie Pe´rotin, Andrew Robinson
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Opportunities for Participation and Access to Information: Adequate and Equal?

2011
From the standpoint of modern democracy, Robert Dahl once noted, the policy influence of autonomous interest organisations is at “once a fact, a value, and a source of harm” (1982: 28). It is a fact, because it is impossible to imagine a functioning democratic system in which elected leaders remain unresponsive to the demands raised by various ...
Karl-Oskar Lindgren, Thomas Persson
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Participation and equal opportunities for all?

Technology and Disability, 2001
This paper focuses on communication and social integration of adults with moderate intellectual disability. Two longitudinal projects form the basis of this article -- TeleCommunity and Videotelephony and Social Interaction, running from 1992 to 1999.
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Women's Participation and Equal Opportunities for Leadership in Tanzania

2018
The goal of ensuring women's full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership in political, economic, and public life is still a major challenge in Tanzania. This chapter addresses three questions: What accounts for low participation of women in leadership at all levels of decision making in political, economic, and public life ...
Elizabeth Michael Msoka, Dominick Muya
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Equality of Participation: An Alternative to Outcome and Opportunity Measures

Mission Studies, 2019
Abstract This paper outlines the problem of inequality in economic, social, biblical and theological terms. It discusses three concepts of equality before making a relatively novel proposal of its own. The first, equality of outcome, is dismissed for failing to pay sufficient attention to the inequities it engenders and its failure to take seriously ...
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Equality of Educational Opportunity for Minority Group Students: participants and policies 1954‐71

Comparative Education, 1976
The celebrations of America's bicentennial have begun. The festivities commemorate two hundred years of independence from colonial rule. When the Declaration of Independence was framed in 1776 one of the basic tenets adopted was that 'All men are created equal'. Yet in Boston, the inspiration for the independence movement, the U.S.
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Online Mediation Participant Experience at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission – Do the Data Herald the Creative Destruction of In-Person Dispute Resolution?

2023
Abstract The pandemic forced the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to transition to online video mediation (OVM) in place of its existing in-person mediation (IPM) model. Using measurements from their 2000 evaluation of EEOC IPM, plus new measures related to the elements of OVM, the authors surveyed 2,387 EEOC mediation ...
E. Patrick McDermott, Ruth Obar
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