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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"disadvantaged groups"”.
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The relation between emotional needs satisfaction and willingness for reconciliation in previously advantaged and previously disadvantaged groups in South Africa
The purpose of this study was to apply Shnabel and Nadler's (2008) Needs-Based Model of Reconciliation (NBMR) to the South African context as it holds potential to specify conditions under which reconciliation initiatives in the workplace are likely to lead to success. This study was both a …
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The Potential of Legal Empowerment for Disadvantaged Groups – A Case Study of Tamil Women with Physical Disabilities in Post-War Sri Lanka
… to promote access to justice for poor, disadvantaged people. It is argued that the current disconnect of the original socio-psycho-legal composition of the concept has led to one-sided analyses on the law and its use by the disadvantaged, which ignores the target individual and his/her …
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An analysis of the implementation of the affirmative action policy in the Namibian public sector: A case study of the office of the prime minister
… of the policy has placed previously disadvantaged groups in significantly and strategic managerial positions, it has also blocked those at lower positions because of the non-movement of the previously advantaged, resulting in career path diversions. It also became evident that …
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An investigation into factors that influence employees to support diversity in the South African workplace
… to be willing to engage with members of other groups is highlighted in Shnabel and Nadler’s (2008) Needs-Based Model of Reconciliation (NBMR), which states that groups are only willing to reconcile once their socio-emotional needs have been addressed. Furthermore, the model specifies that these …
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Three essays on the impact of public policies on the health and educational outcomes of young adults
… policies can play in improving outcomes for disadvantaged groups.
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The employment effects of international tourism in South Africa
… boost employment, especially in the previously disadvantaged groups of the population. Nonetheless, no detailed study on the employment effects of tourism to South Africa has been published. This thesis aims to calculate in detail not only how much employment tourism is creating in the economy …
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The role of the National Health insurance scheme in shaping equity of access to healthcare in Ghana
… was largely inequitable because most socially disadvantaged groups/individuals were less able to insure. This was mainly because such groups were predisposed to developing low willingness and low ability to enrol in the NHIS as a result of their individual and community characteristics as well …
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Essays in macroeconomics and unemployment
… in labor market outcomes across demographic groups. Not only do young workers, non-white workers, and those without college degrees have persistently higher unemployment rates than other demographic groups, but these groups also experience substantially larger increases in unemployment rates …
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Developing appropriate Fetal Alchohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) prevention initiatives within a rural community in South Africa
… is classified as one of the many previously disadvantaged groups in South Africa. This study was done as part of a larger three-year project on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Prevention in the Western Cape and Gauteng Provinces of South Africa. The phenomenon of drinking during pregnancy was used as …
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HR practitioners’ perceptions of the implementation of equal employment provision under a selected subdivision of the SA labour legislation
… of restoring the equilibrium to previously disadvantaged groups, it has not been met with the enthusiasm envisioned by policymakers. Thus, the aim of this study is to delve into the real life application of affirmative action from the perspective of human resource professionals within the …
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Social disparities in the efficacy of interventions for HIV: A meta-analysis of multiple behavior interventions
Disadvantaged groups, such as Blacks, Latinx, Men who have Sex with Men (MSM), and young adults are disproportionally burdened by greater incidence of HIV, lower testing rates, and worse treatment outcomes once infected. Reducing health disparities requires developing HIV prevention, testing, and …
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Is the composition of staff within Tygerberg administration in terms of employment equity, representative of the demographics of the Western Cape from 05/01/2000 - 31/12/2001?
… denotes compensatory discrimination in favour of disadvantaged groups. Affirmative Action is a supplement to, rather than equivalent to equal employment opportunities in that equality cannot be a genuine option where the effects of previous discriminatory practices have not been redressed. In an …
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Social and educational inclusion in Taiwan in relation to elementary Schooling with reference to the UK, particularly Scotland
… by means of interviews, observations, focus groups and parental surveys. It started from providing a general background of Taiwan’s history and education to the investigating of current implementation of social policies and primary inclusive education in Taiwan. In conducting the study, an …
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Affirmative action: a comparative perspective
… promote employment opportunities for previously disadvantaged groups. The experience of other countries in striving for employment equity is thus of express interest. This study will, of necessity, be restricted to specific areas. It begins by examining several definitions of affirmative action. …
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Consequences of Attributions for Unfair Healthcare Treatment among Culturally Diverse Patients
… impact on healthcare inequality among socially disadvantaged groups.</p>
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The psychological impact of perceiving the gender status quo as legitimate
… can occur for members of both advantaged and disadvantaged groups. These findings further contribute to understanding why people might support the status quo and denounce diversity in different settings even if it disadvantages them.
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Families and the State: Relations of dependency, responsibility and educational inequality in Singapore
This study explores how socio-economically disadvantaged families in Singapore navigate the opportunities and constraints of Singapore’s education system. Singapore’s education system is widely emulated for its performance on international education benchmarking tests. However, there is growing …
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Práce s rizikem v pobytových zařízeních sociálních služeb
… the social services. The social integration of disadvantaged groups of inhabitants into majority society have brought with it the need to defend the rights of people with disabilities, with an emphasis on their active involvement in everyday life, in seeking the opportunity to experience those …
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'Street children' and education: a comparative study of European and third world approaches
… is usually a prerequisite of discussions of disadvantaged groups, but it is argued that 'street children' are more usefully considered within a hierarchy of street use which includes all children. Urban entropy is utilised as a conceptual framework applicable to past and present contexts, …
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Fairness in Social Networks
… whether information spreads fairly to different groups in a network. Using this criterion, I perform a case study and measure fairness in information flow in different computer science co-authorship networks with respect to gender. Then, I consider two applications and show how to increase …
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