Sabbaticals for everyone? Not quite, but there's plenty of good reason to extend them beyond academia and into selected sectors of the world outside. Lawyer and teacher Daniel C. Kramer shows from his own meticulous research and others' that sabbatical programs that now exist have produced greater benefits than costs, and that they could be spread to most of the American work force with a simple amendment to the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. They must be conceived and administrated commonsensically, of course, and there will always be places where they won't work. But there's enough evidence that they will work--primarily in organizations of more than 50 people--and in the public and private sectors both. A challenging, thought-provoking book for policy- and executive decision-makers throughout the country, and new fuel for debate within the academic community as well.

Kramer summarizes just about all of the existing research on the topic and finds that the benefits of sabbaticals to those who have taken them far exceed whatever disruptions they may have caused to their organizations. He examines for-profit companies, high tech as well as the more traditional ones, and not-for-profit and governmental organizations too. He looks at elementary and secondary schools, medical settings, and churches and reports on the personal experiences of many who have taken them, summarized from other books and articles as well as from what was disclosed to him personally in the course of his own conversations with more than 100 people in various work settings. Sabbatical grantees travel, spend more time with their children, or just relax--and most of them return to their desks more enthusiastic about their work and better able to do it than before they left. From the organization's viewpoint, Kramer finds that sabbaticals are not as costly as many think, nor do they impede the work flow as some fear--not if they are administrated with ordinary understanding of the basic principles he carefully elucidates. He concludes with a discussion of how such programs could easily be mandated into law, and gives a final, persuasive argument why he thinks they should be.

This text remains the only book to analyse corporate internal investigations on an international level, covering the applicable law in each jurisdiction and providing guidance on how an integrated international investigation should be conducted. Since the first edition of the book, the area of corporate internal investigations has grown in importance and recognition. Demands for investigations are on the rise as the internal markets and the press become ever more critical of unethical corporate behaviour, and demand higher standards and closer regulation. The new edition of Corporate Internal Investigations addresses the recent legislative changes, including the long-awaited UK Bribery Act, and the new rules on whistleblowing and the Dodd Frank Act in the US. Many of these developments, including the adoption of OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) based anti-corruption legislation by countries such as Russia, China and India, will increase enforcement activity and the need for investigations. The need for advice and guidance on internal investigations is also increasing as companies move into emerging markets and face much greater risk. This second edition provides a vital tool in assisting companies and their legal advisers with planning for and conducting internal corporate investigations.

Examensarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Englisch - Padagogik, Didaktik, Sprachwissenschaft, Note: sehr gut (1,0), Technische Universitat Dortmund (Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik), 213 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Anmerkungen: Prufung der Bedingungen fur den englischsprachigen Unterricht der wirtschaftlichen Fachern der Berufsschule, illustriert und konkretisiert am Beispiel des Ausbildungsberufs Industriekaufmann/-frau, Abstract: In den letzten Jahren und Jahrzehnten ist die Forderung nach mehr und besseren Fremdsprachenqualifikationen fur deutsche Berufsschuler immer lauter und immer dringender geworden, vor allem unter dem Schlagwort der Globalisierung. Hinter diesem vielzitierten Begriff verbergen sich so unterschiedliche Entwicklungen wie die Verscharfung des weltweiten Wettbewerbs um Kapitalzuflusse und die harte Konkurrenz von weit auseinanderliegenden Standorten um Arbeitsplatze, aber auch der voranschreitende Abbau von Zoll- und Handelschranken innerhalb und ausserhalb Europas und die gestiegenen Chancen fur personliche berufliche Mobilitat. Sowohl fur die volkswirtschaftliche als auch fur die personliche Wettbewerbsfahigkeit auf dem globalen Markt sind fremdsprachliche Kompetenzen entscheidend. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird untersucht, wie das an deutschen Schulen des allgemeinbildenden Schulwesens verbreitete Konzept des bilingualen Sachfachunterrichts auf kaufmannische Berufsschulen ubertragen werden kann, um wahrend der Berufsausbildung fremdsprachliche Kompetenzen zu fordern. Als zukunftiger Lehrer sowohl der Fremdsprache Englisch als auch der Fachrichtung Wirtschaft an dieser Schulform interessiert mich insbesondere die mogliche Verknupfung meiner Fakulten im Sinne eines Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), einer noch recht jungen Bezeichnung fur die Verwendung von Fremdsprachen in Sachfachern. Die Leitfragen, die sich hier stellen, sind verschiedener Natur. So muss geklart werden, ob das Konz