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You're the boss : a kid's ultimate guide to starting your own business
\"Are you bursting with great ideas for a new business but aren't quite sure where to start? Do you know that you'd be great at selling something but first need to figure out what that \"something\" actually is? Are you gearing up to be an entrepreneur but think that kids can't really build anything big? If any of these sound like you--you've come to the right book! You're never too young to start a business. Whether you want to launch a babysitting service, run a lemonade stand, sell crafts online--or don't even know what business to start--You're the Boss is here to help. In this book, you'll learn how to figure out which business is right for you, find your ideal customers, manage the competition, calculate costs and profits, pitch your ideas, and so much more.\"-- Amazon.com.
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Improving transparency, integrity, and accountability in water supply and sanitation
More than 1 billion people around the world live without access to safe, potable water, in part because of poor governance and corruption. Illegal connections and substantial losses caused by deferred maintenance have eroded the revenues of water utilities, leading to a downward spiral in performance. Embezzlement of funds, bribes for access to illegal water connections, manipulation of meter counters, and collusion in public contracts add to the litany of corrupt practices. 'Improving Transparency, Integrity, and Accountability in Water Supply and Sanitation' is a useful tool for diagnosing, analyzing, and remedying systemic corruption in the water supply and sanitation sectors. It will serve as a practical guide for governments; utility regulators, managers, and staff; civil society organizations; contractors; and citizens in their quest for a model of service provision that responds to the pressing needs of people in the developing world. The book aims to increase the involvement of civil society by engaging all stakeholders in setting priorities and monitoring performance; help water and sanitation delivery contribute to poverty reduction by increasing the service quality and coverage provided by service delivery organizations to poorer communities on an equitable basis; provide a tool that promotes the financial sustainability of service delivery organizations, thus building stakeholders' confidence in those institutions' ability to expand and improve service; and raise ethical standards among all stakeholders, especially service delivery organizations, thereby instilling a sense of public service in these organizations.
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Balancing Benefits and Costs: Host Community Perceptions, Personal Gains, and Support for Sustainable Tourism Development
The quality of life of a host community residing in a tourist destination is significantly influenced by the consequences of tourism development in the region. Such development generates both positive impacts, such as benefits, and negative impacts, or costs, simultaneously. The main aim of the study was to analyse the relationship between residents’ perception of tourism’s dual impact (positive and negative) on the host community and their attitude towards sustainable tourism development in the Krishna-Braj Tourism Circuit in the province of Uttar Pradesh of India. The study also examined the nature of the relationship between personal benefits drawn from tourism development and residents’ perception of tourism’s dual impact on the host community. The social exchange theory served as the foundation of the study. The tourism sustainability framework, which includes three pillars, viz., economic, environmental, and socio-cultural tourism impacts, was used to analyse the dual impact of tourism on residents in the region. In total, 370 residents were identified using a proportionate quota sampling technique and interviewed. Structural equation modelling was used to test the proposed theoretical model and to examine the hypothesised relationship between study variables. The study found that residents drawing personal benefits from tourism development (such as income, job, socialisation, etc.) in the region tend to perceive tourism impacts positively and show supportive attitudes toward sustainable tourism development in the region. At the same time, the influence of personal benefits from tourism development on perceived negative impacts was found not significant. Additionally, positive perceived tourism impacts significantly shaped residents’ attitudes, while the expected negative influence of negative tourism impacts on attitudes was unsupported. In a nutshell, the study supports that the bene-fits residents derive from tourism strongly shape their perceptions and support sustainable tourism development in the region.
Journal Article
The Effect of Business Process Reengineering Factors on Organisational Performance
This study empirically investigated the effect of business process reengineering factors on organisational performance in the Saudi context. A quantitative approach was employed whereby this study focused on Riyadh factory for re-refining oils employees. A total of 110 useable questionnaires were used in the statistical analysis. Business process reengineering factors that were investigated include the major improvements after business process reengineering, the major changes after implementation of business process reengineering and the personal gain after business reengineering process. The results showed that the only two factors out of the three do affect organisational performance in Riyadh factory for re-refining oils employees namely the major improvements after business process reengineering and the major changes after implementation of business process reengineering. Keywords: Business process reengineering, organizations performance, personal gain.
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Drivers of corruption
Corruption is motivated by the possibility of securing something of value for oneself and ones allies. The desire to secure benefits is a human trait and generally positive for development; various forms of rewards drive humans to get up in the morning, do a good job, and act responsibly. The discussion now turns to the opportunity to secure more benefits than are entitled to within the existing rules of the game; specifically, the opportunity to grab at the expense of society. A decision maker has the authority to influence an outcome that matters to the briber. For steering a decision in the bribers direction, the decision maker is compensated with a bribe. The steered decision and the bribe now become assets that usually exceed what at least one of the players would have obtained without the corrupt act. The opportunity to seize assets through some form of power misuse differs across sectors, organizations, and decision-making situations. This chapter describes the circumstances in which the risk of corruption is particularly highin other words, where the drivers of corruption can be found.
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fail safe management
Project failures are not confined to the development world. In 2004 Hartman and Ashrafi found that the project failure rate is above 60 percent for construction, engineering, and other technology projects, despite all the advances in project management theory and practice. This book's interest, however, is in the very large percentage of projects not subject to events beyond the control of project managers. In this regard, attention to the possibility of failure is the best guarantee of success. Understandably, public managers may be uncomfortable with such an inherently negative approach to managing public projects, which are, after all, designed and intended to produce a public good or to solve a public problem. The point is not to be pessimistic but realistic in managing public projects. Anticipating and solving problems can avert compounding those problems and the failures that result. And this book delivered five rule to avoid project failure: i) make it about the how; ii) keep your champions close but your critics closer; iii) informal networks matter-work with them; iv) unclog the pipes; and v) build the ship as it sails.
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Public wrongs, private actions
Corruption and thefts of public assets harm a diffuse set of victims, weakens confidence in public institutions, damages the private investment climate, and threatens the foundations of the society as a whole. In developing countries with scarce public resources, the cost of corruption is an impediment to development: developing countries lose between US
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New developments concerning sexual assaults of patients by health care professionals
Abuse of power and position for control and personal gain can occur in the professional-client relationship, and has been recognised since ancient times, as documented by warnings, admonitions, and code of conduct that can be found in virtually all major cultures and professional traditions. Professional sexual misconduct and offences are emerg ing from secrecy, as compelling issues that threaten public welfare and safety and jeopardise trust in the important relationships between professionals and pa tients. For the purpose of this discussion, professional sexual misconduct can be defined as the overt or convert expression of erotic or romantic thoughts, feelings, or gestures toward the client that are sexual or may be reasonably construed by the client as sexual.
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Politically exposed persons : preventive measures for the banking sector
The paper is focused on the banking sector, not on other financial and nonfinancial sectors vulnerable to the laundering of corrupt funds. These other sectors may find the recommendations and good practices provided in this paper relevant, but should analyze the findings of this paper in light of their particular circumstances and specific features. The paper includes a number of practical tools to help guide banks, regulators, and other public authorities. The paper is organized into four major parts: the remainder of this part (part one) sets out some of the main observations and trends in politically exposed person (PEPs) compliance and an analysis of the principal reasons for poor compliance and overall ineffectiveness of systems to detect and monitor PEPs. Part two focuses on the implementation of PEP measures by regulatory authorities and banks. Part three reviews the roles of the public authorities that are primarily involved in preventing abuse by corrupt PEPs. These authorities include the regulatory authority, which is responsible for providing guidance to banks and enforcing compliance, as well as the financial intelligence unit (FIU), which has a role in the context of suspicious transaction reports (STRs) on PEPs. Finally, part four considers some of the cross-cutting issues national cooperation, training, and resources that must be addressed by all stakeholders.
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Insider Information
A therapist has to keep in mind that there is a trail of paperwork in every transaction. Regardless of the particular circumstances, the therapist has insider knowledge not available to the general public and can be tempted to use this information to make money on the transaction. Even if a client suggests that the therapist should act on insider information or trade secrets for personal gain, the use of this information may be illegal or, possibly, unethical; creates a dual relationship; and is exploitative. Insider information might include: when to buy or sell a stock; a zoning change that will affect the value of a property that is for sale; and a commodity that will become scarce because of events not yet known to the public. General ethical requirements are contained in the codes of ethics of many jurisdictions.
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