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Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject South Asian Studies, South-Eastern Asian Studies, grade: A, The University of Chicago, language: English, abstract: The world is currently plagued with inequality and exploitation. Several movements have been established across the globe to preach peace, social justice and ecological sustainability. We often come across inspiring stories of individuals or groups utilizing their ingenuity in ensuring social justice and environmental protection. Sivaraksa in his book Conflict, Culture, Change: Engaged Buddhism in a Globalizing World notes that modernization is the root source of cultural erosion amongst the people of Siam. According to Sivaraksa, modernization has come with lack of respect for nature, social justice and equality (Sivaraksa 107). Sivaraksa fends for the survival of his tradition ¿ Buddhism. In essence, Sivaraksa is not entirely opposed to modernization; rather, he observes that the modernization process can also borrow from the sustainable traditional approaches. He is keen to select from and rebuild Buddhism in a quest for the traditional roots of his religion. Sivaraksa identifies the complex and ambiguous nature of modernity, and asserts the need to embrace the spirit of Buddhism in its traditional form (43). Sivaraksa relates the modern history of Siam to that of Thai during the Western Imperialism. Even though King Mongkut employed several diplomatic efforts to defend Thai from foreign dominance, the Westren imperialists developed new reforms that saw a change in the culture, administrative structure, educational system and even the military structure. As a result of the elite¿s leadership, Siam grew so fast to become more like a Western center. During King Ramäs reign, western culture dominated the lifestyles of the Siam people. As Sivaraksa notes, ¿life in the countryside was negatively impacted¿ (109)...

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Leadership and Human Resources - Miscellaneous, grade: A, The University of Chicago, language: English, abstract: In the recent past Telework which is a flexible way of working has attracted a huge deal of discussion because of its complex implications on people organizations as well as the society to be able to work at anyplace and at any time. Though, at the moment is no a common accepted description for telework, (Hartig, 2007). O¿Mahony & Barley (1999) describe telework as a working by the use of information and communication technologies to facilitate employees and their managers to access their work from distant locations. Though there has been a substantial increase of teleworkers starting from the 1990s, the dispersion of telework has not developed as it was expected. This is unexpected since latest advancement in ICT has considerable decrease the management and coordination expenses that are related with the geographic dispersion of the workforce¿s position. Several experts assert that adopting telework is directed by others factors and that are not necessarily technological. While other experts like O¿Mahony & Barley (1999 suggest that when analyzing telework, cultural social and even political actors should not be ignored. Hartig (2007) established that worker independence was more crucial compared to technological factor to successful implement telework. This research paper seeks to find study teleworking and its effectiveness on Work-Life Balance among employees in an organization. The research paper will review past studies carried out on this subject into order to answer the subject.A number of recent tendencies in the recent past have focused extra attention on teleworking. One, there is an increasing trend of achieving an improved work-life balance from teleworking (e.g. Hartig, 2007), Golden et al (2006) general the possibility of achieving improved work-life balance in all regions may not be realized soon Hartig, 2007). Two, there is growing evidence that offering telework results in improved performance of the organization and the teleworker, and it also reduces cases of absenteeism (Stavrou 2005). At the same time is possible that teleworking could help in countries with labor shortage by enabling more women who have younger children to get back to the labor market and be employed as teleworker...