Author: William Lien
Publisher: FastPencil, Inc.
Keywords: fairness
Number of Pages: 164
Published: 2010-06-28
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1607468050
ISBN-13: 9781607468059
William (Bill) Lawrence Lien was born in Borea, Wisconsin on July 31, 1928. He and his wife Betty have been married 60 years. They have three children and seven grandchildren. Bill earned his B.A. at Vanguard University in Costa Mesa, California, and his M.A. at California State University at Los Angeles where he majored in School Administration. Bill served two years as a Military Policeman in the Korean Conflict. Bill’s years in public education total 45. In 1986 he retired as a principal and began substituting for principals or teaching Special County classes for troubled youth.
Author: Marc Fleurbaey
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: welfare, responsibility, fairness
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2008-08-15
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 019921591X
ISBN-13: 9780199215911
What is a fair distribution of resources and other goods when individuals are partly responsible for their achievements? This book develops a theory of fairness incorporating a concern for personal responsibility, opportunities and freedom. With a critical perspective, it makes accessible the recent developments in economics and philosophy that define social justice in terms of equal opportunities. It also proposes new perspectives and original ideas. The book separates mathematical sections from the rest of the text, so that the main concepts and ideas are easily accessible to non-technical r
Author: Steven J. Simmons
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Keywords: media, doctrine, fairness
Number of Pages: 500
Published: 1978-12
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0520035852
ISBN-13: 9780520035850
Author: Constant D. Beugre
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: organizations, fairness, managing
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 1998-10-30
List price: $102.95
ISBN-10: 156720211X
ISBN-13: 9781567202113
The concept of organizational justice refers to perceptions of fairness within organizations. Justice as a social phenomenon has received a great deal of research attention from social psychologists. With new research on fairness in organizations, scholars in organizational behavior, industrial/organizational psychology, and managers are provided with practical orientations on how to create fair working environments. Although organizational fairness is not a panacea for managers, it can help boost employee morale and cooperation. Perceptions of unfairness have been related to negative attitude
Author: Bruce Glassman
Publisher: Bearing Books
Keywords: character, pillars, six, fairness
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2008-08
List price: $11.75
ISBN-10: 1601085052
ISBN-13: 9781601085054
CHARACTER COUNTS! has become the most widely implemented approach to character education in America. Utilized in thousands of schools and by more than 7 million students, CHARACTER COUNTS! uses at its foundation the Six Pillars of Characters. The six books in this important new collection address a great demand as they foster good citizenship, decision-making, and values in young people. Created and produced in partnership with Josephson Institute, this unique series is an essential tool in character education.
Author: George Klosko
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: obligation, political, fairness, principle
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2003-12-20
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0742533751
ISBN-13: 9780742533752
"In this now-classic work, he clearly and systematically formulates what others thought impossible-a principle of fairness that specifies a set of conditions which grounds existing political obligations and bridges the gap between the abstract accounts of political principles and the actual beliefs of political actors. Brought up-to-date with a new introduction, this new edition will be of great interest to all interested in political thought."
Author: Serge-Christophe Kolm
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: fairness, economy, political, macrojustice
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2004-12-13
List price: $138.00
ISBN-10: 0521835038
ISBN-13: 9780521835039
Realization of the "just" society would result in a remarkable yet simple structure wherein individual freedom is fully respected, and redistribution consists of an equal sharing of individual earnings obtained by the same limited "equalization labor". The concept of "equalization labor", a measure of the degree of community, solidarity, reciprocity, redistribution, and equalization of the societies under consideration, is determined by methods presented in this volume.Book DescriptionThe main features of the just society present a remarkable and simple meaningful structure. In this society, i
