Conflicts

Conflict is a state of opposition, disagreement or incompatibility between two or more people or groups of people, which is sometimes characterized by physical violence. There are many kinds of conflicts: intrapersonal conflict, interpersonal conflict, emotional conflict, group conflict, organizational conflict, community conflict, military conflicts and so on. Conflict develops because we are dealing with people's lives, jobs, children, pride, self-concept, ego and sense of mission or purpose. Sometimes it’s good, because it helps to find the best solution, but everybody would be much happier if we could live without conflicts. The main reason of conflicts is that parties refuse to negotiate and find a compromise. Nobody of us enjoy conflicts, so we should try to avoid it
Techniques for avoiding and/or resolving (board-superintendent) conflict:
1.Plan for and communicate frequently
2.Be honest about concerns
3.Agree to disagree - understand healthy disagreement would build better decisions
4.Get individual ego out of management style
5.Let your team create - people will support what they help create
6.Discuss differences in values openly
7.Continually stress the importance of following policy
8.Communicate honestly - avoid playing "gotcha" type games
9.Provide more data and information than is needed
10.Develop a sound management system

Gun control

Last month the entire world was shocked because of Virginia killing (if you hadn't heard about it you can see clips on the left of my blog). It made us to think how such things can happen nowadays? How one student can kill 32 people?The main reason is that there is very easy to buy a gun in America. The right to bear arms is written in the American constitution. Gun right supporters says that they have to have a right to own guns for individual self defense.The statistic of gun violence isn't very good:
In a single year, 3,012 children and teens were killed by gunfire in the United States, according to the national data released in 2002.
Between 1994 and 1999, there were 220 school associated violent events resulting in 253 deaths.
Every day, more than 80 Americans die from gun violence.
The rate of firearm deaths among kids under age 15 is almost 12 times higher in the United States than in 25 other industrialized countries combined.
There are much more terrible facts about gun violence in America. According to these facts gun control must be much stricter in America.

Employment law

The history of the employment law begins with the industrialization. This law defines workers rights, dealt with health and safety in the workplace, and limits upon working hours and ages. Most of the countries have such legislation.
In English law employees have more rights than self-employed people. This law also gives women the right to return to work after a break, which was given because of baby, protect workers from sexual or racialist discrimination, regulates retirement age.
Sometimes EC law better protects workers than English law. EC had many attempts to harmonize employment rights among member states. The main problems are: a standard minimum wage, Sunday trading, the right to strike. There aren’t so many employment laws in Japan like in Western countries. Workers work longer ours and often don’t ask for overtime payment. Also there is bigger woman discrimination. On the other hand Japanese workers enjoy more security than employees in western countries.