Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Personnel and Organisation, 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...

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Art - Architecture / History of Construction, grade: A, The University of Chicago, language: English, abstract: At the beginning of 19th century (1800s) Jesse Hawley a miller who was imprisoned in Geneva town, in New York envisaged the notion of building a canal connecting the west and the east regions of New York, this canal was to start from lake erie going and touching Hudson river. From 1807 to 1808 Hawley wrote 14 essays enumerating the benefits of the canal to the state. However, when president heard about the idea he termed the idea as "a...

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: A, The University of Chicago, language: English, abstract: Lynas Corporation Limited and Greenland Minerals and Energy Limited are two competing Australian-based mining companies which specialize in the extraction and processing of rare earth minerals, a group of around 15 metallic elements which are gaining in prevalence in the global market due to their application as a factor of production in high-grade technology. The rise in demand coupled with an export quota on rare earths imposed by...