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This paper is a thematic study of the parallels between Ernest Hemingway's Harold Krebs and the veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. It looks at the struggles their share and the sense of displacement from war zone to life stateside. Additionally, it explores how Hemingway's story is truly an enduring work of fiction. It looks at the unemployment veterans share as well as the psychological hardships many suffer as well.

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"Ernest Hemingway's powerful tale of a soldier belatedly returning home from the Great War is a timeless wonder that manages to sum up a universal experience in a few short pages of what would become his signature style. His simple and yet complex exploration of the kind of spiritual and emotional dislocation that happens to American soldiers who go to war and then return home is easily just as relevant today as it was over eighty years ago. Perhaps the best example of this relevance at work involves Hemingway's protagonist, Harold Krebs, as well as the inner and outer conflicts with himself and his family that are often seen in so many of..."

Tags:veterans, great war, iraq and afghanistan

Abstract
This paper discusses the key elements of the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act and its impact on the populous. This paper includes a detailed analysis of the issues involved with civilian employment following military employment. It suggests three key means to streamline the process of returning to work. It presents a case study that analyzes the performance of the company that the individual worked for and suggests how to improve the organization's overall effectiveness.

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Abstract
Back to Work: Overcoming Difficulties with the Uniformed

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"The key element for streamlining the process is for employers to become proactive in their understanding and implementation of employer/employee laws. Regarding various employment laws, the Small Business Administration (www.sba.gov), offers several services that can help employers stay on top of the key factors that affect their employees. It also can help provide answers to questions employers may have. The Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve website (www.esgr.org) also provides a great resource to employers with members returning from duty. It offers a checklist that covers the key points that need to be covered when they have an employee returning from duty. It shows them the necessary steps that need to be taken, making things simple and clear. By taking the first step proactively, employers can greatly streamline their process."

Tags:employment, reserve, soldier, business

Abstract
This paper argues that unions and workers can play a powerful role in promoting a quality-of-work agenda. In the case of today's workers, they must use their considerable (on average) formal education and their awareness of their own prerogatives as employees to pressure management types (and union leaders) to furnish them with a workplace that is safe, harmonious, secure, and reasonably accommodating. The writer discusses that as for unions, they must work constructively with unions elsewhere, establish productive relations with management, and make quality-of-work issues a key "plank" in their bargaining platform. In the final analysis, workers and unions can be forceful advocates for positive change if they wish to be.

Tags:quality, work, agenda

Abstract
This paper explains that recently the insistent merging of the limits between work and life have begun to cause employees so much stress that companies' profits are beginning to be impacted negatively. Next, the author reviews the common problems of productivity and performance, absenteeism, recruitment and retention that can arise with the absence of work-life balance programs within companies. The paper evaluates which work-life balance strategies of telecommuting, flexible and reduced working hours, leave benefits, child care support, employee assistance program, subsidized cafeteria and fitness centers and increased manager support, are recommended for AAG to improve employee job satisfaction. Tables are included in the paper.

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Table of Contents
Executive Summary
Introduction
Purpose and Significance
Scope and Limitations
Sources and Methodology
Problem Identification
Productivity and Performance
Absenteeism
Recruitment and Retention
Strategies
Telecommuting
Flexible and Reduced Working Hours
Leave Benefits
Child Care Support
Employee Assistance Program
Subsidized Cafeteria and Fitness Center
Increased Manager Support
Conclusions
Recommendations

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"At AAG employees are often overworked and lack flexibility in their schedules. As a result, they become stressed and find that their work and life are out of balance, leading to decreased productivity and increased employee turnover. As a result, employees may attempt to find a more suitable job, especially when other small to medium business owners offer flexibility practices. In a 2004 study by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, they found that 94% of all small to medium businesses promote some kind of flexibility practices. Seventy-nine percent of these businesses promote flexibility in scheduling vacations, while 74% promoted time off for personal issues."

Tags:integration, interference issues, counseling, flexible work hours, maternity leaves

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This paper addresses key issues in clinical social work, centering on the interview and case management process, and also discussing the use of time, silence, and information in the social work process. It defines interviewing skills that a social worker must have, as well as describing the environment that would be ideal for therapeutic work or interviewing. Foremost among the issues that interviewing raises are trust and responsibility in the client-social worker relationship.

Tags:PSYCHOLOGY / COUNSELLING, SOCIAL WORK, social work relationships

Abstract
This paper is a proposal for a research project that evaluates the non economic factors faced by unwed mothers as they go to work: Personal health limitations, personal mental health problems, health and behavioral problems of dependent children, substance abuse, child welfare, domestic violence, housing instability, inadequate transportation and very low social skills. This paper includes a literature review that covers many areas such as economic issues of mal-distribution and political issues of welfare legislation especially the Welfare-to-Work Partnership. The author plans to collect data through the administration of survey questionnaires to both subjects' case workers and to the subjects themselves. Includes questionnaires.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Introduction to the Proposed Research
Description of the Issue
Research Questions
Significance of the Study
Definitions of Major Concepts
Overview of the Study
Review of Literature
Introduction
Conceptual Framework
Relevant Literature
Welfare State Concept
Welfare Reform
Employment and Welfare Reform
Welfare Reform Outcomes
Other Non-Economic Factors and Work
The Conclusions Relevant to the Study
Problem and Statement of Hypotheses
Methodology
Introduction
Research Design
Population and Sample
Data Collection
Instrumentation
Case Workers
Subjects
Subject Confidentiality
Data Analysis

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"Past social legislation guaranteed all American citizens entitlements to food, shelter, and other basic necessities. This social contract, which prevented the need for triage, was the foundation of the American state for fifty years. In the name of personal responsibility, welfare reform has destroyed the entitlements of dependent populations. According to the welfare reform scenario, Americans would survive only by taking responsibility for themselves, the shiftless and irresponsible would lose their life-support system and sink or swim on their own."

Tags:childcare, reform, welfare-to-work, questionnaire, legislation

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The paper provides a brief literature review of various sources regarding welfare-to-work programs, which offer individuals with educational and work opportunities to overcome their dependence on welfare as a source of income. The paper is of the opinion that it is necessary to continuously review and evaluate these programs to measure their effectiveness and degree of success for participants.

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"The welfare system in the United States is currently in disarray, which has created numerous problems for those individuals that depend upon this program as a means of income and sustainability in a complex society. Recent indications demonstrate that there are challenges that must be met in terms of welfare-to-work programs, which demonstrate many weaknesses that require additional resources and new strategies to overcome in an effective manner. Welfare-to-work problems reach beyond the expected, as they reflect problems with the work process as a whole (Coulton, 2003). Causes of the Problem. One of the key problems that has triggered weaknesses in this system is the lack of funding for these programs; however, recent indications of increases in government funding for these programs is likely to provide benefits (Davis, 2005)."

Tags:welfare, work, education

Abstract
This paper discusses three case studies relating to work-flow efficiency and the broader efficiency of product suitability. It describes how work processes can be made more efficient and the risks that an excessively narrow focus on process efficiency will detract from the final quality of the product.

Tags:work, flow, processes, efficiency, quality, product, service

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This paper explains that, although there have been many studies about the mental health problems of returning Persian Gulf veterans, the problems of children of the active duty military personnel, who are being deployed to hazardous duty locations, have been ignored. The author suggests that the absence of one or both parents during a child's formative years can be devastating and the implications of a returning parent experiencing severe and potentially debilitation conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder or a battlefield injury remain largely unknown. The paper relates that the methodology for this study is a critical review of the scholarly and peer-reviewed literature and a survey of adolescents who currently have parents on active duty or are assigned to war zones.

Table of Contents
Purpose of the Study
Theoretical Implications and Relationship to Previous Work in the Area
Overview of the Study
Literature Review
Definition of Study Variables and Concepts
Adolescent
Child
Military Brat
Unresolved Grief
Background and Overview
Impact of Active Duty Parental Military Service on Children during Periods of War
Methodology
Population
Participants
Number of Participants
Selection of Participants
Instrument
Procedures
Distribution of Survey
Treatment of Collected Data
Limitations of the Study
Appendix: Sample Survey Instrument for Military Brat Research Project

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"According to Neuman (2003), surveys that receive many responses are considered more reliable than those that do not; therefore, in an effort to solicit as many responses from qualified respondents as possible, both online and paper-and-pencil versions of the survey will be made available to volunteer respondents. The online version of the survey is available through URL: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=198691949423 and a paper-and-pencil version can be emailed, mailed or hand-delivered to qualified respondents."

Tags:survey, absence, post-traumatic, adolescents, grief

Abstract
This paper analyzes the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (or USERRA), further presenting a case study of John Walker and how the USERRA helped him after he had returned home following active duty. It also offers three key suggestions for small businesses, showing ways that they can streamline the process of legal issues, especially the USERRA

From the Paper
"This paper shall discuss the key elements of the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act and its impact on the populous. This paper includes a detailed analysis of the issues involved with civilian employment following military employment, suggesting three key means to streamline the process of returning to work."

Tags:veteran, work, userra