WHY IN BULGARIA? The country has 471 km Danube limes Limes Congress has never been carried out in Bulgaria There are Limes sites to be seen We can do it! Our candidature is strongly supported by the Ministry of Culture, the National Institute of Archaeology with Museum in Sofia (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) and the local authorities in Ruse

As the world's population hits 7 billion, human development is being hailed as both the cause and the solution to our population crisis. Should we be celebrating the successes of development or should we be concerned about rising inequalities across the world?

Overview : You cannot manage productivity with an appraisal form. Learn to define performance as a three legged stool that ensures everything that matters is managed. Some employees perform well but poison the environment around them. Team members might resent or even undermine group efforts when one individual's bad behavior is tolerated. Others try hard but fail. Only through a holistic approach to performance can maximum productivity be achieved. Therefore, managing what individuals do everyday, tracking the results that come from their contributions, and including how they work with others are all necessary to ensure performance success. Make sure that…

Overview : It is often called the "most dreaded management task". It's the performance management conversation. How do you turn poor performance around without soft peddling the difficult stuff or being hypercritical and risking a defensive reaction? In this program, Judi Clements prepares your managers & supervisors for this difficult, yet very important, job. Without a successful performance management process, organizations can fall into the trap of "carrying" poor performers & tacitly endorsing substandard work. Judi shows your leaders how to utilize your organization's performance management system and use behavioral, not attitudinal language to ensure legal compliance and optimal employee…

Overview : This session will discuss uncommon strategies that can have a greater impact on performance and morale than traditional pay for performance systems. Key strategies for non-profit organizations will also be discussed as there are compensation techniques that can be employed in any environment. A good compensation system is designed with clear goals, communicated clearly, and executed flawlessly. Ensure that you are sending the right signals to employees and that you are driving performance in the right direction with a solid pay for performance system. Pay for performance can either be an invaluable management tool for increasing productivity or…

Overview : This webinar will highlight the basic areas which need to be addressed regarding the safety and security of your employees and your company. It will also cover topics for consideration in your Employee Policy Manuals, Safety Manuals, Procedural Manuals and Crisis Manual. Although you will need to customize the Plan for your own company and industry, this webinar can serve as a check point to review your current practices as well as help you prepare an outline to formalize, consolidate and communicate your policies and procedures in a crisis manual. Why you should attend: Often the responsibilities at…

Overview : This presentation will provide attendees with an introduction to some of the many new regulations relating to employee benefits, with a focus on regulations that have been issued in the past year or so. Most of the new regulations relate to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, also known as health care reform). Other regulations that will be summarized include the ADA (Americans with Disabilities) Amendments Act (ADAAA) and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Regulations to be addressed include: On November 17, 2010, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA)…

The third annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Muslim Ethics will be held January 4-8, 2012, at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington, D.C. We invite paper proposals dealing with any aspect of Muslim ethics. In light of recent events, we particularly welcome proposals in political ethics, dealing with such topics as good governance, democracy, human rights, the right of rebellion, and constitutionalism. Topics may be theoretical or applied, historical or contemporary, textual or philosophical. Sessions are 90 minutes long and consist of a single presenter or panels of up to three speakers, including a discussant. The…

The 3rd SAICON is a forum providing opportunities to share knowledge amongst the researchers, academic intellectuals, industry representatives and students. Moreover, it is also a prestigious platform to enhance their exposure and interaction. Aim of the Conference: This Conference is aimed at providing forum for researchers, scholars, managers, entrepreneurs, academicians and business executives to share knowledge regarding dynamics of business world and economics. Contemporary developments in economics, innovations in management and the role of business ethics in strengthening the credibility of business organizations would be thoroughly discussed. Structure of the Conference ICMBEE welcomes participants from academia, research institutes, corporate world…

This inaugural conference of the Australasian Business Ethics Network will provide an opportunity for academics, students and practitioners from Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific region and beyond, to discuss contemporary issues in business ethics practice, research and/or teaching. The conference will run from Friday morning through Saturday afternoon. The theme of this inaugural event is “Business Ethics: Expectations and Disappointments”. We invite all contributions that relate to the conference theme, as well as papers which address more particularly the following topics: Indigenous Business Ethics Spirituality and Business Ethics Teaching Business Ethics Myths in Business Ethics Business, Society and Policy

The National Endowment for the Humanities is sponsoring a two-year project based in the Philosophy Department at Fresno State to research increased religious diversity in public schools. This call for papers is for our inaugural academic conference, which will be followed by an edited volume and summer workshop for teachers including curricular recommendations. In 1955 Will Herberg defined Religion in America as Protestant-Catholic-Jew following the successful integration of Catholic and Jewish immigrants. Then the Immigration Reform Act of 1965 led to the arrival of thirty million new non-European immigrants. In our classrooms we often remain ignorant about the traditions of…

The Largest Gathering of Anti-Fraud Professionals in the World Find new techniques, tools and contacts while getting fired up and inspired by thought leaders in the anti-fraud profession. No other event can give you this level of anti-fraud training or this caliber of networking opportunities. Join us in San Diego June 12-17 and learn for yourself why one past attendee called the ACFE Fraud Conference, "an energy drink for your career!" Learn more about education, networking and professional development opportunities at the ACFE Fraud Conference. Keynote Speakers The ACFE's Annual Fraud Conference hosts the foremost experts in the anti-fraud field.…

MINES ParisTech, the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, the Paris School of Economics jointly organize an academic conference on the economics of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) on 9-10 June in Paris. The conference is open to all interested researchers in the economic analysis of CSR practices and concepts. CSR means socially and environmentally friendly actions not required by law, going beyond compliance, privately providing public goods, or voluntarily internalizing externalities. It is an important economic phenomenon with broad implications for firms, employees, consumers, investors, governments and NGOs alike. The conference will include both theoretical and empirical papers in industrial organization,…

International Conference on Governance Fraud Ethics and Social Responsibility is interdisciplinary conference even it is focused on accounting, finance, taxation and auditing. Research papers from other disciplines are welcomed on conference papers on conference titles. E-Journal of the conference will be published in December 2011. Conference is organised by International Group on Governance Fraud Ethics and Social Responsibility. MAIN THEME FOR CONFERENCE "Corporate Governance in Family Companies and Role of Accountants” "Fraud in NGOs and Auditing" " Accounting Ethics Education” " Role of Accounting in Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability"

Learn how sustainability drives REAL business value for leading global companies. Get practical advice from leading corporate responsibility and sustainability practitioners in USA – and Europe: The leading CSR and sustainability conference in Europe comes to the USA! Attend the Responsible Business Summit and you’re guaranteed to get practical advice on the following: - Transform sustainability policy into performance: How to embed sustainability and ensure that the results are reflected in your bottom line - Benchmark leading American and European companies: What are the common denominators in their success? What can you take on board? - Achieve operational excellence: Strengthen…

The 10th Annual Responsible Business Summit Closing the Gap between Policy and Performance: The Opportunities of Sustainability A few quick facts about last year’s version of the conference: - 400+ people attended over the two days - About 60% of attendees were from big corporates like Timberland, IKEA, McDonald's, Vodafone, Siemes, Rio Tinto, Pfizer, L'Oreal and Vneshecombank - A third of our attendees from Europe, with 10% from the Americas and representation from every continent on earth (apart from Antarctica) - 51% of our attendees were Director-level executives, or more senior - 60+ speakers shared knowledge & case studies over…

This symposium intends to catalyse the gathering of emergent research lines focused on understanding ethics and social responsibility in decision making processes and behaviors of organizational actors. It also intends to constitute a space for discussion and healthy confrontation of theoretical and empirical findings that support the organizational intervention in these domains.

A research community congress to explore ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of the new genomics, hosted by the Center for Genomics and Society at UNC-Chapel Hill with funding from the ELSI Research Program of the National Human Genome Project. Through keynote speakers, plenary panels, and poster presentations, the Congress will provide an opportunity for interdisciplinary and international scholars to reflect upon the most important science of the century, and to envision future directions for ELSI research. the Congress seeks the engagement of researchers and students from inside and outside academia and from multiple disciplines and professions.

The CR3 conference results from cooperation between three business schools who have been among the first to adopt the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (UNPRME): Audencia Nantes School of Management (France), Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki (Finland) and ISAE/FGV in Curitiba (Brazil). The three schools have been working together on issues related to Corporate Responsibility / Global Responsibility (notably through joint participation in conferences, organization of joint seminars, and teacher exchange) since 2008. The first CR3 conference will take place at Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, on April 8 and 9, 2011. Its theme is ‘the…

The NYU Center for Bioethics in conjunction with the NYU Environmental Studies Program will be hosting 'Valuing Lives: A Conference on Ethics in Health and the Environment' on Saturday, March 5, 2011. The event will be held on New York University's beautiful Washington Square campus, in the heart of Greenwich Village and will feature talks in a single day followed by an end-of-conference dinner at a local restaurant that night.