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PoSH : Prevention of Sexual Harassment at Workplace – Institutional Perspective (Universities, Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) and Colleges)

  PoSH : Prevention of Sexual Harassment at Workplace – Institutional Perspective (Universities, Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) and Colleges)     The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, (shortly known as PoSH), inter alia, applies to any   u   Department,   private sector or a venture, undertaking….. Society, trust, NGO, unit or service provider, commercial, professional, vocational, educational , entertainment, industrial, health /financial, production, supply, sale or distribution or service, hospitals/nursing homes/sports institute/stadium/complex, competition or games venue, residential or not used for training sports or other activities u   Any place visited by the employee arising out of or during the course of employment including transportation provided by the employer for undertaking such journey , a dwelling place or a house   Key definitions cover u   Employer: Department, organization, undert

Ethics & Corporate Governance

  Ethics & Corporate Governance V. Vasudevan, Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs Author Note (Project submitted to IICA in April 2018) V. Vasudevan, Corporate Governance Professional, Mumbai viswanathan.vasudevan@smollan.co.in , mob: 9920780095   Abstract The common precept amongst Management professionals is that ethics is a matter of personal values, and beliefs of individuals and their consciences. These professionals tend to look at any wrongdoing as an isolated incident, the work of an unscrupulous employee. This is an absolute farce, as the concept of corporate responsibility is to accept the accountability of any mis-chief as that could invariably affect the business and its stake holders. Ethics, should be integrated with the code of business principles and ways of working by the Board and Key Management, of an organization. Ethics should be an integrated part of the corporate Code of Business Principles 2     Ethics and mora