necessity

Examples of necessity in the following topics:

• Employee Transfers

  • Types of employee transfers include: strategic transfers, necessity transfers, and talent/management transfers.
  • A necessity transfer may take place when there is a demand for employees in a department of the organization where a specific skill set is scarce.
  • A necessity transfer usually includes an incentive, like a raise, to give employees an incentive to put in the training the transfer will require.

• Determinants of Price Elasticity of Demand

  • Degree of necessity: The greater the necessity for a good, the lower the elasticity.
  • However, some goods that initially have a low degree of necessity are habit-forming and can become "necessities" to consumers (e.g. coffee or cigarettes).

• Why Use Bloom's Taxonomy?

  • Out of necessity, teachers must measure their students' ability.
  • Clear alignment of educational objectives with local, state, and national standards is a necessity.

• Bibliography

  • 1981, Possibility and necessity, 2 Vols, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987.

• The Working Poor

  • While poverty is often associated with joblessness, the wages of the working poor are usually insufficient to provide basic necessities, causing them to face numerous obstacles that make it difficult for many of them to find and keep a job, save up money, and maintain a sense of self-worth.
  • Some of these obstacles may include finding affordable housing, arranging transportation to and from work, buying basic necessities, arranging childcare, having unpredictable work schedules, juggling two or more jobs, and coping with low-status work.

• Intersections of Class, Race, and Gender

  • Many of the televised images showed poor, African Americans, many who were women and their children, abandoned in the storm, without resources for several days and without basic necessities of food and water.

• Definition of Price Elasticity of Supply

  • Inelastic goods are often described as necessities.
  • An example of an elastic good is movie tickets, which are viewed as entertainment and not a necessity.

• The Party in Government

  • Despite the perceived problems of divided government, the President and Congress are often able, out of necessity, to establish an effective working relationship.
  • Despite the perceived problems of divided government, the President and Congress are often able, out of necessity, to establish an effective working relationship.

• Subsidies and Income Supports

  • Consumers are not charged tax on food goods and clothes, which are considered necessities and thus should be provided at the lowest costs possible.
  • Overall, while subsidies are largely a good thing and enable individuals to buy the necessities, there are clear cut downsides to subsidies as well.

• The Nonworking Poor

  • Some of the most common struggles faced by the working poor are finding affordable housing, arranging transportation to and from work, buying basic necessities, arranging childcare, having unpredictable work schedules, juggling two or more jobs, and coping with low-status work.
  • Like the unemployed poor, the working poor struggle to pay for basic necessities like food, clothing, housing, and transportation.