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Attributional Style in Work Settings: Development of a Measure: The authors have developed the Work Attributional Style Questionnaire to assess one's attributional propensities in work settings. In the first study, a tendency to attribute positive events to internal, stable, global, and controllable causes was associated with positive work adjustment (i. e., low helplessness and depression). The second study revealed...; Tags: AllBusiness.com, adjustment; White papers
Bathroom Remodel Adjustments: Laying out a plan is a great start. Unless a person is skilled in jumping into action before giving forethought, then planning is the ultimate route one wants to take, first in bathroom remodel. During planning a person wants to estimate what his overall intentions are to achieve. Does the...; Tags: adjustment, environment; White papers
4 Ways To Prevent Computer-Related Injuries: Most office injuries are the result of repetitive actions - typing, using the mouse, 10-key data entry, and so on. By making just a few minor adjustments in office equipment, you can thwart injuries and sick days. The adjustments will cost money. But it's better to spend a few hundred...; Tags: Workstations, Microsoft Corp., adjustment, office equipment, workstation, data entry, mouse, environment, computer; White papers
Compensation Adjustment Form: Tracking and reporting employee compensation information can be time consuming and inconsistent, and it can be cumbersome to communicate salary changes to employees. This template can help you quickly capture this information in a format that is clear and consistent, so you can document, report, and communicate salary adjustment information...; Tags: Benefits, Microsoft Corp., compensation; Tools & templates
Office Design: How to Build a Better Office: A well-designed office is one of the easiest and most cost-effective ways to retain workers and make them more productive. Size Up Your Current Space Goal: Understand how well — or...; Tags: Jane Hodges, worker, fax machine, photocopier, vice president, conference, fax, finance, printer, financial, environment, job, team, sales; Articles 2008-02-29

Motivating Team Members: Organizational success has always depended on delivering results through teamwork. However, with the increasing prevalence of flat, networked, and matrix structures, effective teamwork is becoming even more criticalIn these types of organizational structures, individuals come together—forming teams—for the duration of a project or for the amount of time it takes...; Tags: Team management, Leadership, BNET Editorial, motivation, team, teamwork, leader, organizational structure, technique, adjustment, career; Articles 2007-10-24
Planning Staffing Requirements: As your business grows, naturally you’ll need to hire more people to handle the increased workload. New skills will be required, too, to deal with the ever-widening range of activities. As increased demands arise, you’ll need to have these new employees in place and be ready to provide opportunities for...; Tags: Workforce management, Sales strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Sales force management, BNET Editorial, staffing, training, sales forecast, Strategic Planning, job, sales, adjustment, workforce, worker, team, financial; Articles 2007-10-15
Global Outsourcing Of Services: Issues And Implications: Global outsourcing has clearly made the structure of international competition and consequent labor market adjustments more intense. However it is not a new phenomenon. While global outsourcing is not a zero-sum game, there will inevitably be adjustment costs and job losses that need to be addressed in a timely and...; Tags: Harvard University, outsourcing, adjustment, job, game; White papers 2007-07-26
Knowing the Right Time to Recognize Revenue: Products and services can be sold and marketed in many different ways. Guidance is available about how to recognize revenue (record income) from the most common types of transaction, but it’s not possible to provide for every situation—so considerable professional judgment is needed in the less straightforward cases.What You Need...; Tags: Operational accounting, BNET Editorial, accrual, AICPA, revenue, income, accounting, SEC, GAAP, financial statement, retail company, adjustment, sales, payment, asset, financial, industry; Articles 2007-07-05
Does Intra-Firm Bargaining Matter For Business Cycle Dynamics?: The authors have analysed the implications of intra-firm bargaining for business cycle dynamics in models with large firms and search frictions. Intra-firm bargaining implies a feedback effect from the marginal revenue product to wage setting which leads firms to over-hire in order to reduce workers' bargaining position within the firm....; Tags: Dynamics, Salary, Adjustment, Benefits, Human Resources; White papers 2006-12-01
Exporting, FDI, And Labour Demand Adjustment: Evidence From The UK Manufacturing: This paper documents evidence of differential speed of labour demand adjustment among exporters, foreign MultiNationals Enterprise (henceforth MNEs) and domestic non-exporting firms from the UK manufacturing industry. Findings show that MNEs exhibit the fastest speed of employment adjustment to its optimal level, followed by exporters and then domestic non-exporters. Interestingly,...; Tags: Foreign Direct Investment, Adjustment, University Of Glasgow; White papers 2006-11-23
Transnational Roles And Transnational Rewards: Global Integration In Executive Compensation: A series of closing comments are in order. First, the dimension of time provides a dynamic and not static variable of analysis. The past slides into the present, the present rolls into the future and future promised incentives come to fruition only in the present. Second, the accurate assessment of...; Tags: adjustment, compensation, incentive, pricing strategy, analysis; White papers 2006-07-31
Fixed Costs Of Capital Adjustment In A Two Country Real Business Cycle Model: The present paper analyzes the role of non-convex adjustment costs to capital in a stylized two country model of real business cycles. In contrast to the closed economy case, we find fixed adjustment costs to have a significant influence on investment decisions for each of the countries just as for...; Tags: adjustment; White papers 2006-04-01
Outsourcing And Technological Change: Data for the 1990s show that the usage of information technology and expenditures on outsourcing of certain services are positively correlated. This evidence is the motivation for the development of a model of the relationship between outsourcing and technological change. Our model shows that the distinguishing feature of information technology,...; Tags: Columbia University, outsourcing, information technology, adjustment, motivation, outsource; White papers 2006-01-05
Common Missteps of M&A Purchase Price Adjustments: In an increasingly competitive M&A environment where many deals are run as auctions and multiple prospective buyers emerge for each opportunity, paying attention to the closing mechanisms and the purchase price adjustment process is of paramount importance. Buyers and sellers have contrary objectives in this regard. Carefully crafted contractual language...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Bank of America Corp., adjustment, M&A; White papers 2005-12-01
A Fair Exchange? Theory and Practice of Calculating Equilibrium Exchange Rates: This paper develops a theory-based model of equilibrium exchange rates incorporating factors that have been found to matter empirically. The model provides insights into how variables should be measured and what are appropriate cross-country restrictions. It estimates this model using a panel of 12 industrial countries. The model fits the...; Tags: IMF, adjustment, theory; White papers 2005-12-01
Current Account Deficits in Industrial Countries: The Bigger They Are, the Harder They Fall?: This paper examines episodes of current account adjustment in industrial countries to assess the validity of these concerns. The main findings are larger deficits take longer to adjust and are associated with significantly slower income growth during the current account recovery than smaller deficits, consumption-driven current account deficits involve significantly...; Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, National Bureau of Economic Research, financing, adjustment, income; White papers 2005-12-01
Dynamic Automatic Gain Adjustment May Improve Echocardiographic Examinations in Infants and Children: Innovative ultrasound technology has been one of the major technical improvements in the care of infants and children with congenital heart disease. Echocardiography, using sector (2D), Color Doppler (CD), spectral Doppler in Pulsed Wave (PW) and Continuous Wave (CW) modes and tissue Doppler techniques, is routinely used for diagnostic examinations...; Tags: Siemens AG, infant, 2D, adjustment, technique, window; White papers 2005-12-01
The Partial Adjustment Of IPO Offer Prices Is Not Due To Dynamic Information Acquisition: This paper examines the magnitude of IPO (Initial Public Offerings) offer price revision relative to the change in firm value during the registration period. An analysis of 1,122 IPOs with upward price adjustment during 1985- 2003 indicates that on average only 42% of the change in firm value during the...; Tags: Financial Planning, Investment, University of Florida, offer price, IPO, adjustment, analysis; White papers 2005-11-15
Interest Rates, Exchange Rates and International Adjustment: This paper depicts about the emergence of China and Asia as major players in world capital and foreign exchange markets. The approach provides a coherent explanation for the current structure of interest rates, exchange rates and current account balances. The framework developed in this paper also provides a guide to...; Tags: Financial Planning, Financial services, National Bureau of Economic Research, interest rate, foreign-exchange, adjustment, analysis, environment; White papers 2005-11-01