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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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,...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
