Engaged workers produce more, make more money for the company, and create emotional engagement and loyal customers. They contribute to good working environments where people are productive, ethical and accountable. They stay with the organization longer and are more committed to quality and growth than are the other two groups...
This paper reviews extant research findings on employee engagement. The paper then outlines and tests potential differences in the relationship between engagement and intent to remain with the organization, based upon variations in the racial composition of the supervisor-employee dyad. The authors' analyses revealed an interaction whereby at low levels...
While most giant ad agencies have been slow to make the jump into digital media and consumer tracking techniques, BBDO continues to lead by example. Last week, BtoB Marketing announced its Top Agency awards, and BBDO New York took top honors in the Large Agency category. That's hardly a...
Organizational change appears to be the only predictable element in leadership. The scope and nature of change, however, continues to evolve. The experienced quality management, decentralization and empowerment, self-directed work groups, matrix structures, the quest for employee satisfaction, and the goal of being the employer of choice, are the key...
International engagement is often expected to improve firm performance. Especially for small technology-oriented firms, export activities may be important, being regarded as one way to amortise these firms' high product research and development costs. This paper examines the relationship between international business activities and firm performance using a sample of...
This paper provides the theoretical background for a study of student learning, engagement and collaboration through the development of electronic portfolios. After covering an overview of the limited research on portfolios in education, definitions, multiple purposes of portfolios, and conflicting theoretical paradigms are discussed. Principles of student motivation and engagement...
This template can help track firm's legal engagements over the course of a year. This template can be used to capture planned data and actual data for types and duration of legal engagements, workload, costs, and more.
The aim of this paper is to develop a framework for understanding the role of citizen engagement in government, particularly public administration, and decision-making. The paper explores the concept of government-civil society engagement through, firstly, the principles of good governance and then in the context in which engagement occurs, that...
The demands and risks associated with auditing the financial statements of public companies have changed dramatically over the past two years. The recently publicized financial scandals, coupled with the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the adoption of related SEC rules will have a far-reaching impact on the regulation of the...
From the executive summary: ‘Successful long-term outsourcing requires a close relationship between firm and client. Determining if clients are the right cultural match and establishing a clear understanding of the engagement specifications at the outset are the key to making it work. A failed engagement is costly and difficult to...
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2009-Qponix Unveils Combo WidgetC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Qponix launched its widget-based network that connects brands, promotions and coupons directly with consumers as they shop online. The new solution offers retailers and manufacturers the opportunity to engage consumers more directly during...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IT IS becoming increasingly evident that organisations today are staging positive memorable experience as a new competitive edge to attract and retain customers. B Joseph Pine II and James H Gilmore, the authors of the book The Experience Economy reiterate that in the emerging experience economy,...
As previously reported on 27 May 2008, Intrepid Mines Limited (TSX: IAU)(TSX: IXN)(ASX: IAU) ("Intrepid") engaged AMEC to review the Casposo Project ("Casposo") Feasibility Study of March 2007 (ref: www.sedar.com ). The review is based upon an updated Total Indicated Resource (June 2008 at $760 gold and $13.00 silver)...
DigitalPost Interactive (OTCBB: DGLP) ( www.dglp.com ), a leader in the digital media sharing and socialnetworking space, announced today that Westgate Resorts, the largestprivately held timeshare company in the world, has deployed a private-labelversion of www.TheFamilyPost.com through itsnew portal, www.WestgateSpace.com . The newservice called www.WestgateFamilies.com provides...
A coroner has voiced concern that a military operation in Afghanistan in which two soldiers died was thwarted by confusion over rules of engagement. David Masters was told that a British attack on the Taliban last September was halted for an hour because air crews were not...
Uniformed personnel from one of the "Axis of Evil" nations have arrived deep inside the heart of "the Great Satan" and are preparing their forces to engage foreign opposition. That's one scary, keep-clicking-on-the-Drudge-Report-for-updates way of looking at it. Another less-tense-sounding way? ...
LOWELL, Mass. -- Enterprise Bancorp, Inc. (the "company") (NASDAQ:EBTC) On July 15, 2008, the Board of Directors of Enterprise Bancorp, Inc. declared a quarterly dividend of $0.09 per share to be paid on September 2, 2008 to shareholders of record as of August 12, 2008. The quarterly dividend...
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/372e9e/integrated_area_pl) has announced the addition of the "Integrated Area Planning: A Sustainable Approach" report to their offering. Over the past seven years, Tipperary Institute TI has been commissioned by various local authorities and community groups to assist them in dealing with issues...
