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- Maximize the 6 Key Factors for Employee Performance
- Want to improve your team's results, output and productivity? In this video, Ed Muzio, CEO of Group Harmonics, shows you how to maximize the key factors for performance: purpose, resources, incentive, visibility, encouragement and capability. It's three-and-a-half minutes well worth spending. by CC Holland
- Blog posts 2008-10-17
- Measuring Organizational Factors in Airline Safety
- In recent years, there have been several major transportation accidents which have brought significant attention to the role that organizational factors play in motivating operator safety within high-risk systems, yet very little has been studied regarding the direct contribution organizational factors play in accidents. The purpose of the study presented...
- White papers 2004-02-01
- Forces That Move Stock Prices
- Different types of investors depend on different factors. Short-term investors and traders tend to incorporate and may even prioritize technical factors. Long-term investors prioritize fundamentals and recognize that technical factors play an important role. Investors who believe strongly in fundamentals can reconcile themselves to technical forces with the following popular...
- White papers 2004-10-08
- Evaluation of Navigator's Performance Shaping Factors in Marine Incidents
- This paper discusses progress in the development of an incident investigation system to improve maritime safety management. The authors designed a questionnaire about marine incidents and the conditions of navigators' Performance Shaping Factors PSF in those incidents. The results revealed important dangerous relationships between unsafe acts and PSF, through analysis...
- White papers 2003-07-31
- Genetic, Household and Spatial Clustering of Leprosy on an Island in Indonesia: A Population-Based Study
- It is generally accepted that genetic factors play a role in susceptibility to both leprosy per se and leprosy type, but only few studies have tempted to quantify this. Estimating the contribution of genetic factors to clustering of leprosy within families is difficult since these persons often share the same...
- White papers 2005-11-24
- The Underwriting Cycle: The Rule of Six
- The underwriting cycle is a thing of the past for most health insurance companies. There were six primary factors that caused the six-year pattern of the underwriting cycle for 1965-1991. These factors were claims payment cycle time, renewal dates and process, growth versus profit objectives, role of the actuary, rate...
- White papers 2004-12-01
- Special Factors Impacting the Reinsurance Market in 2005
- The reinsurance market at 1 January, 2005 renewals could, perhaps, best be described as moderately soft, with the emphasis on 'moderately'. For most lines of business, renewal rates were flat or down, but with decreases mainly restricted to single digits. Similarly, where there were increases, they also tended to be...
- White papers 2005-03-01
- Creative Factors in Interactive Advertising
- This study examines the relationship of creative factors to interactive advertising by studying their connection to banner ad clicking. Creative factors are considered in two parts: executional factors and message factors. A total of n=243 banner ads from the first week in July 2001 were examined. Click-through rate data and...
- White papers 2001-10-01
- Isolating Important Driving Forces in Indirect Real Estate Markets
- Isolating the important driving factors in property markets is of continuing interest to both property analysts and fund managers. Ascertaining permanent driving factors may be of interest to strategic asset allocation while transitory factors may be of interest in the development of tactical asset allocation models. This study uses established...
- White papers 2004-01-19
- Critical Factors for Successful Implementation of Enterprise Systems
- Enterprise resource planning ERP systems have emerged as the core of successful information management and the enterprise backbone of organizations. The difficulties of ERP implementations have been widely cited in the literature but research on the critical factors for initial and ongoing ERP implementation success is rare and fragmented. Through...
- White papers 2002-08-13
- Capital Asset Pricing Model Integrating both Firm and Market
- This paper proposes a theoretical framework to incorporate a firm's intrinsic value and market-trading value into asset pricing model. It shows that asset return can be decomposed into two components. The first component, called the firm factor, is related to the output of a firm and is proportional to return...
- White papers 2003-07-01
- Delegation to Devolution
- Decentralisation has always figured on India's policy agenda in one form or other. Its fortunes, however, have fluctuated in response to several factors. Among them the attitude of the centre and the specific socio-political contexts in different states are particularly important. The latter explains, to a large extent, differences in...
- White papers 2006-05-20
- Business Ethics for Small Business
- Business Ethics for Small Business: Is it possible for an individual with strong moral values to make ethically questionable decisions in a business setting? What affects a person's inclination to make either ethical or unethical decisions in a business organization? Although the answers to that question are not entirely clear,...
- White papers 2006-09-05
- H.J. Heinz Company F3Q09 (Qtr End 1/28/09) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Chris Growe – Stifel Nicolaus Chris Growe – Stifel Nicolaus Regarding what I’ll call the volume price balance in the quarter clearly you’re volumes are a little worse then expected but I know also North America had some timing factors...
- Earnings calls 2009-02-24
- Royal Bank of Canada F3Q07 (Qtr End 7/31/07) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. We will now take questions from the telephone lines. [Operator Instructions]. The first question is from Jim Bantis of Credit Suisse. Please go ahead. Jim Bantis - Credit Suisse Hi, good afternoon. Just got a couple of questions. One focused on the...
- Earnings calls 2007-09-18
- With Workforce Performance In The Spotlight, HR Is On The Hot Seat
- With growth clearly on the agenda of most companies, executives face an imposing challenge: how to identify and successfully address those factors that have the biggest impact on an organization's ability to capitalize on growth opportunities. In polling executives about what they thought were the most significant factors influencing high...
- White papers 2006-11-02
- Aptitude Tests Reveal The Difference Between Your Aptitude
- Aptitude tests measure your skills, abilities, values, interests and personality in order to help you determine which careers you might be best suited for and eliminate those that you are not. Aptitude tests are some of the most important tools to anyone considering a career change. Job satisfaction for individuals...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- 3 Job-Search Success Factors
- This paper explains 3 factors for your job search, by adapting these factors, you can gain new insights - and a new job: the list; the offer; the creative. The more people who know you and look upon you with favor - the bigger your "List" of qualified prospects -...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- AttentionTeens - Win At The Job Game
- Many young people believe that when you apply for work, whether it is for volunteer or paid work, full-time or part-time, that education and experience are the most important factors in obtaining work. While these factors are very, very important, these are only two factors out of many that an...
- White papers 2006-11-30
- Investment Returns
- Meeting your long-term investment goal is dependent on a number of factors. This not only includes your investment capital and rate of return, but inflation, taxes and your time horizon. This tool helps you sort through these factors and determine your bottom line.
- Tools & templates 2008-01-01
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