Jack Welch is famous for implementing GE's brutal performance evaluation, where employees are ranked against each other and the bottom 10 percent of the list gets booted every year. Such "forced ranking" systems have long been controversial, with experts divided on if they are truly effective. New research from the...
This paper presents a method for allocating production capacity among flexible and dedicated machines based on uncertain demand forecasts of products in a production portfolio. Given multiple scenarios of future demands with the associated probabilities, the method provides alternative capacity allocations by quantifying the expected values of the product quality...
What is a trade theorist to make of the outsourcing of skilled labor services by a presumably skill-abundant country like the United States? Outsourcing makes perfect sense in any economic model when it takes advantage of international wage differentials. Within the context of the Heckscher-Ohlin HO model, however, as the...
Five national surveys offer similar accounts of employment-based health insurance and the subset of the uninsured who have declined employment-based health insurance. While offering similar stories, the surveys are far from identical in the number of people they place at each turn in the story, with the relative size of...
This paper investigates the importance of factor endowment vis-a-vis institutions in explaining the locational choice of foreign investors during the 1990s. Using dynamic panel estimation on data for transition economies, the authors found that low labour costs, bureaucratic efficiency ("Institutions"), agglomeration economies and natural resource abundance are key factors explaining...
Link slabs designed for macroscopically crack free concrete bridge decks system were experimentally tested. This document presents the results of this experiment. The property requirements of the link slab material were considered. Special focus was placed on the fatigue and durability performance. Introduction of a ductile Engineered Cementitious Composite ECC...
The paper begins with the discussion that human resource strategy is the result of a set of decisions a company makes about the humans with whom it does business. Hmm, sounds easy. Marketing strategy is the set of decisions a company makes about how it does marketing; finance strategy is...
Motivation consists of a set of psychological processes that arouse and provide direction to goal-directed human behavior. A high employee motivation level at the workplace enables the employees to do their best at the job. This increases the organizational productivity. The paper examines motivation and its effects on job design....
While significant advances have been made in concrete materials and in concrete structures over the last decade, research in materials and in structural engineering are often carried out separately. As a result, opportunities in major leaps in structural performance may be missed, or research emphasis in materials development may be...
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