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- Building Your Influence
- "Lean and mean" is a popular catchphrase used when describing today's organizational structures. In an effort to become more efficient and drive down costs, many organizations have adopted a matrix or networked structure that relies on teams to implement managerial decisions and the resultant projects. Consequently, cooperation within and between...
- Articles 2007-10-09
- Human Resource Management In Initial Public Offering Firms : Validation Of A Control Orientation Typology
- This paper introduces a new typology that focuses on the way employees are managed in smaller, initial public offering IPO firms. Unlike many typologies in the human resource management literature, this typology is rooted in theory. Specifically, agency theory and organizational control theory suggest two forms of control over the...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Immediate Removal of Indwelling Catheters After Hysterectomy Was Not Associated With Adverse Outcomes
- Indwelling urinary catheters are frequently used after urogenital surgery to monitor urine output and to prevent urinary retention. Although there seems to be no clinical uncertainty about the need for an empty bladder before surgery, controversy arises about the ideal time to remove the catheter. Removal of indwelling catheters tends...
- White papers 2006-08-25
- Our Lives In Digital Times
- This paper uses statistical information to begin to shed light on the outcomes and impacts of Information and Communications Technology ICT. Some of the expected outcomes associated with ICT are presented, while factual evidence is used to demonstrate that these outcomes have so far not materialized. The paperless office is...
- White papers 2006-11-01
- Foreign Direct Investment And Labor-Market Outcomes
- The multinationalization of production is perhaps the most striking and distinguishing characteristic of the process of globalization over the last two decades. The share of cross-border capital flows accounted for by the Foreign Direct Investment FDI of multinationals has been rising in last few years. This paper examines the relationship...
- White papers 2003-02-01
- Agreeing Now To Agree Later: Contracts That Rule Out But Do Not Rule In
- The publisher views a contract as a list of outcomes. Ex ante, the parties commit not to consider outcomes not on the list, i.e., these are "ruled out". Ex post, they freely bargain over outcomes on the list, i.e., the contract specifies no mechanism to structure their choice; in this...
- White papers 2004-05-01
- LAA Commissioning
- This template is a project proposal with: delivery agent, name of proposal; headline outcome; subsidiary outcomes; proposal summary; sectors; new or existing service; NRAs covered; sum requested; and sum approved.
- Tools & templates 2006-03-23
- Time Management Tip: What Outcome Do You Want From Your Time?
- You probably can't eliminate all the distractions from your time management plans, so you have to learn to deal with them or work around them. The outcome you want from this time management tip will be obtained through your actions. What actual actions would you have to take to accomplish...
- White papers 2007-12-01
- The Power To Determine The Outcome Of An Interview
- Despite the fact that the interviewee has the ability to influence the outcome of the interview, often they have difficulty making use of that ability. This is an outcome of being too self-critical and perhaps having low self-esteem. Some of the applicants fail to consider their own professional experience and...
- White papers 2008-03-31
- Project Management Post Implementation Reviews
- Risks are potential threats to the project outcomes (i.e., Budget, Delivery Time, Quality or Scope). If they are not managed effectively they may impact the outcomes. Issues are threats to the project outcomes that have occurred. They are no longer a potential threat, they are real and are causing an...
- White papers 2007-03-09
- Building Critical Mass In A Change Management Programme
- A change management programme succeeds only when the change in processes and outcomes become embedded in day-to-day business. For a change programme to be embedded into day-to-day business, a critical mass of employees and managers must be emotionally tied to the change in business outcomes and the change in processes...
- White papers 2007-06-18
- Turn Customer Input into Innovation
- How do you launch a blockbuster product? Stop asking customers what they want. Start asking what they want your products to do for them. That's how medical-device maker Cordis created the artery stent--which doubled the...
- Articles 2008-05-06
- Proven Outcomes in Cardiology
- Proven outcomes is what Siemens is helping to deliver right now across the entire health care continuum. Outcomes that result from truly efficient workflow. These are outcomes that improve the bottom line, and that lead to a level of care that feels exceptional to the patient and the care provider....
- White papers 2003-08-12
- Developing Countries in GATT/WTO Negotiations
- The growing role of developing countries in the WTO negotiations since the Tokyo Round suggests that the most power-based or pessimistic views of the international regime, that it is entirely determined by the interests of the most powerful, and that the outcome of international negotiations cannot be influenced by choices...
- White papers 2001-10-01
- A Field Study Of Early Organizational Outcomes From The Introduction Of A Skill Based Pay Program
- Despite the documented increased use of skill or knowledge based pay programs in organizations, little evidence exists to demonstrate whether these plans achieve the results that are intended. This study, a quasi-experimental, empirical test of the organizational outcomes from the introduction of a skill based pay program, addresses this need....
- White papers
- An Introduction to Fast REP (Risk Evaluation & Profiling)
- It is relatively simple to compare and choose among alternatives in a deterministic world because there is no uncertainty: what you see is what you get. Uncertain outcomes with their attendant distributions complicate the comparison effort. In the world of investments it is generally agreed that high mean rate of...
- White papers 2001-10-15
- Seven Ways To Be An In Valuable Resource
- Building and maintaining relationship can take an enormous chunk of sales professional's time and effort! This some advice on how to really make that investment pay off. Relationships will get the appointment, but the consultative selling approach will get the business. Instead, one must make it clear that they can...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Strategy Vs. Outcome
- This article describes the importance of investment strategy and it is various outcomes for the investors. Investment strategy is forward looking. Investment strategies should be developed from a sound foundation in financial economics, and a comprehensive investment philosophy. The strategy must be tailored to the unique needs of each investor,...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- What Is Emotional Intelligence
- From the executive summary: ‘If there is anything close to a consensus in the understanding of intelligence, it is that the Intelligence Quotient IQ does not wholly account for an individual's success or failure in the world. In fact, most social scientists that study intelligence estimate that IQ accounts for...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Estimating the Effects of Covariates on Health Expenditures
- This paper addresses estimation of an outcome characterized by mass at zero, significant skewness, and heteroscedasticity. Unlike other approaches suggested recently that require retransformations or arbitrary assumptions about error distributions, the estimation strategy uses sequences of conditional probability functions, similar to those used in discrete time hazard rate analyses, to...
- White papers 2000-10-01
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