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How to Make Active Learning Come Alive!
Why are some training programs so dull, and others so full of active participation? What makes one trainer plod along, while another is well known for bringing energy and effectiveness into the classroom? The article discusses a technique that generates active participation, even with the most reserved students and in...
Tags: Participation, Training, Ron Kaufman Active Learning, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Productivity, Human Resources
White papers 2003-01-01
Learning as Work: Teaching And Learning Processes In The Contemporary Work Organisation
The skills debate in many European countries has for many years been preoccupied with the supply of qualified individuals and participation in training events. This emphasis is reflected in the sources of systematic data currently available to policy-makers and academics in the field. However, case study work suggests that qualifications...
Tags: Metaphor, Participation, Training, University Of Leicester, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Marketing Research, Human Resources, Marketing
White papers 2004-09-01
Bureaucrates As Entrepreneurs: Do Municipal Telecom Providers Hinder Private Entrepreneurs?
We consider how government-owned enterprises choose markets and affect privately-owned rivals. Specifically, we compare the types of markets that municipally-owned telecommunications providers in the United States serve to the types of markets that Competitive Local Exchange Companies CLEC serve. This paper indicates that municipalities may not pose a significant competitive...
Tags: Participation, University Of North Texas, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Entrepreneurship, Telecommunications, Networking, Management
White papers 2005-08-30
Discounting Telephone Service
This paper explains a unique public assistance program, the Lifeline Assistance Program, to consider factors that cause people to not participate in a program that provides them with financial benefits. Lifeline is a nationwide program created by the Federal Communications Commission to provide price discounts to low-income telephone subscribers. Nowadays...
Tags: Program, Phone, Participation, Telephone Service, University Of North Texas, Lifeline, Telecom & Utilities
White papers 2006-02-15
Limited Asset Markets Participation, Inverted Keynesian Logic And Monetary Policy
This paper incorporates limited asset markets participation in dynamic general equilibrium and develops a simple framework for monetary policy analysis. It is shown that aggregate dynamics and stability properties of an otherwise standard business cycle model depend nonlinearly on the degree of asset market participation: low enough participation causes an...
Tags: Asset, Interest Rate, Participation, University Of Oxford, Asset Management, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance
White papers 2005-02-28
The Great Inflation And Limited Asset Market Participation: Fed Policy Was Better Than We Think
This paper argues that limited asset market participation before 1980 in the US and the change thereof is crucial in explaining macroeconomic performance and monetary policy conduct. Our model predicts that when participation rates change from low to high the slope of the IS curve changes from positive ('non-Keynesian') to...
Tags: Asset, Federal Reserve Board, Policy, Participation, Inflation, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations
White papers 2005-02-28
Improving Patient Outcomes: The Effects Of Staff Participation And Collaboration In Healthcare Delivery
Front-line staff possesses an immense amount of functional and experiential knowledge from which their organizations can learn. This paper examines two distinct processes for leveraging front-line staff knowledge in organizational learning - participation and collaboration. Participation describes front-line staff sharing decision-making authority with hierarchical superiors (e.g. managers). Collaboration refers to...
Tags: Patient, Participation, Health Care, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2007-07-30
Retail Marketing Strategy - Where Has All The Money Gone?
What are the impediments to effective implementation and execution of strategies for companies? One problem is the lack of buy-in by key personnel in the company. What can cause this lack of buy-in? Starting with the actual planning process, are these people part of the strategic planning team? This can...
Tags: Team, Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Participation, Center For Simplified Strategic Planning, Team Management, Management
White papers 2009-01-01
Hill of Influence
Team meetings can be tricky. You want everyone to participate, but no one to dominate. So, how do you determine the amount of interaction and how do you shift the balance? Ed Muzio offers up the self-regulating "Hill of Influence" model.
Tags: Hill, Team Management, whiteboard, meetings, management, dominance, team, participation, group, dynamics
Videos 2008-10-02
Strengthening Women's Participation in Decision-making at the Local Level in Mali
This concept paper was to serve several inter-related purposes: to set forth an analytic framework, identify some points of entry for supporting women?s participation within the process of decentralization, and suggest some activities to build understanding for the next USAID strategic plan in 2002. Further, the paper was to help...
Tags: Women, Decision-making, Participation, Tools & Techniques, Gender And Diversity, Management, Human Resources
White papers 2001-01-01
Improving Performance and Accountability in Local Government With Citizen Participation
Many indicators suggest that levels of civic engagement, civic participation, and civic trust declined during the last two decades of the 20th century. The decline in participation and trust revolve, in part, around the issues of programmatic and individual performance as well as the accountability of decision makers and individuals...
Tags: Performance, Participation, Accountability, Performance Management, Financial Accounting, Government, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance
White papers 2005-04-14
Employment-Based Retirement Plan Participation: Geographic Differences and Trends, 2004
This paper examines the level of participation by workers in public and private sector employment-based pension or retirement plans, based on the U.S. Census Bureau's March 2005. It begins with an overview of retirement plan types and participation in these types of plans. Next, it describes the data used in...
Tags: Participation, Worker, Retirement Plan
White papers 2005-10-01
Will Automatic Enrollment Improve Participation in Your 401(k) or 403(b) Plan?
Many 401k plans provide matching credits of 25%, 50% or even 100% per year, plus investment returns. That offer should be too good to pass up. Yet many employees do not take advantage of it. Low participation can also cause a plan to fail applicable non-discrimination standards. Automatic enrollment may...
Tags: 401(k) Plan, Participation, Enrollment, WN & J, 401(k), Retirement Plans, Investment, Human Resources, Benefits, Finance
White papers 2000-09-01
Leadership Lessons
Given all that we know about participation, it seems that the leadership challenge is to determine how much participation, in what decisions or process do we encourage participation, when to encourage participation, and who should be involved. As a HR professional or business leader, you can make meetings and projects...
Tags: Participation, Leadership, Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Financial Innovation, Market Participation and Asset Prices
This paper investigates the pricing effects of financial innovation in an economy with endogenous participation and heterogeneous income risks. The introduction of non-redundant assets endogenously modifies the participation set, reduces the covariance between dividends and participants' consumption and thus leads to lower risk premia. In multisector economies, financial innovation spreads...
Tags: Asset, Innovation, Asset Price, Financial, Participation, Financial Accounting, Asset Management, Leadership, Strategy, Financial Planning, Finance, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management
White papers 2003-07-01
Follow The Leader: Theory And Evidence On Political Participation
This paper presents an empirical and theoretical investigation of the strategic components to political participation. Using state-by-state voting data for the eleven U.S. Presidential elections, 1948-1988, we first show that voter turnout is a positive function of predicted closeness and a negative function of the voting population size. We then...
Tags: Theory, Leader, Participation, State, Leadership, Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Model Uncertainty, Limited Market Participation and Asset Prices
This paper demonstrates that limited participation can arise endogenously in the presence of model uncertainty. The model generates novel predictions on how limited participation relates to equity premium and diversi.cation discount. When the dispersion in investors' model uncertainty is small, full participation prevails in equilibrium. In this case, equity premium...
Tags: Asset, Asset Price, Participation, Equity, Uncertainty Dispersion, Investment, Financial Services, Finance
White papers 2003-01-06
The Geography of Stock Market Participation: The Influence of Communities and Local Firms
This paper investigates the importance of geography in explaining equity market participation. It provides evidence to support two distinct local area effects. The first is a community ownership effect, that is, individuals are influenced by the investment behavior of members of their community. Specifically, a ten percentage-point increase in equity...
Tags: Geography, Federal Reserve Board, Stock, Participation, Equity, Stock Market, Investment, Financial Services, Finance
White papers 2004-04-01
Employment-Based Retirement and Pension Plan Participation: Geographic Differences and Trends
This document examines the level of participation by workers in employment-based pension or retirement plans. Their participation is examined for 2001 across various worker characteristics and those of their employers. The report then examines retirement plan participation across U.S. geographic regions, including by state and certain consolidated metropolitan statistical areas...
Tags: Participation, Pension Plan, Worker
White papers 2003-04-01
Employment-Based Retirement and Pension Plan Participation: Declining Levels and Geographic Differences
This report examines the level of participation by workers both public and private in employment-based pension or retirement plans. Participation is examined for 2002 across various worker characteristics and those of their employers. The report then investigates retirement plan participation across U.S. geographic regions, including by state and certain consolidated...
Tags: Participation, Pension Plan, Worker
White papers 2003-10-01