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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In this paper, The Green League has had 4 manifestos since the party foundation (year 1988). In the first part of the paper the goals of the Greens in different manifestos are analyzed. The interesting question is how the ideological point of view is focused in the manifestos. Moreover in...
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...
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...
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