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• Identifying Effective Workplace Basic Skills Strategies For Enhancing Employee Development And Productivity

  BNET - 2004-05-01

  Our study will be using a longitudinal design in order to address the research questions set out in the previous section. We propose to study, in detail, and over a twenty-four month period, the success of occupationally-linked literacy, language and numeracy programmes on a sample of 500 learner participants. We...

  Tags: Workplace, University Of London, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management

• G÷del's Theorem and the Case of the Internet Information Commons

  BNET - 2003-05-19

  The paper talks about commons-based information production that refers to useful information that is produced as a result of events or motivations that are distinct from production that is consequent on reactions to market prices and/or managerial commands. It explains with an example that if musician A is a composer...

  Tags: Commons, Production, University Of London, G÷del, Internet, Workforce Management, Leadership, Sales Force Management, Human Resources, Management, Sales

• What Has the Fund Manager Done for Me? A Value-Based Approach to Investment Performance Measurement

  BNET - 2003-01-01

  In many circumstances, it is unsatisfactory to measure portfolio performance using time-weighted rates of return. There are well known problems with performance attribution analysis using time-weighted returns in a multi-interval context, and it is impossible to measure the contribution of a portfolio's manager to the wealth of an individual investor....

  Tags: Performance, Investment, University Of London, Performance Management, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance

• The Game-Theoretic Capital Asset Pricing Model

  BNET - 2002-03-03

  The paper presents the derivation of a capital asset pricing model from an efficient market hypothesis, with no assumptions about the beliefs or preferences of investors. The efficient market hypothesis says that a speculator with limited means cannot beat a particular index by a substantial factor. The model reveals that...

  Tags: Hypothesis, University Of London, Index, Market Hypothesis, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management