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Linking Corporate Goals And Shop Floor Performance, Loretta Cochran

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Several different types of programs have been introduced to translate organizational goals into performance measurement and feedback systems that can be transferred to the shop floor level for employees. An overreaching assumption has been made that there must be subsets of objectives in order to motivate shop floor employees. In the field of human resources, performance management systems have been designed as vehicles for goal translation from top management to lower levels. The total quality management literature introduces hoshin planning as another formula for disseminating goals between layers within the organization.

An aggregate perspective on this linkage of performance and …

Economic Impacts Of International Trade Agreements On The World Frozen Concentrate Orange Juice Market, Louis Zabaneh

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The international FCOJ market is an important source of income for many countries around the world. The international trading environment is continuously changing as the forces of free trade grow and are embraced both regionally and globally. The specific economic effects due to present and proposed international trade agreements on prices, quantities, trade flows and welfare in the international FCOJ market are analyzed in this study. Four trading scenarios are considered. These include removing all tariffs for imports into the European Community, the Free Trade Area of the Americas, the lifting of the U.S. embargo on Cuba, and world free …