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Ilr Impact Brief - Workforce Alignment And Fluidity May Yield A Competitive Advantage, Lee Dyer, Jeff Ericksen
Ilr Impact Brief - Workforce Alignment And Fluidity May Yield A Competitive Advantage, Lee Dyer, Jeff Ericksen
Lee Dyer
[Excerpt] The authors postulate that workforce scalability is the key competency necessary for ongoing marketplace success. Workforce scalability encompasses two factors: alignment and fluidity. The former is an ideal target that calls for the right number of the right type of people in the right place at the right time doing the right thing. The latter is the means by which organizations hit the target, and specifically refers to the speed and ease with which employees are moved around and adjust their behaviors to suit changing business requirements. A set of operating principles facilitates the simultaneous attainment of workforce alignment …
The Human Face Of Economic Globalization: Mexican Migrants And Their Support For Free Trade, John Aldrich, Victoria Defrencesco Soto, Gregory A. Petrow
The Human Face Of Economic Globalization: Mexican Migrants And Their Support For Free Trade, John Aldrich, Victoria Defrencesco Soto, Gregory A. Petrow
Political Science Faculty Publications
This paper presents the results from a focus group and an experiment conducted with Mexican immigrant farm workers as participants. The idea is to investigate free trade attitudes among a group little studied in the debate over immigration and its role in globalization. We can readily illustrate, as we do via our focus group participants, that many of these migrants understand their political situation. Our focus then turns to the political psychology of these workers: how does this understanding manifest itself in their political attitudes? The experiment exposes them to a standard set of arguments for and against economic globalization …
Doing The Right Jobs Right: Managers’ Attributes And Activities At Borders, Gary S. Fields, Jed Devaro
Doing The Right Jobs Right: Managers’ Attributes And Activities At Borders, Gary S. Fields, Jed Devaro
Gary S Fields
[Excerpt] This article starts with a simple value proposition: that companies can save large sums and gain competitive advantage by utilizing more fully their own data on the determinants of profit. In this article, we describe how we used a variety of statistical methods (correlations, simple regressions, multiple regressions, and decompositions) to help one company, Borders, gain competitive advantage by learning from itself.