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Labor Law 2.0: The Impact Of New Information Technology On The Employment Relationship And The Relevance Of The Nlra, Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt

Articles by Maurer Faculty

The NLRA system of collective bargaining was born during the industrial age of the early twentieth century. As a result, key terms in the statute such as "employee," "employer," and "appropriate bargaining unit" were first interpreted in the context of long-term employment and large vertically integrated firms that dominated this era. Beginning in the late 1970s, the new information technology wrought a revolution in the organization of production increasing short-term contingent employment and the organization of firms horizontally in trading and subcontracting relationships across the globe. To maintain the relevance of collective bargaining to the modern workplace, the interpretation of …

The Business Of Creative Industries, Chong, Mark

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Creative industries worldwide are an important driver of economic growth and cultural influence. In addition to creating numerous jobs for the economy, creative industries can also shape public perception of countries, regions and cities (and hence place brand). Singapore, too, understands the potential for creative ideas to transform the economy. Among its more high-profile projects include attracting Lucasfilm and video gaming giant Ubisoft to set up base in the country.

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The Choice Of Technology And Equilibrium Wage Rigidity, Haiwen Zhou

Economics Faculty Publications

In this general equilibrium model, firms engage in oligopolistic competition and choose increasing returns technologies to maximize profits. Capital and labor are the two factors of production. The existence of efficiency wages leads to unemployment. The model is able to explain some interesting observations of the labor market. First, even though there is neither long-term labor contract nor costs of wage adjustment, wage rigidity is an equilibrium phenomenon: an increase in the exogenous job separation rate, the size of the population, the cost of exerting effort, and the probability that shirking is detected will not change the equilibrium wage rate. …

การพัฒนาเครื่องมือสําหรับคัดกรองบุคคลที่มีศักยภาพประสบความสําเร็จในธุรกิจเครือข่าย, รัตนา หิรัญพงศ์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

ในปัจจุบันธุรกิจเครือข่ายขยายตัวอย่างต่อเนื่องไปทั่วโลกรวมทั้งในประเทศไทยด้วยทั้งในเรื่องของยอดขายและจำนวนคนที่เข้าสู่ธุรกิจเครือข่าย แต่อย่างไรก็ตามบุคคลที่เข้าสู่ธุรกิจนี้และประสบความสำเร็จนั้นมีจำนวนน้อยมาก ซึ่งสาเหตุหนึ่งของความล้มเหลว ส่วนหนึ่งเป็นผลมาจากการที่นักธุรกิจเครือข่ายไม่สามารถสรรหาบุคคลที่มีศักยภาพที่จะประสบความสำเร็จเข้าสู่เครือข่ายของตนได้ ดังนั้นเพื่อช่วยให้นักธุรกิจเครือข่ายและบริษัทที่ทำธุรกิจเครือข่ายสามารถสรรหาบุคคลเข้าสู่ธุรกิจได้อย่างมีประสิทธิภาพมากยิ่งขึ้น งานศึกษานี้จึงมุ่งที่จะพัฒนาเครื่องมือคัดกรองบุคคลที่มีศักยภาพประสบความสำเร็จในการทำธุรกิจเครือข่าย โดยแบบจำลองสมการเชิงโครงสร้างถูกพัฒนาขึ้นเพื่อศึกษาและยืนยันเกณฑ์หลักและเกณฑ์รองที่จะนำไปใช้การคัดกรอง จากนั้นกระบวนการวิเคราะห์เชิงลำดับชั้นแบบฟัซซี่ถูกนำมาใช้ในการวิเคราะห์เพื่อคัดกรองผู้มุ่งหวังบนฐานเกณฑ์หลักและเกณฑ์รองที่พัฒนาขึ้น ผลการวิเคราะห์จากแบบจำลองสมการเชิงโครงสร้าง พบว่า แบบจำลองที่พัฒนาขึ้นสอดคล้องกับข้อมูลเชิงประจักษ์ โดยในแบบจำลองประกอบด้วยตัวแปรแฝงจำนวน 3 ตัวแปร คือ 1) การไม่ยอมรับช่องว่างระหว่างสิ่งที่มีกับสิ่งที่ปรารถนา และ ความไม่มีประสิทธิภาพของทางเลือกที่เป็นไปได้ทั้งหมดในการลดช่องว่างระหว่างสิ่งที่มีกับสิ่งที่ปรารถนา 2) พลานุภาพ และ 3) การยืนหยัดในการตัดสินใจแม้บุคคลสำคัญรอบข้างเป็นอุปสรรค จากนั้นนำเกณฑ์ที่ได้ไปวิเคราะห์ต่อโดยใช้กระบวนการวิเคราะห์เชิงลำดับชั้นแบบฟัซซี่ ซึ่งจากการทดสอบจะเห็นว่ากระบวนการวิเคราะห์เชิงลำดับชั้นแบบฟัซซี่นั้นสามารถนำมาประยุกต์ใช้ได้เป็นอย่างดี

Easypaisa: Seizing The White Space And Business Model Innovation, Nasir Afghan

Business Review

EasyPaisa is a diversification case study written about two very different organizations, a Telco and Microfinance Bank, and how they merged to create a new business. This new business was providing Mobile Financial Services. Both Telenor (a Telco) and Tameer Bank (Microfinance bank) saw a business opportunity in branchless banking (business white space). They were committed to make this acquisition successful, where Telenor bought over 51%sharesof Tameer Bank. However, as per regulations, the branchless banking model is to be governed under a bank-led model. Therefore, the face of EasyPaisa has always been Tameer Bank which is expected to manage all …

Amo Framework And Psychological Empowerment: Conceptual Model Decoding The Black Box Between Hrm And Innovative Work Behavior, Wali Ur Rehman, Mansoor Ahmad

Business Review

Firms operate in an environment which is influenced by external forces like, government, professional associations, the competitors and other similar organizations operating in the organizational field (Dimaggio & Powell, 1983); knowledge intensive firms, are no exceptions. Purpose of this article is to devise comprehensive conceptual and statistical models for opening the black-box between high-involvement HR practices and innovative work behavior of employees working in knowledge intensive companies. The article explains the Ability-Motivation-Opportunity framework as the generating mechanism through which HR practices affect innovative work behavior through psychological empowerment and supportive work environment. Propositions are developed for future research endeavors, in …

A Web Personalization Artifact For Utility-Sensitive Review Analysis, Long Flory Mrs.

Theses and Dissertations

Online customer reviews are web content voluntarily posted by the users of a product (e.g. camera) or service (e.g. hotel) to express their opinions about the product or service. Online reviews are important resources for businesses and consumers. This dissertation focuses on the important consumer concern of review utility, i.e., the helpfulness or usefulness of online reviews to inform consumer purchase decisions. Review utility concerns consumers since not all online reviews are useful or helpful. And, the quantity of the online reviews of a product/service tends to be very large. Manual assessment of review utility is not only time consuming …

Secure Portable Execution And Storage Environments: A Capability To Improve Security For Remote Working, Peter James

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Remote working is a practice that provides economic benefits to both the employing organisation and the individual. However, evidence suggests that organisations implementing remote working have limited appreciation of the security risks, particularly those impacting upon the confidentiality and integrity of information and also on the integrity and availability of the remote worker’s computing environment. Other research suggests that an organisation that does appreciate these risks may veto remote working, resulting in a loss of economic benefits. With the implementation of high speed broadband, remote working is forecast to grow and therefore it is appropriate that improved approaches to managing …

The Role Of Social Media In U.S. County Governments: The Strategic Value Of Operational Aimlessness, Barry A. Cumbie, Bandana Kar

Faculty Publications

This study investigates the influence of citizens' socio-economic characteristics on the presence of social media in county-level government. E-government is ostensibly citizen-driven and therefore variation in an area's demographics would likely impact a government's utilization of emerging technology, such as social media. Despite its transformative potential and widespread adoption, e-government development beyond basic stages has been sluggish. Social media is transforming the nature of interaction among individuals and organizations and has the potential to overcome some of the restrictive challenges of e-government. Understanding if, how, and to what end governments are harnessing social media will help make e-government a citizen-driven, …

Closing The Knowledge Gap Between Virtual Design And Product Manufacturing : Using 3d Printing For The Ninth Grade, Jeremiah D. Cooper

Graduate Research Papers

This action research investigates the impact of using 3D printing for a Technology Education course in a ninth grade classroom in general, and the effectiveness of students' ability to connect virtual design and manufacturing concepts in particular. There is a current gap in 3D printing research involving the link between designing products virtually using CADD software and the manufacturing processes necessary to create real life products. This action research attempts to fill the current research gap between computer-aided design and product manufacturing for ninth grade students.

Within the three weeks of this experimental design research, as a teacher who teaches …

Addressing The Challenges Of Computer Literacy Among Young Haitian Adults, Siobhan A. Gray

Undergraduate Research Posters

The objective of the research study was to identify and address challenges of capacity building required to facilitate technological competency among school students, young adults and teachers in Haiti through, a two-phase research plan. The first phase utilizes a citizen centric framework for Information and Communication Technologies for Education (ICTE) capacity development that integrates stakeholder needs, prototype development, capacity building, training, and evaluation. They include a sustainable computing platform, Computer on a Stick (COS), and teacher workstation with Internet in a Box (IIAB). The ICTE solutions are installed at six different sites in the impoverished Central Hinche province. The citizen-centric …

'Making For Innovation' Will Be First Class At Nic [Nebraska Innovation Campus], Troy Fedderson

Nebraska Innovation Studio

'Making for Innovation' will be first class at Nebraska Innovation Campus.

A new course will allow up to thirty students to get hands-on experience and help launch the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Maker Space in the spring semester.

The course, "Making for Innovation," will be the first to meet at Nebraska Innovation Studio — formerly the UNL Maker Space — on Nebraska Innovation Campus (http://innovate.unl.edu). Shane Farritor, Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, and Liana Owad, Maker Space Coordinator, will guide the class.

A Movement Tool Kit For The Divergent And Convergent Cps Guidelines: Instruction Cards And Activity Floor Mats, Adela Vangelisti

Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects

A Movement Tool Kit for the Divergent and Convergent CPS Guidelines:

Instruction Cards and Activity Floor Mats

Movement is as natural to humans as breathing is, and, yet, passivity starts early in schools. We are taught to sit still and in silence for long periods of time. By the time we reach adulthood and enter the workforce, we have almost forgotten our sense of embodiment. This lack of movement is counter-productive, not only to learning but to the development of creativity as well. For this project, I designed a tool to recapture the joy and playfulness of movement. Furthermore, the …