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Benefits Of Formal Mentoring, Kimberly Hein Hutzell

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The development of capable and result-oriented employees is of critical necessity in the business world. During a period of cutbacks and mergers, as well as demanding work schedules and skill qualifications, corporations must identify methods of support and training which not only maintain, but increase and maximize production levels of employees. One method to address these conditions is formal mentoring. Formal mentoring is a deliberate job training partnership which seeks to increase employee performance as well as improve an organization's competitiveness. While this form of experiential learning has a history in the education sector, it has been introduced and implemented …

Journal Of Actuarial Practice, Volume 2, No.2, 1994, Colin Ramsay , Editor

Journal of Actuarial Practice (1993–2006)

ARTICLES

Disenrollment Patterns of Elderly in Managed Care and Fee for Service • Kenneth G. Manton, H. Dennis Tolley, Robert Newcomer, James C. Vertrees, and Charlene Harrington

Modeling Insurance Cash Flows for Universal Life Policies • Robert E. Hoyt

Modal Premium Factors in Ordinary Life Insurance • James B. Ross and Criss G. Woodruff

Predicting Automobile Insurance Multi-Regional Base Pure Premiums • Edward Nissan and Iskandar S. Hamwi

A Statistical Approach to IBNR Reserves • Bradford S. Gile

Safety First and Ambiguity • Lawrence A. Berger and Howard Kunreuther

Discussion of Robert L. Brown's "Tax Assistance to Qualified Retirement Savings …

Disenrollment Patterns Of Elderly In Managed Care And Fee For Service, Kenneth G. Manton, Dennis H. Tolley, Robert Newcomer, James C. Vertrees, Charlene Harrington

Journal of Actuarial Practice (1993–2006)

As the trend to provide health care through managed care facilities increases, the need to examine ,vhy insured individuals voluntarily terminate managed care coverage grows. Voluntary termination of coverage, or dis enrollment, has both social and fiscal implications. Particularly among the elderly, patterns of disenrollment likely are related to self assessment of care needs and levels of health. In this paper we examine the patterns of dis enrollment among elderly enrollees as a function of health status and disability. We focus on disenrollment patterns from an experimental prepaid extended care facility, called a social HMO (S/HMO) and compare this pattern …

Job Complexity, "Type A" Behavior, And Cardiovascular Disorder: A Prospective Study, John Schaubroeck, Daniel C. Ganster, Barbara Ellen Kemmerer

Department of Management: Faculty Publications

Interview-based measures of "type A" behavior and psychological and task-person indexes of job complexity were obtained from 251 police and fire department employees with sound cardiovascular health. Fol- low-up data on cardiovascular disorder were collected seven years later from participants who had remained with their organizations. The type A behavior pattern predicted cardiovascular disorder over time, and the relationships between the two complexity indexes and cardio- vascular morbidity were positive among individuals with high type A behavior ratings but negative among those with low ratings. We discuss the implications of these findings for worker health and job design.

Dual Diffusion: Analysis And Implications For Sales Force Management, Madhavan Parthasarathy, Ravipreet S. Sohi, Ronald D. Hampton

Department of Marketing: Faculty Publications

Retail resistance to an innovation can hamper its supply to consumers, thereby influencing product adoption behavior. Given this, a dual diffusion process consisting of both retail and consumer adoption is more appropriate in today's dynamic marketplace. Sales emphasis by manufacturers can strongly influence retail and consumer adoption behaviors, which would be reflected in the shapes of their respective patterns. In this paper, the authors examine the nature of retail adoption and its impact, both positive and negative, on consumer adoption. Following this, they present a strategic framework that lays out the sales management implications of the dual diffusion process.

R&D-Marketing Integration Mechanisms, Communication Flows, And Innovation Success, Rudy K. Moenaert, William E. Souder, Arnoud De Meyer, Dirk Deschoolmeester

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

The authors report the results of their study of forty technologically innovative Belgian companies to examine the interaction between marketing and R&D. They studied one commercially successful and one commercially unsuccessful technological product innovation project in each participating company and collected data from one marketing and one R&D respondent per project. Communication flows between marketing and R&D are increased under conditions involving formalization of projects, decentralization, positive inter-functional climate, and role flexibility.

The Individual Investor : Investment Objectives, Strategies, And Tactics, Clive Walcott

Theses

The individual investor's circumstances and investment behavior have received relatively little attention since it was discovered in the late sixties that he was withdrawing as a direct participant in the American equities market. The first major response to this withdrawal phenomenon was the 1974 Individual Investor Research Project (IIRP). For the first time, the individual investor's circumstances and decision processes were examined directly and not through broad-based trading statistics or portfolio simulations.

This current survey identifies the significant changes in investment objectives, strategies, and tactics since the IIRP. These changes were discovered when seven demographic variables were cross-classified with various …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 69, No. 27, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Broadbent, Stephanie. Housing Intercepts Football Players’ Vandalism – Keen Hall, Housing & Residence Life
• Tungate, Matthew. Money: Standards for School Funding Set
• Ang, Dawn. A Witness to the World – Ruth Hand, Wesley Chapel, Religion
• Post Office Gets Extended Hours
• Instructor Who Was Willing to Give So Much for So Little Dies at Age 47 – Terry Jones
• Students Don’t Deserve Hassle – Housing & Residence Life
• Student Government Association Has Lost Its Priorities
• Editorial Cartoon WKU Dorm Life, We’re Not Responsible For . . …

Plan For Implementation Of Total Quality Management In The Republic Of China Air Force, Meng-Chun Chao

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to build a plan for implementation of Total Quality Management in the Republic of China Air Force. The primary TQM elements are reviewed through definitions, advantages, principles, tools and techniques, education and training, and continuous improvement. In order to establish a TQM plan, the related experience of quality improvement in the U.S. DOD are referenced. The characteristics of ROCAF related to TQM are analyzed and related culture issues are mentioned. The implementation plan includes four parts, top management orientation, TQM structure establishment, empowerment, and continuous improvement. A Chinese view of TQM continuous improvement models …

A Theological Context Of Work From The Catholic Social Encyclical Tradition, Michael John Naughton, Gene R. Laczniak

Marketing Faculty Research and Publications

This article draws upon 100 years of writings which are referred to as the Catholic Social Tradition (CST). Using this tradition as a guide, the nature of work is explored along with the principles and virtues which vitalize the deepest dimension of work — how it affects the dignity of the human person. It develops five operational ethical principles which can be applied to questions of workplace ethics. Organizational policies and programs that seem consistent with CST are also discussed.

Michael Naughton is Assistant Professor of Management and Theology at the University of St. Thomas (MN). Dr. Naughton's major research …

The Cult Of Number Oneness - More Strange Motivational Technique, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Who is number one? Numero Uno. Primero. The Top Dog. The Best. The Greatest. This is the issue. This is the prime topic of all those sports talk shows that moan on and on through the long night of multiple time zones across America; Or on the twenty four hours of endless babble networks.

1993 December, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Morehead State University press releases for December of 1993.

Conducting Interorganizational Research Using Key Informants, Nirmalya Kumar, Louis W. Stern, James C. Anderson

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

In this article, we examine the use of the key informant methodology by researchers investigating interorganizational relationships. Authors have advocated the use of multiple informants to increase the reliability and validity of informant reports. However, interorganizational research still tends to rely on single informants. We investigated informant selection and obtaining perceptual agreement among multiple informants, two problems that may have inhibited widespread use of multiple informants. We suggest procedures for dealing with those problems and provide an illustrative application of our proposals.

1993-11-19, Morehead State Board Of Regents

Morehead State Board of Regents Agenda Books and Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 69, No. 24, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Bernardy, Alan. Hoops Hysteria: Fans Enthused Despite Defeat – Basketball
• Tungate, Matthew. Students, Others Could Decide University’s Financial Future – Budget
• Root, Tonya. The Bomb May Not Be Real, But the Robber Was – Bank Robberies, Cumberland Federal Savings Bank
• Assistant Dean Receives Award – Frank Conley
• Red Cross Sponsors Blood Drive
• Diversity Is More Than Black, White – Student Government Association
• Editorial Cartoon Minority Scholarships
• People Poll: What Do You Think About the Bill That Makes It a Federal to Blockade Abortion Clinics?
• Bunnell, …

1993 November, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Morehead State University press releases for November of 1993.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 69, No. 14, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Cecil, Jill. Students Not Sold on Walking Student Escort Service
• Flynn, Leslie. Student Government Association: The Students’ Connection to Western
• Flynn, Leslie. 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . . You’re On the Air with Student Government Association – New Rock 92 Radio
• Former Resident Assistant Will Appear in Court – Glenn Watson
• Sigma Chi Injured in Scuffle – Steve Newman
• Education Reform Shouldn’t Be Rushed
• Lee, John. Editorial Cartoon Brereton Jones as Mercury
• Sound Ruins Dracula – Raymond McNally
• Domino’s …

Accounting Historians Notebook, 1993, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Fall) [Whole Issue]

Accounting Historians Notebook

Copyright held by: Academy of Accounting Historians

1993 October, Morehead State University. Office Of Communications & Marketing.

MSU Clip Sheet Archives

MSU Clip Sheet newsletters published in October of 1993.

Planner, Volume 8, Number 4, October/November 1993, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Paul F. Grady And The Debate On The Authority Of The Apb, Elliott L. Slocum, Teresa T. King

Accounting Historians Notebook

Paul F. Grady is recognized in accounting history as a practitioner, a researcher, a scholar, and a public servant, (Previts, September, 1986); indeed, he epitomized the accounting professional. Grady began his professional career in 1923 and served as a partner in Arthur Andersen & Company (1932-1942) and Price Waterhouse & Company (1944-1960). During his career in public accounting, Grady served on many committees of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (Institute). He chaired the committee on auditing procedure (1944-1948) which developed and published Generally Accepted Auditing Standards: Their Significance and Scope and Internal Control: Elements of a Co-Ordinated System …

Quarterly Report - Fall 1993, Nova University

The Quarterly Report

No abstract provided.

Practicing Cpa, Vol. 17 No. 10, October 1993, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Library Resources On The Internet: Blc Gateway And Infosource In A Nutchell, Daniel Ortiz

Joseph P. Healey Library Publications

The Boston Library Consortium (BLC) recently developed a gateway. This makes all consortium catalogs accessible through one internet address, or one dial-up. The Gateway also provides access to the BLC Infosource.

Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 36 Number 1, Fall 1993, Santa Clara University

Santa Clara Magazine

10 - DISCONNECTED A loss of continuity and connectedness could be the price we pay for this era of decentralized, customized technology. By Timothy J. Lukes

14 - STRETCHED TO THE LIMIT Private colleges scramble to control financial aid costs, and families struggle with too few aid dollars to go around. Here are the stories of four families who have worked in partnership with the University to make it through. By Elizabeth Fernandez '79, Overview by Elise Banducci '87

23 - THE MORAL LIFE In his recent encyclical, the pope speaks out on human nature, Christian boundaries, and universal truths. …

The Internet As Commons: A Tale Of Enclosure, Roger A. Lohmann

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

The original model of the internet developed as an electronic commons for scientists and academics. It will be only a matter of time before the same rich and powerful information barons who already control such "fourth estate" communication industries as newspaper, magazine and book publishing, television networks and movie production facilities establish their toll-booths on the information superhighway as well. Fortunately, within this electronic ocean of corporate and proprietary feudalism, there may also be room for an archipelago of freistaaten; "free citystates" functioning as autonomous and self-governing islands for the arts, sciences, humanities, social service and community.

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 35 No. 1, Charles Hartshorne, Richard Moore, Patti Capel Swartz, Sanford Pinsker, Brian Conniff, Stephanie Demetrakopoulos, Deborah Athy, Jim Cihlar, Anne Colwell, George Gott, Douglas Gray, Michele Krueger, Rebecca A. Lilly, Linda Pennisi, Bruce Taylor, Charles Cagle, Donald Wayne Viney, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

Understanding God and that which is not divine has provoked philosophical extremes from the time of the Greeks to the present day. Philosopher CHARLES HARTSHORNE proposes a mathematical schema to sort out their differences and to establish a common ground for discussing deity and humanity. Author of twenty books and more than four hundred scholarly essays, Hartshorne, before his retirement, taught in ten universities, five in the United States and five abroad (Germany, Belgium, Australia, Japan, and India).

Bridging the gulf between the humanities and the sciences by relating the history and practice of art to the geometry of Euclid …

An Evaluation Of The Implementation Of Total Quality Management In A Service Organization, Charles Stanford Stevens

Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Theses & Dissertations

This research consists of a formative evaluation designed to identify the steps necessary to revitalize a formerly successful Total Quality Management (TQM) process at a U.S. Navy engineering and logistics support organization. The research also developed a methodology to account for the fact that the investigator is a well-informed insider who served as one of the principle change agents for the TQM implementation.

The research is based on the researcher's observation that the major cause for the waning implementation was due to senior management and leadership issues and the organization-wide processes with which they interface. The investigation consisted of an …

September 1993, Inland Empire Business Journal

Inland Empire Business Journal

City Bites Bullet on Empire Bay

The Arrogance of Power

Who is Right About NAFTA?

IE Banks Struggle to Keep Pace

Easing the Estate Tax Burden

A Survival Guide to Health Care Reform

County Health Care Escapes Budget Ax

Colton Med Center in Critical Condition

Where Will Real Estate Capital Come From

CHEERS Debuts in San Bernardino

Practicing Cpa, Vol. 17 No. 9, September 1993, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Newsletters

No abstract provided.