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Just-In-Time Management In Healthcare Operations, Jinglin Li

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Reducing costs and improving quality are two of the most important goals in managing healthcare operations. In this study, we explore how to improve healthcare operations by integrating Just-in-Time (JIT) management system. We first introduce the JIT management system, and then discuss how it can generate benefits in healthcare operations. We investigate implications for healthcare practice, which include how JIT techniques can be applied to healthcare operations, how hospitals and general practices can use JIT techniques, how JIT can help the patient throughput rate, and how technological advances can speed up healthcare processes. Implications for management and directions for future …

Under Armour Consulting Report, Heather Dommer

Undergraduate Theses and Capstone Projects

Under Armour has been taking the Athletic Apparel industry by storm. From their start in 1996 as a small performance apparel company to becoming the second biggest athletic apparel brand in the United States in 2014 (Peterson). The secret to their success lies within the products. All products have a moisture wicking fabric that eliminates the sweat-soaked fabric of normal sports apparel. Industry: The industry of Athletic Apparel is very intense and innovative one. There are numerous competitors striving to be number one and trying to distinguish themselves from each other while selling similar products. This is an industry that …

Become A Future-Focused Leader: Use Three Megatrends To Grow Your Rural Business, Connie Reimers-Hild, Alyssa Dye

Community Vitality Initiative

No one can predict the future; however, rural entrepreneurs and business owners can use a future-focused leadership approach, which includes examining megatrends, to shape the future of their businesses. Megatrends are global shifts that influence society, the economy and the environment. This article discusses three megatrends shaping the future of rural businesses:

1) The Rise of the #GigEconomy

2) Living with Purpose and Meaning

3) The Decentralized Marketplace

The article also provides coaching tips for rural entrepreneurs on how to use megatrends to grow their businesses.

While many companies are struggling to keep up with the rapid rate of change, …

Western Client: A Business Plan, Connor Makowski

Honors Theses

Western Client was created to simplify electronic communications. We believe that we can challenge standard communication processes and revolutionize how smartphones disseminate media. We can help our users to foster better relationships and communicate more effectively. We are achieving this by streamlining user interfaces, compiling data, and minimizing unproductive intervals on electronic devices.

Western Client will offer an easy to navigate, well designed application that integrates information from many sources. We are currently focusing our efforts on designing an application for iOS and Android devices that provides universal inboxes. Every contact will have a dedicated universal inbox that will place …

2015-04-23 Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, Faculty Senate. Morehead State University.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes for April 23, 2015.

Cross-Examining The United States And Germany's Education And Employee Treatments In Relation To The Unemployment Rate, Natalie Cook

Honors Theses

The unemployment rate has been a constant battle in the United States, especially in the last five years. In 2010 the unemployment rate was at a high of 9.7%, in 2011 it was at 9.0%, in 2012 is what at 8.2%, in 2013 it was at 7.4%, and in 2014 it was at 6.6% (Unemployment, total (% of total laborforce) (modeled ILO estimate), 2015). This is relatively high compared to other countries, such as Germany. Germany in the last five years has had lower unemployment rates in the last five years, their highest rate in the last five years was …

Leadership Ethics, Bill Lhota

Leadership Hour at Otterbein University

Leaders, both formal and informal, set the ethical "tone-at-the-top" for others to follow. In so doing they must get it right.

The Balanced Scorecard: The Key To Effective Strategic Management, Josiah D. Grimm

Senior Honors Theses

The intent of this paper is to define the importance of the balanced scorecard in the strategic management process. The need for the balanced scorecard will be established by explaining the roles of demand shifters, traditional management accounting, Senge’s concept of a learning organization, and the strategic management process. This will involve detailing the stages of the strategic management process and connecting them to the various aspects of creating a balanced scorecard. Ultimately, the goal of the balanced scorecard is to translate the overarching strategy into specific actions that can be implemented throughout the organization. Lastly, other strategic applications of …

Understanding Video Game Developers As An Occupational Community, Johanna Weststar

Management and Organizational Studies Publications

The video game industry has rapidly expanded over the last four decades; yet there is limited research about the workers who make video games. In examining these workers, this article responds to calls for renewed attention to the role of the occupation in understanding project-based workers in boundaryless careers. Specifically, this article uses secondary analysis of online sources to demonstrate that video game developers can be understood as a unique social group called an occupational community (OC). Once this classification has been made, the concept of OC can be used in future research to understand video game workers in terms …

Understanding And Developing A Social Media Marketing Plan, Joeseph "Joe" Gabriel

Whittier Scholars Program

This project is a study which discusses social media’s popularity which has greatly increased due to the advancement of smartphones and the Internet. With the use of social media getting bigger, businesses are spending more money in efforts to market, advertise, promote and communicate using various social media platforms as well as using social media marketing tools like online surveys and rating systems. Social media tools (which also include reviews and social analytics) are used as research tools to gather web traffic information and other helpful data to help improve a business’ marketing effort and also allows for the consumer …

The State Of Logistics Performance Measurement: A Comparison Of Literature And Practice, Thomas Hamilton

Honors College Theses

In the increasingly global and complex environment in which modern business operate, business leaders are being forced to squeeze competitive advantage from every facet of their operations. Research in the field of logistics performance measurement establishes the link between success in performance measurement and improved organizational performance. Through the lens of management fashion theory, this research effort assesses to what extent logistics academic discourse addresses the performance measurement requirements and practices of industry practitioners. This research effort represents the first such application of the management fashion theory within the logistics field. Consistencies between logistics performance measurement emphases within the investigated …

When Being More Different And Less Visible Leads To Commitment And Justice For All, Lisa Farmer

Doctor of Business Administration Dissertations

Little empirical research is available that counters the viewpoint that both demographically dissimilar individuals and telecommuters have low-levels of commitment, in addition to the role of procedural justice in this context. Using a multi-company sample of 201 respondents employed by U.S. firms each with more than 100 employees; the results indicate significant support for high-levels of demographic dissimilarity associated with low-levels of affective commitment towards one’s organization. Contrary to the hypotheses, high-intensity telecommuting was found to be more strongly related to affective commitment, especially when procedural justice was high. Non-significant results were found for telecommuting intensity as a moderator of …

The Gentleman's Game In The Land Of The Free: The Marketing, Development, And Future Of American Rugby, Nathan Blaikie

Whittier Scholars Program

The United States has a unique opportunity to become one of the top rugby countries in the world. Rugby is the fastest growing sport in the United States with youth, high school, college, and club players growing every year. Now is the time for USA Rugby to take the next step in exposing the game to mainstream audiences across every country. With sports being a billion dollar industry in the United States, there is always room for a sport to gain exposure. The next decade will be important in seeing where the future lies for American rugby. One of the …

2015-04-17 General Education Council Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate., General Education Council.

Faculty Senate Records

General Education Council meeting minutes from April 17, 2015.

A Practitioner Critique Of A Conceptual Paper On Measuring Value And Performance, Andrew C. Wicks, Jeffrey S. Harrison

Management Faculty Publications

Much of the business literature suggests that firm performance should be measured in financial terms, based on the notion that the primary obligation of a corporation is to provide high shareholder returns. An alternative literature is emerging in which scholars identify the many weaknesses associated with shareholder primacy, and offer alternative performance measures that are focused on a broader set of stakeholders. One such publication was provided to high-­‐level executives in large companies. The executives were then given the opportunity to critique the paper and to discuss the extent to which their firms are engaging in the types of performance …

2015-04-16 Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, Faculty Senate. Morehead State University.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes for April 16, 2015.

Employee Benefit And Leadership Program, Kathryn Taylor, Patty Collins

Undergraduate Research Conference

No abstract provided.

Creating, Developing, And Marketing A Themed Entertainment Attraction, Ruben Rodriguez

Whittier Scholars Program

This senior project is an examination of various theme parks and movies that the author analyzes in order to derive inspiration for creating his own theme park attraction. Throughout the paper the author illustrates to the reader, through comparison of popular attractions such as those in Disneyland and Universal Studios, the kind of ride that he has in mind. There is a particular emphasis on aspects such as fantasy, storytelling, as well as accuracy to scientific facts concerning space and our solar system. The project ends with a description of the ride, the technology involved in its creation, its storyline, …

Effective Networking: A Key Success Factor For Small Business Owners, Glenn Muske, Connie Hancock, Connie Reimers-Hild, Alyssa Dye

Community Vitality Initiative

Finding answers to your questions often starts with knowing who to call. And knowing who to call is made easier by building and maintaining an effective network.

Glenn Muske, small business specialist for North Dakota State University Extension, outlines effective ways to build your network online and in-person. Check out the Glenn’s small business guide to networking, "Effective Networking: A Key Business Success Factor," and add it to small business game plan for success!

Connecting With Others Brings Business Success: Are You Engaged? A Guide To Effective Networking For Small Business Owners., Glenn Muske, Connie Hancock, Connie Reimers-Hild, Alyssa Dye

Community Vitality Initiative

Finding answers to your questions often starts with knowing who to call. And knowing who to call is made easier by building and maintaining an effective network.

Glenn Muske, small business specialist for North Dakota State University Extension, outlines effective ways to build your network online and in-person. Check out the Glenn’s small business guide to networking, "Effective Networking: A Key Business Success Factor," and add it to small business game plan for success!

Financial Fraud Detection By Using Grammar-Based Multiobjective Genetic Programming With Ensemble Learning, Haibing Li

Lingnan Theses

Financial fraud is a criminal act, which violates the law, rules or policy to gain unauthorized financial benefit. As an increasingly serious problem, it has attracted a lot of concerns. The major consequences are loss of billions of dollars each year, investor confidence and corporate reputation. Therefore, a study area called Financial Fraud Detection (FFD) is obligatory, in order to prevent the destructive results caused by financial fraud. In general, traditional modeling approaches are applied and based on pre-defined hypothesis testing of causes and effects for FFD problems. In addition, the evaluation criteria are often based on variable significance level …

Organizational Research In The Social Sciences, Cole Rickles

Research Horizons Day Posters

No abstract provided.

Central Nervous System Strategy For Roche Pharmaceuticals, Kali A. Jelen

Seaver College Research And Scholarly Achievement Symposium

Roche is the fifth largest pharmaceutical and biotechnology company in the world with $52B in sales during 2013 and 4.9% market share in the pharmaceutical industry. Its main competitors include Novartis, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Sanofi, Merck & Co., and GlaxoSmithKline. Roche’s mission is to develop treatments for medical needs that have gone unmet and to create more efficient treatment options through cutting edge research. The Central Nervous System market segment makes up 19.6% of total industry sales and includes products treating such ailments as depression, epilepsy, psychosis, and Alzheimer’s disease. Though historically Roche has been a market leader in …

2015-04-03 General Education Council Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate., General Education Council.

Faculty Senate Records

General Education Council meeting minutes from April 3, 2015.

2015-04-02 Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, Faculty Senate. Morehead State University.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes for April 2, 2015.

Marketplace Lending: Investors Beware, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

Marketplace lending could help finance SMEs that might otherwise be denied loans by banks, and investors could earn high returns by financing these deals. However, risk of default is high

Video Advertisement Mining For Predicting Revenue Using Random Forest, Yuan Hsin Huang

Open Access Theses

Shaken by the threat of financial crisis in 2008, industries began to work on the topic of predictive analytics to efficiently control inventory levels and minimize revenue risks. In this third-generation age of web-connected data, organizations emphasized the importance of data science and leveraged the data mining techniques for gaining a competitive edge. Consider the features of Web 3.0, where semantic-oriented interaction between humans and computers can offer a tailored service or product to meet consumers' needs by means of learning their preferences. In this study, we concentrate on the area of marketing science to demonstrate the correlation between TV …

Narcissism And Leadership: A Meta-Analytic Review Of Linear And Nonlinear Relationships, Emily Grijalva, Peter D. Harms, Daniel A. Newman, Blaine H. Gaddis, R. Chris Fraley

P. D. Harms Publications

Past empirical studies relating narcissism to leadership have offered mixed results. This study integrates prior research findings via meta-analysis to make four contributions to theory on narcissism and leadership, by (a) distinguishing between leadership emergence and leadership effectiveness, to reveal that narcissism displays a positive relationship with leadership emergence, but no relationship with leadership effectiveness; (b) showing narcissism’s positive effect on leadership emergence can be explained by leader extraversion; (c) demonstrating that whereas observer-reported leadership effectiveness ratings (e.g., supervisor-report, subordinate-report, and peer-report) are not related to narcissism, self-reported leadership effectiveness ratings are positively related to narcissism; and (d) illustrating that …

How Functionalist And Process Approaches To Behavior Can Explain Trait Covariation, Dustin Wood, Molly Hensler Gardner, Peter D. Harms

P. D. Harms Publications

Factors identified in investigations of trait structure (e.g., the Big Five) are sometimes understood as explanations or sources of the covariation of distinct behavioral traits, as when extraversion is suggested to underlie the covariation of assertiveness and sociability. Here, we detail how trait covariation can alternatively be understood as arising from units common to functionalist and process frameworks, such as self-efficacies, expectancies, values, and goals. Specifically, the expected covariation between two behavioral traits should be increased when a specific process variable tends to indicate the functionality of both traits simultaneously. In 2 empirical illustrations, we identify a wide array of …

Anchoring Bias, Idiosyncratic Volatility And The Cross-Section Of Stock Returns, Cedric Tresor Luma Mbanga

Doctoral Dissertations

Ang, Hodrick, Xing and Zhang (2006) document an anomaly in the cross-section of stock returns. They show that high idiosyncratic volatility (IVOL) firms earn lower returns in the following month. Specifically, they find after sorting stocks in quintile portfolios based on the previous month's IVOL that a zero-investment portfolio long the most volatile quintile of stocks and short the least yields about -1% during the subsequent month. The evidence reported in Ang, Hodrick, Xing and Zhang (2006) is primarily puzzling because traditional asset pricing theories suggest that (i) only systematic risk should be priced, (ii) to the extent that markets …