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An Organization's Responsibility To Its Employees, Susan R. Madsen

Susan R. Madsen

Defining and deciding the responsibility of business organizations to provide and assist employees with work-family programs and initiatives is a current critical issue that has ignited controversy during the past decade. The author argues that work-family programs should be a part of every organization and should be linked to benefits to the employer. She argues that training and educating business leaders about work-family options and benefits is a better solution than continual legislation. Discussions include organizational responsibility, the increased need for these programs, work-family programs and services, benefits and suggestions for the employer, and finding a solution through shared responsibility.

Should The Federal Government Mandate Family Medical Leave Policy For Companies With 25-49 Employees?, Sonja Irlbeck, Susan R. Madsen, Sue Nash

Susan R. Madsen

Employees and employers struggle with balancing work/family responsibilities. While the U.S. Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) has been effective for some companies, it created burdens for others. The current debate whether to extend the FMLA to employees in companies with 25-49 employees has spawned U.S. studies and hearings to understand better both sides of the issue. This article reviews both sides of this critical issue, providing a history of the current act and references to international documentation and experts on the topic. The authors discuss possible amendments to the FMLA, as well as expansion of the legislation that will benefit …

An Exploration Into Employee Participation Using A Scaling Approach, James A. Belohlav

James A. Belohlav

No abstract provided.

Versicherungsportale, Hubert Oesterle

Hubert Oesterle

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Contagion Effects, Macroeconomic Conditions, And The Design Of Regulatory Capital Standards, Kevin T. Jacques, Stephen Hiemstra

Kevin T Jacques

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Tackling The Iso 14000 Maze: Which Firms Adopt And Which Do Not?, Steven A. Melnyk, Robert Sroufe, Frank L. Montabon, Roger Calantone

Frank L. Montabon

ISO 14000 constitutes a major dilemma for most American firms in that they are not sure whether or not to actively pursue this new form of certification. This new standard is attractive as it holds the promise of helping firms become more efficient via better management of waste, yet this new standard deals with environmental performance, a potentially dangerous legal area. Both benefits and cost liabilities are very difficult to quantify and forecast. This leads to great uncertainty as to whether the benefits offered by improving environmental performance are sufficient to outweigh the costs incurred in obtaining certification. This study …

Environmentally Responsible Manufacturing: Assessing The Current State In American Industry, Steven A. Melnyk, Robert Sroufe, Frank L. Montabon, Roger Calantone

Frank L. Montabon

To some managers Environmentally Responsible Manufacturing (ERM) can be seen as an opportunity to better understand processes and reduce waste. To others, ERM is an unwarranted intrusion into their functional responsibilities. This paper explores the reasons for these two very different views of ERM. The paper begins by defining the concepts of ERM and Environmental Management Systems (EMS) and identifying the reasons for the increasing importance now associated with each of these concepts. Drawing on the results of a large-scale survey of American managers, a summary of current practices associated with EMS at the plant level is given. Additionally, analysis …

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Structure Of Organizations For Production Of Public And Privare Goods, Shyam Sunder

Shyam Sunder

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M:N Business Networking, Hubert Oesterle

Hubert Oesterle

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E-Services Als Neue Herausforderung Im Business Networking, Rainer Alt, Hubert Oesterle

Hubert Oesterle

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A Review Of Markets For Clean Air: The U.S. Acid Rain Program, Peter Cramton

Peter Cramton

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Thesis, Kwanghui Lim

Kwanghui Lim

This thesis comprises three essays on the relationships among basic research, applied research, and innovation. Earlier research emphasized that absorbing external knowledge requires effort and investment (Cohen and Levinthal, 1989; 1990). This thesis explores various mechanisms through which absorptive capacity is developed, including a firm's R&D, its connectedness to the external scientific community, the provision of a science-oriented research environment, and investment in basic research. The chief contribution of this dissertation is to document the many ways in which firms develop absorptive capacity, and how absorptive capacity varies across industry, stage of technology development, and scientific area.

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Future Application Architecture For The Pharmaceutical Industry, Thomas Huber, Rainer Alt, Vladimir Barak, Hubert Oesterle, Thomas Puschmann

Hubert Oesterle

No abstract provided.

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Single Minded? : Implementing Common Financial Systems, Mark E. Pickering

Mark E Pickering

As companies grow via acquisition they collect a variety of separate and often quite diverse financial systems belonging to the newly acquired companies. While there is a substantial cost to implementing a common financial system across the merged group. Is that cost outweighed by the benefits of a single system? This article uses a case study to highlight options for different degrees of finance system commonality, potential benefits of each option and a framework for analysing the appropriate level of commonality.

Review Blues, Carol Gill

Carol Gill

Performance assessments can be a shattering experience, writes Carol Gill, who looks at one way of making them more objective

Is Overexcitability A Differential Personality Attribute Of High-Iq Youth? A Comparison Study Of Identified Gifted And Vocational High School Teenagers Using The Overexcitability Questionnaire (Oeq), Jane Piirto, Lori Beach, Geri Cassone, Robbin Rogers, John Fraas

John W. Fraas

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Hubert Oesterle

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Hubert Oesterle

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Templates - Instruments For Standardizing Erp Systems, Thomas Huber, Rainer Alt, Hubert Oesterle

Hubert Oesterle

Today’s large companies face significant challenges in the integration of differently configured ERPsystems which have evolved within the last decade. These systems impede the flow of informationalong the value chain which is vital for supply chain management and holistic controlling processes.They also create implementation inefficiencies since learning and scale effects are not takenadvantage of. Therefore, establishing standards for the harmonization of independent and distributedsystems would have a profound positive competitive impact. This article describes the TemplateHandbook, a standardization approach which was developed and implemented in a project with amultinational company, the Robert Bosch Group. ERP templates establish interoperability byidentically configuring …

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Corporate Governance And Anti-Takeover Devices, Helen Lange, Ian Ramsay, Li-Anne Woo

Li-Anne Woo

This paper seeks to establish what form of management structure, ownership structure and financial characteristics are exhibited by firms that propose and subsequently adopt anti-takeover charter amendments (ATCAs) in Australia over the period June 1986 to December 1990. An ATCA is a restriction of partial takeover activity implemented through shareholder approval to changes in a firm's constitution. Approval for such changes is obtained through majority agreement from a plebiscite of shareholders. The study adopts a control sample design to analyse if characteristics differ statistically from adopting ATCA firms and those which do not adopt ATCAs during the investigation period. Following …

An Analysis Of Prospects For Internet Retailing In Japan, Patrick Butler

Patrick Butler

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E-Commerce Technology For Safe Money Transaction Over The Net, Noor Jahan Haque, Raman Attri

Raman K. Attri

The Buzz word E-commerce has revolutionized the way the business and money transactions used to work in the past. It is the latest impact of software arena in the field of banking, business and purchasing. The term also refers to online stock and bond transactions and buying and downloading software without ever going near a store. In addition, e-commerce includes business-to-business connections that make purchasing easier for big corporations. This paper mainly concentrates on technology revolution behind the transaction of money over the net. There are still doubts and questions from business and corporate users on the safety aspects of …

E-Commerce Technology Forsafe Money Transaction Over The Net, Noor Jahan Haque, Raman Attri

Raman K. Attri

The Buzz word E-commerce has revolutionized the way the business and money transactions used to work in the past. It is the latest impact of software arena in the field of banking, business and purchasing. The term also refers to online stock and bond transactions and buying and downloading software without ever going near a store. In addition, e-commerce includes business-to-business connections that make purchasing easier for big corporations. This paper mainly concentrates on technology revolution behind the transaction of money over the net. There are still doubts and questions from business and corporate users on the safety aspects of …