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The Strategic Plan Of A Medium-Size Enterprise Compared To The Baldrige Criteria, Jordan Blacklock Dec 2013

The Strategic Plan Of A Medium-Size Enterprise Compared To The Baldrige Criteria, Jordan Blacklock

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The purpose of this study was to provide a case example of one SME (small to medium-size enterprises) documented practices compared to the Baldrige Program’s Criteria for Performance Excellence (Criteria). This study evaluated the degree to which the case example organization practiced the philosophies and principles of the Criteria without direct knowledge of the Criteria. The researcher conducted evaluations by examining the case example organization’s strategic plan against the Criteria. Results of this study’s demonstrated that the Baldrige Program would not be a change in direction for the case example organization but a systematic approach to enhance the methods already …

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Developing And Teaching The Crisis Communication Course, Mitchell Friedman Dec 2013

Developing And Teaching The Crisis Communication Course, Mitchell Friedman

Communication Studies

Comer (2010) noted the absence of literature offering guidance to instructors charged with developing standalone courses on crisis management. This article aims to fill this void, relating the author’s experience in developing two crisis communication classes (one offered online, one in a traditional classroom setting). Drawing on 15 years of teaching experience (including single sessions devoted to crisis communication, reputation management, and related issues in public relations and business courses) plus the investigation of scholarly contributions related to the development of such courses, syllabi, and feedback from practitioners who develop and deliver related training, the article delivers the essential components …

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Using Focus Groups To Understand What New Residents Want And Need In A Community, Randolph Cantrell, Cheryl Burkhart-Kriesel, P. Thares, R. Vogt Dec 2013

Using Focus Groups To Understand What New Residents Want And Need In A Community, Randolph Cantrell, Cheryl Burkhart-Kriesel, P. Thares, R. Vogt

Rural Futures Institute: Publications

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The Wage Gap Vs. The Total Compensation Gap, Kevin F. Hallock Dec 2013

The Wage Gap Vs. The Total Compensation Gap, Kevin F. Hallock

Economics Faculty Publications

Clearly, most organizations seek to have fair and objective pay practices. And, as a check, they sometimes take a data-driven look inside their companies to consider whether employees of different demographic characteristics are paid similarly or if there is some pay gap. But most organizations only consider wages or salaries in looking for such gaps. Existing research on pay preferences, however, shows that employees can value differently different kinds of pay. There are many massive demographic surveys of individuals which record, along with wage and salary earnings, information on individuals' schooling, gender, race, work hours, occupation, geographic location, etc. These …

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Short-Term Inflation Forecasting Models For Nigeria, Sani I. Doguwa, Sarah O. Alade Dec 2013

Short-Term Inflation Forecasting Models For Nigeria, Sani I. Doguwa, Sarah O. Alade

CBN Journal of Applied Statistics (JAS)

Short-term inflation forecasting is an essential component of the monetary policy projections at the Central Bank of Nigeria. This paper proposes four short-term headline inflation forecasting models using the SARIMA and SARIMAX processes and compares their performance using the pseudo-out-of-sample forecasting procedure over July 2011 to September 2013. According to the results the best forecasting performance is demonstrated by the model based on the all items CPI estimated using the SARIMAX model. This model is, therefore, recommended for use in short-term forecasting of headline inflation in Nigeria. The forecasting performance up to eight months ahead, of the models based on …

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Understanding Leadership In Small Business From The Perspectives Of Practitioners, Daniel E, Holloway Dec 2013

Understanding Leadership In Small Business From The Perspectives Of Practitioners, Daniel E, Holloway

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Many small businesses fail after 5 years, having a negative impact on local and national economies. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore small-enterprise leader-operators’ experiences regarding practices that aid sustainability beyond 5 years. Twenty small enterprise leaders in the United States Midwest who were identified as having 5 years of longevity in leading organizations with fewer than 500 employees were invited to participate. These participants shared their lived experiences through semistructured interviews conducted in-person and by telephone. The dynamic theory of leadership development was used to underpin the study. In the central research question for this study, …

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Vlerësimi I Performancës Dhe Metodat Më Të Përdorura, Shpresa Gashi Dec 2013

Vlerësimi I Performancës Dhe Metodat Më Të Përdorura, Shpresa Gashi

Theses and Dissertations

Vlerësimi i performancës si një fenomen njerëzor natyral është një nga funksionet më të rëndësishme të menaxhimit të burimeve njerëzore që fillon menjëherë pasi punëtorët merren në punë dhe vazhdon me tej gjatë gjithë procesit të punës. Vlerësimi i vazhdueshëm dhe i drejtë i punëtorëve është i lidhur me motivimin dhe performancën e mëtejshme të tyre. Vetëm kur ndihen të vlerësuar dhe të motivuar punëtorët mund të punojnë me efikasitet me të lartë dhe nuk do të jenë të prirë të largohen nga ndërmarrja në të cilën janë të punësuar. Vlerësimi i performancës ka për qëllim që të zbuloj anët …

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Sistemi Informativ I Marketingut, Bardha Blakqori Dec 2013

Sistemi Informativ I Marketingut, Bardha Blakqori

Theses and Dissertations

Marketingu ne tërësi është aktivitet I prodhimi qe optimalizohet për përmbushjen e nevojave dhe të kërkesave të konsumatorëve ngase tregu me mekanizmat e tij sugjeron për mënyrën e prodhimit, asortimentin, shpërndarjen, çmimin, porositë dhe sjelljen e konsumatorëve. Pra marketingu mund te themi qe është aktivitet i biznesit, që ndikon në rregullimin dhe përcaktimin e prodhimit, në procesin e këmbimit, me qëllim të vetëm: përmbushjen e nevojave dhe të kërkesave të konsumatorëve dhe realizimin e fitimit të ndërmarrjes. Marketingu nuk është vetëm proces ndërmjetësues në mes të prodhuesit dhe konsumatorit, por është hallkë që i lidhë dhe i integron sferën e …

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Behaviorism's Impact On Advertising: Then And Now, Abigail Bartholomew Dec 2013

Behaviorism's Impact On Advertising: Then And Now, Abigail Bartholomew

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Theses

Behaviorism as defined in 1913 by John B. Watson was a science that used repeated, observable human activity to develop hypotheses that would eventually predict and control responses. Through repeated experiments, Watson developed a thorough knowledge of what he defined as base human reactions. Stanley Resor, then president of J. Walter Thompson Agency, hired Watson to promote a partnership between advertising and science, and the subsequent 15 years of Watson’s career included some notable scientific contributions. This study shows that though these outcomes may not have provided many measurable positive results, they set into motion industry-wide change that continued to …

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Introduction To Creativity: A Lecture And Curriculum Framework For Students Who Identify Themselves As Creative, Miriam Kelley Dec 2013

Introduction To Creativity: A Lecture And Curriculum Framework For Students Who Identify Themselves As Creative, Miriam Kelley

Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects

This project focuses on the creative person, process, product and press- the 4Ps of creativity as articulated by Rhodes (1961). A curricular framework was developed with an emphasis on enhancing the abilities of those who already identify themselves as creative, specifically undergraduate Freshmen and Sophomores looking to study various fields of Design at the university level. The objective of the framework is to not only identify the innate processes that may have led these students to identify themselves as creative- thereby choosing their major- but also to allow them to recognize, improve and be deliberate in those processes, to enhance …

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North Texas Domestic Partner Benefits Policies, James Wanek, Gundars Kaupins, Malcolm Coco Dec 2013

North Texas Domestic Partner Benefits Policies, James Wanek, Gundars Kaupins, Malcolm Coco

Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

A challenge facing managers and human resource professionals is determining whether to expand benefits, especially health insurance, beyond employees to other eligible dependents. Immediate family members such as the spouse and/or dependent children of employees are commonly eligible for company sponsored benefits. Among larger companies, unmarried same-sex or opposite-sex domestic partners are more frequently being included as eligible for coverage under employee benefit plans.

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A Dynamic Programming Approach To Achieving An Optimal End State Along A Serial Production Line, Shih-Fen Cheng, Blake E. Nicholson, Marina A. Epelman, Daniel J. Reaume, Robert L. Smith Dec 2013

A Dynamic Programming Approach To Achieving An Optimal End State Along A Serial Production Line, Shih-Fen Cheng, Blake E. Nicholson, Marina A. Epelman, Daniel J. Reaume, Robert L. Smith

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

In modern production systems, it is critical to perform maintenance, calibration, installation, and upgrade tasks during planned downtime. Otherwise, the systems become unreliable and new product introductions are delayed. For reasons of safety, testing, and access, task performance often requires the vicinity of impacted equipment to be left in a specific “end state” when production halts. Therefore, planning the shutdown of a production system to balance production goals against enabling non-production tasks yields a challenging optimization problem. In this paper, we propose a mathematical formulation of this problem and a dynamic programming approach that efficiently finds optimal shutdown policies for …

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Front Matter And Faculty Notes Dec 2013

Front Matter And Faculty Notes

Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.

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A More Realistic Approach To Directors' Duties, Michelle M. Harner Dec 2013

A More Realistic Approach To Directors' Duties, Michelle M. Harner

Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.

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Legal Form, Style, And Etiquette For Email, George W. Kuney Dec 2013

Legal Form, Style, And Etiquette For Email, George W. Kuney

Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.

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Proposed Subordination Provisions For Master Trust Indenture, Taylor K. Wirth Dec 2013

Proposed Subordination Provisions For Master Trust Indenture, Taylor K. Wirth

Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.

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Using An Interviewing, Counseling, Negotiating, And Drafting Simulation In The First Year Legal Writing Program, Kirsten A. Dauphinais Dec 2013

Using An Interviewing, Counseling, Negotiating, And Drafting Simulation In The First Year Legal Writing Program, Kirsten A. Dauphinais

Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.

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Transactional Drafting: Using Law Firm Marketing Materials As A Research Resource For Teaching Drafting, Ted Becker Dec 2013

Transactional Drafting: Using Law Firm Marketing Materials As A Research Resource For Teaching Drafting, Ted Becker

Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.

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Survey On The Role Of Investor Relations In The Modern Day Corporation, Andrew Lee, Jiwei Wang Dec 2013

Survey On The Role Of Investor Relations In The Modern Day Corporation, Andrew Lee, Jiwei Wang

Research Collection School Of Accountancy

In March 2013, the Investors Relations Professionals Association (Singapore) (IRPAS), in collaboration with the School of Accountancy at Singapore Management University (SMU) and the Singapore Exchange (SGX), embarked on this study with the objective of achieving a better understanding of the role of investor relations. (IR) in today’s modern corporation as well as the role of IRPAS in further developing the investor relations profession in Singapore. The study aims to provide insights into the structure and organisation of the IR function in Singapore listed companies as well as the roles and responsibilities of Investor Relations Officers (IROs) in these organisations. …

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Socialization Tactics: Antecedents For Goal Interdependence And Newcomer Adjustment And Retention, Serena Changhong Lu, Dean Tjosvold Dec 2013

Socialization Tactics: Antecedents For Goal Interdependence And Newcomer Adjustment And Retention, Serena Changhong Lu, Dean Tjosvold

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

This study argues that Deutsch's theory of goal interdependence is useful to examine the dynamics of serial and investiture tactics on newcomer adjustment and retention in work team contexts. Structural equation results of interviews of specific incidents collected from one hundred and two newcomers support the hypothesized model that serial and investiture tactics used by teams promote cooperative goal interdependence and weaken competitive goal interdependence and independent goal relationship between newcomers and their teams. Cooperative goals were also found to promote positive attitudes and strong co-worker relationships whereas competitive and independent goals resulted in intentions to quit and low levels …

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The Evolution Of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems As An It Innovation: A Performative Perspective, Adrian Yeow, Wee-Kiat Lim Dec 2013

The Evolution Of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems As An It Innovation: A Performative Perspective, Adrian Yeow, Wee-Kiat Lim

CCX Research

How can we improve theorizing on IT innovation? We first draw on theories from IS research and science and technology studies (STS) to explain IT innovation. By showing how limited these research streams can be because they have not accounted for the act of theorizing itself, we next turn to the theory of performativity as a candidate theory to extend our understanding of IT innovation. We use an exemplar of IT innovation, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, to develop a performative perspective of the IT innovation process. Based on our preliminary data collection and analysis, we surfaced the role of …

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Subsidizing Non-Polluting Goods Vs. Taxing Polluting Goods For Pollution Reduction, Robert S. Main Dec 2013

Subsidizing Non-Polluting Goods Vs. Taxing Polluting Goods For Pollution Reduction, Robert S. Main

Scholarship and Professional Work - Business

Pigovian taxes on polluters are politically unpopular, but subsidies for non-polluting sources are politically attractive. This paper presents a linear demand and supply model and numerical example to explore the trade-offs between taxing polluting sources of a good versus subsidizing non-polluting sources of the same good. While the model (along with the associated numerical example) shows the optimality of Pigovian taxes, it also shows how much welfare is reduced if subsidies for nonpolluters are employed instead. Further, it shows the optimal tax, given any level of subsidy and the optimal subsidy, given any level of tax.

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Major Win Streak, Richard C. Crepeau Dec 2013

Major Win Streak, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Two weeks ago the University of Minnesota was defeated 3-2 in hockey by the University of North Dakota. Twenty-two months earlier on February 17, 2012 the University of North Dakota defeated the University of Minnesota in overtime, 2- 1. The next day Minnesota beat North Dakota 5-2 beginning a 62 match winning streak that included two NCAA national championships and one undefeated season of 41 straight wins.

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2013-December-01-Beth Evelyn Barber, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University Dec 2013

2013-December-01-Beth Evelyn Barber, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

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Impact Of Oil Prices Fluctuations On Economies In The Age Of Globalization, Ancel Raynaud Soh Feussi Dec 2013

Impact Of Oil Prices Fluctuations On Economies In The Age Of Globalization, Ancel Raynaud Soh Feussi

Applied Economics Theses

Early in the past century, oil has powered economic growth in industrialized economies. Towards the end of the 20th century, as emerging and underdeveloped economies relied more on oil powered means for their everyday need, their appetite for oil has considerably increased and this put an upward pressure on the global oil demand. As supply now struggles to match demand, oil prices are more and more driven by macroeconomics fundamentals. The disparity between supply and demand has had different effects on economies depending, if it is a net oil-exporting or net oil-importing one. This paper will attempt to quantify …

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Isscm Graduating Cohort, December 2013, Raj Soin College Of Business, Wright State University Dec 2013

Isscm Graduating Cohort, December 2013, Raj Soin College Of Business, Wright State University

ISSCM Master Cohort Posters

Poster congratulating the December 2013 Graduating Cohort from the Master of Science in Logistics and Supply Chain Management Program.

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A Review Of Communication Tools And Techniques For Successful Ict Projects, Ernest Mnkandla Dec 2013

A Review Of Communication Tools And Techniques For Successful Ict Projects, Ernest Mnkandla

The African Journal of Information Systems

Practitioners have repeatedly mentioned that projects that lack effective communication are doomed to fail. Project communications management involves the generation, collection, and storage of information within a project. Project communication therefore provides vital ingredients for the go-no-go decisions in a project through the effective selection of the minimum essential things that can be done to share the collected information among the stakeholders. A fast growing way to manage software development projects is agile project management, whose focus is balancing between continuous releases of quality deliverables and frequently sharing project progress information. In this editorial, we advocate for research on the …

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Institutional Theory And The Evolution Of Marketing Channels In Emerging Economies: Setting A Research Agenda, Birud Sindhav Dec 2013

Institutional Theory And The Evolution Of Marketing Channels In Emerging Economies: Setting A Research Agenda, Birud Sindhav

Marketing and Management Faculty Publications

The story of the growth of emerging economies is about the growth of their marketing institutions. Marketing channels are the key marketing institution in enabling the flow of goods and services. However, marketing scholars typically rely on models and theories devised in the developed economies to study the marketing channels in emerging economies, and these include theories based on political economy-based frameworks that emphasize power and dependence. We argue that often the institutional drives to gain legitimacy provide a powerful lens to understand the evolution of marketing channels. In this conceptual paper, we illustrate our arguments through a few examples, …

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The Role Of Ethical Evaluation Of Corporate Social Responsibility In The Perception Of Corporate Hypocrisy, The Intention Of Opinioned Communication And Behavior Toward A Firm, Kyujin Shim Dec 2013

The Role Of Ethical Evaluation Of Corporate Social Responsibility In The Perception Of Corporate Hypocrisy, The Intention Of Opinioned Communication And Behavior Toward A Firm, Kyujin Shim

Dissertations - ALL

Corporate hypocrisy refers to publics' negative perception of CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) as a result of ethical attribution of CSR to normative ethics, and thus can be a useful indicator of the disappointing and ineffective role of CSR programs geared toward raising publics' goodwill toward a firm. However, scant scholarly effort has been made to explore the concept of corporate hypocrisy in relation to corporate issues and crises, publics' ethical orientation, cultural and national influence, and polarized sentiments toward global business in the media landscape. These aspects collectively constitute the unpredictable, uncontrollable public opinion, in particular the opinion of the …

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Technology Expectations Of Cpa Firms: Hiring And The Accounting Curriculum, Kristy N. Wilson Dec 2013

Technology Expectations Of Cpa Firms: Hiring And The Accounting Curriculum, Kristy N. Wilson

Honors Theses

The purpose of this study is to determine the technology expectations of Certified Public Accounting (CPA) firms and to evaluate whether or not accounting curriculums adequately prepare students to meet the firms’ hiring expectations. A total of 28 participants - 19 sole practitioners and 9 CPA firms - completed an online survey designed to determine the technological skills CPA firms require of new hires, the extent to which recent new hires have met the firms’ expectations, and the accounting software and programs that firms typically use. The researcher also analyzed the accounting curriculums of 22 four-year public universities to gather …

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