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A Change Management Approach To Enhance Facility Maintenance Programs, Stanton P. Brown

Theses and Dissertations

A recent study assigned a grade of D+ on the nation's public infrastructure. Because of this poor asset condition, many organizations tend to respond to maintenance in a reactive mode; however, relying on corrective maintenance leads to increased maintenance costs due to unplanned downtime, increased labor costs, and inefficient use of personnel. To address this situation, asset management (AM) principles should be employed to transition organizations towards a proactive maintenance program. Unfortunately, it has been shown that two-thirds of the organizations failed to implement general change efforts. Therefore, an organizational change management framework should be followed to implement a change …

2014-March-14-‘The Birds’ Are Coming To Real-To-Reel For One Night Only, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

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2014-March-14-Juniors, Seniors, Grad Students Invited To ‘Real World 101’ At Etsu, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

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2014-March-14-Etsu Student Entrepreneurs’ Club Meeting To Welcome Heath Guinn, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

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2014-March-14-Etsu Student Entrepreneurs’ Club Meeting To Welcome Heath Guinn, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

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2014-March-31-Volunteer Opportunities, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

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Research Brief: "Unemployment, Earnings, And Enrollment Among Post 9/11 Veterans", Institute For Veterans And Military Families At Syracuse University

Institute for Veterans and Military Families

This study found that Afghanistan/Iraq era veterans have a higher likelihood of unemployment than non-veterans, with female veterans faring worse than their male counterparts. In practice, female veterans of the post-9/11 era suffer from higher absolute levels of unemployment than male veterans, as well as also experiencing a higher unemployment penalty from their service relative to their civilian counterparts than male veterans do. In policy, policymakers may wish to determine ways to increase utilization of GI Bill benefits among disadvantaged populations to increase their long-term employment and earnings. Suggestions for future study include considering the surge of female veterans, and …

Lindenwood University To Participate In Innovative Stem Education Program, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

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2014-March-13-Etsu Set To Play Chattanooga Tuesday In Collegeinsider.Com Tournament, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

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2014-March-13-Etsu Set To Play Chattanooga Tuesday In Collegeinsider.Com Tournament, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

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2014-03-13, Morehead State Board Of Regents

Morehead State Board of Regents Agenda Books and Meeting Minutes

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Disruption Of Information Technology Projects: The Reactive Decoupling Of Project Management Methodologies, Kurt W. Schmitz

Information Systems & Operations Management Dissertations - Archive

Information Technology projects have migrated toward two dominant Project Management (PM) methodologies. Plan-driven practices provide organizational control through highly structured plans, schedules, and specifications that facilitate oversight by hierarchical bureaucracies. In contrast, agile practices emphasize empowered teams using flexible methods aligned to organizational values reinforced by cultural controls and rituals. While project teams mix and combine practices from both traditions, a stylistic bias remains in the initial project management practices established at the onset of IT projects. A review of existing literature on IT project management serve as a filter on the stylistic biases of these dominant PM paradigms that …

2014-March-12-'Swerve' Book Talk, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

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2014-March-12-Etsu Students Create Guitars For Non-Profit Causes, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

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2014-March-12-Rural Medicine Honors, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

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2014-March-12-'Swerve' Book Talk, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

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2014-March-12-Etsu Students Create Guitars For Non-Profit Causes, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

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2014-March-12-Rural Medicine Honors, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

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2014-March-12-'Gender Issues' Talk, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

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2014-March-12-'Gender Issues' Talk, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

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The Benefit Of Financial Advisors, Steven D. Dolvin

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Many individual investors believe that the primary role of a financial advisor is to "pick stocks." However, research shows that not only are active managers not able to outperform the market consistently, but that the security selection piece is really not the most important determinant of portfolio return. The key issue is asset allocation. A recent report (see article here, InvestmentNews) suggests that financial advisors can add value, but primarily from activities unrelated to security selection: determining asset allocation, helping clients avoid behavioral errors, facilitating rebalancing, reducing fees, and managing taxes and withdrawals.

High Frequency Trading And Market Efficiency, Steven D. Dolvin

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Arbitrage is, essentially, taking advantage of mispricing across (or within) markets to earn a risk-free profit. In an efficient market, such opportunities would be rare. A recent Fed report (see article here, Bloomberg) finds that high frequency traders have effectively reduced the number of arbitrage opportunities, thereby improving market efficiency.

The Huntsman Post, March 2014, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business

Jon M. Huntsman School of Business Huntsman Post Issues Collection

Monthly newsletter for the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University.

2014-March-11-Trish King, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

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2014-March-11-Trish King, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

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How To Achieve Right Of Way Success, Dawn Haecker, Michael B. Jett, Jim Crall, Kathy Heistand, Nicolette Mendenhall, Todd Clift

Purdue Road School

The Real Estate Division of INDOT will provide an overview of the Right of Way process and key factors that affect time and expenditures. Panel discussion and Q&A session will include established best practices, new developments, lessons learned, and factors resulting in improved customer service and efficiency in terms of time and money for project delivery.

Stubborn Taxation Regime, Ishrat Husain Dr.

Faculty Research - Newspaper and Magazine Articles

Successive governments have been confronted with the issue of a stagnant or declining tax revenue stream. Many reforms of the Federal Board of Revenue, tax policy and tax administration have been attempted but the results have been painfully disappointing.

To analyse the reasons for the tax regime’s intractable nature we have to adopt a more systemic approach by dissecting the economy into sectors including rural and urban; formal, informal and illicit; agriculture, industry and services; and income distribution groups.

Of Pakistan’s potential labour force of 75 million, 18 million are not participating, five million are unemployed and 52 million employed. …

Friends Or Foes?: Examining Social Capital Of International Ngos And Food Security Programs, Mariah Ann Kraner

Dissertations and Theses

Food insecurity and chronic hunger are devastating global problems currently facing more than a billion people. There are many actors involved in the response to stomp out world hunger, including International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs). These INGOs, however, work in tumultuous environments with limited resources. This dissertation examines the INGOs involved in the food security dilemma (N=51) to investigate how they use resources to reach hungry populations.

It is hypothesized INGOs use a mix of material resources and social capital to enhance their organizational performance. However, little is known about the impact these resources have on reaching communities in need. Social …

Results Of The February Survey Of Nebraska Business: March 10, 2014, Eric Thompson, Shannon Mcclure, Mihdi Vahedi

Leading Economic Indicator Reports

Summary: Respondents to the February 2014 Survey of Nebraska Business turned positive in their outlook for sales and employment at their business. More respondents expected sales to rise (28%) than decline (24%) in the next six months. Further, many more respondents expected to add employees (13%) than to reduce employees (5%). Respondents also were more focused on the market challenges facing their businesses. When asked about the most important issue facing their business, nearly 6 in 10 focused on core business issues such as customer demand, the cost of supplies, labor quality and competition while out only 4 in 10 …

2014-March-10-Documentary Tells Story Of Rwanda’S Healing, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

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