Business Commons^™

Linking Innovation & Creativity With Diversity & Inclusion Using Lean Six Sigma, Robin A. Roberts

Office of Diversity & Inclusion

“The SHRM Workplace Diversity Conference & Exposition fosters awareness and appreciation of workplace diversity issues through thought leadership, strategy development, resources, publications and professional development for HR professionals and other business leaders. Making the business case for diversity, helping HR professionals to better articulate its strategic business value, and enabling them to build more diverse and inclusive cultures, are the cornerstones of the initiative.”—Society for Human Resource Management website

Improving Career Development In Students By Developing Job Analysis Skills, Robin Cheramie

Faculty Articles

One of the main goals of business school education is to prepare graduates for employment after graduation. However, many managers complain about the lack of communication skills developed in many graduates seeking employment in the job market (Abraham & Karns, 2009). This paper describes the experiential exercise designed to help students complete the process of job analysis to be used for hiring or other Human Resource functions. Besides learning the process for describing jobs, students discover external resources that can help them develop more effective resumes and interview skills. Results from a student satisfaction survey of this exercise and pre-test/post-test …

The Business Of Diversity Management, Jakari Griffith

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Business Ethics And Ideals, Gregory Wolcott

School of Business: Faculty Publications and Other Works

John Hasnas (2013) argues for a “Principles Approach” to supplant normative theory and casuistry in business ethics pedagogy. This Commentary argues some normative theory ought still to have some place in business ethics education and that the problems Hasnas sees in business ethics pedagogy only tell half the story.

2014-October-01-Ashley Griggs, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

2014-October-01-Sammie Nicely Is Artist-In-Residence At Etsu’S Reece Museum This Fall, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

Development Discourse And Practice: Alternatives And New Directions From Postcolonial Perspectives, Paul Donnelly, Banu Ozkazanc-Pan

Books/Book Chapters

Development and aid programs, such as those aimed at promoting economic growth and prosperity in ‘Third World’ nations and transition economies, often arise out of Western and neo-liberal policy ideologies and practices. These programs may, in some cases, provide useful guidelines for restructuring institutional structures and governance mechanisms in nations that have long struggled with poverty, economic instability, health crises, and social and political turmoil. However, a growing number of critical voices are raising concerns over the guiding assumptions and inclusiveness of these policies and programs in their aims to promote economic development and social well-being in non-Western nations. We …

Roli I Migrimit Dhe Parave Të Dërguara, Erona Deshishku

Theses and Dissertations

Evidenca prej vendeve të ndryshme tregon se efektet e diasporës dhe remitancave mund të jenë

domethënëse për ekonominë e një vendi. Në përgjithësi, efektet ekonomike të diasporës dhe

remitancave mund të jenë pozitive, mirëpo gjithashtu ekzistojnë edhe disa implikime negative.

Emigrimi nga Kosova për në vendet e perëndimit ka filluar në fund të viteve të „60-ta dhe në

fillim të viteve të „70-ta dhe mund të ndahet në katër faza: 1) 1960-1988, 2) 1989-1997, 3) grupi

i refugjatëve të luftës së vitit 1998/99 në Kosovë, dhe 4) 2000-20012. Faza e parë është

karakterizuar me emigrim të punëtorëve të përkohshëm shqiptarë, …

Investimet Ne Zonat E Lira, Andrra Sylqe

Theses and Dissertations

Njëra ndër mënyrat më të mira për të tërhequr investime të huaja është krijimi i zonave të lira në vendet në zhvillim.Zonat e lira janë zonat më të përshtatshme për të siguruar kushte për tregti të lirë të një vendi , me ç’rast këto kushte mund të jenë ekonomike ose sociale.

Krijimi i zonave të lira, sidomos në vendet në zhvillim mundëson krijimin e vendeve të reja të punës, trasnferimit teknologjik dhe investimit e cila ndikon në rritjen nacionale të të ardhurave dhe këmbimin e të ardhurave të huaja. Përmes implementimit dhe fuksionimit të zonave të lira, sigurohen kushte shumë …

Marketingu I Destinacionit Turistik-Rasti Rugova, Luljeta Shaqiri

Theses and Dissertations

Turizmi është një nga veprimtaritë më komplekse të shoqërisë së sotme moderne. Në vendet e zhvilluara, por edhe në disa shtete në tranzicion turizmi është produkt i rëndësishëm dhe gjeneratorë i punësimit,përfshirë një gërshetim të gjërë dukurish dhe raportesh që lindin gjatë kohës së udhëtimit turistik, ndërsa në realizimin e tij futet thellë jo vetëm në aspektin ekonomik, por edhe në aspektin ekologjik, social dhe kulturor të jetës.

Edhe në Kosovë, turizmi është degë e rëndësishme ekonomike, ku marketingu ka ndikim shumë të rëndësishëm në funksionalizimin e saj.Pra, në këtë punim trajtohen konceptet e marketingut duke i parë ato në …

Pse I Nevojitet Bursa - Kosovës, Ismet Gosalci

Theses and Dissertations

Punimi i diplomës “Pse i nevojitet bursa - Kosovës” kryesisht merret me arsyet se pse duhet të kemi Bursë në Kosovë, përparësitë e ekzistimit të saj, ku janë pengesat që nuk e kemi deri tani, në sa hapa dhe çfarë drejtimi duhet fokusuar procedurat e hapjes së saj ashtu që edhe Kosova të rangohet me vendet e rajonit që kanë Bursa të hapura, çka duhet ndërmarrë nga ana e aspektit Ligjor që ky hap i nevojshëm të ketë dyer të hapura në Kosovë. Dhe e gjithë kjo që ne si shoqëri të fokusohemi dhe të zhvillohemi gjatë këtij shekulli të …

Ndikimi I Inovacioneve Në Produktivitetin E Ndërmarrjeve, Sherif Gosalci

Theses and Dissertations

Punimi i diplomës “ndikimi i inovacioneve në produktivitetin e ndërmarrjeve” fokusohet kryesisht në rolin dhe ndikimin e inovacioneve në ndërmarrësi, sidomos tani kur globalizmi dhe zhvillimet teknologjike kanë bërë që suksesi të varet nga një konkurrencë e jashtëzakonshme në betejën për mbijetesë ekonomike.

Sipas Schumpeter, procesi krijues i zhvillimit ekonomik mund të ndahet në tri faza të dallueshme: në shpikje; inovacione (komercializimit) dhe imitim. Sipas kësaj teorie, shpikja dhe inovacioni kërkojnë aftësi të posaçme. Bashkimi i tyre rritë mundësitë e komercializimit të suksesshëm.

Zhvillimi i hovshëm teknologjik ka bërë që inovacionet “të lehtësojnë” jetën e qytetarit çdo ditë e më …

Ndërtimi Dhe Rëndesia E Planit Të Marketingut Në Ndërmarrje, Saranda Shala

Theses and Dissertations

Një punimi i Diplomës bachelor është një punim shkencorë, që ka një strukturë dhe një qëllim të caktuar përmes të cilit student edhe simbolikisht i përfundon studimet, në rastin tim studimet themelore.

Edhe unë jam përpjekur që në këtë punim ti përmbahem disa rregullave formale dhe strukturore dhe që bashkë me një përmbajtje të plotë e bëjnë punimin sa më të plotë.

Në pjesën e parë jam përpjekur që të ofroj konceptet kyçe të marketingut në ndërmarrjet në ekonominë e tregut në Kosovë.

Më pas në vazhdim jam përpjekur të ofroj informata bazë lidhur me funksionet dhe strategjitë e marketingut …

Effects Of Psychological Contract Breaches On Mergers And Acquisitions, Kristine M. Murphy

Doctoral Dissertations

This study investigates breaches in the psychological employment contract during mergers and acquisitions. An employee's contract is incomplete in regards to mergers and acquisitions (M&A). In its place, psychological contracts are formed. Common psychological contracts breached in the M&A process include raises, bonuses, promotions, job responsibilities, job security, and career development. Employees who have experienced an M&A were surveyed to test the severity of various psychological contract breaches and their effect on employee performance, organizational citizenship behavior, job satisfaction, organizational deviance, and turnover using t-tests, Structural Equation Modeling, and ANOVA. The mediating effect of feelings of violation was also tested. …

Notes With Interest: Department Of Finance Newsletter, N03, Fall 2014, University Of Northern Iowa. Department Of Finance.

Department of Finance Newsletter

News about the activities of the Department of Finance

ممارسات التعلم التنظيمي واستراتيجية ادارة المعرفة وعلاقتهما باداء ادارة المعرفة دراسة تحليلية لاراء عينة من اعضاء الهيئة التدريسية في كلية الهندسة – جامعة القادسية, هناء جاسم محمد العسكري

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

يهتم البحث الحالي اظهار الدور الذي تلعبه ممارسات التعلم التنظيمي ( التعلم المستمر , الحوار والمناقشة, تطوير انظمة المشاركة للتعلم , تمكين العاملين, الاتصال بالبيئة, تشجيع التعاون لفرق التعلم, القيادة الاستراتيجية للتعلم) و استراتيجية ادارة المعرفة ( استراتيجية التوجه نحو النظام, استراتيجية التوجه نحو الافراد) في اداء ادارة المعرفة. اختيرت عينة البحث بـ(60) عضو هيئة تدريس لكلية الهندسة – جامعة القادسية – واعتمد البحث على استبانة اعدت من مقاييس جاهزة, وبأستخدام مجموعة من الاساليب الاحصائية منها معامل الارتباط البسيط لقياس علاقة الارتباط بين المتغيرات واختبار ( T) لمعرفة معنوية هذه العلاقة، وتحليل الانحدار المتعدد واختبار ( F) لتحديد معنوية معادلة …

ادارة قوى التناقض لضمان الاداء المنظمي المستدام في اطار نموذج التوازن الديناميكي للتنظيم – بحث تحليلي في عينة من كليات الجامعة العراقية, عامر علي حسين العطوي

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

يهدف هذا البحث الى بلورة تصور واضح حول الكيفية التي يمكن ان تدير بها المنظمات التوترات المتناقضة في الظواهر التنظيمية من اجل ضمان الاداء المنظمي المستدام. ووفقاً لنموذج التوازن الديناميكي للتنظيم الذي يعكس الارضية المعرفية لنظرية التناقض لـ (Smith & Lewis, 2011) فأن تحقيق الاداء المنظمي المستدام يتحقق من خلال ادارة قوى التناقض التي تتضمن نوعين من الستراتيجيات هما ستراتيجية قبول التناقض وستراتيجية حل التناقض. تبحث ستراتيجية قبول التناقض عن العوامل التي تساعد القيادات التنظيمية في قبول التوترات المتناقضة في العمل، اما ستراتيجية الحل فأنها تبحث عن تحقيق التزامن الاني والمواءمة ما بين اقطاب الظواهر المتناقضة. ويستلزم ضمان الاداء المنظمي …

2014 October, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Press releases for October of 2014.

"Let's Go Shopping At The Square" Cleveland's Leading Downtown Department Stores: A Business Legacy, Richard Klein

Cleveland Memory

This book is a tribute to the eight major downtown Cleveland department stores and their many loyal customers. For over 150 years, these large stores dominated the local retail scene. They represented exciting places that not only provided a full range of goods and services all under one roof, but also, offered a special shopping adventure every time their customers visited.

Investor Behavior In The Mutual Fund Industry: Evidence From Gross Flows, George D. Cashman, Federico Nardari, Daniel N. Deli, Sriram V. Villupuram

Finance Faculty Research and Publications

Using a large sample of monthly gross flows from 1997 to 2003, we uncover several previously undocumented regularities in investor behavior. First, investor purchases and sales produce fund-level gross flows that are highly persistent. Persistence in fund flows dominates performance as a predictor of future fund flows. More importantly, failing to account for flow persistence leads to incorrect inferences with respect to the relation between performance and flows. Second, we document that investors react differently to performance depending on the type of fund, and that investor trading activity produces meaningful differences in the persistence of fund flows across mutual fund …

Massachusetts On The Move: The Intersection Of Talent, Transportation, And Housing, Richard Boyajian, Juleen Freitas, David Mahoney, Karen Ng, Robert Woods

Emerging Leaders Program Team Projects

The Massachusetts Business Roundtable (MBR) collaborated with a team from the Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) from the University of Massachusetts Boston to interview business leaders to explore the important intersection of talent, transportation, and housing on the state’s economy. The ELP Team obtained the insights of 15 key business leaders, industry experts as well as public policy organizations on these important issues and their impact across the Commonwealth. This research seeks to capture the views of stakeholders throughout Massachusetts. The ELP Team surveyed the landscape by reviewing trends and current research on these policy issues.

An Assessment Of The Assimilation Of Lean And Supply Chain Management Practices In The Construction Industry, Helen S. Nunez

Open Access Theses

The purpose of this research was to identify and assess the success factors corresponding to Lean and Supply Chain Management that are currently applicable to the construction industry. These factors were originally extracted from manufacturing research and practice and corroborated construction industry literature and expert validation. Using Pearson's correlation coefficients, the researcher was able to identify the correlation among factors and with the identified measures of overall performance. Another important output of this research was the ability to compare the construction industry response level with a preceding study from manufacturing. The data was collected through a survey sent to general …

The Effect Of Six Sigma On Corporate Performance In The Manufacturing And Service Sectors, Luis F. Ojeda

Open Access Theses

As global competition becomes more intense, organizations try to implement strategies that allow them become more efficient, increase quality and productivity, and stay ahead of their competition. Over the years, there have been different programs or methodologies that companies have adopted with the purpose of achieving enhanced operational performance and bottom line impact. Six Sigma is one of the strategies that have gained more popularity during recent years, being adopted by companies in both manufacturing and service. There have been numerous claims by adopting companies about the financial benefits of implementing Six Sigma. However, the number of studies conducting empirical …

Customer Envy At Service Encounters, Gerardo Anaya

Open Access Theses

Envy has been regarded as a complex emotion which can produce both positive and negative outcomes for consumers. This study explored the subjective experience of customer envy at service encounters in order to better understand how customers respond to unflattering comparisons with an envied customer. A questionnaire was designed to measure the cognitive appraisals, emotional responses, and consequences of customer envy. Study participants were also asked to share their envy incidents in the survey. A sample of 300 participants was collected and used for analysis. The findings illustrate that distinctively different patterns of cognitive appraisals such as preferential treatment, are …

The Effects Of Acquisition On Restaurant Firms’ Performance: Different-Sector Versus Same-Sector Acquisitions, Yongjin Lee

Open Access Theses

This study examines the postacquisition accounting performance of acquiring firms in the restaurant industry between 1992 and 2012. Specifically, this study investigates the effects of different-sector and same-sector restaurants acquisitions between full-service and limited-service restaurants on restaurant firms' performance. Additionally, the Wilcoxon signed-rank test and regression model are used to examine return on assets (ROA) and return on equity (ROE) for the accounting performance of the acquiring restaurants.

The ROA and ROE reveal that the profitability is significantly negative up to 5 years after firms are acquired. However, negative effects are strongest within the first year after acquisition and decrease …

Essays On Corporate Bank Loan Contracting, Leann G. Pashnyak

Open Access Dissertations

This dissertation is comprised of two essays on corporate bank loan contracting. The purpose of the first essay is to investigate the effect of loan's designated purpose on loan agreement contracting terms, as well as to examine whether lenders apply different standards to assess the value of borrower's corporate governance for each type of loan purpose. Using a large sample of private bank loans, the results indicate that both price and non-price loan terms vary significantly by loan purpose. Specifically, the spread yield varies by about 182 basis points (bps) for loans made for different purposes. Further, borrowers of operations …

Essays On Pricing Of Cardinality Bundles, Jianqing Wu

Open Access Dissertations

This dissertation studies the pricing of cardinality bundles, where firms set prices that depend only on the size of the purchased bundle, a practice that is increasingly being adopted by industry. The first essay develops a fast combinatorial technique to obtain the optimal prices for cardinality bundles. The second essay extend the basic model to solve the problem when there exists fixed costs or economies of scale. The third essay relax a key assumption in cardinality bundling literature, which restricts each consumer to purchase no more than one bundle.

Project Portfolio Evaluation And Selection Using Mathematical Programming And Optimization Methods, Hugo Caballero

Open Access Dissertations

Project portfolio selection is an essential process for portfolio management and plays an important role in accomplishing organizational goals. This research explores the feasibility of developing a project portfolio selection tool by using mathematical programming and optimization models, specifically 0-1 integer programming (one objective portfolio) and goal programming (multiple objectives portfolio). These methods select the set of projects which deliver the maximum benefit (e.g., net present value, profit, etc.) represented for objective functions subjected to a series of constraints (e.g., technical requirements and/or resources availability) considering the scheduling of selected projects in a planning horizon, interdependence relationship among projects (e.g., …

A Business Case For Tele-Intensive Care Units, Alberto Coustasse, Stacie Deslich, Deanna Bailey, Alesia Hairston, David Paul

Management Faculty Research

Objectives: A tele-intensive care unit (tele-ICU) uses telemedicine in an intensive care unit (ICU) setting, applying technology to provide care to critically ill patients by off-site clinical resources. The purpose of this review was to examine the implementation, adoption, and utilization of tele-ICU systems by hospitals to determine their efficiency and efficacy as identified by cost savings and patient outcomes.

Methods: This literature review examined a large number of studies of implementa­tion of tele-ICU systems in hospitals.

Results: The evidence supporting cost savings was mixed. Implementation of a tele- ICU system was associated with cost savings, shorter lengths of stay, …

2014-October-01-Child Study Center To Introduce 'Rainbow In My Tummy' Menu, Nutrition Progra, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.