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Gender Bias In Management : A Case Study In Employees Provident Fund (Epf), Ushabhanu Suppiah

Student Works (2000-2009)

The development in this day and age is extremely drastic. Tremendous growth is seen in all sectors of industries to match the rapidly changing needs of society. This change is also coupled with rapid technological advancement. In order to meet these developments the labour market should continue to experience growth as well. This is because in most sectors its most valuable asset in an organization is its human resources. And as such special attention needs to be given to this area of management. An in depth look at the breakdown of labour force indicates an almost equal number each gender …

Knowledge Management Within Engineering Companies, Ramanathan Narayanan

Student Works (2000-2009)

One hundred and thirty seven executives of major engineering companies involved in the oil & gas and power industries in Malaysia completed the questionnaires concerning knowledge management within their organisations. The level of knowledge management were studied with respect to competitiveness, organisation factors and employee attitude. Respondents' views on the challenges facing knowledge management within their organisations were also examined.

A Study Of The Planning And Organisation Structure-Issues / Problems Of Council Of The City Of Kuching South (Majlis Bandaraya Kuching Selantan), Joon Kit Lee

Student Works (2000-2009)

This thesis is the case study of Council of the City of Kuching South (Majlis Bandaraya Kuching Selatan or MBKS). In this study, I will only touch on the planning and organisation structure- issues/problems faced by MBKS especially in Administration, Public Work, Building and Landscaping and Public Health Division. In the chapter 1 of this thesis, I will touch on the reasons for the selection of MBKS for my study; the objectives of my project; the scope of my study; type of research design and methodology that I used and the limitation of my study. I will touch on the …

A Case Study On Strategies Adopted By A Medium Sized Property Development Company In Response To The Economic Crisis In 1997-1998, Thin Choy Woo

Student Works (2000-2009)

Epic is one way of describing Asia's economic development over the past decades. The once poverty stricken Asian countries metamorphosed into world class producers and dynamic markets. However, equally epic was the fall. In one almighty crash, the once mighty Asian economies toppled over as the next millennium grew closer. The prides, the hopes and the expectations buijt up by all those years of prosperity lay in shambles amid the accusatory pointing by critics who variously attributed the crisis to greed, over expansion, fiscal imprudence, corruption and deteriorating Asian values. It seemed that in the last two years, Asia could …

Knowledge Management And Organization In Malaysia, Koji Shiota

Student Works (2000-2009)

The term 'Industrial society' has been a proper one to explain the wide and deep influence of the industrialization to the society and the wealth of the country in 20th century. Its related concepts and theories such as division of labour, specialization, standardization, mass-production, learning curb, scale economy and others explained well the corporate competitiveness especially from the viewpoint of 'efficiency' and '(financial) capital'. After 1960s some people began to describe the new paradigm such as Daniel Bell's 'Post­industrial society' and Albin Tofler's 'The third wave.' These three decades we have seen the shift from industrial economy to service economy …

Health Care Financing In Malaysia, Zafar Ahmed

Student Works (2000-2009)

As the time passes the health care provision is getting more and more expensive. Traditionally the health care provision has been the duty of the governments, but because of increase in the cost of health care and fluctuation in the cost of health care, it is getting more difficult for the governments to maintain their role as health care provider. The governments want to become the regulators of health care services, rather than health care provider. The same is true for Malaysian government as well. This change of role is not that easy. Government has to consider many factors, the …

An Empirical Study On The Relationship Between Net Growth Of New Private Limited Company And Economic Factors, May Ling Ng

Student Works (2000-2009)

This study aims to investigate the relationship between the growth of private limited companies and economic factors such as interest rate, the rate of inflation, the cooperative income tax rate, the GDP growth rate and the unemployment rate during the last business cycle (1986 - 1996). The results show that the net growth rate of new private limited companies is correlated positively with the CDP growth rate. However, it has a negative, albeit weak, correlation with the interest rate. Economic factors such as the company income tax rate and the inflation rate do not exhibit any significant relationship with the …

The Development Of A Safety Self-Assessment Tool For The Printing Industry, John Lawrence Grahek

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations (1964–2006)

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Doctrinal And Applied Tqm In Relation To Dominant Models Of Organisation: A Comparative Study, Brad J. Moore

Theses : Honours

Total Quality Management (TQM) is examined in five organisations in light of the assumption that its implementation is an ongoing negotiated order rather than an objective reality as often accepted by the literature. Guided by a theoretical framework identified by Spencer (1994) and a qualitative methodology suggested by Miles and Huberman (1994), the perceptions of a cross section of organisational members in five organisations are used to establish the nature of applied TQM in terms of mechanistic and organismic 'mental models' of organisation and the degree to which applied TQM varies from the basic doctrine. It is argued that both …

An Empirical Analysis Of The Critical Determinants Affecting Commitment And Performance Of The U. S. Firm In The South African Market: Apartheid Versus Post-Apartheid, Sonja Pollard Mitchell

Theses and Dissertations in Business Administration

Recognized by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as one of the world's Big Emerging Markets (BEMs), South Africa has received vast attention from potential foreign investors (IRRC 1994) and has been recognized by scholars as an excellent base for research (Hofmeyr, Templer and Beaty 1994). Unfortunately, little is known about the export behavior of the foreign firm in South Africa (Calof and Viviers 1995) given the country's history of political, social and economic instability.

This dissertation is an effort to increase the understanding of the factors that contribute to the commitment and overall market performance of U.S. firms in South …

Independent Claim Report Lags And Bias In Forecasts Using Age-To-Age Factor Methodology, Stewart Gleason

Journal of Actuarial Practice (1993–2006)

This paper finds that when report lags are assumed to be independent, the age-to-age factor method produces biased estimates when applied to claim count development data. Two distributions are considered as models for the ultimate number of claims for an accident period: (0 a Poisson distribution, and (ii) a negative binomial distribution. In the Poisson case, the assumption of independent report lags implies the independence of the total number of claims reported in any two periods. In the negative binomial case, however, assuming that report lags are independent does not imply that increments are independent, and a somewhat different argument …

Actuarial Analysis Of Retirement Income Replacement Ratios, Robert Keng Heong Lian, Emiliano A. Valdez, Chan Kee Low

Journal of Actuarial Practice (1993–2006)

A measure of level of post-retirement standard of living is the replacement ratio, i.e., percentage of final salary received as annual retirement income derived from savings. The replacement ratio depends on many factors including salary, salary increases, investment returns, and post-retirement mortality. Elementary life contingencies techniques are used to develop a replacement ratio formula and analyze its sensitivity to these factors.

Journal Of Actuarial Practice, Volume 8, Nos. 1 And 2 (2000), Colin Ramsay , Editor

Journal of Actuarial Practice (1993–2006)

Complete volume, includes ARTICLES:

Realistic Pension Funding: A Stochastic Approach • Shih-Chieh Chang 5

Risk Sources in a Life Annuity Portfolio: Decomposition and Measurement Tools • Mariarosaria Coppola, Emilia Di Lorenzo, and Mari/ena Sibillo . .43

A Comparative Study of the Performance of Loss Reserving Methods through Simulation • Prakash Narayan and Thomas Warthen 63

Concentration in the Property and Liability Insurance Market by Line of Insurance • Edward Nissan and Regina Caveny 89

Safe-Side Requirements in Life Insurance: A Corporate Perspective • Annamaria Olivieri and Ermanno Pitacco 115

Actuarial Analysis of Retirement Income Replacement Ratios • Robert Keng Heong …

Accreditation And Academic Quality: A Comparison With Healthcare Accreditation, Ramon B. Zabriskie, Bryan P. Mccormick

Faculty Publications

The origins of accreditation in higher education began at the turn of this century, resulting from the rapid growth in number and variety of educational institutions. One of the key concerns of accreditation has been to address quality in educational experiences. Specialized accreditation of higher education programs in recreation, park resources, and leisure services has evolved over the past 20 years; however; concerns can be raised regarding the ability of the current process to adequately measure quality. Comparisons are made with trends identified in the evolution of accreditation in healthcare and their implication to the future of accreditation. Recommendations are …

An Analysis Of Quality Practices And Business Outcomes In Western Australian Hospitals, Janis Mussett

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This study aimed at identifying aspects of health care organisational management and activities that produced the highest level of quality care. A Literature review was conducted to determine the most successful quality activities currently used in a wide variety of industries. Using the findings of this review a questionnaire and interview questions were designed to identify factors associated with successful quality activities I health care organisations. Four Western Australian hospitals that were believed to have effective quality activities were randomly selected as a hospital from each of the following categories. A private hospital accredited by the Australian Council on Health …

Predicting Turnover And Retention In Nursing Home Administrators: Management And Policy Implications, Douglas A. Singh, Robert C. Schwab

Faculty Publications

Administrator turnover and its impact on the quality of patient care are important concerns in the nursing home industry. This study evaluates a model to determine which factors, attitudes, and personal characteristics can predict tenure. Responses to a survey from 290 nursing home administrators (NHAs) who furnished data on their previous positions were analyzed using logistic regression methods. The extracted model correlates tenure with the administrator's past patterns of stability, community attachment, organizational commitment, and facility performance. The model is particularly effective (85% accuracy) in flagging NHAs who are likely to depart within their first 3 years of employment. Implications …

Intellectual Capital: Managerial Perceptions Of Organisational Knowledge Resources, Mark Valentine St Leon

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This study addresses the question 'To what extent does organisational type and managerial role define managers' perception of Intellectual Capital?' Our understanding of the phenomenon of Intellectual Capital is an emerging one. The most recent attempts to describe and define Intellectual Capital identify a dynamic 'action' perspective as well as a static 'perception' perspective. Intellectual Capital broadly describes the resources of knowledge available to an organisation, whether embodied in human or non-human forms, and which are capable of being transformed into and codified as productive organisational assets. The emergence, development and application of concepts of Intellectual Capital herald the arrival …