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Corralling the "horses" to staff the global organization of 21st Century
Harvey, Michael; Mayerhofer, Helene; Hartmann, Linley C.; … - 2010
renewed meaning for human resource managers in global organizations. Staffing global organizations (e.g., finding an adequate … marketplace. Daniel Hanyzewski, Nike Inc.'s global staffing director, laments that Nike could grow its business significantly more … if it could effectively staff global management positions. Globalization of business complicates the staffing in emerging …
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Labor Productivity - The Use of Staffing Guides and Other Productivity Methods in U.S. Hotels: A Survey Study
Dougan, James W - 2011
American hoteliers including staffing guides, with a special focus on productivity standards. Advantages of physical, financial … Frontier Analysis are discussed. While the use of percentages and staffing guides were found to be commonplace, results …
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Optimal and Heuristic Echelon (r, nQ, T) Policies in Serial Inventory Systems with Fixed Costs
Shang, Kevin - 2010
This paper studies a periodic-review, serial inventory system in which echelon (r, nQ,T) policies are implemented. Under such a policy, each stage reviews its inventory in every T period and orders according to an echelon (r,nQ) policy. Two types of fixed costs are considered: one is associated...
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A Stochastic Inventory Model with Price Quotation
Liu, Jun - 2009
This thesis studies a single item periodic review inventory problem with stochastic demand, random price and quotation cost. It differs from the traditional inventory model in that at the beginning of each period, a decision is made whether to pay the quotation cost to get the price information....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009455327
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State petroleum enterprises and the international oil industry : the case of Trinidad and Tobago
Holton, Graham E. L. - 1994
Abstract: British and US oil companies set up the world's largest oil refinery transhipment complex in the Caribbean after the Suez Crisis and a technological revolution in oil tanker design in 1956. Trinidad and Tobago became one of the world's largest oil refinery and transhipment centres. In...
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Wage and the price of labour
Leitmanová, Ivana - 2012
The theory says that the balance on labour market is achieved through a wage. Nevertheless, the reality is more complicated. For employers, the wage (paid in money and in kind), represents two thirds of labour costs. The issue specifically concerns the low qualified workers, especially in...
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Competitiveness of the czech food products enterprises at labour costs
Holátová, Darja - 2012
Labour costs are the total costs of employers which are expended to remunerate work of their employees, to recruit and train and ensure social needs of their employee. Labour costs and the level of the wage are ones of the monitoring indicators of the process of enlargement the Czech Republic to...
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Managers' work-life balance and health: the case of UK managers
Worrall, Les; Cooper, Cary L. - 2007
The paper explores the effects of organisational change on UK managers' perceptions of their organisation and on their well-being. Cost reduction is the prime driver for change and has been implemented using delayering, redundancy, downsizing and off-shoring often supported by culture change...
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Complementary and Cost Reduction: Evidence from the Auto Supply Industry
Helper, Susan - 2002
Over the last 20 years, the success of Japanese manufacturing firms has broughtrenewed attention to the importance of cost reduction on existing products as a source ofproductivity growth. This paper uses survey data and field interviews from the auto supplyindustry to explore the determinants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009432207
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Operations Research Methods Applied to Workflow in a Medical Records Department
Edna Chan, S.-Y.; Ohlmann, Jeff; Dunbar, Steven; … - 2002
record department. The findings provided insight into the workflow, staffing and performance of the department. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477346