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We analyse the puzzling behavior of the volatility of individual stock returns around the turn of the Millennium. There has been much academic interest in this topic, but no convincing explanation has arisen. Our goal is to pull together the many competing explanations currently proposed in the...
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Employers have a variety of reasons for attempting to stabilize turnover in their labour force. For example, specific … stimulate firms to minimize labour turnover. One way of reducing turnover is for the individual firm to raise its wage rates … inflation in the United States. Emphasis is placed on Hicks's model of labour turnover which emphasizes the firm's management of …
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commitment, stress perception, and turnover intention. The demographics were hypothesized to moderate the stress-satisfaction and … commitment-turnover relationships. Hypotheses were tested using both parametric and non-parametric bootstrap methods. Subjects … for age on turnover intent. No mediating effects were found. Age-Commitment was the only significant higher order modifier …
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Voluntary turnover has historically been a problem for today's organizations. Traditional models of turnover continue … to be utilized in a number of ways in both academia and industry. A newer model of turnover, job embeddedness, has … recently been developed in an attempt to better predict voluntary turnover than existing models. Job embeddedness consists of …
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size and the characteristics of employees, wage levels and wage growth, on-the-job training, tenure and turnover. My …
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, solvency, profitability, turnover and other relative indices are used. Basing upon the research, opportunities to increase JSC …
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The hotel industry utilises the concept of human resource practices system differentiation (HRPSD) by focusing resources on managerial level jobs as a technique of strategic human resource management (SHRM). Despite its use in both practice and the academic literature, research focusing on HRPSD...
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This study examined whether the effectiveness of human resource management (HRM)practices is contingent on organizational climate and competitive strategy The concepts of internol and external fit suggest that the positive relationship between HRM and subsequent productivity will be stronger for...
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to achieve stated inventory levels, judged in terms of financial measures like inventory turnover for this study. This … increased profitability. Inventory is a measure of both liquidity and in -service efficiency just like receivable turnover … turnover ratio (annual sales / average inventory) or a total asset level. A literature study was conducted with the aid of a …
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Actions by both private sector organizations and legislators in recent years have highlighted the importance of the audit committee of the board of directors of corporations in the financial reporting process. For example, the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 has multiple sections that deal with the...
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