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There is a link between work life balance culture and strategic competitive advantage
Bradley, Lisa M.; Royer, Susanne; Eckardt, Farida - 2008
This paper suggests a linkage between work-life balance culture and competitive advantage through commitment and firm-specific human resources. The paper argues that a workplace culture supportive of employees balancing their work and non-work lives leads to their commitment to their...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009458985
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Family-owned businesses : perspectives on Australian policy
Glassop, Linda; Graves, Chris - 2010
In 2008, a report was commissioned by the European Commission (EC) outlining various policy matters in the field of family business within the auspices of the European Union (EU). Family-owned businesses make a significant contribution to Australia's economic and social welfare. The EC report...
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APPROACHING TELEWORK SYSTEM BY ROMANIAN EMPLOYEES IN THE PANDEMIC CRISIS
Negrușa, Adina Letiția; Butoi, Elisabeta - 2022
home challenged Romanian employees’ capacity to sustain their job satisfaction, the efficiency of work, and work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012813227
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Los números de la regulación sobre igualdad: cuantificación de la actividad normativa sobre no discriminación en España y su relación con las brechas de género en el mercado de tra...
Mora-Sanguinetti, Juan S.; Hospido, Laura; …
Public policies that aim to achieve gender equality, improve work-life balance or combat harassment may have economic consequences, for example, through changes in the labour supply of women or other groups. Although there may be an increase in social awareness of these problems, a separate...
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The numbers of equality regulation: quantifying regulatory activity on non-discrimination and its relationship with gender gaps in the labour market
Mora-Sanguinetti, Juan S.; Hospido, Laura; …
Las políticas públicas orientadas a lograr la igualdad de género, permitir una mayor conciliación de las actividades profesionales con la vida privada o luchar contra el acoso pueden tener consecuencias económicas; por ejemplo, a través de cambios en la oferta laboral de las mujeres u...
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10 years of transition in Ukraine agriculture: An analysis of productivity and efficiency of enterprises
Lissitsa, Alexej; Odening, Martin; Babycheva, Tamara - 2003
This paper analyzes efficiency and total factor productivity (TFP) change of large agriculturalenterprises during their … efficiency, which is found to be remarkably significant. At the sametime there is a high variation among individual enterprises … performance.The Tobit regression analysis is conducted where the efficiency scores are related tofactors such as farm type, farm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446946
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Essays on Distribution Channel Structures, Efficiency and Market Performance
Lucinda Trigo Gamarra - 2008
This collection of articles contributes to knowledge of the German insurance industry after its liberalization by analyzing changes in the structure and choice of distribution channels in private insurance markets in the first and second article. In a third article the development of market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466986
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Five Statistical Analyses on Efficiency and Productivity. The Data Envelopment Analysis in Economic History
Behle, Dominic Markus - 2010
productivity and efficiency. For the United States in the nineteenth century, it is shown that factories were more efficient than … artisanal shops, and the hypothesis that regional efficiency differences were responsible for different industrial development … paths cannot be confirmed.It is also shown that the american civil war had rather less influence on manufacturing efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475331
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Bewertung konsumorientierter Steuerreformen in Entwicklungsländern : eine numerische Allgemeine Gleichgewichtsanalyse für Thailand
Niyomthai, Pilanya - 2004
fully dynamic model class overlapping generations of Fehr (1999) enabling a decomposition of welfare effects into efficiency … the Thai base case data of the year 2000 suggest that the tax reform generate moderate long-term efficiency gains. While …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476230