In der Zollverwaltung gibt es obere Führungskräfte (in der Regel dem höheren Dienst angehörend) und Führungskräfte mit Vorgesetztenfunktion im mittleren, gehobenen und höheren Dienst. Diese sog. Sandwich-Führungskräfte (auch mittlere Manager oder Mittelmanager im mittleren Management)...

This paper is a concatenation of the penultimate versions of the first and last chapters of the book A Historiography of Contemporary Economics, edited by Düppe and Weintraub, to be published by Routledge Press in late 2018. The volume itself collects commissioned essays on recently developed...

The standard textbook presentation of many policy issues, such as the financial crisis and income distribution, is problematic. This view is shared by many economists, both mainstream and heterodox. Despite this agreement, it has not and will not change because the textbook presentations have...

In this article a pluralist teaching method in macroeconomics is explained with examples. It demonstrates why pluralist macro teaching is important and that it is feasible even at the introductory level. It shows how it can be carried out using five key economic theories: social economics,...

This study aimed to analyze the assessment process of distance education. The study involved academicians working under distance education system as the faculty of education. It used a questionnaire depending on five point Likert scale. Its content validity and face validity was determined by...

We assume that students can acquire a wage premium, thanks to studies, and form a rational expectation of their future earnings, which depends on personal ability. Students receive a private, noisy signal of their ability, and universities can condition admission decisions on the results of...

The human capital represented by corporate employees involved in the information and knowledge economy is becoming an increasingly central value-creating factor in global competition. However, in contrast to other value-creating factors, human capital is more difficult to measure, evaluate and...

Under the growing influence of economic normative thoughts (as for example the spread of shareholder value philosophy in the 1990s) and therefore under pressure to justify themselves, human resource management professionals are searching for concepts to measure the effects of their decisions and...

Theorie und Unternehmenspraxis weisen auf die hohe Relevanz des Humankapitals für den Unternehmenserfolg hin. Investitionen in die Ressource Mensch werden im Jahresabschluss allerdings mit wenigen Ausnahmen als Aufwendungen erfasst. Das Humankapital ist somit nicht als Vermögensgegenstand in...