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Purpose – Over recent years, the new public management system has made significant inroads in Spain, and brought about …
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Purpose – This paper aims to show that the Spanish central administration, as a representative of the Napoleonic tradition, has undergone considerable managerial changes in non‐autonomous and semi‐autonomous agencies characterised by their direct involvement in service delivery in spite of...
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brief case study of the Saragossa City Council, one of the leading councils in Spain, with regard to e …
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unemployment has raised issues in Spain as to the changing nature of specific forms of direct action. This paper seeks to argue … that it is important, in the case of Spain, to discuss how worker occupations have been changing and developing over time … that draw on various projects on union development in Spain during the years 1983‐1988, 2000‐2002 and 2009‐2010, and the …
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A chronological perspective of Human Resource Management (HRM) in Spain is adopted in order to offer a general overview … of the evolution of the personnel function in Spanish companies and to understand the present situation of HRM in Spain … during the 1980s: from the economic crisis to economic recovery, and (4) HRM in today′s Spain. Finally, gives special …
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/implications – Information has only been collected from the employee and only in Spain. Hence, it would be interesting to collect information …
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The competitive bidding process is the method by which firms efficiently and effectively make purchases for necessary goods and services at a desired level of quality. Those firms with managers who understand the competitive bid process and are sufficiently sophisticated with regard to its...
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In international marketing research, the researchers are often required to prespecify the salient attributes of a product or service. However, research that prespecifies attributes imposes cultural bias on the results, whereas research that does not specify attributes is open to culturally...
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them has led to the development of standards and specifications which seek to ensure safe operation. These allow robot … number of new standards and specifications have been proposed or are being developed, and this trend is set to continue as …
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The nature of specifications received by purchasing functions has a heavy influence on an organisation′s ability to … minimise bought‐out costs and thus maximise profits. The nature of purchase specifications and the effect of other functions … upon their creation are discussed; “open” and “closed” specifications and the relationship between purchase specifications …
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