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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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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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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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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...

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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. …

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A Decision Model for E-commerce-enabled Partial Market Exit

Syam, Siddhartha; Bhatnagar, Amit - 2010

Struggling retail chains often try to recover profitability by closing some of their stores. The challenge in this strategy lies in determining how many stores to close, as store exit has implications for both the customers and the supply chain. After a store closes, its customers are lost...

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Dr. Peter F. Drucker on business & management, tape 2

Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand) - 1994

During Peter Drucker’s talk entitled "From Computer Literacy to Information Literacy" he discusses information systems and how they impact individual enterprises and workers. During his lecture, he talks about: the changing labor force, organization structure, command and control structure,...

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Hiding in plain sight: Anonymity and privacy preserving mechanisms for data collection and collaboration

Kumar, Rajeev - 2009

This dissertation contributes to the society by providing mechanisms that can potentially increase the availability of valuable personal level information without sacrificing the privacy of citizens. We consider two settings by which personal level data can be made available to its users such as...

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Software innovations: The influence of quality, diversity and structure of network ties

Singh, Harpeet - 2010

There is high uncertainty associated with the outcomes of Information Technology (IT) investments and innovations. In such environments, IT actors (firm and individuals) are also unsure about their actions and preferences. The social relationships of these actors create substantial value for...

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Essays on Innovation: Identifying and Selecting New Technologies and Enhancements in Existing Products

Chen, Li - 2010

In a global economy with intense competition, companies face tremendous pressure to become more innovation-driven. With the development of information technologies, many companies are seeking to incorporate novel IT-based approaches in their business practices, such as evaluating emerging...

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