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Lender evaluations of start-up business prospects

Miettinen, Marika; Niskanen, Mervi - In: Managerial Finance 41 (2015) 1, pp. 102-120

-accounting variables in order to examine their ability to predict firm performance, not failure, and to compare it with lenders’ evaluation …

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Assessor Decision Making Information Processing and Assessor Decision Strategies in a British Assessment Centre

Anderson, Neil; Payne, Tim; Ferguson, Eammon; Smith, Tom - In: Personnel Review 23 (1994) 1, pp. 52-62

A series of analyses was performed to evaluate the decision‐making strategies of assessors involved in a final‐stage assessment centre (AC). Thirty‐eight assessors rated applicants (n = 222) for an engineering sponsorship placement. Applicants were evaluated on four dimensions (Interactive...

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HRM – The Reinvention of Modern Management?

Clark, Ian - In: Personnel Review 23 (1994) 5, pp. 15-24

Critical and prescriptive evaluation of human resource management (HRM) tells us little about the direction in which …

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Designing Employee Welfare Provision

Davis, Ann; Gibson, Lucy - In: Personnel Review 23 (1994) 7, pp. 33-45

implications. Finally, provides guidance on programme implementation and evaluation, and discusses some of the advantages and …

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Evaluating EAPs

Carolyn Highley, J.; Cooper, Cary L. - In: Personnel Review 23 (1994) 7, pp. 46-59

Until recently most evaluations of EAPs have been qualitative. In the US there has been a move towards insisting on hard data, i.e. cost‐benefit ratios. The nature of EAPs makes identification of a clear outcome oriented model of intervention difficult if not impossible. Discusses different...

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Evaluating quality and reputation of human resource management

Baruch, Yehuda - In: Personnel Review 26 (1997) 5, pp. 377-394

Reports that the evaluation of organizational units is of great importance for the organization. However, we face …. Discusses conventional approaches to such evaluation, focuses on their limitations, and suggests a new method for such an … evaluation. The suggested method is based on an additive measure comprising HRM practices carried out in the organization. It was …

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A comparison of a competitive and non‐competitive outdoor management development programme

Ibbetson, Adrian; Newell, Sue - In: Personnel Review 28 (1999) 1/2, pp. 58-76

depending on how successful they were judged to have been, so that one team “won” and one team “lost”. Evaluation of this …. Evaluation results indicated a much more positive impact for all participants. These results are discussed in terms of how the …

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The Paradox in Open Learning at Work

Fuller, Alison; Saunders, Murray - In: Personnel Review 19 (1990) 5, pp. 29-33

This article identifies a central paradox in “open learning” – that in a commercial context its “openness”, seen from instrumental and prescriptive perspectives, will be restricted. The authors suggest that the effective implementation of open learning in work organisations requires...

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Action Learning: A Missing Link in Management Development?

Henderson, Iain - In: Personnel Review 22 (1993) 6, pp. 14-24

Seeks to provide an overview of the development of the concept of management competence in the context of management learning. Briefly describes the competence approaches to management development of Boyatzis and the Management Charter Initiative (MCI). Identifies and discusses a number of...

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A framework for evaluating university mobile websites

S. Al-Khalifa, Hend - In: Online Information Review 38 (2014) 2, pp. 166-185

evaluation framework that can be used to assess how universities' websites respond to the increasing demand for the mobile web … four categories: interface, navigation, content and services offered, and technical aspects. Findings – Evaluation findings …, suggestions for future improvements are given. Originality/value – No previous evaluation studies of this kind have been conducted …

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