In any organization, creativity is an important resource to ensure survival in a competitive market. Recently, entrepreneurship has been highlighted as a means of improving the public sector's quality. Many public organizations have created innovative ways of managing their employees for...

<title>Abstract</title> In order to maximize the value of human resources, today's reformers have abandoned traditional merit systems, calling instead for public personnel management systems based on a set of new principles known as <italic>managerialism</italic>. The study at hand, conceived within a principal--agent...

The family name distribution in Korea is investigated in comparison with previous studies in other countries. In Korea, both the family name and its birthplace, where the ancestor of the family originated, are commonly used to distinguish one family name from the others. The family name...