Flexible Benefits: its effects on employee and organisational outcomes Abstract The primary purpose of the present study was to examine organisational and individual outcomes of implementing flexible benefits. The current study has presented evidence on some of the main reasons why firms have (or have not) adopted flex benefit plans. The use of the benefits model has made links to the external and internal environmental drivers of benefit preferences and has stated that these drivers play a vital
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1984 Skeleton Outline ENG3U1 “I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away‚ was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn ’t aware of it yet”. Bruce Sterling (www.brainyquote.com) Technology has helped society achieve great strides in the world today. It has helped us to walk on the moon and find cures for certain cancers. However‚ technology can also have horrible and devastating effects. This
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Engineering Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS) Name University Course Instructor Date Engineering Flexible Manufacturing System A. The effectiveness of the FlexSim simulation package in designing and planning the flexible manufacturing system and evaluating its performance FlexSim is one of the most advanced simulation tools used currently in the manufacturing sector (Kumar et al.‚ 2015). The simulation engine is located beneath a number of intuitive controls including drop-down lists‚ drag
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Available online at www.sciencedirect.com ScienceDirect International Journal of Project Management 32 (2014) 327 – 340 www.elsevier.com/locate/ijproman Project risk management methodology for small firms Sara Marcelino-Sádaba a‚⁎‚ Amaya Pérez-Ezcurdia a ‚ Angel M. Echeverría Lazcano b ‚ Pedro Villanueva a a Dept. Projects and Rural Engineering‚ Public University of Navarre‚ Spain b Zabala Innovation Consulting‚ S.A.‚ Spain Received 15 January 2013; received in revised form 17 May 2013; accepted
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How Will You Spend The Rest Of Your Days? The oldest man currently still living today is Emiliano Mercado Del Toro who is 113 years old (Guinness 2). Emiliano said he has seen many things in his lifetime‚ but still feels as if he has not "seen it all" (Guinness 2). If Emiliano has lived 113 years on the earth and feels that he has not done it all then how can the average American living only into his or her 70s live a full life? Most Americans lives are spent at work‚ the average American works
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The word utopia was first utilised by Thomas Moore in 1516 in his work Utopia. A utopia in essence is an imaginary place of sheer fear and desire. The word utopia used to describe an ideal society. The opposite of utopia is a dystopia which also is an imaginary place contrary to the belief of perfection. They include undesirable elements of society exaggerated to form a warning for the future generations. Terry Gilliam’s film Brazil shows a dictatorial society where freedom has been surrendered for
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Executive Summary: Jaguar PLC‚ 1984 This case explores the operating exposure of Jaguar PLC in 1984‚ just as the government is about to relinquish control and take the company public via an IPO. The primary concern of the CFO is that Jaguar sells over 50% of its cars in the US‚ while its production costs and factories are U.K.-based. This currency mismatch creates operating exposure for the firm that needs to be hedged. While the current trend in the USD has been higher‚ the markets are expecting
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1. Discuss the typical risks faced by a firm. 2. In a market economy‚ the price system facilitates allocation of resources. Discuss how a manager may contribute to the profit maximization goal of a firm by studying managerial economics. Typical risks faced by a firm. According to Keat & Young (2009)‚ the typical risks faced by a firm would be: 1. Changes in demand and supply condition 2. Technological changes and effects of competition 3. Changes in interest rates and inflation rates 4.
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like in George Orwell’s 1984‚ but there are also real life dystopias like the MOVE organization. The four Ministries in 1984 make the citizens of Oceania think they live in a utopia. In reality the Ministries are what make it a dystopia. The MOVE organization is the same way with how the people of it believe that they live in a dystopia when they don’t. What allows a utopia to turn into a dystopia is when its ideals are corrupted and changed without anyone noticing. In 1984‚ the people of Oceania
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AGENCY THEORY AND FIRM PERFORMANCE By Alex Ganas Department of M.B.A At the university of I.S.T / L.S.B.U There has been considerable discussion of managerial agency and firm performance problems that arise from the separation of ownership and control. Economists have long been concerned with the incentive problems that arise when decision making in a firm is the province of managers who are not the firm ’s security holders. The adoption of the agency logic increased during
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