Employee ownership‚ motivation and productivity A research report for Employees Direct from Birkbeck and The Work Foundation By Jonathan Michie‚ Christine Oughton and Yvonne Bennion November 2002 Page 2 E M P LOY E E S D I R E C T R E P O R T N O V E M B E R 2 0 0 2 Contents About the authors/Acknowledgements Foreword‚ by Will Hutton Executive Summary 1. Introduction 2. Site visits and interviews 3. Follow-up surveys 4. Focus groups 5. Discussion and Conclusion References 3 4 5
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Home Ownership Verses Renting It is the American Dream to own a home‚ and it is influenced heavily in today’s society. Commercials for home furniture to home makeover ideas inspire one’s imagination and creativity to run wild and become over ambitious. It seems to be the classic trademark of the American Dream‚ to be independent and to have a sense of belonging and possession‚ to do with as one would please. However‚ what are the viable and cost effective options between home ownership and renting
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Corporate Ownership of Mass Media It is my opinion that there is bias in mass communication due to corporate ownership. We as a population cannot trust media sources to fully educate us due to the roles and biases that large corporations play in mass popular media today. If there are larger corporations running things‚ there may also be ulterior motives for disclosing or not disclosing information. An example is the power of General Electric over NBC-TV‚ in which it did not allow a song to
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Forms of Small Business Ownership Chapter 8 Three business ownership choices: 1.Sole Proprietorship 2.Partnership 3.Corporation Sole Proprietors hip A business owned and operated by a single person. What are the Advantages of Sole Proprietorship ? Advantages of Sole Proprietorship Ease and Cost of Formation Distribution and Use of Profits Control of the Business Government Regulation Taxation Closing the Business What are the Disadvantages of Sole Proprietorship? Disadvantages
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or a buy corporation. There are advantages and disadvantages to each. However‚ there are risks no matter which form you choose. Before you decide which form is for you‚ you need to evaluate all the alternatives carefully. The most basic form of ownership is the sole proprietorship‚ a business own and managed by one person. This kind of business is easier of starting and ending‚ you also get to be your own boss; you get to retain all company profit and to have full control of your business. There
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In the United States or Canada there are many forms of business ownership. Many business owners‚ in the US‚ who decide to start-up their own business must carefully choose a form of business ownership for their corporation‚ this will determine the legal arrangements of the business. The reason it is important for a business manager to choose a legal development for his company is because this decision will have an effect on matters such as taxes and regulatory requirements. If an executive manager
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are “detrimental to a person’s character‚ and Aristotle argues the opposite‚ that it can “develop” it. Plato is correct in saying that it can poorly impact our character because when we own more objects we tend to look down upon others who don’t. Ownership of physical objects should help to teach us to be humble even though we may have more than others‚ yet it does the opposite. Humility is a quality very rarely possessed today considering we live in a world where everyone tries to be better than the
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NATIONALIZATION Nationalization is a general policy which beings a whole sector of the economy into public or state ownership‚ usually indicates an attempt to make a fundamental shift in the organization of the industry within a host economy. National security National security and developmental objectives had caused a world-wide trend for government to go nationalization for such popular and economic mentioned investment Public utility is one of the most popular type of investments which
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Example - Demand for apple product has increased after the launch of iphone 6 * What is Privatizing and who did it first‚ when and for what? Privatizing is a nationalized company becoming a private company‚ this means the process of transferring the ownership from the public sector (Government owned) to private sector. BAA (British Airport Authority)is the first to do privatization in 1987 * What is Deregulation and who did it first‚ when and for what? Deregulation is the government removing or reducing
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exotic pet ownership has been escalating over the years‚ especially in the last ten to fifteen years alone. Many state governments in the last couple years have been trying to pass laws and different measures to deal with this issues such as an Ohio lawmaker that is proposing a new law that would ban people from owning most exotic animals starting in 2014 (Weekly Reader News Addition) and in Tennessee where lawmakers pitch new exotic ownership rules which would ban the private ownership‚ import‚ sale
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