ounded in 1943 as Personnel Administration by three Englishmen: Ernest E. Butten‚ Tom H. Kirkham and Dr David Seymour. Britain’s war effort created great demand for munitions and goods‚ which had to be produced by a relatively unskilled workforce. Butten and his colleagues formed Personnel Administration Limited to provide advice to industry as to how to improve the productivity of their workers.[3][4] Like the other three firms that dominated consulting in the 1940s‚ 50s and 60s‚ PA was an offshoot
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Prospect theory Prospect theory was developed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in 1979 as a psychologically realistic alternative to expected utility theory. It allows one to describe how people make choices in situations where they have to decide between alternatives that involve risk‚ e.g. in financial decisions. Starting from empirical evidence‚ the theory describes how individuals evaluate potential losses and gains. In the original formulation the term prospect referred to a lottery.
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Journal of Economic Theory‚ 107:453–462.‚ 2002. [2] D.R. Appleton. May the best man win? Statistician)‚ 44(4):pp. 529–538‚ 1995. [3] P. Bonacich. Simultaneous group and individual centralities. Social Networks‚ 13:155–168‚ 1991. [4] K.A. Butler. Some problems in paired comparisons and goodness of fit for logistic regressions. PhD Thesis‚ Simon Fraser University‚ 1997. [5] L.C. Freeman‚ S.P. Borgatti‚ and D.R. White. Centrality in valued graphs: A measure of betweenness based on network flow. Social Networks
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To Tax or Not to Tax: The Problem of America Money‚ like a cookie‚ is something everybody wants‚ and when it is gone a person blames everybody else for its absence; realizing later they were the one to consume it in the first place. Taxes‚ since the beginning of an organized economy‚ have been argued over for centuries. At the end of 2012 after surviving the “end of the world‚” tax payers were faced with another apocalyptic situation‚ the Fiscal Cliff. It had the potential to raise taxes to outrageous
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Should the United States Adopt a “Flat” Federal Income Tax? Courtney Crowley ECO 211 Professor Reyes The tax system in the United States has changed throughout the years‚ with many attempts to make it "fair" or "equal" while at the same time generating enough income for the United States government to thrive. It is a complex issue‚ and a controversial one at that. While it may not be possible for our tax system to ever be fair‚ it is important to make sure it doesn ’t put more financial
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RAPID POPULATION GROWTH IS ONE OF THE PROBLEMS OF HUMAN RESOURCE UTILIZATION IN NIGERIA. WHAT CAN BE DONE TO REDUCE THIS PROBLEM? A MANPOWER ECONOMICS ASSIGNMENT Akinrodoye Adunola INTRODUCTION Population can be defined as the number of people living in any defined area at any given time. Hence the population of Nigeria consists of all the people who live in the country at any given time (Dictionary of Economics‚ 1998; Ojo‚ 1997). Population however cannot be treated in
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An Analysis of Superdry’ Working Environments and the Future Prospects for the Company Executive Summary This report discussess the working environment of Superdry and then offers an analysis of the future prospective for the company. Firstly introduce the background of Superdry include establishment‚ products‚ performance and so on. Then Porter’s five forces framework is applied to analyse the competitive environment which are suppliers‚ customers‚ competitors and so on. Next Porter’s PESTEL
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REGULATIONS IN NIGERIA INTRODUCTION The Nigerian Tax System has undergone significant changes in recent times. The Tax Laws are being reviewed with the aim of repelling obsolete provisions and simplifying the main ones. Under current Nigerian law‚ taxation is enforced by the 3 tiers of Government‚ i.e. Federal‚ State‚ and Local Government with each having its sphere clearly spelt out in the Taxes and Levies (approved list for Collection) Decree‚ 1998. Of importance at this juncture however are tax regulations
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Cited: Local Government in Nigeria under the Military (1966-1976) Nigeria suffered the first military coup in 196
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Theme No. 7 Capacity building for encashing technological options and Entrepreneurial Opportunities Role of Women Entrepreneurs in Agricultural Development: Problems and Prospects Dr. C.S Arneja and Gaganpreet Kaur Dept. of Extension Education Punjab Agricultural University‚ Ludhiana. ABSTRACT The emergence of entrepreneurs in agriculture and allied activities can propel our rural population into self sustaining individuals‚ who in turn can catalyze the development of economy. The concepts of
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