NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY Nicholas Bloom John Van Reenen Working Paper 16019 http://www.nber.org/papers/w16019 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge‚ MA 02138 May 2010 This paper has been prepared for a chapter in the Handbook of Labor Economics Volume IV edited by David Card and Orley Ashenfelter. We would like to thank the Economic and Social Research Council for their financial support through the Center for
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Fostering a warm teacher student relationship The teacher student relationship is very important for children. Children spend approximately 5 to 7 hours a day with a teacher .We ask ourselves what is considered a good teacher? All of us have gone through schooling‚ and if fortunate had a favorite teacher. A positive relationship between the student and the teacher is difficult to establish‚ but can be found for both individuals. The qualities for a positive relationship can vary to set a learning
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is a general truth the fact that teachers grade students but would the world be turned upside down if students would also be allowed to grade their teachers? To begin with‚ though the grading offered by a student is not always the most objective‚ I think that students are more entitled than any inspector to grade their teacher’s work in class because‚ after all they are the ones who interact the most with the teacher and can appreciate the effects that the teacher has on them. In addition‚ it is
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work more efficiently. When businesses compete with one another‚ they improve their efficiency and help the economy grow. They also help the economy grow through innovations of various sorts. No market economy can thrive without businesses. Business is important to a country’s development because business can improve a country’s economy and‚ thereby‚ help with the process of development. However‚ businesses can‚ at times‚ harm a country’s development. We must remember that “development” does
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2.1 TEACHERS QUALITY AND QUANTITY The issue of poor academic performance of students in Nigeria has been of much concern to all and sundry. The problem is so much that it has led to the widely acclaimed fallen standard of education in Nigeria at large. The quality of education depends on the teachers as reflected in the performance of their duties. Over time pupils’ academic performance in both internal and external examinations had been used to determine excellence in teachers and teaching (Ajao
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Recent measures taken by the firm to achieve efficiency. (Distinguish carefully as between different economic notions of efficiency in your answer). Glanbia plc is an international dairy and nutritional ingredients group headquartered in Ireland. The company has 4‚500 employees in seven countries and sales offices in a further five. International operations include food ingredients and nutritionals while Irish operations incorporate consumer foods and agribusiness and property. The group has three
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Janice Gross Stein’s “The Cult of Efficiency‚” read at a CBC Massey Lecture in 2001‚ attempts to define the concept of efficiency and how it has impacted our society in the past and present. Stein effectively applies this concept to many different sectors of our culture through examples and analysis of how it is delivered. Her thesis summarizes the overall ideas of her article‚ however it was not easily found in her introduction as it was not stated until the end of the fifth paragraph. The full
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Should Students Be Allowed To Grade Their Teachers Students are the only true wealth of a nation and their education is the socio-moral responsibility of the country. To be educated is both their right as well as duty. From the gurukuls to the modern day schools‚ teaching and learning methodologies have taken a quantum leap. It is debated whether a system of grading of teachers by students should be introduced in schools to improve the learning and teaching environment. Let us observe the pros
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Should students be allowed to grade their teachers? Name Instructor Date Should students be allowed to grade their teachers? The question on whether students should have the opportunity to grade their teachers remain controversial‚ with both the protagonists and antagonists having dissimilar reasons for their backing or expostulation of the matter. I hold the opinion that students should have the opportunity to grade their teachers. The move will introduce checks and balances in the working
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Can Technology End Poverty? Kentaro Toyama (http://www.bostonreview.net/BR35.6/toyama.php) This is the lead article of a forum on the role of information and communication technology in global development. A ten-year-old boy named Dhyaneshwar looked up for approval after carefully typing the word “Alaska” into a PC. “Bahut acchaa!” I cheered—“very good.” It was April‚ 2004‚ and I was visiting a “telecenter” in the tiny village of Retawadi‚ three hours from Mumbai. The small‚ dirt-floored
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