A proper flexible organization provides its work force arrangements where employees are given greater freedom to balance their work and personal commitments such as family‚ higher education‚ community activities‚ religious commitments‚ professional development‚ and general interests. Above is Atkinson’s model of a flexible firm. He argued that firms increasingly seek 4 kinds of flexibility functional‚ numerical‚ pay‚ distancing. Functional flexibility is a qualitative approach to work‚ and
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1. Examine the implications for an economy of a rising exchange rate FT 23 8 11 p16 Exchange rate kills Australian steel exports FT 7 9 11 p4 Bold move seen as high risk (Swiss max exchange rate)) FT 9 9 11 p32 Hong Kong faces dilemma over its peg to the dollar Financial Update 11/12 see Brazil‚ Australia‚ Switzerland and Japan Introduction Whilst popular opinion centres on the assumption that rising exchange rate has mostly positive effects on the economy‚ the impacts are
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for flexible manufacturing. Comment on the advantages and disadvantage of flexible manufacturing? Comment on the scope economies presented in the news article? What does the existence of such economies imply about the production of autos in growing fragmented market? “ In the news article‚ “Chrysler Gains Edge by Giving New Flexibility to Its Factories”‚ more emphasis is placed on how Detroit’s Big 3 and especially Chrysler is catching up with its Japanese rivals by adapting flexible manufacturing
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“Volatility of Exchange Rate and Export Growth in Pakistan: The Structure and Interdependence in Regional Markets” Khalid Mustafa Assistant Professor Department of Economics‚ University of Karachi and Mohammed Nishat‚ PhD Professor and Chairman‚ Finance and Economics Institute of Business Administration‚ Karachi Abstract The study empirically investigates the effect of exchange rate volatility on exports growth between Pakistan and leading trade partners. The countries are selected to determine
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Capital Account Liberalization and the Exchange Rate Regimes Corresponding author: Associate Prof. Dr. Sule L. Aker Faculty of Business and Economics Eastern Mediterranean University Gazi Magusa‚ Mersin 10‚ Turkey sule.aker@emu.edu.tr tel: 00903926301260 fax: 00903923651017 Co-author: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahmet H. Aker Cyprus International University Nicosia‚ Mersin 10‚ Turkey Abstract In this study‚ the relationship
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AP Economics -- Exchange Rates Quiz -- Do Not Write On This Booklet!!! 1. U.S. export transactions create: A) a U.S. demand for foreign monies and the satisfaction of this demand decreases the supplies of dollars held by foreign banks. B) a U.S. demand for foreign monies and the satisfaction of this demand increases the supplies of dollars held by foreign banks. C) a foreign demand for dollars and the satisfaction of this demand decreases the supplies of foreign monies held by U.S. banks. D) a foreign
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Exchange Rate of the Rupee and Purchasing Power Parity Author(s): Ashok K. Nag and Amit Mitra Reviewed work(s): Source: Economic and Political Weekly‚ Vol. 33‚ No. 25 (Jun. 20-26‚ 1998)‚ pp. 1525-1532 Published by: Economic and Political Weekly Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4406906 . Accessed: 02/01/2013 03:20 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a
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A flexible budget is a budget statement that shows what the expected costs should have been for any level of output‚ so that the actual costs can be compared to planned costs for the output that was actually generated. In a flexible budget‚ the costs are separated into variable and fixed costs. The more information that is provided to explain variances in budgeted and actual amounts‚ the easier it is for management to make successful decisions about costs and expenses. A flexible budget classifies
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Exchange Rate Volatility: Impact on Industry Portfolios in Indian Stock Market K N Badhani*‚ Rajani Chhimwal** and Janki Suyal*** This study examines the interaction between changes in the exchange rate of Indian Rupee and returns on different BSE-based indices representing the firms of different sizes and industries. In absolute sense‚ the returns on all the stock portfolios are found to be positively correlated with the external value of Indian Rupee. However‚ the analysis with an extended market
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JÖNKÖPING INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL J ÖNKÖPING UNIVERSITY Foreign Exchange-Rate Exposure of Swedish Firms BACHELOR THESIS in ECONOMICS Authors: ZAHARI STOYANOV SALEEM AHMAD Head Supervisor PROFESSOR ÅKE ANDERSSON Deputy Supervisor PH.D. CANDIDATE SARA JOHANSSON Jönköping AUTUMN 2006 Bachelor Thesis in Economics Title: Foreign Exchange-Rate Exposure of Swedish Firms Authors: Zahari Stoyanov and Saleem Ahmad Tutors: Professor Åke Andersson Ph
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