Search Results - subject:"INSURANCE COMPANIES"

Performance effects of corporate divestiture programs

Brauer, Matthias; Schimmer, Markus - In: Journal of Strategy and Management 3 (2010) 2, pp. 84-109

Purpose – The paper aims at extending extant research on sources of divestiture gains by suggesting a novel program‐based perspective on divestitures and analyzing the performance of program divestitures in comparison to single “stand‐alone” divestitures. Design/methodology/approach...

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Solvency II and XBRL: new rules and technologies in insurance supervision

Bonsón, Enrique; Cortijo, Virginia; Escobar, Tomas; … - In: Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance 18 (2010) 2, pp. 144-157

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the way in which the insurance industry is facing the renewal of its regulatory framework with respect to the levels of solvency that insurance entities should maintain. This paper also addresses how technological initiatives in general, and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014870159

Moorhouse Group targets training for growth : Individual development plans help to embed learning in the business

In: Human Resource Management International Digest 18 (2010) 1, pp. 25-26

Purpose – Describes how carefully targeted training improved the productivity of a UK insurance company's sales team and increased the number of calls it handled by 56 percent. Design/methodology/approach – Explains how the use of external consultants helped Moorhouse Group Ltd to identify,...

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Advanced apprenticeships ripen skills at the Bank of New York Mellon : Training promotes staff satisfaction and loyalty

In: Human Resource Management International Digest 18 (2010) 5, pp. 27-29

Purpose – Describes how an advanced‐apprenticeship scheme developed by the Bank of New York Mellon and the National Skills Academy for Financial Services (NSAFS) is offering a fast track to career success and job satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach – Explains the origins of the...

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The importance of training needs analysis

Denby, Steve - In: Industrial and Commercial Training 42 (2010) 3, pp. 147-150

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe how carefully targeted training can improve productivity of UK insurance company, Moorhouse Group Ltd's sales team and increased the number of calls it handled by 56 percent. Design/methodology/approach – An explanation on the use of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014755480

Evidence on the volatility of Indian and Japanese stock markets

Singh, Tarika; Mehta, Seema; Gupta, Deepali - In: American Journal of Finance and Accounting 2 (2010) 1, pp. 53-64

changes on insurance companies in Japan and banking companies in India. The study done is descriptive in nature where … companies. The sample size was of 8 insurance companies from Nikkie225 and 15 banking companies from NSE CNX S&P Nifty stock … insurance companies of Japan are more volatile to treasury bond rate changes as compared to Indian banking companies. …

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Solvency II and XBRL: new rules and technologies in insurance supervision

Bonsón, Enrique; Cortijo, Virginia; Escobar, Tomas; … - In: Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance 18 (2010) May, pp. 144-157

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395139

The mismatch between life insurance holdings and financial vulnerabilities: evidence from the Health and Retirement Survey

Bernheim, B. Douglas; Forni, Lorenzo; Gokhale, Jagadeesh; … - Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland - 2001

Using data on older workers from the 1992 Health and Retirement Survey, along with an elaborate life-cycle planning model, the authors quantify the effect of each individual's death on the financial status of his or her survivors and the degree to which life insurance holdings moderate these...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005428203

Make your presence known! Post‐bureaucracy, HRM and the fear of being unseen

Maravelias, Christian - In: Personnel Review 38 (2009) 4, pp. 349-365

Purpose – This paper aims to contribute to critical management studies (CMS) by developing an empirically grounded understanding of how post‐bureaucratic control operates implicitly, by seeping into the very identities of individual employees. Design/methodology/approach – One longitudinal...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014974102

The social embedding of management control in knowledge‐intensive firms

Edenius, Mats; Styhre, Alexander - In: Journal of Human Resource Costing & Accounting 13 (2009) 1, pp. 9-28

Purpose – The management and the control of knowledge‐intensive organizations have recently been subject to empirical studies. Much of the literature suggests that management control, defined and operationalized in a variety of ways and examined within different traditions, in essence...

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