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This study examined whether the effectiveness of human resource management (HRM)practices is contingent on organizational climate and competitive strategy The concepts of internol and external fit suggest that the positive relationship between HRM and subsequent productivity will be stronger for...
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This paper suggests a linkage between work-life balance culture and competitive advantage through commitment and firm-specific human resources. The paper argues that a workplace culture supportive of employees balancing their work and non-work lives leads to their commitment to their...
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Employee turnover is an ongoing issue in organisations because it has long beenthought to detriment overall … are only able toobserve and control some aspects or influencers of turnover (Dalton, Todor & Krackhardt,1982). Placing … voluntary turnover drivers in context with human resource (HR) practicesmight provide a means through which managers can …
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Three distinct strands can be identified in the literature on seasonality. Economists have long been interested in removing high-frequency "noise" from individual economic time series, or "deseasonalizing the data" in common parlance. The second strand, on which an extensive technical literature...
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The paper seeks to find out whether the recent power outages in Ghana had a negative effect on listed firms. Out of 35 listed firms in Ghana, 25 were purposively chosen as the sample size for the study. The research design was explanatory and employed quantitative methods that enabled comparison...
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, labor demand, and human capital. Topics discussed also include wage and employment determination, turnover, search …
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We analyse the puzzling behavior of the volatility of individual stock returns around the turn of the Millennium. There has been much academic interest in this topic, but no convincing explanation has arisen. Our goal is to pull together the many competing explanations currently proposed in the...
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to achieve stated inventory levels, judged in terms of financial measures like inventory turnover for this study. This … increased profitability. Inventory is a measure of both liquidity and in -service efficiency just like receivable turnover … turnover ratio (annual sales / average inventory) or a total asset level. A literature study was conducted with the aid of a …
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Actions by both private sector organizations and legislators in recent years have highlighted the importance of the audit committee of the board of directors of corporations in the financial reporting process. For example, the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 has multiple sections that deal with the...
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commitment, job satisfaction, job overload,and the turnover intent of speech language pathologists in Texas. Additionally, this …, and job overload were found to have a significantpositive relationship to turnover intent in speech pathologists, whereas … careercommitment, organizational commitment, and job satisfaction were found to have asignificant negative relationship to turnover …
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