Michael Pardon and Brian H. Kleiner
Considers the potential cost of negligent retention together with brief practical examples. Highlights the importance of written job descriptions and periodic evaluations…
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Considers the potential cost of negligent retention together with brief practical examples. Highlights the importance of written job descriptions and periodic evaluations. Suggests the way forward in the event of hiring the wrong person and lists some of the pitfalls employees should avoid.
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Leadership development is often the least systematic aspect of an organization's strategy development, although it is arguably the most important. Leadership succession isn't…
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Leadership development is often the least systematic aspect of an organization's strategy development, although it is arguably the most important. Leadership succession isn't about only the top job. It is also about all the senior management positions, including new ones that may be created. We are currently working with a chief executive and his vice president of Human Resources to design a “Leading Manager Development Plan” to ensure that their company (with 3000 employees worldwide) will consistently have a pool of strong internal candidates to consider for new assignments.
U.S. corporations spend about $22 billion a year on therapy for employees—including counseling for senior strategists. Here's a look at what this new tool is doing in the…
Ioannis Kinias, Ilias Kampouris and Stathis Polyzos
It is widely accepted that coauthorship and collaboration promotes intellectual partnerships and improves the quality of publications. This paper examines the relationship between…
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Purpose
It is widely accepted that coauthorship and collaboration promotes intellectual partnerships and improves the quality of publications. This paper examines the relationship between collaboration, productivity and publications in the field of family business.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors identify the most prolific authors, affiliations and countries and focus on the evolution of research in the field of family business. In doing so, the authors employ social network analysis to discover the structure of the networks and the ways in which authors, institutions and countries interact.
Findings
The empirical results show that collaboration is positively related to productivity, and there is significant evidence that the shaped networks exhibit small-world characteristics, a condition in which collaboration within authors becomes integrated in conjunction with time.
Practical implications
The findings highlight the mechanics of collaborative research production and can be useful to understand the importance of collaboration patterns to be followed in the field of family business.
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The contributions are as follows: (a) application of social network analysis to model the coauthorship patterns among individuals, institutions and countries in family business; (b) distinguishing the most degree-central authors in the social network of collaborating academics; (c) investigation of the academic collaborations in family business that have the characteristics of a small-world social network and (d) suggesting a unique connection, through published keywords, between the research priorities of the most central or prolific authors with the research trends in the family business literature. The authors demonstrate that authors' collaboration becomes integrated in conjunction with time.
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Yifei Xiang, Ahmed Adel Tantawy and Sumesh Singh Dadwal
The global popularity of short video platforms has surged with the rapid development of mobile internet and 5G technology. DOUYIN, among other platforms, has amassed a massive…
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The global popularity of short video platforms has surged with the rapid development of mobile internet and 5G technology. DOUYIN, among other platforms, has amassed a massive user base in China. This study presents a theoretical framework based on media dependency theory and user stickiness perspectives. It identifies three key factors that affect user stickiness: platform algorithms, content resources and user interaction. An interpretive philosophy and inductive qualitative approach were adopted to conduct an in-depth case study of DOUYIN. Thematic analysis of secondary data from various sources was used. The findings demonstrate DOUYIN’s innovative approach to utilising advanced algorithms, diverse content and social interactions to enhance user engagement. DOUYIN utilises machine learning techniques to create user profiles and comprehend video content. It subsequently provides real-time personalised recommendations and optimises the algorithms based on user feedback. DOUYIN also incorporates PGC-, UGC- and PUGC-generated content, supported by a creator incentive system. Moreover, DOUYIN enables interactions between users, creators and the platform through commenting, sharing and live streaming features.
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Susan Frelich Appleton and Susan Ekberg Stiritz
This paper explores four works of contemporary fiction to illuminate formal and informal regulation of sex. The paper’s co-authors frame analysis with the story of their creation…
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This paper explores four works of contemporary fiction to illuminate formal and informal regulation of sex. The paper’s co-authors frame analysis with the story of their creation of a transdisciplinary course, entitled “Regulating Sex: Historical and Cultural Encounters,” in which students mined literature for social critique, became immersed in the study of law and its limits, and developed increased sensitivity to power, its uses, and abuses. The paper demonstrates the value theoretically and pedagogically of third-wave feminisms, wild zones, and contact zones as analytic constructs and contends that including sex and sexualities in conversations transforms personal experience, education, society, and culture, including law.
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Clive Bingley, Edwin Fleming, Allan Bunch and Kate Hills
IF THE Guinness book of records is still watching these columns, I can now tell them that, after all, Mrs Carole Bignell's hope (NLW February p30) that she had established a…
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IF THE Guinness book of records is still watching these columns, I can now tell them that, after all, Mrs Carole Bignell's hope (NLW February p30) that she had established a record by registering her daughter as a library member at the tender age of two weeks must be dashed. Ken Bowden, District Librarian at Bacup, Lanes (where he gets his copy of NLW a little late), writes that not only did one of his neighbours enrol his daughter when she was five days old some years ago, but that Ken's own son entered the world in February 1977 and was enrolled at Bacup on his third day. Any advance on three days?
Index by subjects, compiled by K.G.B. Bakewell covering the following journals: Facilities Volumes 8‐17; Journal of Property Investment & Finance Volumes 8‐17; Property Management…
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Index by subjects, compiled by K.G.B. Bakewell covering the following journals: Facilities Volumes 8‐17; Journal of Property Investment & Finance Volumes 8‐17; Property Management Volumes 8‐17; Structural Survey Volumes 8‐17.
Compiled by K.G.B. Bakewell covering the following journals published by MCB University Press: Facilities Volumes 8‐18; Journal of Property Investment & Finance Volumes 8‐18;…
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Compiled by K.G.B. Bakewell covering the following journals published by MCB University Press: Facilities Volumes 8‐18; Journal of Property Investment & Finance Volumes 8‐18; Property Management Volumes 8‐18; Structural Survey Volumes 8‐18.
Compiled by K.G.B. Bakewell covering the following journals published by MCB University Press: Facilities Volumes 8‐17; Journal of Property Investment & Finance Volumes 8‐17;…
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Compiled by K.G.B. Bakewell covering the following journals published by MCB University Press: Facilities Volumes 8‐17; Journal of Property Investment & Finance Volumes 8‐17; Property Management Volumes 8‐17; Structural Survey Volumes 8‐17.