Robert E. Ripley and Marie J. Ripley
Discusses the problem of managing and empoweringthose employees in the USA whose employment isprotected by special legislation – minority groups – whenthey do not work responsibly.
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Discusses the problem of managing and empowering those employees in the USA whose employment is protected by special legislation – minority groups – when they do not work responsibly.
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Robert E. Ripley and Marie J. Ripley
Quality empowering management is to the future of renewed worldwidecompetitiveness what quality control, participative managementprogrammes and zero defects were to quality…
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Quality empowering management is to the future of renewed worldwide competitiveness what quality control, participative management programmes and zero defects were to quality improvement. Empowerment holds that promoting employee involvement empowers workers to perform as whole, thinking human beings. Empowerment is the glue by which the elements of customer focus, quality process and products, continuous improvements, self‐managing teams, quality measurement, and utilization of the total workforce abilities are held together. Self‐managing teams are one of the major keys in the innovative organization to solving complex problems, increasing productivity, and heightening creativity. For most organizations and managers, quality empowering management is a new responsibility and a radical change in style of management and change in culture requiring new methods and systems.
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Robert E. Ripley and Marie J. Ripley
Empowerment is the key to business competition and success. Theobjective is that quality, continuous improvement and customersatisfaction become the responsibility of employees…
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Empowerment is the key to business competition and success. The objective is that quality, continuous improvement and customer satisfaction become the responsibility of employees. The hands of upper management are then left free to steer the organization in its desired direction; while middle management become coach‐consultants to the “self‐management work teams” who are at the bottom level of this new and innovative organization. Training from upper management down to the front‐line worker is vital in keeping the momentum of empowerment and quality going.
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Robert E. Ripley and Marie J. Ripley
Quality empowering management is to the future of renewed worldwidecompetitiveness what quality control, participative managementprogrammes and zero defects were to quality…
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Quality empowering management is to the future of renewed worldwide competitiveness what quality control, participative management programmes and zero defects were to quality improvement. Empowerment holds that promoting employee involvement empowers workers to perform as whole, thinking human beings. Empowerment is the glue by which the elements of customer focus, quality process and products, continuous improvements, self‐managing teams, quality measurement, and utilization of the total workforce abilities are held together. Self‐managing teams are one of the major keys in the innovative organization to solving complex problems, increasing productivity and heightening creativity. For most organizations and managers, quality empowering management is a new responsibility and a radical change in style of management and change in culture requiring new methods and systems.
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Presents an improved replicable systematic method for the selection orpromotion of employees through the developmental stages of a case study.The method provides systematic…
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Presents an improved replicable systematic method for the selection or promotion of employees through the developmental stages of a case study. The method provides systematic techniques for ensuring fairness and equality of opportunity for all candidates as related to particular job functions. The Criteria‐Related Employability Assessment Method (CREAM) has gone through continuous improvement over the past 20 years. The case study is of a new firefighter recruit selection process developed for the Phoenix Fire Department. Criteria were drawn from a group of the organization′s currently successful employees. Follow‐up research of those candidates selected for the first two firefighter recruit training classes showed that there was a significantly high correlation between the selected candidates and the criteria group of successful Phoenix firefighters. The playing field being levelled resulted in a significant increase in the number of minority group members and females that were selected to be on the hiring list. The method can be replicated and is applicable to other organizations in both the public and private sectors, such as fire departments, police departments, large corporations and government employee training programmes. Concludes that CREAM does remove or at least neutralize a great deal of the uses of personali ower, political manoeuvring, quotas and other special internal selection methods while meeting most if not all the external regulatory requirements, and assists in ensuring that the people selected know they were selected for who they are and not for just what they are.
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Many jurisdictions fine illegal cartels using penalty guidelines that presume an arbitrary 10% overcharge. This article surveys more than 700 published economic studies and…
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Many jurisdictions fine illegal cartels using penalty guidelines that presume an arbitrary 10% overcharge. This article surveys more than 700 published economic studies and judicial decisions that contain 2,041 quantitative estimates of overcharges of hard-core cartels. The primary findings are: (1) the median average long-run overcharge for all types of cartels over all time periods is 23.0%; (2) the mean average is at least 49%; (3) overcharges reached their zenith in 1891–1945 and have trended downward ever since; (4) 6% of the cartel episodes are zero; (5) median overcharges of international-membership cartels are 38% higher than those of domestic cartels; (6) convicted cartels are on average 19% more effective at raising prices as unpunished cartels; (7) bid-rigging conduct displays 25% lower markups than price-fixing cartels; (8) contemporary cartels targeted by class actions have higher overcharges; and (9) when cartels operate at peak effectiveness, price changes are 60–80% higher than the whole episode. Historical penalty guidelines aimed at optimally deterring cartels are likely to be too low.
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In discussing the merits and demerits of infants' foods, it is impossible to avoid reference to the physiological problems connected with infantile digestion, because, of course…
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In discussing the merits and demerits of infants' foods, it is impossible to avoid reference to the physiological problems connected with infantile digestion, because, of course, the whole question of suitability or otherwise turns upon the degree of digestibility of the preparations. Appearance and flavour, although of great importance in the case of adults generally, and invalids in particular, here play only a minor part. Unfortunately the views of medical men are based mainly on clinical experience, and the teachings of pure physiology are of comparatively little help.
Tribalism is at the forefront of public discussion across the political spectrum in America today. Zombie stories have also risen to unprecedented popularity. Amid present-day…
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Tribalism is at the forefront of public discussion across the political spectrum in America today. Zombie stories have also risen to unprecedented popularity. Amid present-day racial, political, and otherwise tribal tensions, the story I Am Legend has particular resonance. As the original inspiration behind the modern zombie trope, it was published as a novella in 1954 and has been remade as a film multiple times, in 1964, 1971, and 2007. Using grounded theory, I explore each film regarding what moral attitudes are portrayed concerning confrontation between rival milieus. My findings center on four themes: identification, compassion, ambivalence, and condemnation. Overall, in chronological order, the different renditions of the story exhibit decreasing compassion for the other and decreasing ambivalence about relations with the other. The most dramatic change is between the 1971 and 2007 remakes. Implications for what the changes in the morals presented in the story might reflect in terms of social changes in America are discussed.