How do Organizations Measure the ROI or Impact of Leadership Training and Development Programs?

[Excerpt] In a Harvard Business Review poll, 51 percent of those surveyed said they had diminished confidence in business leaders at non-U.S. companies and 76 percent had less confidence in U.S. business leaders. Another survey by IBM shared that more than 75 percent of their survey respondents identified building leadership talent as their current and most significant capabilities challenge. Thus, the organizations need to focus on building talent and developing leaders internally. Also it is advantageous because they achieve productivity almost 50 percent faster than external candidates’. Leadership development programs can be explained as teaching leadership qualities required for a leadership position

Sustainable business - A way to implement new jobs?

The paper gives up a summary about the possible employment effects that can arise out of sustainable business. A high employment rate in Germany has focused the view on new ways to create jobs. Parallel to this the sustainable development has become a major issue for societies all over the world. For that reason the current research standards about employment effects of sustainable business are presented. Further more a new study approach of this topic will be explained, if and to what extend sustainable business by small and medium-sized enterprises generates extra employment.

Alasan dan Langkah Pembangunan Bisnis Berbasis Web

This paper starts with the explanation of e-Commerce, e-Business, types of business, and taxonomy of business models. This paper also explains why starting web-based business from scratch is easier than to transform brick and mortal business to web-based/internet business. Then step-by-step creating web-based business will be explained

Innovation and Business Strategy: Why Canada Falls Short

This article compares the development of labour productivity in the Swedish and the Finnish business sectors and the role of the information and communication technology (ICT) sector in this process. The results show that the Finnish productivity level has been converging towards the Swedish level, but that there is still a significant difference. This trend has coincided with the growing importance of the ICT sector, especially since the mid 1990s. Due to higher productivity and employment growth, the Finnish ICT sector has contributed to this convergence. This is explained by the electrical engineering industry. The Nokia effect has been stronger than the Ericsson effect.Innovation, productivity, business strategy, public policy, market structure, Competition, business climate, business ambition

No news in business cycles

This paper uses a structural, large dimensional factor model to evaluate the role of `news' shocks (shocks with a delayed effect on productivity) in generating the business cycle. We find that (i) existing small-scale VECM models are affected by `non-fundamentalness' and therefore fail to recover the correct shock and impulse response functions; (ii) news shocks have a limited role in explaining the business cycle; (iii) their effects are in line with what predicted by standard neoclassical theory; (iv) the bulk of business cycle flucuations is explained by shocks unrelated to technology.structural factor model; news shocks; invertibility; fundamentalness

No News in Business Cycles

This paper uses a structural, large dimensional factor model to evaluate the role of 'news' shocks (shocks with a delayed effect on productivity) in generating the business cycle. We find that (i) existing small-scale VECM models are affected by 'non-fundamentalness' and therefore fail to recover the correct shock and impulse response functions; (ii) news shocks have a limited role in explaining the business cycle; (iii) their effects are in line with what predicted by standard neoclassical theory; (iv) the bulk of business cycle fluctuations are explained by shocks unrelated to technology.structural factor model, news shocks, invertibility, fundamentalness.

The Importance of Teaching Intercultural Communication to ESP and BE Students

The article provides a review of publications concerning the role of intercultural knowledge in business communication. In business communication culture-imposed rules are even more important than linguistic rules. For business communication in English such rules are application of special request formulas and tentative discourse. It is essential that these peculiarities should be explained to non-native English speakers and concrete cases created. When students are unaware of them communication problems should be viewed to prove to students the importance of the issue. Examples of both phenomena and practical recommendations how to overcome the difficulty are offered in the article.culture-imposed rules of communication, tentative discourse, understatement, politeness strategies

Organic Centre Wales Factsheet 23: OCW Benchmarking Project: costs of production for organic milk, beef and lamb

This factsheet describes an Organic Centre Wales, supported by Farming Connect, project to benchmark organic dairy, beef and sheep enterprises. The results provide a good basis for understanding the financial contribution of individual enterprises to the farm business, as well as a better basis for price setting. In 2004/5, data from over 50 organic farms in Wales (almost 10% of the total) was collected and analysed using standard Farm Business Survey methods. Data are presented and findings for variable costs and sales and the future for the organic market explained

Stated Preference Experiments Concerning Long Distance Business Travel in Great Britain

Stated preference techniques are now widely used in transport economics as an experimental tool for gathering data on consumer preferences to derive, amongst other things, estimates of demand elasticities and values of travel time, service frequency, service reliability and other deteminants of travel behaviour. However, these techniques have not to our knowledge been used in research on long distance business travel behaviour. This forms the subject of this paper. In particular, results of a stated preference experiment answered by two samples of long distance business travellers are presented. Disaggregate mode choice models are calibrated with this data; and the results are used to derive estimates of the value placed by long distance business travellers on savings in business travel time. The design of the stated preference experiment means that these values can be interpreted as leisure values of time. The results that long distance business travellers place a high value on travel time savings. It is demonstrated that this can largely be explained by their high incomes and long work days, and the unsociable hours at which time savings occur. It is our view that the value of time estimates reported in this paper are not appropriate for use in forecasting exercises, rather they can be used to construct a value of business travel time for evaluation purposes