Toward a Strategic Perspective of Human Resource Management

[Excerpt] The current decade has brought yet another transformation in the practice and study of human resource management (HRM). The field, for better or for worse, has discovered, and indeed begun to embrace, a strategic perspective. The intellectual energy currently being invested in discussions of the nature, extent, and desirability of this development is a clear indication that something of significance is afoot. Understand it or not, believe in it or not, like it or not, strategy is well on its way to becoming an important paradigm behind much of what HR professionals do and think

Introduction: Laboratory automation at Schering-Plough—increased productivity today and foundation for the future

The following is the introductory presentation to the 1994 ISLAR meeting held in Boston from 16 to 19 October 1994. The Editor is again grateful to the organizer, the Zymark Corporation, for permission to publish the papers in the Managing Laboratory Automation Session read at ISLAR

A Survey on Building Systems in Malaysia

In recent years the term "system" has been frequently used in the "Operational Research" jargon, probably is a result of the terms "Systematic Approach" and "Systematic Analysis". In some minds the term system represents computerization, but this word has been used in other fields as well, explaining the complexity and interrelationship between the parts such as building system. Because of this broadness of activities and functions that the term "system" denotes, it has recently been used in the field of construction to show the variety of complex problems which are closely related within the process of building. Malaysia is presently look at building systems as an answer to housing shortage problem. The main advantages of using building system are, speed, quality, and economics, all of which are required to meet such a large demand for housing. The clear understand of the current status of building systems will help to set the housing programs under the Seventh Malaysia Plan (1996-2000). However, the first step in any advance study on building systems and its technology should be initiated by knowing the status quo. In this thesis, three case studies and questionnaire survey were conducted. The case studies have been conducted on the unconventional construction methods, which are full prefabricated; cast in-situ; and composite construction methods. The questionnaire survey was carried out on the building system companies to understand their building system usage and current status. On the basis of the study, the building systems existing in Malaysia have been classified according to the method of construction and type of production

Annual Report 1989-1990

An administrative report of statistics and information pertaining to the University of North Florida Thomas G. Carpenter Library for the years 1989-1990. The report includes summaries and charts on library budgets, library collection, serials and cataloging workloads, circulation, interlibrary loan, and public services

Middle class evolving to precariat: labour conditions for the 21st Century

Depto. de Trabajo Social y Servicios SocialesFac. de Trabajo SocialTRUEpu

Executive information support systems

Bibliography: p. 43.John F. Rockart, Michael E. Treacy

Law and Economic Change During the Short Twentieth Century

Published as Chapter 16 in Cambridge History of Law in America, Volume 3: The Twentieth Century and After (1920–), Michael Grossberg & Christopher Tomlins, eds. The brief recounting of the American economy in the twenties and thirties raises obvious questions about law and economic change. Economic change is the shift from one enacted, in both senses, understanding of economic life to another, in the case of the short twentieth century, from an associationalist economy to an impatient economy. This chapter explicates this economic change, and interrogates it in order to understand the role of law in its occurrence. Despite the essential indeterminacy of law\u27s reaction to smaller scale economic change, a few underlying attitudes can be teased out, one can identify law\u27s general attitude toward change, its attitude toward technological as opposed to cost-driven change, and its attitude toward system-wide change. First, with respect to law\u27s general attitude toward smaller scale economic change, it is important to remember that there are three possible answers that law might regularly give when economic actors seek its aid stonewall change, support it indiscriminately, or slow it down somewhat.https://digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/book_sections/1145/thumbnail.jp