Serviciile de referinta: Cheia succesului unei biblioteci [Reference Services: Key to Library Success]

In any library setting reference services are the main activity with the public. The reference librarian represents the library’s interface, the library’s window. It’s at the reference desk that library users have their information needs met with the help of reference librarians. The article discusses three models of reference services and focuses on librarians’ customer-oriented attitude and behavior

A study of the current philosophy and practices in developing interracial understanding in twelve group work agencies in Boston

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston Universit

China's unrest: the problems presented and the solution proposed through Christian education

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University Please note: author mis-numbered the thesis. Two different pages are numbered 26

The Season Ticket, October 1993

Columbia Theater/Music Center newsletter. 8 pages. Departmental news, production, faculty, student, and theater news.https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/seasonticket/1011/thumbnail.jp

The Association of Organizational Performance and Market Factors with Hospital Acquisition

har_ass This research focuses on the relationship between hospital acquisition and operational performance, market factors, and organizational factors following the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. Resource dependence and financial theory guided the methodology. According to resource dependence theory, organizations desire to remain autonomous until they are faced with scarce resources. This scarcity of resources is caused by the dynamic interaction with the external environment. Financial theory recognizes the organizations ability to be successful by ensuring access to capital through profitability, strong bond ratings, lines of credit, and equity financing. The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 reduced hospital Medicare reimbursement and will have an influence on hospital acquisition. The following research questions guide this study: • What are the market, operational, and organizational factors that profile the characteristics of hospitals acquired after the Balanced Budget Act? Underlying research questions evaluate whether acquired hospitals are inefficiently managed and operate financially at a loss. They become targets for takeover because they lack the capital to modernize their plant and to expand their size and services. However, acquired hospitals may have a strong market position. • Do acquired hospitals operate at a financial loss? • Do acquired hospitals own aging plant and equipment and lack the financial capital to replace their plant and equipment? • Do acquired hospitals have facilities located in markets with less competition and fewer HMOs? • Do acquired hospitals have smaller facilities and provide fewer services? Given the results of the descriptive statistics and logistic regression, it may be concluded that reductions in Medicare reimbursement have reduced hospital return on assets, and have resulted in fewer hospital acquisitions. On an individual hospital basis, those facilities with lower occupancy rates, fewer services, older facilities and for-profit status are likely targets for hospital acquisition

Marketing in the Public Administration

By way of its vision and contents, marketing in the public administration imposes upon public servants a new mode of conduct which implies, in equal measures, receptiveness to the citizens' needs, high ability to adapt to the evolution of society's demands and exigencies, innovative spirit, transparency, reduction of bureaucracy, flexibility in the functioning mechanisms of public institutions, a unitary vision of the activities performed, and a maximum of efficiency, obtained as a result of the genuine orientation of activity towards the real needs of the citizens. The concept of marketing in the public administration is targeted at the identification, the anticipation, the quantification of the citizens' needs and demands, and their satisfaction by the institutions of the state. The future of public administration will have to be redefined in present-day society starting from the improvement of image for the public institution. The open-minded and honest propensity to solving the citizens' problems is the key with which the public institution marketing unlocks the door of success within the society it belongs to.citizen's needs, public institution's image, public marketing, public interests.

The Montclarion, October 04, 1979

Student Newspaper of Montclair State Collegehttps://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/montclarion/1349/thumbnail.jp

Presente y futuro de los regadíos en la cuenca del Duero : conferencia pronunciada el día 22 de mayo de 1942...

Precede al tít.: Asociación Nacional de Ingenieros AgrónomosCopia digital. Valladolid : Junta de Castilla y León. Consejería de Cultura y Turismo, 2009-201