What Are the Academic Findings About the Impact of Coaching on Individual and Organizational Performance?

[Excerpt] The definition of coaching has evolved alongside developments in Organizational Psychology and Human Resources. One such definition is, “a helping and facilitative process that enables individuals, groups/teams and organizations to acquire new skills, to improve existing skills, competence and performance, and to enhance their personal effectiveness or personal development or personal growth.” For this Executive Summary, we mainly focus on two subsets of coaching: Manager and Executive coaching

What are Best Practices to Measure Employee Performance to Support Hiring Promotion With No Ratings?

[Excerpt] In the last decade, many large Fortune 200 companies began eliminating their annual performance reviews, citing multiple reasons such as being unfair, subjective, demotivating, and that reviews did little to improve the performance of employees. Additionally, managers often did not give honest or constructive feedback, viewing annual reviews as too time consuming and untimely in reporting feedback. As a result, many companies feel data is missing to make important personnel decisions. In order to make successful personnel decisions a company must continue to provide some sort of feedback in the absence of an annual review

What Future Emerging Outsourcing Countries Should Companies Evaluate for Expansion?

[Excerpt] With the rise of globalization and rapid advancements in technology, companies have looked at alternative measures such as outsourcing to keep capital and labor costs low, increase efficiency, improve revenue and profitability, gain competitive business advantages, focus on core business and reduce risks. Also, outsourcing can help companies tap into unexplored territories and talents that the increasingly globalized workforce has to offer. The role of human resources professionals is to decide what and how to source, and manage supplier coordination and development. In this research paper, these questions will be answered: 1) how to make outsourcing decisions, 2) how to manage outsourcing decisions, and 3) what are the potential markets

Import demand under price and exchange-rate uncertainties: The case of U.S. Atlantic salmon imports

This study investigates the impacts of price and exchange rate volatilities on Atlantic salmon imports in the U.S. market. We first derive an extended Rotterdam demand model, revealing how risk factors affect import demand through ‘adjusted’ prices. For example, the theoretical model shows that risk-averse importers add risk premiums as a markup for the cost of risk factors. Moreover, the trade effect of volatility variables depends on own-price elasticities and the degree of substitutability between competing products. Our empirical results reveal that U.S. salmon importers are sensitive to price and exchange rate volatilities; however, these two risk factors have differing impacts on import demand, implying the necessity (or effect) of hedging strategies.publishedVersio