HRM Practices Affecting Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation of Knowledge Receivers and their Effect on Intra-MNC Knowledge Transfer.

This paper explores why and how HRM matters for knowledge transfer within multinational corporations. It is built upon the premise that there are certain HRM practices influencing extrinsic and intrinsic motivation of knowledge receivers. It is found that complementarity among HRM practices exists but does not always have a positive effect on knowledge transfer. Three hypotheses derived from these arguments are tested on data from 92 subsidiaries of Danish multinational corporations located in 11 countries

SPT sequencing with dependent processing times

This paper investigates the applicability of SPT-based strategies to situations where the processing time for a particular task is not known until some other task has been completed. For comparison a random strategy is used. Two cases are considered: the static case which assumes that all jobs to be processed are present in the shop, and the dynamic case in which jobs arrive randomly over time. The improvement in flow time resulting from the SPT-based strategy is quantified analytically for the static case. For the dynamic case some simulation results are presented. Both sets of results indicate that SPT is a very robust strategy which results in significant reductions in a wide variety of situations.sequencing shortest processing time mean flow-time