4 research outputs found
Partners with parents : the Home Start experience with preschoolers and their families /
"Prepared under Contract no. DHEW-OS-72-127 for the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare ... Head Start Bureau, by Abt Associates Inc. ... in conjunction with High/Scope Educational Research Foundation."Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet
Work-life policies and programs: Comparing the responsiveness of nonprofit and for-profit organizations
Investigating the Timing of First Sexual Intercourse Among Youth in EDO State, Nigeria in the Context of the Aids Epidemic
A Greek perspective on the decision to outsource or retain the internal audit function
In the conduct of an organisation’s myriad activities, obtaining value for money is a crucial consideration, and over the years this has increasingly encouraged businesses to examine both the effectiveness and efficiency of outsourcing specific business functions. Historically, concern was with more-or-less peripheral activities where the cost advantage of outsourcing was readily ascertainable. But more recently attention has increasingly been directed towards more fundamental business activities where consideration of mere cost is supplanted by aspects of quality, and the recognition that greater external quality of provision might well override mere considerations of economy