The Impact of Outplacement on a Corporation\u27s Reduction of the Workforce

This thesis will focus on the study of outplacement in the corporate world. Global businesses in the decade of the nineties have been faced with increasing their profits and providing stock holders with an increase in dividends. In this situation the answer is often to decrease personnel. The purpose of the study is to investigate how companies handle restructuring and downsizings. It will show that companies should have a transition plan in place to handle such circumstances . Outplacement is a key to smoothly handle the process of the terminations that inevitably happen . This study examines the issues relating to the usage to outplacement firms, assisting the terminated employees, as well as the company . It helps the terminated employees to focus on the future rather than the traumatic event of a job loss . Companies gain benefits through reduced severance packages, lower legal costs, lower unemployment compensation costs, and improved public relations. Reduced productivity and poor morale among the remaining work force can be a high cost which outplacement counters. Career counseling helps the individual focus on their career goals immediately and learn new ways of securing employment, includi ng developing a network. Outplacement can provide a structured environment for support during this transition period. Because there is a focus, results are likely to be achieved more quickly. With professional guidance of career assessment, preparing a resume, fine-tuning interview skills, and preparing to market themselves, the individual can get on with the rest of their life more quickly. It is, therefore, hypothesized that outplacement is beneficial to both terminated employees and the company releasing them. Fifty companies responded to Survey I which was sent to human resources officials within the St. Louis area. The questions on this survey focused on whether the company had experienced a restructuring or downsizing and the recipient\u27s experience in managing it . Survey II was sent to executives of 89 outplacement companies in the United States. Twenty-four companies responded. Questions on this survey asked about the criteria that client companies used to select an outplacement firm, how long it took terminated employees to find new positions, and reasons outplacement is used. The data was analyzed calculating the mean, mode, median, variance, and standard deviation. Results showed that the hypothesis of outplacement being beneficial to both terminated employees and the company releasing them appears to be true. However, to actually prove or disprove this, additional research should be done asking the terminated employees, both ones that received outplacement, as well as those that did not, their opinions

Agronomical performance of common bean inoculated with new rhizobial isolates.

This work aimed to evaluate the agronomic efficiency of rhizobia isolates under field conditions in two sites: Guapó and Santo Antônio de Goiás, by comparison of their results with the commercial strains SEMIA 4077, 4080 and SEMIA SEMIA 4088 of Rhizobium tropici

Teste de patogenicidade de seis isolados de Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens pv. flaccumfaciens nas cultivares Ouro Branco, BRS Esplendor e CNFP 10132.

O objetivo deste trabalho foi verificar a patogenicidade de seis isolados por inoculação em três cultivares: Ouro Branco, BRS Esplendor e CNFP 10132

Desempenho do feijoeiro comum em primeira safra e severidade de doenças em sistema agroecológico no Cerrado Goiano.

O presente trabalho teve por objetivos avaliar a produção de massa seca e quantidade de N produzidas por plantas de cobertura do solo, bem como seus efeitos, e de sistemas de manejo do solo, sobre a severidade de doenças e desempenho agronômico da cultura do feijoeiro comum de primeira safra

Numerical Ricci-flat metrics on K3

We develop numerical algorithms for solving the Einstein equation on Calabi-Yau manifolds at arbitrary values of their complex structure and Kahler parameters. We show that Kahler geometry can be exploited for significant gains in computational efficiency. As a proof of principle, we apply our methods to a one-parameter family of K3 surfaces constructed as blow-ups of the T^4/Z_2 orbifold with many discrete symmetries. High-resolution metrics may be obtained on a time scale of days using a desktop computer. We compute various geometric and spectral quantities from our numerical metrics. Using similar resources we expect our methods to practically extend to Calabi-Yau three-folds with a high degree of discrete symmetry, although we expect the general three-fold to remain a challenge due to memory requirements.Comment: 38 pages, 10 figures; program code and animations of figures downloadable from http://schwinger.harvard.edu/~wiseman/K3/ ; v2 minor corrections, references adde

Produção de grãos e relação com reação a doenças em feijoeiro comum cultivado em sistema de manejo orgânico.

Este trabalho objetivou avaliar a produção de grãos do feijoeiro comum em sistema de manejo orgânico e os efeitos do crestamento bacteriano comum e da mancha angular sobre a produção do feijoeiro comum da cultivar BRS Supremo sob diferentes tipos de cultura de cobertura e manejo do solo

Produção de grãos em relação com reação a doenças em feijoeiro comum cultivado em sistema de manejo orgânico.

Este trabalho objetivou avaliar a produção de grãos do feijoeiro-comum em sistema de manejo orgânico e os efeitos do crestamento bacteriano comum e da mancha angular sobre a produção do feijoeiro-comum da cultivar BRS supremo sob diferentes tipos de cultura de cobertura e manejo do solo.CONAFE