This article raises the issue of decision support system (DSS) development in enterprises concerning compensation (CS). The topic is relevant as CS one main components human resource management business. A key element such DSSs models that provide predictive analytics. Such are able to give information about how a particular affects output, product quality, employee satisfaction, and wage fund....

The word ‘ganyu’ is widely used in Malawi to describe a range of short-term rural labour relationships, the most common of which is piecework weeding or ridging on the fields of other smallholders, or on agricultural estates. Ganyu is a crucial poverty issue in Malawi because: • After own-farm production, ganyu is the most important source of livelihood for most poor households – for some it is...

Intense scrutiny of the American healthcare paradigm will alter the activities of patients, providers, and payors. Government reform and marketplace-driven managed care programs create uncertainty. Quality, access, and cost concerns also drive change. Quality is conformity to requirements, and specification of requirements creates policy debate. Variability in utilization creates an accountabil...

Age and Empire in the Indian Census, 1871–1931 Historians have long since learned to tread carefully when using certain categories of census data to arrive at conclusions about the past. To cite speciŽ c studies of nineteenth-century British census returns, the categories of “the household,” women’s work, farm labor, and the more general social classiŽ cation of occupations have recently been t...

Parallel and distributed computing infrastructure are increasingly being embraced in the context of manufacturing applications, including real-time scheduling. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of one such framework that can work on the Internet, with applications in manufacturing. The architecture, aliased as DPAC (Distributed and Parallel Computing framework), has the go...

A one of the central questions in the global strategy field is how multinational firms successfully navigate multiple and often conflicting institutional environments, we know relatively little about the effect of conflicting labor market institutions on multinational firms’ strategic choice and operating performance. With its decision to invest in manufacturing operations in nearly every one o...

This article describes an approach for utilizing Product Configuration Systems (PCS) for quantifying project costs in project-based companies. It presents a case study demonstrating a method of quantifying costs in a way that makes it possible to configure costand time estimates. Piecework costs, material costs and sub-supplier costs are used as principle cost elements and linked to structural ...

What would it be like “if medical care came with a 90-day warranty?” In 2005, executive leadership of the Geisinger Health System (Danville, Pennsylvania) challenged clinical and improvement leaders to explore innovative provider-driven quality improvement (QI) programs designed to promote reliable delivery of evidencebased best practices so that they could guarantee their work. The focus was t...

BACKGROUND Pain in the neck and shoulder has been linked with various psychosocial risk factors, as well as with occupational physical activities. However, most studies to date have been cross-sectional, making it difficult to exclude reverse causation. Moreover, they have been carried out largely in northern Europe, and the relationship to psychosocial factors might be different in other cultu...