A ministudy was conducted to collect self-reported employee turnover rates in US hospitals. The results indicate many hospitals are struggling with high employee turnover rates. Widespread variances in ratings were observed across hospitals, which may be due to lack of consistency in how they each calculate their employee turnover. This makes benchmarking for the purposes of performance improve...

Unlike previous behavior management research, this study used a quasi-experimental, control group design to examine the impact of financial and nonfinancial incentives on business-unit (21 stores in a fast-food franchise corporation) outcomes (profit, customer service, and employee turnover) over time. The results showed that both types of incentives had a significant impact on all measured out...

Department of Management & Marketing King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia Abstract. Existing streams of literature are integrated to propose a conceptual framework that highlights the antecedents of relationship marketing on customer loyalty and its outcomes. The framework aims to provide insights into the underpinnings of relationship marketing. The proposed...

To address the intermittent positioning and drift of personnel RTK in high-frequency signal interference environment substations, we propose to use IMU as compensation module adopt joint RTK/PDR method solve results. The heading angle is easily scattered pedestrian projection (PDR) process angles calculated from output data gyroscope, accelerometer magnetometer after denoising are input into co...

This paper describes an airborne deployment of the Viper sniper detection and counterfire system and several improvements that were incorporated after a review of comments from users of the fielded systems. The Viper sensor was flown aboard a T-34 aircraft and the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Sparrow unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Infrared (IR) and visible video sequences were recorded for p...

As our whole society has become increasingly aware of safety and emphasizes the importance preventing accidents, airline cabin service sector is also facing a strong demand to improve practical system for aviation education. In this regard, development appropriate education programs getting human resources who can develop operate such are becoming key issues. This study aims provide academic im...