INTRODUCTION Few NIH funded studies give community massage therapists the opportunity to become study personnel. A recent NIH/NCCAM-funded study investigating chronic low back pain (CLBP) recruited, trained, and utilized community massage practitioners (CMPs) as study personnel. This study's aim was to determine whether health-related outcomes for CLBP improve when patients are referred from pr...

1. There are major opportunities in vulnerable countries to bolster stability and democratic transitions if there are US capabilities to take advantage of such openings. 2. This required capability would develop better strategies with a political focus for such countries along with specialist personnel—expeditionary diplomats— to concentrate on the implementation of these strategies over the lo...

this study addresses executive compensation from shareholders perspective by empirically examining the effects of chief executive officer (ceo) compensation on firm performance subsequent to the year of compensation. three factors of ceo compensation are examined, size, total annual compensation; form percentage of total compensation comprised of cash, cash bonuses and stock; and sensitivity. t...


 To determine whether an organization has a good performance or not, one of the measurement techniques that can be used is to see goals set by company itself have been achieved not. PT Sarana Inti Trasindo, offers wide range transportation services, mainly focuses on trucks. Especially for casual daily employees who operate in field truck drivers, employee still less visible from problem ...

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the impact of co-operative union±management relations on ®rm performance and organizational outcomes such as employee turnover and absenteeism. This paper seeks to identify the factors that affect the development of a co-operative industrial relations climate and analyses the effects of that climate on organizational and union allegiance and ...

This study examined the mediating role of service climate in the prediction of employee performance and customer loyalty. Contact employees (N=342) from 114 service units (58 hotel front desks and 56 restaurants) provided information about organizational resources, engagement, and service climate. Furthermore, customers (N=1,140) from these units provided information on employee performance and...

In this paper we investigate the reputational penalties to managers of firms announcing earnings restatements. More specifically, we examine management turnover and the subsequent employment of displaced managers at firms announcing earnings restatements during 1997 or 1998. In contrast to prior research (Beneish 1999; Agrawal et al. 1999), which does not find increased turnover following GAAP ...

Importance should be given to financial indicators of profitability, revenue growth and liquidity, indicators of customer loyalty and satisfaction, indicators of innovation, quality, range of products or speed of service, and indicators related to the tasks and satisfaction of the employees, technology and alliances. Nevertheless, the new economy companies have a series of peculiar characterist...

Here, I turn to Dean Oliver’s “Four Factors of Basketball Success.”i Oliver argues that most the variation in wins can be explained by Shooting, Turnovers, Rebounding and Free Throws. He assigns the weights to each factor, 40%, 25%, 20% and 15%, respectively. In my model, I will determine the coefficients for each factor, which have the greatest predictive power. The four factors are defined in...

How does a firm’s human capital impact financial performance? By directly observing the employment and education trajectories of a significant proportion of U.S. public company employees from 1990 to the present, we explore the relationship between performance and two aspects of human capital: turnover and skills. First, we find that firms with higher employee turnover experience significantly ...