Attract and keep good employees by Frederick Hornberger. Abstract Attracting and retaining great staff is the key for business success. Talented people who continue to develop skills and increase their value to their organization and to their customers are a companyrsquo;s most important resource. The essay is on how to attract and retain these people and create an environment in which they remain competitive and continue to thrive. Key words: Attracting, retaining, good employees, environment, competitive Importance of attracting and keeping good employees Reasons for attracting and keeping good employees More than a decade ago, leading trade associations in the United States began warning of an impending labor shortage. That prediction has turned out to apply to almost all parts of the more and more intensively competitive business world nowadays. This labor shortage affects almost every industry and employers must begin to look outside of traditi

Child Welfare Policy in the United States W. David Harrison and Miriam S. Johnson Abstract Recent developments in child welfare in the United States can be seen as mactments of state paternalism toward families. New programs andprocedures in the areas of foster care and “in-home”family sentices aim to reinf orce parentsrsquo;and childrens rights, but these rights are typicallyf ramed asprotections against bureaucratic abuse rather than as rights to basic material resources. The prevailing cultural assumption toward child welfare in the United Statcs is that the government should not intervene inf amily lifc unless there is legal evidence of functional failure. Families are still seen as autonomous units that essentially determine their own fates.This ideology serves to limit the public and political perception of more preventive and developmental options. Child welfare policies rest on two simple premises. In order to become contributing members of society, child

Entrepreneurship Education in Developing Countries: Evaluation of the Start and Improve Your Business Program in Botswana 1.1Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship has traditionally been difficult to define and continues to generate debate (Low 2001). Furthermore, the entrepreneurship field has been criticised for having an ill-defined paradigm (Shane amp; Venkataraman 2000). The following section focuses on the problems and controversies surrounding the definition of the term lsquo;entrepreneurshiprsquo;. The section serves to illustrate some of the difficulties created by this lack of definitional clarity as a predicate to developing more focused scrutiny of entrepreneurship education. In common usage the word entrepreneurship is linked to enterprise creation, but the term has a wider application (Martins et al. 2007). Today, it is generally used to identify individuals who stimulate economic progress by finding new and better ways of doing t

Financial Management and Analysis Financial Management and Analysis is an introduction to the concepts,tools, and applications of finance. The purpose of this textbook is to communicate the fundamentals of financial management and financial analysis.This textbook is written in a way that will enable students who are just beginning their study of finance to understand financial decision-making and its role in the decision-making process of the entire firm. Throughout the textbook, yoursquo;ll see how we view finance.We see financial decision-making as an integral part of the firmrsquo;s decision-making, not as a separate function. Financial decision-making involves coordination among personnel specializing in accounting, marketing, and production aspects of the firm. The principles and tools of finance are applicable to all forms and sizes of business enterprises, not only to large corporations. Just as there are special problems and opportunities for small family-owned b

Why the rural poor get fewer opportunities to leading research universities? Abstract Some researchers in China believe that the rural poorrsquo;s earlier disadvantaged education experiences stopped them to get into the leading research universities. In my research, I find equal access to leading research universities relates with many issues, the gross enrollment rate disparity among provinces, the change of enrollment policies, the distributions of enrollment quotas, the urban/rural residence and disciplinary distribution all are the factors that put the rural poor in a difficult position to access the leading research universities. The paper concludes that in the race for creative minds, the leading research universities have forgotten their social responsibility of equity. Keywords Chinese higher education .University enrollment policy .Access and equity .The leading research universities .National enrollment quota system .The rural poor students .Gross enrollment dispa

All Children Deserve the Opportunity To Learn February, 2011 FEA The Forum on Educational Accountability (FEA) unequivocally supports that stated purpose of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) which reads “to ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality education” (20 U.S.C. sect; 6301). FEA carries forward the Joint Organizational Statement on No Child Left Behind, signed by 153 national organizations. Congress, states and localities must together ensure that districts and schools, especially those serving high concentrations of low-wealth students and students of color or who are English language learners, have the resources and conditions necessary to enable their students to reach challenging academic standards and be ready for effective citizenship, lifelong learning, and college or career. This will require significant increases in financial support for the education of low-income

REFORMS TO AN INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNT PENSION SYSTEM AND THEIR EFFECTS ON WORK AND CONTRIBUTION DECISIONS: THE CASE OF CHILE 1.Introduction The main goal of this study is to evaluate the effect of Chiles pension systemrules on individuals pension contributions and working decisions. The case of Chile is interesting because it was the first country to switch from a pay-as-you-go system to a privatized system based on individual investment accounts. Since the reform in 1980, Chiles pension system has been a model for pension reforms in many other Latin American countries such as Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Uruguay, etc. Moreover, this retirement system has also been considered by U.S. policy makers as a model for a possible reform. However, lately, the success of the Chilean pension system is being questioned because more than half of the Chilean workforce is not currently contributing, particularly among the self-employed, for whom contribution is voluntary. Therefore, im

附录B 外文原文 Study on the competitiveness of Regional logistics industry [Abstract] This paper constructs the reasonable index system of the competitiveness of regional logistics industry. It establishes a scientific and reasonable evaluation index by principal component analysis to analyze the indicators. It finds that the level of competitiveness of the logistics of Liaoning Province has a trend of increasing steadily year by year by calculating the various indicators and composite scores of the level of the competitiveness of the regional logistics industry in Liaoning province. [ Keywords] logistics industry; index system; Competitiveness evaluation I. Introduction The rapid development of regional economic led the vigorous development of the regional logistics industry and unprecedented depth changes in the area of circulation and production. The development level of logistics industry has gradually become an important indicator to measure the ov

外文原文 All the perceptions of the human mind fall into two distinct kinds, which I shall call lsquo;impressionsrsquo; and lsquo;ideasrsquo;. These differ in the degrees of force and liveliness with which they strike upon the mind and make their way into our thought or consciousness. The perceptions that enter with most force and violence we may name lsquo;impressionsrsquo;; and under this name I bring all our sensations,passions, and emotions, as they make their first appearance in the soul [= lsquo;mindrsquo;; no religious implications]. By lsquo;ideasrsquo; I mean the faint images of the others in thinking and reasoning: for example, all the perceptions aroused by your reading this book - apart from perceptions arising from sight and touch, and apart from the immediate pleasure or uneasiness your reading may cause in you. I donrsquo;t think I need to say much to explain this distinction: everyone will readily perceive for himself the difference between feeling (·impress

Implementing Quality Management 1.Introduction Although the preceding chapters, taken as a whole provide sufficient detail on how to implement a Quality Management approach this section is designed to provide a summary of principles to be borne in mind, and one approach to the journey which has been successful. The important caveat is that this section does not purport to present a lsquo;best practicersquo; approach, nor even that such an approach exists. What follows is lsquo;A Wayrsquo; not lsquo;The Wayrsquo;. 2.Will-Focus-Capability If action to transform is to be taken there is a need for three elements to come together. Smith and Tosey (1999) proposed one such model for organizational learning which applies equally well to Quality. For individuals to act they need the will, this will be bound up with their personal motivations, and the culture and politics of the organization. They also need the capability; this will mean they need to have the skills, techn