The Theory of Innovative Enterprise
... In effect, Hall and Soskice accept the conventional ideology that, in
terms of the coordination of productive activity that results in
superior economic performance, the United States can be
understood as a “market economy” with a deregulated state.
There are a number of problems with this perspecti ...
Theories of discrimination, cont.
... LMS modifications – Gordon, Edwards, and Reich
Strangely, GER’s early work used something more of a dual
economy model than a segmented labor market model.
Core firms traded higher wages and better conditions to
workers for control over production and the labor
process. They broke the secondary seg ...
Economic Systems without Pictures
... All communist countries
have been authoritarian,
but not all authoritarian
countries are communist
All deprive citizens of
political control
Some take a hands-off
approach to the economy
...
How Austerity Economics Turned Europe into the Hunger Games*
... Games” response in which each member country is forced to fend for itself, basically by
unilaterally cutting its wages and thereby hoping to gain export market share at the expense
of the others.
This strategy has had, and is still having, huge and avoidable social costs. (Yes, this is a
damning ind ...
Remembering Peter Drucker
... 2. Alfred Sloan in “My years with General Motors” showed how a
large organizations can be made to achieve complex objectives
through management to produce results; the lessons were applied
in the development of the most complicated Polaris submarine. As
Drucker has written: “Management converts a mo ...
CDSMP – Program Overview
... “Involves [the person with the chronic disease]
engaging in activities that protect and promote
health, monitoring and managing of symptoms and
signs of illness, managing the impacts of illness on
functioning, emotions and interpersonal
relationships and adhering to treatment regimes.”
Source: Cente ...
A New Micro-Foundation for Keynesian Economics
... and the actual economy (Diamond 2011; Mortensen 2011; Pissarides 2000, 2011). It starts with
the presence of various frictions and accompanying matching costs in market transactions. In
search equilibrium, potentially similar workers and firms experience different economic
outcomes. For example, som ...
Economic Systems and the Role of Government
... How can GDP per capita and poverty rates indicate a country’s
standard of living?
How can the size of the workforce (industrial and service sector)
employment rate indicate the level of industrialization?
How can electricity, communication, and transportation facilities
indicate the potential for gr ...
this PDF file - Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América
... not adequately depict the social depth of economic wellbeing) and toward
what happened to Chilean workers in a few key sectors of the country’s export
economy during the period 1973 to 2002. In short, this collection of essays by
Winn, Volker Frank, Joel Stillerman, Thomas Miller Klubock, Heidi Tins ...
ch01 Modern Economics
... the vast number of consumers.
Voluntary exchange means both parties get something they want;
a worker wants income and a firm wants a certain job done, for
example.
A market is any situation in which an exchange takes place.
◦ A market need not be a physical location.
◦ With competition, consumers h ...
CHAPTER 1
... • One major conclusion of the Work Force
2000 study was that a large proportion of
the new entrants to the labor force for the
near future will be from demographic
categories other than that of white males.
• Many managers still face the challenge of
how diversity should be specifically
“managed”.
...
Companies whose employees own a significant stake have a
... least as good as non-EO firms at delivering economic
value, and are better producers of ‘social value’.5 In the
context of the search for ‘good growth’ and ‘responsible
capitalism’, especially in the wake of the financial crisis,
the strengths of employee ownership are becoming
ever more apparent.
O ...
Behavioural Management Theories - Hale
... focus on the well-being of the employee, both on and
off the job
This means stable employment, and high employee
morale and satisfaction by creating opportunities for
collaboration, lateral job movements, and mulit-level
participation in decision-making
...
All work, no play for America s workforce
... “supersized” their credit cards and/or
taken second mortgages on their
homes. As a result, many Americans
are now spending more than they
earn; in 2005, the Nation’s personal
savings rate dipped below zero for the
first time since the Great Depression.
As proof of how risky this strategy is,
Greenho ...
Slide 0 - World Bank
... It is a pure short-term instrument (it has not measured significant positive
medium-term impact on workers) and in a number of cases participating in a
temporary job has been found to have negative effects on workers’ ability to get
jobs post-crisis.
...
Document
... Exogenous (assume certain value for variable [its value is
given from outside the model])
...
Why the digital economy needs competition restored - G
... The second force is the digital economy’s “winner-takes-most” markets, which
give dominant firms excessive power to raise prices without losing many
customers. Today’s superstar companies owe their privileged position to
digital technology’s network effects, whereby a product becomes even more
desir ...
The role of training and education in economic growth
... What is the cost of the training program? Will the
worker see a wage increase that would warrant the
cost of the program?
What is the labor market like for a better-trained
professional? Is the market significantly saturated
with trained labor already?
Some employers pay for all or a portion of the
...
Workers' self-management
Self-management or workers' self-management (also referred to as labor management, autogestión, workers' control, industrial democracy and producer cooperatives) is a form of management that involves management of an organization by its workers. Self-management is a characteristic of many models of socialism, with proposals for self-management having appeared many times throughout the history of the socialist movement, advocated variously by market socialists, communists and anarchists.There are many variations of self-management. In some variations, all the worker-members manage the enterprise directly through assemblies; in other forms, workers manage indirectly through the appointment of managers through election. Self-management may include worker supervision and oversight of an organization by elected bodies, election of specialized managers, or management without any specialized managers as such. The goals of self-management are to improve performance by granting workers greater autonomy in their day-to-day operations (self-directed activity), while reducing alienation and eliminating exploitation.Self-management of an organization may coincide with employee ownership of that organization, but self-management can also exist in the context of organizations under public ownership, and to a limited extent within private companies in the form of co-determination and worker representation on the board of directors.