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In the context of a pre-existing labour force with 66% untrained and uncertified members, would expanding the pool of available talent in the labour force result in a positive productivity impact...
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Is there a positive benefit to aligning compensation systems to firm productivity ? (refer section 3, page 8 on Policy Document attached). On a scale of Very Low, Low, Neither Low nor High, High,...
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In the context of a pre-existing labour force with 66% untrained and uncertified members, would expanding the quality of the labour force result in a positive productivity impact (refer section...
09 August 2016 9,187 7 View
Would expanding the levels of flexibility for movements of talent between firms and within firms result in a positive productivity impact (refer section 1, page 5 on Policy Document attached). On...
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Central banking has served global finance well for several centuries with the Song and the Yuan Dynasties being credited with the development of fiat currencies. Central Banks have as their...
19 June 2016 7,200 3 View
In their 1992 paper Warner Burke and George Litwin outlined a fairly well thought out integrated I-P-O model of organisational behaviour that embraced exogenous influencers as well as performance...
18 May 2016 5,411 7 View
The surprising story of the last two decades has been the Great Surge (Radelet, 2015) in the fortunes of the developing world. Approximately 5 billion lives, across all geographies, have seen a...
08 April 2016 5,548 12 View
Business Excellence Frameworks have been adopted / adapted by several jurisdictions around the world. The most easily recognized of these BEF's are the Baldrige BEF of the USA and the EFQM BEF of...
22 March 2016 4,062 4 View
The WEF declares that the world is entering the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Is this the same as the previously branded Knowledge Era ? What distinguishes the fourth industrial revoloution from...
05 March 2016 6,233 11 View
Does the present model for secondary school education provide an effective fit with the aptitude of primary school students? Kids between 11 and 17 year old are quite a mixed bag with huge...
17 December 2015 1,758 14 View
The M-Pesa model demonstrates the beneficial impacts to society (government, firms and households) through reduced costs for financial intermediation, improved efficiencies in service delivery to...
29 November 2015 6,943 13 View
In the continuing march of production technology, any human action that is repetitive and routinized will be automated. This is inevitable and unavoidable. Will this global trend in task / job...
21 November 2015 1,880 5 View
Are economies whose national industrial profile is dominated by services sectors (eg finance, tourism, ICT) less robust, sustainable, and resilient than those economies dominated by the goods...
14 November 2015 9,261 29 View
According to self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan) external regulation behaviors are performed to satisfy an external demand or obtain an externally imposed reward contingency. Individuals...
27 October 2015 435 4 View
The concept of employability appears to be relatively new and has been variously characterised as comprising the three dimensions of career identity, personal adaptability, and social and human...
13 October 2015 7,827 10 View
In the context of developing economies, is there a negative correlation between gdp growth & societal / governance factors of openness, transparency, democracy ? Those emerging /...
11 September 2015 4,619 17 View
The changing dynamics of the labour market imposes demands on the form and nature of the manifestation of collective action expressed in support of the holders/owners of talent (ie human capital)....
06 July 2015 8,306 2 View
The objective of Labour Market Reform is to breathe modernity, dynamism and responsiveness into economies exhibiting labour-related competitiveness dysfunctions. Policies for reforming the Labour...
30 June 2015 7,006 6 View
The critical positive measure of productivity in the government sector is the improvement in the ratio of the output of the public service to the costs for the delivery of that service; the higher...
30 June 2015 3,320 11 View
Both the European Foundation for Quality Management and the International Standards Organisation have quality standard frameworks for enhancing the business practices of outward-looking...
21 June 2015 10,029 18 View
The traditional Triple Helix model of national innovation systems spoke to the symbiotic complementarities of academia; the productive sector including the representatives of talent capital; and...
01 June 2015 7,714 5 View
Employee innovativeness, employee innovative work behaviour and employee innovative output are all relatively recent constructs. What is the relationship and association between these three...
11 May 2015 9,528 0 View
In the Global Knowledge Economy, the role of human talent reigns supreme. Future national performance in Human Development Indices and GDP growth is determined by the talent pool available to...
05 April 2015 5,965 4 View
The realisation of employee innovative performance and output varies in the literature. A popular measure is the patent. However, in the context on a long ideation funnel where 3000 ideas are said...
02 April 2015 8,526 24 View
A commonly noted factor causing BPD is reported to be environmental stress. How much of a contributor is stress from the patient's immediate family in initially triggering the onset of the...
01 March 2015 6,208 3 View
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27 February 2015 8,930 8 View
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07 February 2015 8,728 4 View
As research on systems for drone delivery of small packages continue, a possible urban asset to successfully leverage is the network of natural and man-made drainage in metro areas. This...
11 December 2014 3,121 3 View
Research at the individual level very frequently employ self-reports from interviewees (leaders, managers, employees, patients, teachers, students). Self-reports suffer from biases on the part of...
28 November 2014 3,103 8 View
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18 June 2014 1,072 12 View
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18 June 2014 5,296 1 View
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Self Determination is a theory developed by Edward Deci and Richard Ryan at the University of Rochester, New York.
27 June 2013 7,416 1 View
Ghoshal and Bartlett in their 1994 Quality of Management (QoM) model posited that the old command and control management model was demotivating and dysfunctional and that leaders in firms should...
29 May 2013 8,108 1 View
Is that person to be found amongst the present billionaires ? Or are these figures to be found from our long gone past ?
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A little over a decade ago, Vineet Nayar CEO of HCLT, developed the model “Employee First Customers Second” or EFCS, for his firm and in so doing built a highly successful business around that...
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