Referent product information from a credible source: How front line employees can stimulate acceptance of incrementally new food products

Public Acceptance of Food Biotechnology; How does Information Matter?

How Can Emails from Different Types of Leaders Influence Employees?

How can different types of emails be perceived by readers as different leadership styles? Is email content understood as a part of leadership? How can emails develop or destroy the e-leadership? This research tries to answer these questions. It studies the influence on what work and their involvement in their job represents for employees through the different kinds of e-communications used by s...

Effect of Empowerment: Front-Line Employees in the Hotel Industry

An empowered worker is a knowledgeable worker. Thus, the aims of this study were to examine how empowerment is perceived by the front-line hotel employees and secondly, to identify factors affecting empowerment within the industry. Factors such as communication, coaching, participation, training and reward were examined for significant relationship with empowerment, along with whether employee’...

Ideas on How Product-Line Engineering Can be Extended∗

Product-line engineering can result in cost savings and increases in productivity. In addition, in safetycritical systems, the approach has the potential for reuse of analysis and testing results which can lead to a safer system. Nevertheless, there are times when it seems like a product family approach should work when, in fact, there are difficulties in properly defining the boundaries of the...

Evaluating inpatient mortality: a new electronic review process that gathers information from front-line providers.

IMPORTANCE Accurately and routinely identifying factors contributing to inpatient mortality remains challenging. OBJECTIVE To describe the development, implementation and performance of a new electronic mortality review method 1 year after implementation. METHODS An analysis of data gathered from an electronic instrument that queries front-line providers on their opinions on quality and saf...