Introduction Human service nonprofits provide labor-intensive services and, as such, employees are a major factor in determining organizational success (Maelicke, 2004). Thus, nonprofits involved in human services are highly dependent on the quality, motivation, and satisfaction of their employees for the delivery of their services (Akingbola, 2006). Job satisfaction is influenced by many endog...

How do people coordinate actions with others? We tested the hypothesis that pairs of participants strategically reduce the variability of their action performance to achieve synchronicity in the absence of visual feedback about each other’s actions. Consistent with this prediction, participants moved faster and less variably in a condition where they could not see their task partner’s movements...

HR Tool Employee engagement refers to the level of commitment workers make to their employer, seen in their willingness to stay at the firm and to go beyond the call of duty.1 Firms want employees that are highly motivated and feel they have a real stake in the company’s success. Such employees are willing to finish tasks in their own time and see a strong link between the firm’s success and th...

We de…ne and analyze a "strategic topology" on types in the Harsanyi-MertensZamir universal type space, where two types are close if their strategic behavior is similar in all strategic situations. For a …xed game and action de…ne the distance between a pair of types as the di¤erence between the smallest " for which the action is " interim correlated rationalizable. We de…ne a strategic topolog...

Strategic competence. These are areas of new evolving knowledge which the company thinks will be very important in the future, but which currently they still have a lot to learn about. In Mars, knowledge about mass-market entry in the 3 world would have fitted in this box a couple of years ago. Much of the knowledge coming out of Waltham will fit in this box. Strategic knowledge is managed by s...

This study examines the structural and systematic processes of the Human Resources Division at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago for evidence of incorporation of the University’s 20122017 Strategic Plan. In conducting the study the structure of the Human Resources Management Division and its functions were carefully reviewed and measured against the strategic...

We incorporate strategic complementarities into a multi-agent sequential choice model with observable actions and private information. In this framework agents are concerned with learning from predecessors, signalling to successors, and coordinating their actions with those of others. Coordination problems have hitherto been studied using static coordination games which do not allow for learnin...

The forming process of road safety strategy is quite complex because it implies a system approach that consists of several more or less complex steps. The analysis of the existing situation, defining the problem and creating a strategic document are the basic steps in forming road safety strategy. Each one of the mentioned steps involves several activities that must be carried out. Implementati...

This chapter provides both practitioner and academic insights into outsourcing. It begins with a review of the literature and practice of outsourcing, followed by a retrospect of its developments since the 1960s, up to present-day emergent trends such as best/smart-sourcing, rural-sourcing and business application grids. Recent legal developments are highlighted, along with their corresponding ...