Since the ALOHA accident in 1988, the FAA, labor unions, aircraft and engine manufacturers, and the U.S. air carrier industry have been working together in a new endeavor called maintenance human factors. With the growing recognition that many accidents may involve maintenance error, the industry has turned to the science of human factors to provide answers to why a technician, ground crew agen...

S AVINGS INSTITUTIONS, credit unions, and commercial banks all offer a generally similar se­ lection of financial services, though each differs in the ability to make certain kinds of loans.1 As a result, many personal sector customers of these institutions would likely be unable to identify any distinguishing characteristics. Indeed, savings institutions and com­ mercial banks sometimes change...

In the industrial area adjacent to the Stock Yards of Chicago, a community council was formed which included the two basic institutions of the area — (1) organized religion and (2) organized labor — as well as all of the other interest and action groups in that community. "Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council" is an experimental demonstration of a community organizational procedure predicated...

O ne of the major but multifaceted challenges facing the ministry centers on our colleagues who consti tute the professional and support staffs that provide Catholic health care. For example, we currently have difficulty achieving a sense ot" alignment with physicians who are experiencing an "absence of joy"; we are regularly reminded by nurses why an increasing number are seeking the support o...

Compensation systems such as individualized pay for performance (I-PFP) schemes for employees represent an important approach to aligning employer-employee interests. However, the adoption of I-PFP is much less common in many countries than in the USA. Employing a multi-level analysis of over 4,000 firms in 26 countries, we explore determinants of its adoption. At the country level we distingui...

The relationship between trade unions and the unemployed is complex and, to some extent, ambiguous. The article first presents the main features of such a relationship, synthesising evidence from various cases (historical and contemporary). Then, using a Marxist dialectical approach, it looks at the features that characterise trade unions in order to explain why they act as they do towards the ...

We study subsets of Grassmann varieties G(l, m) over a field F , such that these subsets are unions of Schubert cycles, with respect to a fixed flag. We study the linear spans of, and in case of positive characteristic, the number of Fq-rational points on such unions. Moreover we study a geometric duality of such unions, and give a combinatorial interpretation of this duality. We discuss the ma...

Trade unions provide a voice in the way firms are run, an input into reward systems and increased security of employment. But these vary with national context. Using transnational survey evidence, we explore the relative impact of setting, and of unions and collective bargaining, on these issues. We find that, irrespective of context organisations are significantly more likely to make usage of ...

Electronic commerce as one of the most important of Innovation aspects in the process of doing business is used by many organizations and companies in the world. Cooperatives as the main part of the country's economy have fundamental role in improving and promoting of economic. Therefore, innovation methods and tools, new processes and perform business tasks such as e-commerce will play an i...