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Profit-Sharing & Productivity, 1993.
Evaluates productivity improvement strategies tying performance to gainsharing. Looking at theory & application, worker motivation, types, decision making and four case studies.
4,950 words (approx. 19.8 pages), 50 sources, $ 135.95
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"PRODUCTIVITY AND PROFIT SHARING
Introduction
Productivity is a major concern in the 1990s of all profit-oriented organizations, regardless of size (Rothschild, 1993, pp. 17-18). Productivity levels within an organization are the product of a combination of physical, financial, and human resource inputs (Miles & McCloskey, 1993, pp. 40-45).
How best to attain productivity improvements is an issue of both concern and dispute. Among the many proposed solutions to the productivity problem, one suggested approach to improved productivity is the formation of self-directed work teams within organizations to replace the more traditional hierarchical structure (Wellins, 1992, pp. 24-28). An older remedy that is receiving renewed attention is the use of profit-sharing to boost productivity.."
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Profit Sharing, 2002.
This paper explores the topic of profit sharing. The writer examines the history of the concept and whether or not profit sharing improves productivity.
2,900 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 25 sources, APA, $ 85.95
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The economic slump in America the last few years has been counter productive for employee morale. The workers who have faced lay offs, pay reductions ,and removal of overtime, are having a hard time finding a reason to work hard and stay focused on productivity. One of the ways to motivate employees is through profit sharing. The way each program is set up may vary, but the concept is still the same. If the company makes more, the employees make more; therefore, it behooves the employees to crank up the productivity and the quality of the product or service they represent.
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"The success of profit sharing has been questioned for years. Business owners wonder if it is really worth their while to give up some of the profits in the hopes it will make the workers feel they have a stake in the company?s outcome. Profit sharing is a plan that can backfire by costing the business money with no return, or it can be the prod that spurs the employees to increase profits by increasing productivity. It is a program in which it either helps or it hurts with no in between."
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Employee Profit Sharing Plans, 2005.
This paper explores Employee Profit Sharing Plans and discusses their benefits and how they can be used.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 3 sources, $ 44.95
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The paper delves into this matter by looking at the issue of Employee Profit Sharing Plans, more commonly known as EPSPs. More particularly, a general overview of EPSPs is furnished and some different types of employee profit sharing plans are reviewed, if for no other reason than employees must make every effort to find the financial package that will work best for them. The paper also discusses the benefits and debits of employee profit sharing plans.
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"Employee profit-sharing plans offer a number of benefits to working men and women that simply cannot be passed over lightly. As social security in both the United States and in Canada erodes under the weight of an aging population and declining birthrate, North Americans are being encouraged to find alternative means by which they can provide for their future. The following paper will delve into this matter by looking at the issue of Employee Profit Sharing Plans (more commonly known as EPSPs)."
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Worker Participation in Company Profit-Sharing and Management, 2002.
Discusses the problems for employers and employees that are associated with worker participation of profit-sharing and management.
2,900 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 15 sources, $ 106.95
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The tone of this paper will be a mix of formal and first person. An attempt will be made to justify my position by first focusing on how the present scenario stands with regards to such participation, what are the causes that underlie it, and what makes the issue a problematic one for both employers and employees.
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Accounting Profits and Economic Profits, 2002.
An overview and comparison of the concepts of accounting profits and economic profits.
2,650 words (approx. 10.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 97.95
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A microeconomics paper which compares and contrasts accounting profits with economic profits and analyzes how the economist's view profits using both concepts.
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Problem Solving Knowledge Sharing, 2006.
A look at how companies successfully overcome knowledge sharing obstacles by adopting a multi-faceted approach to knowledge sharing.
1,776 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 57.95
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This study examines the knowledge sharing process in order to determine what factors can successfully influence a manager's ability to overcome knowledge deficits and improve an organizations bottom line. Key aspects of knowledge sharing examined in this synopsis include operations management, information management and project management. In addition the researcher defines knowledge sharing as a strategy that contributes to continuous improvement in organizations large and small. For purposes of this study large organizational strategies are considered.
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Executive Summary
Synopsis of Knowledge Sharing Problem
Project Management
Operations Management
Information Management
Combining Operations, Information and Project Management To Foster Knowledge Sharing
Conclusions
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"One of the most formidable challenges facing managers is facilitating productive knowledge sharing throughout the organization. Knowledge sharing is the process of exchanging or sharing information and knowledge within an organization in a manner that results in the greatest organizational success. There are many factors that can impede knowledge sharing within an organization. These include: lack of partnership, the lack of desire to seek advice from others or uncover new ways of doing things, failure to understand how useful knowledge might be for others, lack of trust and lack of time (Skyrme, 1). "
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The Ins and Outs of File Sharing, 2005.
This paper takes a look at the issue of file sharing and the methods used in order to enable the sharing of files and data between various computer stations by means of the internet.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 13 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper discusses whether file sharing should be permitted, taking into account the legal issues. This paper also takes a look at the website methodology of file sharing, currently centered on music but which will expand to include motion pictures once the broadband issues are solved allowing large files to be easily transferred.
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"The computer revolution put a computer in virtually every home, creating many new opportunities for users to access information, use a new means of communication, find new ways to engage in commerce, and other possibilities. One of the possibilities explored by many has been file sharing, or the sending of files to other people over the Internet. In popular parlance, file sharing more often means specifically the sharing of music files, which is only one of the types of file that can be shared. Because such files are digital, there is virtually no loss of quality from the original recording, meaning that millions of perfect copies can be downloaded from websites without payments being made to copyright holders. This created an economic threat to the music industry first and more recently to the film industry (since films can be sent over the Internet in digital form as well). "
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The Effect of Labor Policies on Productivity, 2008.
A discussion on how US labor market polices have had a negative effect on employee productivity.
1,720 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 55.95
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This paper examines how, for over 20 years, workers have been faced with the dilemma of lack of job security, which has led to decreased productivity. Another major change that has affected productivity is American corporations' shift of focus away from making employees feel secure and appreciated, or providing them with ample pension and health care benefits plus wage increases to outpace inflation. The paper points out that, instead, the new focus of American corporations emphasizes the fiduciary responsibility to the stockholder and maximizing profits. The paper also adds that advanced technology, requiring less people but more skilled workers, and government labor policies, which removed trade barriers making it easier for American companies to outsource labor and relocate to countries with low labor costs, have had an adverse effect on American worker productivity and the American middle class. The paper concludes that the corporate/business paradigm shift from employee to stockholder is the most significant factor leading to reduced employee productivity and the erosion of the American middle class.
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Introduction
Hypothesis
Background Research
Conclusion
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"Lack of job security is not a problem new to 2007, or even 2000, but one that has been on the rise since 1972. American companies have downsized dramatically since the late 1970s.
"In the first downsizing wave, 12% of the out placed workers left the workforce completely, 17% remained unemployed after two years. Of those finding new employment, 31% took a wage reduction of 25% or more and 32% of worker's wages were reduced by one to twenty-five percent while only 37% found no wage loss. These figures translate to 63% of people finding replacement jobs that are inferior to what they held prior to being downsized."
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Ritualistic File-Sharing, 2002.
This paper explains how the intellectual property laws are ignored on Napster, Kazaa, Gnutella and other file-sharing networks.
3,245 words (approx. 13.0 pages), 11 sources, $ 93.95
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This essay is an in-depth analysis of file-sharing technology (Napster, Kazaa) and its relation to modern intellectual property laws. In order to structure the analysis, theoretical work from two prominent communications scholars - Harold Innis and James Carey - is employed. These authors divided media into two types: Innis categorized media as either time-biased or space biased, while Carey said media was either ritual or transmission. Ritual/time-biased media resist control and intellectual property laws, and file-sharing networks are ritual and time-biased. This essay defines the medium of file-sharing networks, intellectual property, the terms used by Innis and Carey, and shows how the nature of the medium explains why intellectual property laws are ignored on file-sharing networks.
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"From a modern, literate, perspective the current economic and legal debate over file-sharing is a teeming with contradictions. Most people find the thought of shoplifting a CD repugnant, yet many of those same people wouldn?t hesitate to borrow a copy from a friend or download a song from a complete stranger. What is the cause of this dichotomy? Can one be a consumer and a thief at the same time? This essay proposes that answers can be found by examining the media in question. Most modern investigation of this subject, critical and legal, is rooted in one specific perspective, but media scholars like Harold Innis and James Carey have in fact proposed two. Logically and historically, intellectual property rights appear in one and not the other. The following pages will define the medium in question and the two perspectives. Next these definitions will be used to place the medium in the most appropriate frame. Once the medium is categorized, the work of Innis and Carey will be applied to show how the nature of the medium determines the role of intellectual property."
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The Law of Marginal Productivity, 2004.
An analysis of the law of marginal productivity .
969 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 34.95
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This paper defines the law of marginal productivity, providing examples from agriculture to explain it. The paper examines how this law affects the retail stores. The paper explores the trend to consolidation among department stores and contends that the increased revenues from the consolidated stores will increase profits for the company, consolidate costs and lessen at least some of the fixed costs for the formerly individual department stores and thus eventually increase sales and stimulate lagging productivity.
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"In theory, the more demand there is for a good or service, the more a producer wishes to provide this good, and that producing in bulk lowers costs. Even when consumer demand is down, a supplier can also produce more, in the hopes of defraying a decrease in price with a bulk increase in sales. However, certain costs of production are fixed. In other words, the Law of Marginal Productivity holds constant. This economic law states, namely that "when the technology of production and some of the inputs are held constant and the quantity of a variable input increases continually, the marginal productivity of the variable input will eventually decline." (King, 2004)"
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Popular Culture Today: File Sharing, 2005.
An analysis of the cultural implications of peer-to-peer file sharing on the internet.
1,477 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 48.95
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The paper examines how far John Fiske's theories of popular culture as resistance still apply in the 21st century, using the contemporary example of peer-to-peer file sharing. The focus is on examining file sharing as a cultural activity which is interesting in an anthropological sense, rather than the ethics or legality of file sharing. It explains how, by resisting the power of advertisers, shops and even the music industry as a whole, individuals are reclaiming culture.
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"Arguably, the meanings attached to advertising are what is challenged the most by file sharing. If we think of advertising as a 'commodity', we can begin to examine how, like other commodities it can be used in different ways. In dominant culture, the only position a person viewing an advertisement can occupy is that of the consumer, and the only power granted to the consumer is the decision to buy or not buy; in other words, 'containing social diversity within the needs of capitalism.' In popular culture, advertisements can mean more; for example, people can attach their own individual meanings to a memorable slogan. Moreover, users of file sharing use advertisements to help them decide what songs and albums to search for and download. 'To attract customers is to attract tricksters' . "
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File Sharing, 2004.
An examination of the ethics and legalities of file sharing over the Internet.
1,200 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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This paper discusses how, as one of the most controversial Internet-based technologies, file sharing is causing a wave of ethical and legal conundrums. It looks at how Napster drew the most mainstream media attention due to several lawsuits filed against them by individual recording artists and how music files aren?t the only copyrighted materials being shared by Internet users. It explores how software, movies, and photos are freely traded through peer-to-peer (P2P) networks and how dozens of file sharing applications like Morpheus have gained popularity, posing legal and ethical problems as most of the files being traded are copyrighted material.
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"Napster began the file-sharing revolution and was one of the first pieces of software that created an organized network of users. Using a central server to store a massive amount of music files would not only be costly and cumbersome but also totally illegal, so the architects of Napster designed their software so that each person would download directly from other users? hard drives. This system basically made each individual PC running Napster into a server. A list of sharable files is compiled by the software client, and Napster?s central servers compile the file lists of all its online users. This way, individual users can browse others? files in a secure manner. Using the software interface, users can then perform searches for specific song titles, and the songs are downloaded directly from one peer to another."
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MP3 File Sharing, 2005.
This paper discusses the unethical piracy of legally owned corporate products on the Internet by MP3 file sharing.
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This examines both sides of the file sharing issues around music and states that the music industry is ethically right in their position to sue those people who illegally download music. The author points out that the music industry has won cases against Napster and others that violate the law, which will help quell the piracy of illegal MP3s. The paper stresses that understanding the facts and statistical data about this issue eventually can lead to the downfall of those independent pirating networks , which violate copyright law in the United States and abroad.
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"This study examines the use of MP3 file sharing, which has become a major issue in how corporate music industry deals with 'pirated' songs on the Internet. By understanding the current manners of file sharing that are trying to get financial compensation for music, the industry and independent music "down-loaders" clash on these issues. In essence, file sharing is unethical and debases ownership within the rights of corporate entities that should profit from the artist properties that they rightfully own under copyright law In the recent battles that have arisen due to music industry corporations seeking to recover lost revenues to illegal downloading of songs, there is a strong argument on why file sharing is an ethical problem."
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Copyrights and Music File Sharing, 2002.
A look at copyright and the technology of music file sharing.
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This paper examines copyright and the technology of music file sharing. Initially, it explores the technology itself. Then it examines the law and the broader social and ethical issues surrounding the technology.
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Time Sharing in Greece, 2006.
A research paper examining the advantages, disadvantages, laws and issues associated with time sharing in Greece.
6,272 words (approx. 25.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 146.95
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This paper explores the pros and cons of time sharing in Greece from the viewpoints of several agencies, governments and others having an interest in this detailed and specific subject matter. As part of the examination, the paper covers a brief history (recent background from 1981 forward) and what the problems are surrounding this contentious issue, plus what specific laws within the Greek government need revision in order to make timesharing more of a reality in Greece.
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Thesis Statement
Introduction
The Polity of Greece
CIA - World Fact Book Assessment - 1999
The Greek Economy
Greece and the EU
The Greek Viewpoint
Greek Relationships in Balkans
Greek Modernization Laws
The Changing of the Laws
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"Moreover, it is noted from the outset that the Greek Government and the Greek Orthodox Church both oppose increased "Timesharing in Greece," and each group for specific reasons of law and religious preservation of institutions. With these factors in mind, one shall be equipped to make an informed decision as to one's position on this issue. One factor obvious from the outset is that one cannot straddle the fence on this issue as many compromises shall be necessary to make this institution workable in Greece."
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