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Staff Reports for the 2000 Article IV Consultation and Request for a Three-Year Arrangement under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility
by International Monetary FundA report from the International Monetary Fund.
Staff Studies
by International Monetary FundBeginning in the late 1970s, and extending to the present, a large number of industrial countries initiated a process of financial deregulation and liberalization. the gains from this have been substantial, including increased access to credit markets by households and enterprises, higher rates of remuneration on deposits, and a more market-determined allocation of resources.
Staff Studies for the World Economic Outlook
by International Monetary FundBeginning in the late 1970s, and extending to the present, a large number of industrial countries initiated a process of financial deregulation and liberalization. the gains from this have been substantial, including increased access to credit markets by households and enterprises, higher rates of remuneration on deposits, and a more market-determined allocation of resources.
Staff Studies for the World Economic Outlook, July 1986
by International Monetary FundThe deterioration in labor market performance in most of the industrial countries since the early 1970s remains one of the most serious economic problems confronting policymakers. Even though a broad range of measures has been implemented to tackle this problem, unemployment has continued to rise in a large number of countries, particularly in Europe.
Staff Training: An Annotated Review of the Literature (Routledge Library Editions: Human Resource Management)
by William Crimando T. F. RiggarIn this book, first published in 1990, the authors have provided a scholarly treatment of the body of training literature between 1980 and 1988 that can be used by practitioners. They have drawn from as many different sources as possible and have tried to maintain a balance between popular and academic literature. This title will also be of interest to students of business studies and human resource management.
Staffing Organizations
by Herbert G. Heneman Tim Judge John Kammeyer-MuellerTimothy Judge and John Kammeyer-Mueller maintain Herb Heneman?s vision to present a broad view of the entire staffing process that has made Staffing Organizations the #1 selling Staffing text on the market. The authors? approach continues to reflect all the latest research while focusing on capturing the staffing process as it should and does exist in organizations today. The 10th edition is an exciting revision and includes many changes that reflect ongoing developments in the field.
Staffing Organizations
by Herbert Heneman Timothy Judge John Kammeyer-MuellerHeneman's and Judge's Staffing Organizations, 9e, is based on a comprehensive staffing model. Components of the model include staffing models and strategy, staffing support systems (legal compliance, planning, job analysis and rewards), core staffing systems (recruitment, selection, and employment), and staffing systems and retention management. <P><P>Up-to-date research and business practices are the hallmarks of this market-leading text. In-depth applications (cases and exercises) at the end of the chapters provide students with skill-building and practice in key staffing activities and decision making. <P><P>A comprehensive running case involving a fictitious retailing organization provides even greater opportunity for in-depth analysis and skill-building. <P><P>Students also have the opportunity to address ethical issues at the end of each chapter.
Staffing Organizations (Eighth Edition)
by Herbert G. Heneman III Timothy A. Judge John D. Kammeyer-MuellerBased on ideas from leading human resources thinkers, new discussions describe how to incorporate organizational strategy into every part of the staffing process. This material not only underlines the importance of strategic thinking for students, but provides specific guidance for specific actions that staffing decision makers can take to improve talent management.
Staffing Service
by Entrepreneur Magazine Krista TurnerThe new world economy is tough on job security. Hordes of skilled, experienced, motivated workers are flooding the market, looking for work. And lots of merged and downsized companies now outsource the work that used to be done by permanent employees. The bright side? It's prime time for the staffing profession.Detailing the hottest specialties in the staffing service industry-facilities staffing, industrial staffing, office/clerical staffing, temp staffing and temp-to-perm staffing-the experts at Entrepreneur provide everything eager entrepreneurs need to know to start their own staffing service.Covers:-Industry trends and opportunities-Identifying a specialty-How to establish the business-from securing licenses and financing to buying equipment and recruiting employees-Building a client base-Promoting and marketing the business-Managing day-to-day operations-Staying on top of financesEntrepreneurs also gain priceless insight from practicing entrepreneurs who reveal little-known tricks of the trade and common hazards to avoid. Aspiring business owners are given sample documents, worksheets, and other example materials to reference as they move their business forward. Specialties covered include: Facilities staffing-placing employees in long-term or indefinite-length assignments Industrial staffing-specializing in manual laborers, food handlers, cleaners, assemblers, drivers, tradespeople, machine operators, etc. Office/clerical staffing-focusing on secretaries, receptionists, administrative assistants, word processing and data-entry operators, etc. Temporary staffing-supplying client companies with workers on a short-term basis Temp-to-perm staffing-offering clients a convenient way to try out temporary workers for permanent positionsAll Entrepreneur Step-By-Step Startup Guides Include: Essential industry-specific startup steps with worksheets, calculators, checklists and more Bestselling title,Start Your Own Business by Entrepreneur Media Inc., a guide to starting any business and surviving the first three years Downloadable, customizable business letters, sales letters, and other sample documents Entrepreneur's Small Business Legal Toolkit
Staffing the ATM System: The Selection of Air Traffic Controllers
by Hinnerk Eißfeldt Mike C. HeilIssues of personnel development in air traffic control (ATC) have become a major topic in aviation recruitment and training. Proper selection and training methods are needed in order to reach a high level of efficiency and reliability in ATC. Pilots were considered the most prominent group in aviation for a long time, but with the development of flight guidance technologies came a second operational occupation in aviation: the air traffic controller (ATCO). This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of controller selection from an impressive collection of international specialists in research and practice. It will prove a valuable and key insight into the demands of air traffic controller selection through its comprehensive and enlightening examination of the current practice in the USA and Europe for the job-analysis requirements of future air traffic management (ATM) systems.
Stage II: Standard Cost and Flexible Budgeting Systems
by Robert S. Kaplan Robin CooperAlthough today some companies have characteristics of the broken systems in Stage I, most are operating with Stage II systems. Even with excellent design, standard Stage II cost systems can have serious limitations for costing processes, products, customers, and providing timely feedback to front-line employees. Focusing on these Stage II systems, this chapter provides a baseline for the improvements documented in the remainder of the book for making systems more relevant and useful for managerial purposes. It also includes an appendix on the GPK cost system.
Stage III Systems for Learning and Improvement: Upgrading and Supplementing Standard Cost Systems
by Robert S. Kaplan Robin CooperEmployees need an appropriate mixture of financial and nonfinancial measurements--especially cost, quality, yields, and cycle time--or processes under their control. This chapter describes how standard costing systems can be made more timely and responsive in providing feedback on financial expenses, and explains how supplementing financial systems with nonfinancial measures can empower employees.
Stage III Systems for Learning and Improvement: Kaizen Costing and Pseudo-Profit Centers
by Robert S. Kaplan Robin CooperHow have Japanese and U.S. companies used financial measurement systems, like kaizen costing and pseudo-profit centers, which are meant to provide direct financial feedback to employees, as part of their continuous improvement efforts? This chapter illustrates several innovative approaches to developing the general design principles for operational control systems that promote learning and improvement opportunities by front-line employees, so they can build more efficient processes.
Stage IV: Integrating ABC with Enterprise-Wide Systems
by Robert S. Kaplan Robin CooperToday, many companies are investing not only in stand-alone Stage III ABC (activity-based costing) systems, but in enterprise-wide systems (EWS) as well. EWS can provide a company with an integrated set of operating, financial, and management systems. This chapter describes how to integrate ABC and enterprise-wide systems to support fact-based decision making across a wide range of organizational activities, and provide information about future operations. This is the vision for Stage IV.
Stage IV: Using ABC for Budgeting and Transfer Pricing
by Robert S. Kaplan Robin CooperWhen managers have access to integrated Stage IV systems, they can use their ABC (activity-based costing) model to provide information for important, ongoing managerial processes, including budgeting, what-if analysis, and transfer pricing. This chapter builds on the vision for the future outlined in chapter 14 to describe how the ABC system can be used as the foundation for budgeting--on a rational, analytic basis--the organization's future expenses and resource supply.
The Stage Producer's Business and Legal Guide (Second Edition)
by Charles GrippoExpert, Practical Advice for Everyone in Show Business Now updated and expanded, this second edition of The Stage Producer’s Business and Legal Guide is the ultimate survival kit for anyone presenting live entertainment. The information contained in this handbook is essential for those working in Broadway, regional, stock, or university theater; concert halls; opera houses; and more. Attorney, producer, and playwright Charles Grippo provides comprehensive advice on every aspect of the theater business and the law, including: Crowdfunding Your ProductionNew Opportunities to Raise MoneySelf-ProductionLicensing and Producing PlaysDevised Theater and CollaborationsCreating Jukebox MusicalsOrganizing a Theater CompanyTheatrical InsuranceMaintaining a Harassment-Free EnvironmentNegotiating ContractsEssential Rules Every Board Member Must KnowManaging a Not-for-Profit Theater CompanyNavigating TaxesUsing Third-Party Intellectual PropertyAnd much, much more! The entire range of individuals involved in entertainment—producers, performers, writers, directors, managers, and theater owners—will find invaluable practical and legal advice in this handy guide.
Stage Writers Handbook
by Dana SingerDana Singer, Associate Director of America's foremost playwrights' association, the Dramatists Guild, gathers all the information and ideas stage writers need to conduct their careers in a businesslike manner, with all the protections the law provides. Includes chapters devoted to copyright, self-promotion, representation, production contracts, publishing and licensing agreements, underlying rights and collaboration.
Stagecoach
by Philip L. FradkinSweeping in scope, as revealing of an era as it is of a company, Stagecoach is the epic story of Wells Fargo and the American West, by award-winning writer Philip L. Fradkin. The trail of Wells Fargo runs through nearly every imaginable landscape and icon of frontier folklore: the California Gold Rush, the Pony Express, the transcontinental railroad, the Civil and Indian Wars. From the Great Plains to the Rockies to the Pacific Ocean, the company's operations embraced almost all social, cultural, and economic activities west of the Mississippi, following one of the greatest migrations in American history. Fortune seekers arriving in California after the discovery of gold in 1849 couldn't bring the necessities of home with them. So Wells Fargo express offices began providing basic services such as the exchange of gold dust for coin, short-term deposits and loans, and reliable delivery and receipt of letters, money, and goods to and from distant places. As its reputation for speed and dependability grew, the sight of a red-and-yellow Wells Fargo stagecoach racing across the prairie came to symbolize not only safe passage but faith in a nation's progress. In fact, for a time Wells Fargo was the most powerful and widespread institution in the American West, even surpassing the presence of the federal government. Stagecoach is a fascinating and rare combination of Western and business history. Along with its colorful association with the frontier -- Wyatt Earp, Black Bart, Buffalo Bill -- readers will discover that swiftness, security, and connectivity have been constants in Wells Fargo's history, and that these themes remain just as important today, 150 years later.
Staged to Sell (or Keep)
by Jean NayarClearly organized room-by-room, filled with photos of inspiring rooms, and brimming with expert tips, this book shows you how to recognize the strengths and weaknesses of you home and to bring out its best to improve its value.
Stages of Capital: Law, Culture, and Market Governance in Late Colonial India
by Ritu BirlaIn Stages of Capital, Ritu Birla brings research on nonwestern capitalisms into conversation with postcolonial studies to illuminate the historical roots of India's market society. Between 1870 and 1930, the British regime in India implemented a barrage of commercial and contract laws directed at the "free" circulation of capital, including measures regulating companies, income tax, charitable gifting, and pension funds, and procedures distinguishing gambling from speculation and futures trading. Birla argues that this understudied legal infrastructure institutionalized a new object of sovereign management, the market, and along with it, a colonial concept of the public. In jurisprudence, case law, and statutes, colonial market governance enforced an abstract vision of modern society as a public of exchanging, contracting actors free from the anachronistic constraints of indigenous culture. Birla reveals how the categories of public and private infiltrated colonial commercial law, establishing distinct worlds for economic and cultural practice. This bifurcation was especially apparent in legal dilemmas concerning indigenous or "vernacular" capitalists, crucial engines of credit and production that operated through networks of extended kinship. Focusing on the story of the Marwaris, a powerful business group renowned as a key sector of India's capitalist class, Birla demonstrates how colonial law governed vernacular capitalists as rarefied cultural actors, so rendering them illegitimate as economic agents. Birla's innovative attention to the negotiations between vernacular and colonial systems of valuation illustrates how kinship-based commercial groups asserted their legitimacy by challenging and inhabiting the public/private mapping. Highlighting the cultural politics of market governance, Stages of Capital is an unprecedented history of colonial commercial law, its legal fictions, and the formation of the modern economic subject in India.
Stages of Corporate Social Responsibility
by Samuel O. Idowu Stephen VertigansThis book presents a multidisciplinary and multifaceted view of the state of corporate social responsibility (CSR) development in organizations in different industries around the world. It is based on the assumption that companies today must shift their focus to their long-term prosperity and the complex and interrelated environmental, social, economic and political ecosystems within which they function. The book tracks ideas through to impacts, offering unique perspectives on stimulating topics such as awareness among female entrepreneurs in Nigeria, views of upper-management in Polish firms, Japanese CSR strategies and the social relevance of corporate initiatives, pragmatic approaches of CSR design principles in Scandinavia and many more. The book collects not only examples from different countries and global regions, but also cases from a diverse range of globally relevant industries. It discusses the different stages of CSR development at a professional, conceptual and strategic level, and integrates them into a comprehensive framework to define the adequate course of action for each stage.
The Stages of Economic Growth
by W. W. RostowA third edition of The Stages of Economic Growth brings this classic work up to date with current economic and political changes. In a new preface and appendix, Professor Rostow extends his analysis to include recent economic and political developments as well as the advances in theory concerning nonlinear and chaotic phenomena. For those coming to his work for the first time, the original text and the introductions and appendices from earlier editions are included. This volume will not only be of interest to those concerned with the theory of economic growth, but also to students of policy since the 1960s. In the text Professor Rostow gives an account of economic growth based on a dynamic theory of production and interpreted in terms of actual societies. Five basic stages of economic growth are distinguished with detailed discussions of each stage including illustrative examples. He also applies the concept of stages of growth to an examination of the problems of military aggression and the nuclear arms race. The final chapter includes a comparison of his non-communist manifesto with Marxist theory. Materials from the second edition include an appendix in which he responds to some of his critics.
Stagflation: the 1970s and the Crisis of the Postwar System
by Jeremy Friedman Jonathan SchleferCase
Staging 21st Century Tragedies: Theatre, Politics, and Global Crisis
by Avra SidiropoulouStaging 21st Century Tragedies: Theatre, Politics, and Global Crisis is an international collection of essays by leading academics, artists, writers, and curators examining ways in which the global tragedies of our century are being negotiated in current theatre practice. In exploring the tragic in the fields of history and theory of theatre, the book approaches crisis through an understanding of the existential and political aspect of the tragic condition. Using an interdisciplinary perspective, it showcases theatre texts and productions that enter the public sphere, manifesting notably participatory, immersive, and documentary modes of expression to form a theatre of modern tragedy. The coexistence of scholarly essays with manifesto-like provocations, interviews, original plays, and diaries by theatre artists provides a rich and multifocal lens that allows readers to approach twenty-first-century theatre through historical and critical study, text and performance analysis, and creative processes. Of special value is the global scope of the collection, embracing forms of crisis theatre in many geographically diverse regions of both the East and the West. Staging 21st Century Tragedies: Theatre, Politics, and Global Crisis will be of use and interest to academics and students of political theatre, applied theatre, theatre history, and theatre theory.
Staging a Comeback: Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance
by Peter C. KunzeIn the early 1980s, Walt Disney Productions was struggling, largely bolstered by the success of its theme parks. Within fifteen years, however, it had become one of the most powerful entertainment conglomerates in the world. Staging a Comeback: Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance argues that far from an executive feat, this impressive turnaround was accomplished in no small part by the storytellers recruited during this period. Drawing from archival research, interviews, and textual analysis, Peter C. Kunze examines how the hiring of theatrically trained talent into managerial and production positions reorganized the lagging animation division and revitalized its output. By Aladdin, it was clear that animation—not live action—was the center of a veritable “renaissance” at Disney, and the animated musicals driving this revival laid the groundwork for the company’s growth into Broadway theatrical production. The Disney Renaissance not only reinvigorated the Walt Disney Company but both reflects and influenced changes in Broadway and Hollywood more broadly.