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The research identifies the priority of the improvement in Boards of Directors in the Russian power companies to enhance their corporate governance in the interests of investors. This is caused by numerous inconsistencies between the responsibility in the framework of the Boards of Directors in the current corporate practice and the principles and recommendations of the Code of Corporate Governance...
Online professional social networks such as LinkedIn have enhanced the ability of job seekers to discover and assess career opportunities, and the ability of job providers to discover and assess potential candidates. For most job seekers, salary (or broadly compensation) is a crucial consideration in choosing a new job. At the same time, job seekers face challenges in learning the compensation associated...
Offshoring software development activities to a remote site in another country continues to be one of the key strategies to save development cost. However, the assumed economic benefits of offshoring are often questionable, due to a large number of hidden costs and too simple cost calculations. This study is a continuation of our work on calculating the true hourly cost that includes the extra direct...
The concept of a team collective intelligence is based on the series of focused expert interviews with enterprise managers and entrepreneurs. The theoretical analysis helped to formulate the main positions of the concept of collective intelligence, compared with collected intelligence as a simplified sum of the knowledge, visions, perception and understandings of the team members. The team's collective...
One of the fundamental applications for a practically useful system of money is remuneration. Information pertaining to the amount of compensation awarded to different individuals is often considered sensitive, commanding a certain degree of privacy. As Bitcoin and similarly designed cryptocurrencies evolve into a recognized medium of exchange for larger swaths of the world economy, an increasing...
Host Marcus Blankenship talks about the importance of salary negotiation for software engineers with Josh Doody, author of Fearless Salary Negotiation.
The study will briefly sketch the most recent trends in hiring skilled professionals in the area of Information Technology (IT) in Slovakia. The primary focus will be made on current tendencies in recruitment: how the job requirements of companies are changing and how their hiring strategies respond to challenges on the labor market. Due to increase in the number of new vacancies and ongoing drop...
Since the separation of ownership and management in companies, senior managers as the company's core decision-making, their pay is directly linked to company performance. In this paper takes the construction industry as its object of study, selecting total assets net profit margin, return on equity, earnings per share, total assets, asset-liability ratio indicators which can measure the company performance...
The paper aims to find out the factors leading to mismatch between the demand of and current supply of the logistics talents in northeast China and propose suggestions to the problem. We use investigation, questionnaire and modified Quality Function Deployment (QFD) methods. Firstly, an index system of enterprises demands for logistics talents and graduates supply by using Business, Logistics and...
At present, to improve their businesses and obtain more profits by enhancing enterprise competitiveness, more and more listed companies have been committed to the selection of executives and the study of motivation. Among the many forms of incentives, stock-based compensation play a vitally important role. Many scholars abroad did survey on the relationship between equity incentive and corporate performance,...
A Schema-less NoSQL system refers to solutions where users do not declare a database schema and, in fact, its management is moved to the application code. This paper presents a study that allows us to evaluate, to some extent, the data structuring impact. The decision of how to structure data in semi-structured databases has an enormous impact on data size, query performance and readability of the...
The aim of this study is to describe recent development of the labor market in IT area. Trends in labor supply and as well as labor demand are discussed. The primary focus is on current situation in recruitment: what are the job requirements of companies and how they are changing over time. We also concentrate on characteristics of job candidates in IT, their demographic profile and shifts in their...
In the past decade there has been lot of discussion on how synergy could be brought between the industry expectations and the competencies possessed by the students. One of the approaches being followed by majority of the institutions is to get project ideas and inputs from the industries and industry partners for various projects as a part of the curriculum intervention. These interventions could...
Cooperative education programs alternate education and practice, resulting in increased grade point averages, greater confidence in choice of career, and relatively higher post-graduation salaries. This study examines perceived benefits and barriers for students who choose not to participate in co-ops. Since students who participate in co-ops are more likely to persist in STEM fields, and there are...
Deciding facility location is a hard and sophisticated problem for decision makers as there are many criteria some of which are conflicting and subjective. Determining the location of an automatic teller machine (ATM) for deployment is also a challenging decision for banks which has not been addressed adequately in the literature up to now. Where to locate the automatic teller machines is a strategic...
The corporate governance paradigm has shifted dramatically when it comes to a company's executive remuneration. Management tended to take the lead in recommending pay increases, negotiating new employee contracts, and designing new incentive programs. Human resources would collect and analyze benchmark data from published surveys or the proxy statements of peers to assess the competitiveness of the...
According to an academic research, when an enterprise runs longer, their strategies are more prone to gain support by other businesses. Leaning on the durability and the longevity, such enterprises can accumulated their credits and stabilize the business. Consequently, the span variable of the total business-running time or the variable of growth rate and the price variable of stock exhibit a negative-proportion...
There has been a hot debate both in the academia and in the manufacturing sector as to whether the success recorded in the privatisation of the Nigerian telecommunication sector can be replicated in the power sector. This paper therefore sets out to determine the consumer perception of the electric power infrastructure in Nigeria. Two sets of questionnaire totalling 500 were administered, the method...
This paper aims to contribute to the existing body of knowledge regarding the organizational context variables to be considered in designing a rewards system geared towards fostering innovation in products at organizations. Based on the existing literature, a preliminary reference chart is created using context variables and their implications for the design at issue, specifically: organizational...
Large shareholders' tunneling can affect executive incentive contracts. We divide the executive incentive into explicit compensation and implicit incentive. Data from publicly listed companies in China during 2008–2013 shows that tunneling leads to decline in executive pay-performance sensitivity. In addition, tunneling also leads to significant increases in position-related consumption. The results...
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