Avoiding an Intimate Crime

2019 ◽  
pp. 121-144
Author(s):  
Rolando Ochoa
Keyword(s):  
Vertical Integration ◽  
Signaling Game ◽  
Hiring Process ◽  
The Cost

This chapter analyses the mechanisms employed by wealthy people to navigate the risk of kidnapping when hiring employees for their family homes. It shows how employers screen for different properties such as discretion and how they use vertical integration as a way to lower the cost and risk of hiring. The focus is specifically on the hiring process of drivers for the household. This is based on the fact that many kidnappings are orchestrated by someone close to the victim. The hiring process is seen as a problem of trust, and—following Spence—is solved through a signaling game, where employers look for hard-to-fake signals.

scholarly journals Cost of nursing turnover in a Teaching Hospital

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Buck de Oliveira Ruiz ◽  
Marcia Galan Perroca ◽  
Marli de Carvalho Jericó
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Hospital ◽  
Nursing Staff ◽  
Southeastern Brazil ◽  
Cost Calculation ◽  
Average Salary ◽  
Nursing Turnover ◽  
Hiring Process ◽  
Calculation Methodology ◽  
The Cost

Abstract OBJECTIVE To map the sub processes related to turnover of nursing staff and to investigate and measure the nursing turnover cost. METHOD This is a descriptive-exploratory study, classified as case study, conducted in a teaching hospital in the southeastern, Brazil, in the period from May to November 2013. The population was composed by the nursing staff, using Nursing Turnover Cost Calculation Methodology. RESULTS The total cost of turnover was R$314.605,62, and ranged from R$2.221,42 to R$3.073,23 per employee. The costs of pre-hire totaled R$101.004,60 (32,1%), and the hiring process consumed R$92.743,60 (91.8%) The costs of post-hire totaled R$213.601,02 (67,9%), for the sub process decreased productivity, R$199.982,40 (93.6%). CONCLUSION The study identified the importance of managing the cost of staff turnover and the financial impact of the cost of the employee termination, which represented three times the average salary of the nursing staff.

scholarly journals Vertical Integration and Outsourcing Decision Impact On Firm Performance: A Review Based Research on the Influence of Organizational Governance On firm Performance.

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 353-360
Author(s):  
Sikandar Shah ◽  
Dr. Wisal Ahmad ◽  
Dr. Muhammad Faizan Malik ◽  
Shah Raza Khan
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Vertical Integration ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
Organizational Governance ◽  
A Value ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Outsourcing Decision ◽  
The Relationship

This studyexamines that how companies take decision of outsourcing and vertical integration a value-chain activity currently the most complex problem faced by most the organization around the globe and also find the relationship and highlight the role of every activity related to outsourcing and vertical integration. In result of survey and interviews of different small, medium and corporate level companies in KPK, procurement managers and operations managers mostly in view of that outsourcing is thebest way to work in the market, because of the cost reduction, minimumturnaround time and especially in the uncertain market of KPK.

The Geographies of Online Job Search: Preliminary Findings from Worcester, MA

2003 ◽  
Vol 35 (7) ◽  
pp. 1223-1243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Niles ◽  
Susan Hanson
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Job Information ◽  
Hiring Process ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
The Cost

For those who have online access, the Internet significantly reduces the cost and time of transferring information over distance. This paper explores the potential of the Internet to improve people's employment opportunities by increasing their access to job information beyond that provided via their grounded social networks. Information circulating through grounded social networks is biased socially and geographically toward the life experiences of network members. The tendency for those members to have similar life experiences dampens the variability in the information exchanged in such networks. What is the potential for the Internet to expand people's access to information about jobs and employers' information about workers? We report on a pilot study undertaken in Worcester, Massachusetts, that examined employers' use of Internet recruiting for employees. The results of this qualitative study indicate that these employers use the Internet strategically to enhance the volume of applications when the labor market is tight and to segment the applicant pool when the market loosens and the number of resumes is overwhelming. As a result, we conclude that many grounded social relations that have been integral to the hiring process are resilient to the Internet; pre-Internet geographies shape Internet geographies, and grounded social relations continue to define access to information about job opportunities even online.

scholarly journals Supply Chain Control: A Theory of Vertical Integration

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 1831-1866 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Ursino
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Production Process ◽  
Financial Development ◽  
Vertical Integration ◽  
Bargaining Power ◽  
Vertical Structure ◽  
Specific Investments ◽  
Bargaining Position ◽  
Technological Obsolescence ◽  
The Cost

Abstract Improving a company’s bargaining position is often cited as a chief motivation to vertically integrate with suppliers. This paper expands on that view in building a new theory of vertical integration. In my model firms integrate to gain bargaining power against other suppliers in the production process. The cost of integration is a loss of flexibility in choosing the most suitable suppliers for a particular final product. I show that the firms who make the most specific investments in the production process have the greatest incentive to integrate. The theory provides novel insights into the understanding of numerous stylized facts such as the effect of financial development on the vertical structure of firms, the observed pattern from FDI to outsourcing in international trade, and the effect of technological obsolescence on organizations.

scholarly journals Risk Averse Supervisors and the Efficiency of Collusion

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoine Faure-Grimaud ◽  
Jean-Jacques Laffont ◽  
David Martimort
Keyword(s):  
Vertical Integration ◽  
Risk Premia ◽  
Risk Attitudes ◽  
Risk Averse ◽  
Extreme Risk ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Do So ◽  
Side Contracting

This paper studies the efficiency of collusion between supervisors and supervisees. Building on Tirole (1986)'s results that deterring collusion with infinitely risk averse supervisors is impossible, while it is costless to do so under risk neutrality, we develop here a theory of collusion based on a trade-off between the risk premia required by (less extreme) risk attitudes and incentives. This allows us to link the efficiency of collusion to the supervisor's risk aversion and to various parameters characterizing the economic environment in which collusion may take place. We are then able to derive implications for the design of organizations, like determining how the number of tasks/agents per supervisor or the level of competition may impact on the cost of collusion, studying the impact of vertical integration on those same costs, or characterizing the role of uncertainty on side-contracting.

The IBM-PC in electron microscopy

1996 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 612-613
Author(s):  
James F. Mancuso
Keyword(s):  
Head Start ◽  
Image Acquisition ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Financial Applications ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Instrument Control ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Training And Support ◽  
Control Image ◽  
Ibm Pc

IBM PC compatible computers are widely used in microscopy for applications ranging from control to image acquisition and analysis. The choice of IBM-PC based systems over competing computer platforms can be based on technical merit alone or on a number of factors relating to economics, availability of peripherals, management dictum, or simple personal preference.IBM-PC got a strong “head start” by first dominating clerical, document processing and financial applications. The use of these computers spilled into the laboratory where the DOS based IBM-PC replaced mini-computers. Compared to minicomputer, the PC provided a more for cost-effective platform for applications in numerical analysis, engineering and design, instrument control, image acquisition and image processing. In addition, the sitewide use of a common PC platform could reduce the cost of training and support services relative to cases where many different computer platforms were used. This could be especially true for the microscopists who must use computers in both the laboratory and the office.

New Feasible Concepts of Aberration Correction for Realizing High-Resolution Electron Microscopes

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 202-203
Author(s):  
H. Rose
Keyword(s):  
Spherical Aberration ◽  
Wave Length ◽  
Electron Wave ◽  
Optical Lens ◽  
Resolution Electron ◽  
Rotationally Symmetric ◽  
Electron Microscopes ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Imaging Performance ◽  
Acceleration Voltage

The imaging performance of the light optical lens systems has reached such a degree of perfection that nowadays numerical apertures of about 1 can be utilized. Compared to this state of development the objective lenses of electron microscopes are rather poor allowing at most usable apertures somewhat smaller than 10-2 . This severe shortcoming is due to the unavoidable axial chromatic and spherical aberration of rotationally symmetric electron lenses employed so far in all electron microscopes.The resolution of such electron microscopes can only be improved by increasing the accelerating voltage which shortens the electron wave length. Unfortunately, this procedure is rather ineffective because the achievable gain in resolution is only proportional to λ1/4 for a fixed magnetic field strength determined by the magnetic saturation of the pole pieces. Moreover, increasing the acceleration voltage results in deleterious knock-on processes and in extreme difficulties to stabilize the high voltage. Last not least the cost increase exponentially with voltage.

An application: the cost of clinic care by undergraduate dental students and its relationship to clinic fees

1994 ◽  
Vol 58 (11) ◽  
pp. 832-835 ◽  
Author(s):  
ES Solomon ◽  
TK Hasegawa ◽  
JD Shulman ◽  
PO Walker
Keyword(s):  
Dental Students ◽  
The Cost

The effect of heliotherapy on the cost of psoriasis, p. 288

1998 ◽  
Vol 138 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-205
Author(s):  
Snellman ◽  
Maljanen ◽  
Aromaa ◽  
Reunanen ◽  
Jyrkinen‐Pakkasvirta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Cost
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