scholarly journals Telecommunications Mega-Mergers: Impact On Employee Morale And Turnover Intention

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keisha Chambers ◽  
Andrew Honeycutt
Keyword(s):  
Mergers And Acquisitions ◽  
Turnover Intention ◽  
The United States ◽  
Employee Morale ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Know How ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Normal Text ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Very High

<p class="APAparagraph" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in; margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">The number of mergers and acquisitions grew at record rates in the United States over the past 10 years, and mega telecommunications mergers have been no exception. Three very high-profile telecommunications mergers included MCI and Verizon, Sprint and Nextel, and BellSouth and AT&amp;T. These megamergers have changed the competitive landscape dramatically in the telecom arena. Despite the popularity of mergers and acquisitions (M&amp;As), evidence has shown that the majority have failed to improve performance and failed to achieve anticipated strategic and financial objectives set forth in the premerger planning phase, according to J. Krug and R. Aguilera&rsquo;s 2004 article &ldquo;Top Management Team Turnover in Mergers and Acquisitions&rdquo; in Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions. The primary reason behind such common performance failures according to S. Cartwright and C. L. Cooper&rsquo;s 2000 </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB">HR Know-How in Mergers and Acquisitions</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">was based on various human resources factors such as culture, management, poor motivation, and loss of talent. Based on the aforementioned post corporate merger performance failure considerations, this research study examined the impact on employee morale and turnover intention related to a recent megamerger between two telecommunications conglomerates. </span></span></p>

Antiracist Curriculum and Digital Platforms: Evidence from Black Lives Matter

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saharsh Agarwal ◽  
Ananya Sen
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
The United States ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Public School Teachers ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Null Effect ◽  
The Impact

In this paper, we examine the impact of racially charged events on the demand for antiracist classroom resources in U.S. public schools. We use book requests made by teachers on DonorsChoose, the largest crowdfunding platform for public school teachers, as a measure of intent to address race-related topics in the classroom. We use the precise timing of high-profile police brutality and other racially charged events in the United States (2010–2020) to identify their effect on antiracism requests relative to a control group. We find a significant increase in antiracism requests following the killing of George Floyd in 2020 and a null effect for all other events in the decade. We also find an increase in requests for books featuring Latinx, Asian, Muslim, and Jewish cultures, suggesting that a focus on equality for one group can spill over and yield culturally aware dialogues for other groups as well. Event studies suggest that local protests played a role in motivating some of the teachers to post these requests. In just four months following George Floyd’s death, $3.4 million worth of books featuring authors and characters from marginalized communities were successfully funded, reaching more than half a million students. Text analysis of impact notes posted by teachers suggests that hundreds of thousands of young students are being engaged in discussions about positive affirmation and cross-cultural acceptance. This paper was accepted by D.J. Wu, information systems.

An Overlooked Cost of Contracting Out: Evidence From Employee Turnover Intention in U.S. Federal Agencies

2020 ◽  
pp. 009102602094455
Author(s):  
Gyeo Reh Lee ◽  
Sergio Fernandez ◽  
Shinwoo Lee
Keyword(s):  
Turnover Intention ◽  
Employee Turnover ◽  
The United States ◽  
Federal Agencies ◽  
Public Employees ◽  
Contracting Out ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Data Analyses ◽  
Employee Turnover Intention ◽  
The Impact

Contracting out has long been used in all levels of government in the United States, with federal contract spending increasing 8% to 9% annually since 2015. The literature on contracting out has examined the impact of this practice on the work-related attitudes and motivation of public employees who have transitioned to work for private contractors. However, we understand very little about the effects of contracting out on the overwhelming number of public employees who are not displaced. Given the importance of work-related attitudes and turnover for organizations, this study explores the potential consequences of contracting out for employee turnover intention over a period of several years. The results of panel data analyses suggest that an increase in contracting activity in federal agencies increases the employee turnover intention rate. Contracting out also impacts employee turnover intention indirectly through its influence on job satisfaction.

Assessing The Impact Of The Global Financial Crisis On GCC Countries

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hisham H. Abdelbaki
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Gcc Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis ◽  
The Impact

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 27pt 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-EG;">No doubt, the </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-size: 10pt;">international financial crisis that started in the United States of America will cast its effects on all countries of the world, developed and developing. Yet these effects vary from one country to another for several reasons. The GCC countries would not escape these negative effects of this severe crisis. The negative effects of the crisis on gulf countries come from many aspects: first, decrease in price of oil on whose revenues the development programs in these countries depend; second, decrease in the value of US$ and the subsequent decrease in the assets owned by these countries in US$; third, a case of economic stagnation will prevail in the world with effects starting to appear. </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-EG;">It is obvious that this would be reflected on the real sector in the economies causing a series of negative effects through decrease of the world demand for exports of GCC countries of oil, petrochemicals and aluminum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Lastly, increased inflation rates with decreased interest rates will result in a decrease in real interest with an accompanying decrease in incentives for saving and consequently investment and economic development. The main aim of the research is to assess the economic effects of the global financial crisis on GCC countries. The paper results are that the big reserves of foreign currencies achieved by the GCC countries in the past few years have helped increase their ability to bear the effects of the financial effects on one hand and their ability to adopt expansionary policies through pumping liquidity to absorb the regressive effects of the crisis on the other. The paper recommends the necessity of taking precautionary procedures for the effects which will result from the expansionary policies effective in GCC countries. <strong></strong></span></span></p>

scholarly journals Merger and Acquisition Strategies

1996 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 630
Author(s):  
Richard A. Shaw
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Mergers And Acquisitions ◽  
The United States ◽  
Merger And Acquisition ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Technical Requirements ◽  
Acquisition Strategies ◽  
Corporate Securities ◽  
Corporate Legislation ◽  
The Impact

This article examines merger and acquisition strategies under corporate securities legislation of the Provinces of Alberta and Ontario and the corporate legislation of Canada. The author begins by defining terms that are integral to mergers and acquisitions and then moves on to discuss some preliminary considerations. Four takeover alternatives are presented: (1) purchase of treasury shares by private agreement; (2) exempt takeover by private agreement; (3) formal takeover bid; and (4) negotiated acquisition by amalgamation or arrangement. For each of these alternatives the author first looks at procedural and technical requirements, and then discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the particular procedure. The author then reviews the impact of the Ontario Securities Commission Policy No. 9.1 on merger and acquisition strategies. Finally, the author briefly looks at the multijurisdictional disclosure system adopted in Canada and the United States.

scholarly journals The Long-Run Performance of U.S. Bidding Firms in the Post M&A Period: The Impact of Bid Type, Payment Method and Industry Specialisation

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 230 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Giannopoulos ◽  
Andrew Holt ◽  
Ehsan Khansalar ◽  
Patrick Mogoya
Keyword(s):  
Mergers And Acquisitions ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Abnormal Returns ◽  
The United States ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Payment Method ◽  
Public Firms ◽  
Services Sector ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Impact

This study investigates how mergers and acquisitions (M&A) affect the wealth of shareholders of public firms in the United States (U.S). More specifically, it investigates whether the nature of the bid, the payment method used, and the type of M&A have implications for shareholders of U.S bidding firms. The study analyses 352 mergers and acquisitions in the U.S during the period 1999-2008, and its results indicate that bidding firms suffer significant negative buy-and-hold abnormal returns in the three years period after a M&A announcement. The results also suggest that, in the long-run, hostile bids and cash-financed bidders outperform friendly bids and stock-funded bidders, respectively. Furthermore, the study also finds that in the long-run bidder firms that focus on industry specialisation within their M&A targets significantly outperform firms that adopt a more diversified strategy. The analysis also investigates the effects of M&A specialisation/diversification in six different sectors, and finds that specialised bidders outperform diversified bidders in four sectors: consumer & basic materials, energy & utilities, communications and technology. Furthermore, bidder firms in the financial services sector perform significantly better when diversifying into other sectors, while the performance of bidder firms in the industrial sector appears unaffected by the degree of M&A specialisation or diversification.

Emotional labor, teacher burnout, and turnover intention in high-school physical education teaching

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 236-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ye Hoon Lee
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Emotional Labor ◽  
Turnover Intention ◽  
Teacher Burnout ◽  
The United States ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Physical Education Teachers ◽  
High School Physical Education ◽  
The Impact

Grounded upon the conservation of resources theory, this study sought to examine the relationships between the three emotional labor strategies, teacher burnout, and turnover intention among physical education teachers. A total of 613 high-school physical education teachers from 47 states across the United States completed online questionnaires that measured the proposed variables. The goodness-of-fit statistics indicated that the structural model showed a reasonable fit, χ2(605) = 1391.26 = 2.30, p < 0.01; RMSEA = .05; TLI = .93; CFI = .93. The results also revealed that teacher burnout was positively associated with surface acting and negatively associated with genuine expression. Further, teacher burnout was positively associated with turnover intention. Mediation analysis showed that teacher burnout fully mediated the trajectory from emotional labor strategies to turnover intention. The results highlight the impact of emotional labor on physical education teachers’ well-being and intention to leave the teaching profession.

scholarly journals Sustainability Reporting In The Accounting Curriculum

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
John W. Vann ◽  
Gwendolen B. White
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Sustainability Reporting ◽  
Managerial Accounting ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Accounting Curriculum ◽  
Normal Text ◽  
Accounting Courses ◽  
Sustainability Accounting ◽  
The Impact

<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent3" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in; margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Seven class sections of undergraduate students in principles of managerial accounting courses participated in a study to examine the impact of sustainability accounting lectures with Internet assignments or lectures alone influence students' knowledge, skills, and attitudes toward sustainability reporting. The results of this study show that lectures with Internet assignments and lectures alone were equally effective in causing changes in the dependent measures compared to control groups who received no instruction on sustainability.</span></p>

The Impact of Altitude at Birth on Perinatal Respiratory Support for Neonates with Trisomy 21

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica L. Bloom ◽  
Anna Furniss ◽  
Krithika Suresh ◽  
Robert C. Fuhlbrigge ◽  
Molly M. Lamb ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Trisomy 21 ◽  
The United States ◽  
High Elevation ◽  
Assisted Ventilation ◽  
Respiratory Support ◽  
Chi Squared ◽  
Hospital Births ◽  
High Elevations ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Very High

Objective Both high altitude and trisomy 21 (T21) status can negatively impact respiratory outcomes. The objective of this study was to examine the association between altitude and perinatal respiratory support in neonates with T21 compared with those without T21. Study Design This retrospective cohort study used the United States all-county natality files that included live, singleton, in-hospital births from 2015 to 2019. Descriptive statistics for neonates with and without the primary outcome of sustained assisted ventilation (>6 hours) were compared using t-tests and Chi-squared analyses. Multivariable logistic regression was used to determine the association between respiratory support and the presence of T21, and included an interaction term to determine whether the association between respiratory support and the presence of T21 was modified by elevation at delivery. Results A total of 17,939,006 neonates, 4,059 (0.02%) with T21 and 17,934,947 (99.98%) without, were included in the study. The odds of requiring sustained respiratory support following delivery were 5.95 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 5.31, 6.66), 4.06 (95% CI: 2.39, 6.89), 2.36 (95% CI: 1.64, 3.40), and 5.04 (95% CI: 1.54, 16.54) times as high for neonates with T21 than without T21 when born at low, medium, high, and very high elevations, respectively. The odds of requiring immediate ventilation support following delivery were 5.01 (95% CI: 4.59, 5.46), 5.90 (95% CI: 4.16, 8.36), 2.86 (95% CI: 2.15, 3.80), and 12.08 (95% CI: 6.78, 21.51) times as high for neonates with T21 than without T21 when born at low, medium, high, and very high elevation, respectively. Conclusion Neonates with T21 have increased odds of requiring respiratory support following delivery when compared with neonates without T21 at all categories of altitude. However, the odds ratios did not increase monotonically with altitude which indicates additional research is critical in understanding the effects of altitude on neonates with T21. Key Points

For You Were Strangers in the Land of Egypt: Clergy, Religiosity, and Public Opinion toward Immigration Reform in the United States

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 566-604 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Wallsten ◽  
Tatishe M. Nteta
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
The United States ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Immigration Reform ◽  
Lutheran Church ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Immigration Reforms ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Evangelical Lutheran Church ◽  
The Impact

AbstractRecently, a number of influential clergy leaders have declared their support for liberal immigration reforms. Do the pronouncements of religious leaders influence public opinion on immigration? Using data from a survey experiment embedded in the 2012 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, we find that exposure to the arguments from high profile religious leaders can compel some individuals to reconsider their views on the immigration. To be more precise, we find that Methodists, Southern Baptists, and Evangelical Lutheran Church in America leaders successfully persuaded respondents who identify with these religious denominations to think differently about a path to citizenship and about the plight of undocumented immigrants. Interestingly, we also uncovered that religiosity matters in different ways for how parishioners from different religious faiths react to messages from their leaders. These findings force us to reconsider the impact that an increasingly strident clergy may be having on public opinion in general and on support for immigration reform in particular.

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