...Does ICT use improve contextual performance? Recent evidence from the European Union Adel BEN YOUSSEF (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis & GREDEG-CNRS) adel.ben-youssef@unice.fr Ludivine MARTIN (CEPS/INSTEAD & CREM-UMR CNRS) ludivine.martin@ceps.lu Nessrine OMRANI (University of Paris Sud & ADIS) nessrine.omrani@u-psud.fr Abstract The impact of workers’ ICT usages on their excepted performance is a puzzling topic. An optimistic literature has shown the increased role of these technologies inside the organizations. Technology is allowing workers to do bettering and faster work. Economic theory has focused since that its topic on the increase of the productivity and worker’s performance. Several articles have tried to established such a link and have found a significant increase over recent years in the productivity ([Aral et al.2007], [Licht and Moch1999], [Lichtenberg1995], [Greenan and Mairesse2000], [Hans-‐ Olof Hagén et al.2008]). One challenging ...
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...Why a College Education is Important to Me I am a forty year old mother of two, who has always felt that there was something missing in my life. I tried many different things like learn how to knit or exercise, but still there was something missing. Until one day I felt unhappy about my job I felt that I can do but of course I wanted to get paid. About five years ago I decided that I wanted to further my education so that I can make more money and be able to live comfortably instead of check by check. But for some reason every time I tried to enroll something came up. This past weekend I decided I’d go for it without giving it a second thought and here I am. I spoke to my family about it after I enrolled and was amazed at the response I received my husband said “Go for it babe” my children said (at the same time) “Go mom”. I felt good about my decision. With a college education I know I will reach my goal. I currently work at a Children’s Rehabilitation Center I am the Senior Front Desk Manager there but I am more than positive that I can make this place run much better than how it is now. I realized that every time I mention an idea to my boss she makes the changes and she’s glorified for it. I learned to keep my ideas to myself get my education and take her job. My goal is to be able to make positive changes in my life in its totality with a college education I can make more money and be able to live comfortably. I would like to one day own a home and a vehicle, I would...
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...creating a positive, productive and fun learning environment for children. In this large group of over fifty people, I demonstrate cooperative orientation and I display openness and supportiveness. We all have one aim in the group and that is to accomplish success in everything we do. We are all assign different tasks through the school year and making time to do so can be very challenging. Most of the parents work full time jobs and meetings are usually after work. For this we try to help each other by working around everyone’s schedule and planning ulterior methods or substitution. We all do our fair share in the group. We are all solely responsible for different areas within the committee. We are all mature, family orientated, motivated parents who come together to set leadership examples to our children. Therefore social loafing is minimal to none. We do socialize with each other also there are some friendships that came out of the group but we do have boundaries and respect other. Like everything else there is time and place for everything. We all take full responsibility in monitoring each others behavior, this helps in preventing unwanted...
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...Case 26 -- It's My Job!! Betty is an outpatient clerk in a 150-bed urban hospital. Her duties consist of admitting patients for scheduled outpatient procedures, obtaining the necessary verification of benefits from insurance companies, and working with utilization review personnel to ensure that all the precertification information is received when needed. Various staff members have complained to Jean, Betty's supervisor, about Betty's abrasive attitude and the foul language she occasionally uses. Jean was hired six months ago to replace Kate, who moved to another hospital. Betty has a reputation of being hard to get along with and coworkers avoid contact with her as much as possible. In June, Betty announced she was three-months pregnant and was expecting her baby in early December. Jean told Betty to review the requirements in the personnel handbook regarding pregnancy leave. A leave-of-absence (LOA) form was to be completed by Betty stating when her baby was expected and the amount of time she was requesting off. The personnel manual also stated that every effort would be made to return an employee on LOA to his or her previous job, but no guarantee could be made that the same job would be available. In September, Betty began having trouble with her pregnancy. In early October, she was put on bed rest and instructed not to return to work. Betty called Jean to inform her of the doctor's order, and Jean told her to keep in touch. Because Betty was not due...
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...client that keeps her on a retainer basis. Your Role/Assignment: Your role is to decide if Karen is an independent contractor or an employee and discuss some of the preventative and ethical situations that are occurring in this case. Questions: 1. Do you feel that Karen is an independent contractor or an employee? What is your rationale for this decision? I think that Karen should be considered an employee of the company. She has been working for the Utility Company for five years and she has been received salary. She was started as a contractor to develop training material for upcoming session on diversity. However, she worked for more projects that were given by her manager because she liked her job. So, she was working full time, 40 hours per week. I believe that the characteristic of her job and duty belongs to the regular employees. 2. What factors do you feel help contribute to Karen being an employee? Based on 20-factors analysis and determination of form SS-8, she...
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...NIGHTCLUB Accounting 100 Assignment Semester 1, 2013 Background Luca Pacioli has formed a partnership with you and your group members to own and operate a Nightclub. The nightclub will be situated in Beaufort St, Mt Lawley, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Mt Lawley is increasingly attracting hip young people to its wine bars, local pub, café’s and restaurants and is establishing itself as the new ‘place to go’ for young and trendy professionals. The nearby suburb of Northbridge (1.5 kilometres away and adjacent to the City of Perth) is home to most of Perth’s existing nightclubs. The increasing numbers of visitors to Beaufort St businesses has been creating a parking problem, and some residents have made noise complaints, but to date the local government has said they are pleased with the vibrancy that the influx of new restaurants, cafes, bars and other businesses are bringing to the area. The partnership wants to open the nightclub’s doors with a lavish opening night “end of financial year” party on 30 June 2013. Luca is contributing all the capital required to get the nightclub running. This includes the cash to set up the business premises (initial capital costs), and operating funds which are expected to cover the shortfall in profits for the first year until the nightclub is expected to make good profits of its own – having established itself by reputation as the “place to go”. The target market for the nightclub is young professionals...
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...A career that goes unnoticed by many people is building classic cars is what I do. This is where the work that you do means everything and it can leave you with nothing. The business is not hard to get into, but surviving can have its difficulties. The people that make up the classic car world are all people that can work with their hands. Working with my hands is what I am best at and I love to show the talent I have through building classic cars. These “classic cars” consist mainly of cars that are below the 1980’s. The cars that I choose to work on are between 1930 and 1980. That is a large time frame when you think of how long cars have actually been around. Through those fifty years there are different makes and models of cars, and thousands of very rare cars. Building a classic car can be done a bit differently, there are cars that are driven quite a bit and there are cars that are hardly ever driven. The cars that are hardly ever driven are considered to be the show cars. These cars are my main focus on building, because these cars cost a lot more to build. With show cars there are large amounts of time spent on every little details of the car. And with a car that is driven a lot it is not perfected at all of the details because it is made to be used and not shown. Although cars are made to be driven the show cars have so much money and time put into them that they are not driven and their owners do not take any chances of something bad happening to the...
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...How Personal Responsibility will give Takesha Lee College Success Takesha Lee GEN/200 Sunday, July 15, 2012 Saira Din Definition of Personal Responsibility Personal responsibility is about every decision that a person has ever made in their life. It is about growth. It is the very choices that mold persons and takes them from childhood to adulthood. If managed properly it makes us mature, able to navigate through life’s challenges. As an adult, you are in control of your actions, your failures and your successes. Linda Galindo said it best “When you are truly responsible, you believe success or failure is up to you, even if you work within a tea or are blindsided by unforeseen circumstances”. (L. Galindo) In order to be mature you must take seriously your personal responsibility, not accepting personal responsibility will make a person inadequate for decision making. Leaving them possessing the thinking of a child. Although personal responsibility is every person’s charge, it is not a given skill. It must be developed. Most times this development is early in a person’s life and is done at home with the person’s parents and teachers. Here in the beginning you should learn that as a person you are responsible for the outcome of your decisions. When I was a child, as the eldest, I had to watch my siblings, a lot. Babysitting was the bane of my existence. I disliked it because if anything happened, regardless to who did it, it was always my fault. This always...
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...ACADEMIC PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED BY ACCOUNTANCY STUDENTS CHAPTER 1 PROBLEM AND REVIEW OF LI TERATURE Introduction The continuous learning of students through the help of books, professors and even internet is a mere fact which shows that knowledge still flourish in our humanity. Thus, different students have different views and ways of understanding such transmitted information and studies. Life as a student is said to be fun yet also stressful. Requirements, research works, reports and examinations abound student’s life especially during college verve. Every student knows the terror of examination. Learners have borne the pallor of midnight cramming and struggled through the anxiety before and the forced euphoria after their baptism by fire. There are probably more mental breakdowns on campus because of certain phobias and circumstances. These said breakdowns and problems of the students can be detected through examinations. Behavior therapy literature is replete with studies that report success in desensitizing people to the fear of exams. School is really a major hurdle for most families. When children succeed there, everyone is happy; but when they bring their failures home with them, parents relive their own childhood frustration with education. Such academic problems should be recognized and should also be given proper attention to aid students. The researchers...
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...Strayer University | Summary | “Farm Girl” | | Alli Brown | 4/19/2012 | | This is a summary of Jessica Hemauer’s “Farm Girl.” This was a narrative essay where the writer, Jessica Hemauer, talks about her childhood growing up on a farm. I believe that the audience for this essay was more than likely a teacher or professor. The tone was not set for the essay as a whole. Depending on the part you were reading in the essay, the tone goes through many different emotions from angry to respectful and patient to sad and depressed then to happy. My emotional response to this essay was that growing up on a farm must be very hard on children. I felt bad that she and her brother and sisters had to get up so early to do chores around the farm, while other children their age were still soundly sleeping in their warm, cozy beds without a thought of waking up anytime soon. There are many points of this essay that stuck out to me personally, however, the main point was very clear; that growing up on a farm was very difficult as a child but, made her a more mature, responsible and strong willed adult. Jessica and her brother and sisters had a very strict, time sensitive routine every morning before school in order to get all the various chores and jobs done as well as shower, get dressed, eat breakfast and make it to the bus for school. The farm had to come first before anything else; it was the entire family’s first priority. The children had to face harsh weather conditions...
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...Some believe health care to be a fundamental right while others consider it a privilege. Consider how you and your family utilize health care resources. Is access to health care a fundamental right that you exercise or a privilege earned? This topic strikes a sharp chord with me. Our family has insurance thankfully. Our family utilizes preventative medicine such as immunizations, dental cleanings and monitoring, and check-ups for my children at the pediatrician. My husband also has to have yearly physicals related to his job. We are very blessed to have access to healthcare in the ways that we do. We still have to pay our copays and expensive prescription deductibles, but am very happy with the insurance we have. I think healthcare is a fundamental right. Stating that healthcare is a privilege earned is absolutely ridiculous! My father has worked at a sawmill for at least 40 years. His boss chooses not to carry insurance and never has. My mother had insurance for a while when she worked at a local factory which laid off employees three years ago. Sine then, she has not been able to find steady employment. I can tell you that my family is one of the hardest working families there is. My father has COPD, has no insurance and cannot afford to pay for his much needed inhaled corticosteroids that he needs. My mother is a diabetic who takes insulin daily, What medications or doctor visits they partake in, is strictly on their own. How is this right? I understand that...
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...The Decision Eugene Bostick MGT/230 May 22, 2012 Doug Moran I have made many choices in my life, whether they were good or bad decisions they lead up to me making a choice in which I think was one of the greatest choices I have made so far in life. During the year of 2000, I decided to drop out of High School. I was 18 years old and had been attending Monacan High School for about three years. Due to financial situations I was forced to leave school and work a full time job so that I would be able to support myself. I had a talk with my General Manager about full time employment and he agreed that I was a good worker and gave the ok to start training to become a Manager of Taco Bell. I worked very hard to manage and save my money to make life more comfortable, and during that year I was able to plan and set more goals for myself. As I was getting my life back on the right track so was one of my closest friends, Nelson Clanton. Nelson and I would talk about the future from time to time. I remember one particular day he asked me what I thought about joining the military. We were both a few months away from turning 20 years old and we weren’t getting any younger. In the earlier days I would have never even considered joining the military. As the days past I went into deep thought about enlisting, I felt I would be a great opportunity to do something different with my life. I finally called him and said “Lets get...
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...formulate what I’d like to make out of my time in America. In the beginning I wanted to finish my education at the university level, someday own a home, buy a nice car, and settle down with a nice man. I must say, I have already achieved 3 of those 4 goals and I’m in the process of achieving the 4th. I believe the American dream for me will be ever changing. As I see more of the opportunities available, my dreams and desires will continue to grow. At this point, I would have to say that my dream is now to grow my business into a full time job, help my husband buy our dream home which will the final home that we will raise our daughter and future children in, and finish my bachelor’s degree in nursing. My husband and I started a small online business several months ago and it has been growing rapidly. I am able to run that business during my free time between classes, but as school finishes, I’d like to be able to count on that business for a full time income while I look for a nursing job. After that, I hope to hire employees and still be able to make a profit. While my husband and I do own a home now, we do not consider this our final house. We both have a dream to buy at least a 3,000 sf home in the valley where we will raise our daughter and hopefully a couple more children. I am currently a sophomore in college and hope to finish my bachelor’s degree in the next 2 -3 years. I have always loved medicine and hope to complete my goal so I can begin to help people...
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...Girls’ Haven are eligible to receive independent living services to help prepare them for self-sufficiency in adulthood. Residents receiving independent living services can be working toward achieving any of the permanency goals (such as reunification, adoption, or guardianship) or may be headed towards emancipation due to aging out of foster care to adulthood on their own. Here are several guidelines that are in place to ensure smooth transition from care to becoming independent. There are several expectations for girls participating in our independent living program. They are as followed: 1. Girls will be required to eat 3 full meals a week with the group. 2. If you are in high school or college full time (12 hours+), girls are allowed to have a part time job. 3. If you are not in college and not in high school and are with CPS, you MUST have a full time job. 4. All upstairs girls are required to complete AT LEAST 4 hours of Community Service per month. 5. Girls’ are required to continue participating in daily chores and household activities such as trips to the library, etc. if an outing is not planned in advance. 6. You are required to participate in all independent living activities such as cooking lessons, resume building, TRAIL, grocery shopping etc. 7. You will create and implement your own monthly budget. Since Girls’ Haven is holding the upstairs population to a higher, more responsible level, we will not use the Point and Level System. In place of the Point...
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...Study Habits Questionnaire Place a check mark in the box that shows how likely you are to use each method. Not Likely 1.) You are given an assignment that requires some resource materials (dictionary, encyclopedia, atlas, almanac, etc.). How likely are you to: a.) Ask the Librarian for help. b.) Ask the learning disability specialist or your resource room teacher for help. c.) Ask a parent for help. d.) Ask a friend for help. e.) Search on your own. 2.) You have a very demanding schedule – a full class load and a part time job. How likely are you to: a.) Aside a certain amount of time each day for studying. b.) Study whenever you get the chance. c.) Plan a study schedule each week, based on your assignments. d.) Study just on the nights before tests. e.) Study just enough to keep up f.) Write assignments on a calendar according to when they are due. 3.) When you are preparing for and taking tests, how likely you are to: a.) Wonder what will be on the test. b.) Lose points for incomplete answers. c.) Be confused about the directions. d.) Panic before or during the test. e.) Run out of time before completing the test. 4.) Let’s imagine you have just started college. After buying the books for your classes, how likely do you think you’d be do the following: a.) Page through the book and set it aside. Somewhat Likely Likely Very Likely Not Likely b.) Get started by reading the first chapter. c.) Look through the book at...
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