FACULTY OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS WORK/LIFE BALANCE STRATEGIES: PROGRESS AND PROBLEMS IN AUSTRALIAN ORGANIZATIONS Helen De Cieri, Barbara Holmes, Jacqui Abbott & Trisha Pettit Working Paper 58/02 November 2002 ISSN 1327–5216 Abstract Work/life balance (WLB) is an issue increasingly recognised as of strategic importance to organizations and of significance to employees. We argue that an organization’s need to attract and retain valued employees in a highly competitive labour market is a strong motivating
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Chapter 1 1.1 HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT Peoples Own savings bank of Zimbabwe (POSB) is a statutory, national savings bank, wholly owned by the government of Zimbabwe. The People’s Own Savings Bank was established on the 1st of January 1905 and has a proud history of achievement and service provision to every Zimbabwean. The former Post and Telecommunications (PTC) unbundled into three separate entities namely; The People’s Own Savings Bank replacing the Post Office Savings Bank, Zimpost replacing
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state and Washington DC, June 2011 trends of the 2011 state and trends of the 2011 Environment Department This report was prepared by a World Bank team comprising of Nicholas Linacre, Alexandre Kossoy and Philippe Ambrosi, with important contributions from Manelle Aït Sahlia, Veronique Bishop, Benoît Bosquet, Christophe de Gouvello, Taisei Matsuki and Monali Ranade. 2 | State and Trends of the Carbon Market 2010 New Approach for the 2011 Report With the goal of providing a comprehensive
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UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCES Department of School of Business Term Paper On Topic: Bond Market In Bangladesh . Course Code :FIN-361. Course Title :Corporate Finance . Submitted To : MD.Nazmul Hasan. Faculty, School of Business, University of Information Technology & Sciences Submitted By : NAME ID Nazibur Rahman : 08410105 Abdullah- al
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Exchange rate fluctuations are usually caused by actual monetary flows as well as anticipations on global macroeconomic conditions. Significant news is released publicly so, at least in theory, everyone in the world receives the same news at the same time. Currencies are traded against one another. Each pair of currencies thus constitutes an individual product and is traditionally noted XXX/YYY, where YYY is the ISO 4217 international three-letter code of the currency into which the price of one
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Finance 363 Stocktrak Final Report Group 10 Cody Norton, Nick Turner, Shane Siel The stocktrak simulation was very informative. It was interesting to watch the markets with something on the line. My group was in the top 3 much of the semester. Right around the end of the simulation we fell out of the top 3 and finished in the 10th position. We could have tried to change our investment strategy in order to chase the top spot, but in the end we stayed true to our objective. Objective and
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of Banking and Finance. Vol. 1: 29−54. Ambachtsheer, Keith, Ronald Capelle, and Tom Scheibelhut. 1998. “Improving Pension Fund Performance.” Financial Analysts Journal. Vol. 54, No. 6: 15–21. Ambachtsheer, Keith. 1986. Pension Funds and the Bottom Line: Managing the Corporate Pension Fund as a Financial Business. Homewood, IL: Dow Jones-Irwin. American Accounting Association Financial Accounting Standards Committee. 2001. “Equity Valuation Models and Measuring Goodwill
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Nursing in 3D: Diversity, Disparities, and Social Determinants The Social Determinants of Health: It’s Time to Consider the Causes of the Causes Paula Braveman, MD, MPHa Laura Gottlieb, MD, MPHb ABSTRACT During the past two decades, the public health community’s attention has been drawn increasingly to the social determinants of health (SDH)—the factors apart from medical care that can be influenced by social policies and shape health in powerful ways. We use “medical care” rather
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P1 – Describe the type of business, purpose and ownership of two contrasting businesses The first Business I have chosen is British Airways, because of my interest in travelling. Also, I thought it’d be a very interesting and different company to choose and base my research on. British Airways, often shortened to BA, is the flag carrier airline of the United Kingdom and it is the largest airline in the United Kingdom based on fleet size. When measured by passengers carried, it is second-largest
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American Journal of Scientific Research ISSN 1450-223X Issue 27(2011), pp. 68-83 © EuroJournals Publishing, Inc. 2011 http://www.eurojournals.com/ajsr.htm Banking Service Quality Provided by Commercial Banks and Customer Satisfaction Sulieman Ibraheem Shelash Al-Hawary Associate professor of Business Management, Department of Business Administration College of Financial and Business Administration Al al-Bayt University, Jordan Rashid M. Alhamali Associate professor of Industrial Management, Department
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