Suchergebnisse

Orientado con lis en rosa de ocho vientos ; Relieve representado por normales ; Relación de las posiciones de ataque del ejército inglés y portugués durante los días en que se llevó a cabo, indicada mediante clave cromática y de las brechas realizadas a la fortificación, mediante clave alfabética ; En nota se informa de las tropas que participaron en el asalto ; Leyenda explicativa de la posición ocupada por las distintas tropas, inmediatamente antes del ataque ; Inserta: "Section on the lines ED.DA."

Observes that in response to the growing global competition, many manufacturing companies are in the process of adopting advanced manufacturing technologies (AMT) to improve their business operations. Notes that, despite the increasing interest in AMT, few empirical studies have been conducted to determine key success implementation factors. Presents the results of an empirical study which surveyed manufacturing companies in the USA to determine the critical success factors in the implementation of AMT. Uses tangible and intangible benefits as indicators of AMT implementation success measures. Classifies the determinants of AMT implementation success under four broad categories: the triple "C" factors (communication, commitment and co‐ordination), the housekeeping factors (action plan, effective team, vendor support, cost justification, functions integration and effective facilitator), the self‐interest factors (employee moral, satisfaction, belief in AMT and appropriate reward), and the literacy factors (understanding of firm's business, training clarity of goals/objectives of AMT). Reveals from analysis of the responses that about 70 per cent of the variances in the success measures were explained by those determinants of AMT identified in the study.

Shows how a survey of 216 plant managers is used to develop and test an integrated model of their turnover intentions. The model incorporates role stressors, task characteristics, job involvement, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment as predictors of intention to stay in the organization. The results provide moderate support for the proposed model and show that organizational commitment had a direct and positive effect on plant managers' intention to stay with their organization. Indirect effects on intention to stay were found for job satisfaction, job involvement, task characteristics and role stressors. Results show that job satisfaction is considered the most important factor directly affecting organizational commitment, while job involvement also had a direct effect on organizational commitment. Role stressors were found to be the most disfunctional variables affecting satisfaction of the plant managers. The results also indicated that task characteristics play an important role in predicting job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and intention to stay. Presents implications for top management to improve job satisfaction, organization commitment and retention of plant managers.

Orientado con lis en rosa de ocho vientos ; Relieve representado por normales ; Relación de las posiciones de ataque del ejército inglés y portugués durante los días en que se llevó a cabo, indicada mediante clave cromática y de las brechas realizadas a la fortificación, mediante clave alfabética ; En nota se informa de las tropas que participaron en el asalto ; Leyenda explicativa de la posición ocupada por las distintas tropas, inmediatamente antes del ataque ; Inserta: "Section on the lines ED.DA."

This paper investigates the impact of espoused national culture on the individuals??? acceptance of online tax filing services in an emerging economy. This study integrates the theory of planned behavior and incorporates the impact of taxpayers??? trust and skepticism on their intentions to adopt online tax filing. This paper studies the moderating effect of espoused national culture on taxpayers??? intentions to e-file taxes using either government or private vendor tax filing portals. The results indicate that higher subjective norm, positive attitude, higher perceived behavioral control, and higher perceived trust are linked to higher intentions of adopting online tax filing. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. ; Accounting

This study aimed to ascertain the reliability of the McCabe score in a healthcare-associated infection point prevalence survey. A 10 European Union Member States survey in 20 hospitals (n = 1912) indicated that there was a moderate level of agreement (κ = 0.57) with the score. The reliability of the application of the score could be increased by training data collectors, particularly with reference to the ultimately fatal criteria. This is important if the score is to be used to risk adjust data to drive infection prevention and control interventions.

We present a pilot validation study performed on 10 European Union (EU) Member States, of a point prevalence survey (PPS) of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and antimicrobial use in Europe in 2011 involving 29 EU/European Economic Area (EEA) countries and Croatia. A total of 20 acute hospitals and 1,950 patient records were included in the pilot study, which consisted of validation and inter-rater reliability (IRR) testing using an in-hospital observation approach. In the validation, a sensitivity of 83% (95% confidence interval (CI): 79-87%) and a specificity of 98% (95% CI: 98-99%) were found for HAIs. The level of agreement between the primary PPS and validation results were very good for HAIs overall (Cohen's ?appa (?): 0.81) and across all the types of HAIs (range: 0.83 for bloodstream infections to 1.00 for lower respiratory tract infections). Antimicrobial use had a sensitivity of 94% (95% CI: 93-95%) and specificity of 97% (95% CI: 96-98%) with a very good level of agreement (?: 0.91). Agreement on other demographic items ranged from moderate to very good (?: 0.57-0.95): age (?: 0.95), sex (?: 0.93), specialty of physician (?: 0.87) and McCabe score (?: 0.57). IRR showed a very good level of agreement (?: 0.92) for both the presence of HAIs and antimicrobial use. This pilot study suggested valid and reliable reporting of HAIs and antimicrobial use in the PPS dataset. The lower level of sensitivity with respect to reporting of HAIs reinforces the importance of training data collectors and including validation studies as part of a PPS in order for the burden of HAIs to be better estimated.