Iowa Corn Promotion Board, Independent Auditor's Reports, Financial Statements, Supplementary Information and Schedule of Findings, August 31, 2004 & 2005

State Audit Reports

Iowa Sheep and Wool Promotion Board, Independent Auditor's Reports, Financial Statement, Schedule of Findings, June 30, 2004 & 2005

State Audit Reports

Downsizing, Job Insecurity, and Firm Reputation

This paper studies how firms make layoff decisions in the presence of adverse shocks. In this uncertain environment, workers' expectations about their job security affect their on-the-job performance. This productivity effect on job insecurity forces firms to strike a balance between laying off redundant workers and maintaining survivors' commitment when deciding on the amount and timing of downsizing. This framework offers an explanation of conservative employment practices (such as zero or reduced layoffs) based on firms having private information about their future profits. High retention rates and wages can signal that the firm has a bright future, boosting workers' confidence. Moreover, the model provides clear predictions about when waves of downsizing will occur as opposed to one-time massive cuts.

Iowa Corn Promotion Board, Independent Auditor's Reports, Financial Statements, Supplementary Information and Schedule of Findings, August 31, 2005 & 2006

State Audit Reports

Evaluating the intervening factors in patient safety: focusing on hospital nursing staff

OBJECTIVE To evaluate intervening factors in patient safety, focusing on hospital nursing staff. METHOD The study is descriptive, with qualitative approach, excerpt from a larger study with analytical nature. It was undertaken in a public hospital in Fortaleza, CE, Brazil, between January and June 2013, with semi-structured interviews to 70 nurses, using Thematic Content Analysis. RESULTS The principal intervening factors in patient safety related to hospital nursing staff were staff dimensioning and workload, professional qualification and training, team work, being contracted to the institution, turnover and lack of job security, and bad practice/disruptive behaviors. These aspects severely interfere with the establishment of a safety culture in the hospital analyzed. CONCLUSION It is necessary for managers to invest in nursing staff, so that these workers may be valued as fundamental in the promotion of patient safety, making it possible to develop competences for taking decisions with focus on the improvement of quality care.

Audit report on the Iowa Sheep and Wool Promotion Board for the years ended June 30, 2006 and 2005

Audit report on the Iowa Sheep and Wool Promotion Board for the years ended June 30, 2006 and 2005

La promotion de la langue française dans les classes terminales de l’enseignement de base intégré

Nous voulons, avec ce mémoire, défendre une nouvelle idée pour promouvoir la langue française au Cap-Vert plus précisément auprès des enfants. Pour cela, dans la première partie nous définissons la promotion d’une langue et l’enseignement de base intégré. Egalement dans cette partie, nous abordons les théories sur l’acquisition d’une langue étrangère chez les enfants et aussi les rapports entre la promotion de la langue et la spécificité de son acquisition chez le public cible. Ces points vont nous permettre de mettre en contexte le thème que nous défendons et ils seront la source d’inspiration aux activités que nous proposons pour la promotion du français dans les classes terminales de l’enseignement de base intégré. Dans la deuxième partie, nous faisons l’abordage historique du français dans le primaire, avant et après l’indépendance. Nous focalisons nos recherches sur la période qui va de 1968 à nos jours. L’objectif est de déterminer sur la base de recherches sur le terrain : la date de l’introduction du français dans le primaire, le profil des enseignants, les enseignements dispensés dans les écoles primaires et les méthodes utilisées. Dans cette partie, l’objectif est également de montrer les principales structures étrangères et nationales chargées de divulguer la langue française au Cap-Vert. C’est dans cette perspective, que nous essayons d’identifier les actions développées par ces structures et voir leur adéquation avec notre public cible.Et pour compléter cette deuxième partie, nous proposons deux projets qui ont été mis en place dans certaines écoles primaires : dans un premier temps, il s’agit du projet de réintroduction du français à l’école primaire mené par le centre d’appui pour l’enseignement du français « CAPEF » avec l’aval du Ministère de l’Education et, dans un autre contexte, il y a le projet « opération théâtres et chansons » élaboré et mis en oeuvre par le professeur José Rui Rodrigues Soares1 avec la collaboration de quelques élèves de la septième année du lycée Cónego Jacinto.Dans la troisième partie de notre travail, nous proposons deux projets pour promouvoir la langue française dans les classes terminales de l’enseignement de base intégré : « les écoliers en action » et « une soirée culturelle ».

Wage rigidity and job creation

Recent research in macroeconomics emphasizes the role of wage rigidity in accounting for the volatility of unemployment fluctuations. We use worker-level datafrom the CPS to measure the sensitivity of wages of newly hired workers to changesin aggregate labor market conditions. The wage of new hires, unlike the aggregatewage, is volatile and responds almost one-to-one to changes in labor productivity.We conclude that there is little evidence for wage stickiness in the data. We alsoshow, however, that a little wage rigidity goes a long way in amplifying the responseof job creation to productivity shocks.

Job satisfaction and life satisfaction: Analysis of a reciprocal model with social demographic moderators

The general objective of the study was to empirically test a reciprocal model of job satisfaction and life satisfaction while controlling for some social demographic variables. 827 employees working in 34 car dealerships in Northern Quebec (56% responses rate) were surveyed. The multiple item questionnaires were analysed using correlation analysis, chi square and ANOVAs. Results show interesting patterns emerging for the relationships between job and life satisfaction of which 49.2% of all individuals have spillover, 43.5% compensation, and 7.3% segmentation type of relationships. Results, nonetheless, are far richer and the model becomes much more refined when social demographic indicators are taken into account. Globally, social demographic variables demonstrate some effects on each satisfaction individually but also on the interrelation (nature of the relations) between life and work satisfaction.

Les quatre livres des rois : traduits en français du XIIe siècle. suivis d'un Fragment de moralités sur Job et d'un Choix de sermons de Saint Bernard / publiés par M. Le roux de Lincy,...

[Bible. A.T.. Samuel (ancien français). 1841]

Compensating wage differentials and voluntary job changes: Evidence from West Germany

Does the labor market place wage premia on jobs that involve physical strain,job, insecurity or bad regulation of hours? This paper derives bounds on themonetary returns to these job disamenities in the West German labor market.We show that in a market with dispersion in both job characteristics andwages, the average wage change of workers who switch jobs voluntarily and optfor consuming more (less) disamenities,provides an upper (lower) bound on themarket return to the disamenity. Using longitudinal information from workersin the German Socio Economic Panel, we estimate an upper bound of 5% and alower bound of 3.5% for the market return to work strain in a job.