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Legal and Ethical Implications of Newspaper Web Privacy Policies
Full text linkThis study summarizes the legal and ethical implications of the privacy policies of the top ten newspapers in the United States. The papers have created policies using language that is more complicated than a typical readerwould read. They have allowed themselves to collect data from a wide variety of sources and send the information to third parties can use the information for a variety of purposes. These policies exist in the context of the FourthAmendment, Electronic Monitoring Communications Act, Wiretap Statutes, and other laws and court cases
Barriers to and Strategies for Transportation Coordination among the Transportation/ Human Service Providers: The Case of the River Valley Providers
Full text linkThis research note seeks to identify the barriers to and strategies for transportation coordination among the River Valley transportation/Human Service providers (RVTP), in Western Arkansas, for the purpose of facilitating full community access and participation of the transportation disadvantaged as proposed by the Executive Order of Human Service Transportation Coordination signed by President Bush in February 2004. A comprehensive survey of the RVTP revealed that lack of awareness, lack of knowledge, lack of guidance, financial concerns, and false perceptions as the main culprits to the lack of coordination among the RVTP in the River Valley area. As a result, we propose the creation of a permanent local champion position “Mobility Manager” to build cooperation and trustamong the RVTP and commit the time and energy needed to develop acceptable solutions to issues of concerns and assist in minimizing duplications, improving efficiencies, and expanding the range of both transportation services (traditional and non-traditional) for the transportation disadvantage
The Fischer Black Method of Evaluating Accounting Alternatives Applied to Currency Translation Methods
Full text linkThere is a massive foreign currency translation literature, but virtually no empirical research exists that tests alternative translation methods against normative criteria. This study compares three translation methods using theBlack method of evaluating accounting alternatives. The translation method that performed best in this normative test was a price parity method, a method that has never been required or allowed under U.S. GAAP
Telework: Identifying a Personal Dimension to Work-Related Socio-Technical Theory
Full text linkThis qualitative study uses socio-technical theory, which posits the interdependence of the social and the technical subsystems of work to view both the work and lives of managers in a Fortune 100 multinational corporation. The managers in the study were leading global virtual teams from their homes with no dedicated corporate office. We found that balancing across both the work and personal socio and technical systems, as well as across the systems in their integrated personal and professional lives, is very complex. The managers appeared to tolerate these difficulties for the flexibility they perceive teleworking provided
Three Types of Business School Accreditation and their Relationships to CPA Exam Scores of Graduates
Full text linkThis research explores relationships between “business school accreditation” and average CPA exam scores of graduates from each of several types of accredited business programs. Our findings show graduates of AACSBInternational accredited programs have significantly higher CPA exam scores than do graduates from other types of accredited and unaccredited business programs. Somewhat surprisingly, graduates from ACBSP and IACEB accredited programs do not have average CPA exam scores higher than those of graduates of unaccredited business programs. More surprisingly, average CPA exam scores of graduates from ACBSP accredited programs are actually lower than those of graduates from unaccredited business programs on average
Empirical Evidence of Active Engagement and Active Disengagement in an Organizational Setting
Full text linkThis study provides empirical evidence supporting the notion that a continuum of behaviors range from one end point named active disengagement to another end point named active engagement. We utilized a previously analyzed data set and found support for the existence of the engagement continuum and in addition, we found support for the idea that the analytical lens of this continuum improves our understanding of the relationshipsbetween commonly used measures of citizenship behavior, organizational commitment, and psychological bonding. One final result of this analysis is the decoupling of the model from references to OCBs and extra-role behavior as articulated in the OCB research stream by recognizing that the theoretical grounding of the engagement model and the original OCB model was Katz and Kahn (1978)
Addressing Today’s Talent Gap: An Inductive Investigation into Balancing the Demand and Supply of 21st Century Workforce Talent
Full text linkInstitutions of higher education are under immense pressure to become more aware of market demands and the role they play in offering the supply-side for the demand. This article highlights the disconnect between skills organizations need/demand and the supply of those skills, talent, and knowledge from university graduates. Specifically, a deficiency in work ethic, passion, and drive (possibly termed “the right attitude”) was noted as a vitalgap. Additionally, and importantly, these personal attributes along with continuous learning, the ability to innovate, and communication skills emerged as key characteristics needed among the workforce today
The Illinois Commerce Commission’s Pro Forma Adjustment Rule: An Event Study of Regulatory Decision-Making
Full text linkPublic utilities’ earnings are inherently linked to decisions of the regulatory body. When regulators make decisions that are unexpected or that cause additional risk to shareholders one expects that such decisions will have an effect on the price of the utility’s stock. In 2010 the Illinois Commerce Commission, the regulatory body that sets electric utility rates in Illinois, made a dramatic change in the manner in which it applied an accounting rule, the pro forma adjustment rule, causing the rates for Ameren Illinois Utilities to be substantially less than otherwise would be the case. If this decision provided information to investors, we expect the Ameren stock price to react to the decision. Using a single-firm, single-event methodology we find limited evidence that this one event had an effect on daily abnormal returns to the Ameren Corporation’s stock. We also discuss possible reasons for these results
Are We As Rational As We Think? Bringing Rationality Versus Equality Preferences into the Classroom
Full text linkThe Ultimatum Game examines the relationship between profit maximization and fairness in our decision making process. The setup: two players, a proposer and a responder divide an amount of money between them. The predicted outcome is a result where the proposer offers $1 to the responder and keeps the rest with the responder accepting the offer. The game introduces that monetary gain may not be the only force behind people’s decision making process while introducing the ideas of fairness and equality. The game results seem to disprove the theory that people behave rationally, or economically speaking in their own self-interest