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- Labor Standards, Human Capital, and Economic Development
- This paper will discuss the nature and importance of human capital, present an overview of human capital-labor standards linkages, and the rationale for making core international labor standards a part of the rules governing the global economy, and evaluate some of the criticisms of those rationales; the paper concludes with...
- White papers 2005-02-01
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- Reducing Distribution Costs: The Value of RedPrairie's Productivity Management Solution - Customer Survey
- For many companies, distribution costs as a percentage of sales continue to rise. Labor costs generally represent the greatest single component of distribution costs, ranging from 40 percent to as much as 70 percent of the total. In this context, ARC conducted a user survey of RedPrairie's labor Productivity Management...
- White papers 2003-03-01
- True Labor Cost (zip)
- Knowing the true cost of labor is critical to managing your business. You must know what labor really costs you to best determine how to price your products and services. The largest determining factor in business profits is the management of labor costs. Most business owners know the cost of...
- Software downloads 2005-11-08
- How the revised Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) impacts overtime for IT workers
- On August 23, 2004 Congress passed revisions to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 that changed the law's overtime provisions and substantially modified the definition of an "exempt" employee. The changes to the FLSA and their accompanying regulations, unfortunately, do not bring a great deal of clarity to the...
- Download resources 2005-06-21
- Mexican Migrants and Other Latinos in the US Labor Market Since NAFTA
- The North American Free Trade Agreement did not have a dampening effect on Mexican migration to the US as was expected. Deteriorating employment conditions in Mexico have coincided with a continuing demand for cheap Latino labor in the US over the past several years, thus bolstering the migratory process. This...
- White papers 2005-04-22
- Labor Superior Court Achieves More Robustness With Oracle
- The Labor Superior Court of Brazil evaluates employment issues and labor relations action in accordance with Brazilian Labor Laws. The institution wanted to provide data integration between the Labor Superior Court and its 24 regional labor courts and standardize legacy database platforms in those courts. They wanted to develop an...
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- Data Domain Case Study: Labor Ready
- Labor Ready is an international provider of temporary employees for manual labor, light industrial and skilled trades. Backups and restores were slow and often failed. The company needed a more cost-effective, reliable disk-based solution that would enable it to back up at least two weeks worth of data and easily...
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- DOWNLOAD: Understanding the revised Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938
- On August 23, 2004 Congress passed revisions to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 that changed the law's overtime provisions and substantially modified the definition of an "exempt" employee. The changes to the FLSA and their accompanying regulations, unfortunately, do not bring a great deal of clarity to the...
- Discussion threads 2005-06-21
- Contactual Helps Labor Ready Respond Around the Clock, Around the World
- The international staffing company Labor Ready had 94 different answering services—each with varying levels of customer service and cost—when related business problems prompted its search for a central call center solution. Chief among the company's key requirements for its new call center was a Web-based system that would: Be...
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- RedPrairie Case Study: UTi
- UTi is a broad-based, supply chain company offering a wide range of global integrated logistics to their worldwide customer base. UTi's Integrated Logistics team provides end-to-end supply chain solutions through dedicated and public warehouses, with a proven track record of reducing customer costs. With labor expense representing 65-70 percent of...
- Case studies 2006-12-06
- Lessons From the Field: Developing Standards
- Developing UML standards is an important first step in achieving consistency and efficiency in an enterprise. Consistent modelling means consistent understanding between the modellers and their audience. Consistent modelling practices also make for easy movement of resources between teams without extended learning curves. Some of the lessons Xpdian has learned...
- Case studies
- Microsoft Dynamics Webcast: Take the Guesswork Out of Complex Labor and Time Collection With Microsoft Dynamics SL (Level 100)
- The presenter of this webcast discusses how the Microsoft Dynamics SL solution can help a person to calculate true labor costs, meet time-sensitive government reporting requirements, provide flexible deductions and benefits, and, most importantly, pay the employees accurately and on-time. This webcast provides insight into how to take control of...
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- MSDN Webcast: Web Service Standards Past, Present, and Future - Level 200
- XML, SOAP, and WSDL are the minimum standards needed to connect two components running on disparate platforms. While these standards make possible what could never be done before they do not provide the protocols needed to allow web services to integrate enterprise systems in an infrastructure neutral fashion. This webcast...
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- Slovenian Ministry of Labor, Family and Social Affairs Meets EU Employment Policies With SAS Software
- Implementation of the newly adopted European employment policy and indicators is a demanding task for all European Union EU member states. It is especially difficult for new members of the EU, which may be still adapting to dramatic changes that encompass almost every aspect of life as they make the...
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- Selection of the Fittest?: How Human Capital Affects High-Potential Entrepreneurship
- The engagement in entrepreneurship by the science and technology labor force is essential to economic development, but has not been assessed in previous research. Within the framework of occupational choice, utilizing human capital theory, this paper argues that entrepreneurship is associated with an opportunity cost in terms of foregone income...
- White papers 2004-09-14
- Standards Compliant Web Design
- There was a time not long ago when many drivers thought nothing of tossing empty bottles out the windows of their cars. Years later, these same citizens came to realise that littering was not an acceptable way to dispose of their trash. The web design community is now undergoing a...
- White papers 2005-05-11
- Leading the Way on Standards-Based E-Learning
- As the next generation Course Management Systems CMS begins, Blackboard believes it is critical to have individual specification compliance and compatibility, but, more importantly, for any CMS architecture to support current as well as future standards. This paper explores the current standards landscape, Blackboard's strategy for successfully navigating the complicated...
- White papers 2004-02-01
- Why Standards Are Important
- A standard is a widely accepted and/or officially approved common language that allows devices or software to communicate. Using standards leads to reduced effort, cost, risk, and time requirements. Standards allow to be independent of particular vendors, ensuring price drops due to competition, everlasting access to data and high quality,...
- White papers 2006-02-21
- Optimizing Infrastructure: The Relationship Between IT Labor Costs and Best Practices for Systems Management Server
- This paper examines the relationship between IT labor costs and best practices for Microsoft Systems Management Server SMS. SMS is a server-based management software product for change and configuration management of PCs. SMS is designed to reduce labor costs through automation by eliminating the need to visit individual PCs to...
- White papers 2007-01-01
- IT Service Management Standards: A Reference Model for Open Standards-Based ITSM Solutions
- This paper describes the critical importance of open standards1 for IT Service Management ITSM. The paper presents an overview of ITSM, including underlying elements such as ITIL and autonomic computing; an architecture for the realization of ITSM; many of the key standards - existing, emerging and yet to be developed...
- White papers 2006-04-01
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