“…This relates to the politics of nationalised healthcare because ambulatory oxygen was outsourced from NHS pharmacy control in 2006. The chapter therefore concludes with a discussion of how standardised technology currently affects diverse users' ability to engage with assistive technologies…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Drug-Free Workplace Act (1988) -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Act (EEOA) (1972) -- The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination -- Act (GINA) (2008) -- Guidelines on Discrimination Because of Sex (1980) -- The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (2009) -- The Pregnancy Discrimination Act (1978) -- The Uniform Guidelines on Employee -- Selection Procedures (1978) -- For TWENTY or More Employees -- The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) (1967), -- as Amended -- The American Recovery and Reinvestment -- Act (ARRA) (2009) -- The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation -- Act (COBRA) (1986) -- The Older Workers Benefit Protection -- Act (OWBPA) (1990) -- For FIFTY or More Employees -- Executive Order 11246: Affirmative Action (1965) -- The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) (1993), -- Expanded 2008, 2010 -- The Mental Health Parity Act (MHPA) (1996) -- The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity -- Act (MHPAEA) (2008) -- The National Defense Authorization -- Act (2008), Expanded in 2010 -- 00-FMindd 11 14/02/22 6:54 PM -- aPHR Associate Professional in Human Resources Certification All-in-One Exam Guide -- All-In-One / aPHR® Associate Professional in Human Resources Certification / Nishiyama / 625-2 / FM -- The Patient Protection and Affordable Care -- Act (PPACA) (2010) -- Executive Order 13706: Paid Sick Leave -- for Federal Contractors (2015) -- For ONE HUNDRED or More Employees -- The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification -- (WARN) Act (1988) -- For Federal Government Employees -- The Civil Service Reform Act (1978) -- The Congressional Accountability Act (1995) -- The False Claims Act (1863) -- The Homeland Security Act (2002) -- The Privacy Act (1974) -- The USA PATRIOT Act (2001) -- Employment Visas for Foreign Nationals -- E Nonimmigrant Visas -- H Visas -- L-1 Intracompany Transferee -- O-1 Alien of Extraordinary Ability in Arts, Science, -- Education, Business, Athletics -- P Visa Categories -- EB Employment-Based Visas -- Chapter Review -- Questions -- Answers -- Endnotes -- Part II aPHR Body of Knowledge Functional Areas -- Chapter 3 Talent Acquisition -- Knowledge of -- Laws and Regulations -- Federal Laws -- Workforce Planning -- Forecasting Staffing Needs -- Job Analysis -- Job Descriptions and Job Specifications -- Alternative Staffing Practices -- Phased Retirement -- Contractor Payrolling -- Employee Leasing and Professional -- Employer Organizations (PEOs) -- Outsourcing and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) -- Temp-to-Lease Programs -- Rehires and Transfers -- 00-FMindd 12 14/02/22 6:54 PM -- Contents -- All-In-One / aPHR® Associate Professional in Human Resources Certification / Nishiyama / 625-2 / FM -- Talent Sourcing -- Internal Recruitment -- External Recruitment -- Applicant Databases -- Records Retention -- Résumés vs Job Applications -- Self-Identification -- Pre-employment Skill Testing -- Interviewing Techniques -- Types of Interviews -- Interviewing Skills and Techniques -- Interviewing Bias -- After the Interview -- Job Offers -- Background Checks -- Medical Examinations -- Onboarding -- Administrative Paperwork -- Onboarding for Retention -- Return on Investment -- Some Ways to Measure Hiring -- Chapter Review -- Questions -- Answers -- Endnotes -- Chapter 4 Learning and Development -- Knowledge of -- Laws and Regulations -- HR's Role in Training and Development -- Organizational Values -- Setting Expectations in Orientation -- Instructional Design -- Learning Objectives -- ADDIE Model -- Teacher-Centered Approaches -- Learner-Centered Approaches -- Chunking -- Learning Curves -- Training Delivery Format -- Classroom -- E-Learning -- On-the-Job Training (OJT) -- Techniques to Evaluate Training Programs -- Participant Surveys and Questionnaires -- Pre- and Post-Testing -- 00-FMindd 13 14/02/22 6:54 PM -- aPHR Associate Professional in Human Resources Certification All-in-One Exam Guide -- All-In-One / aPHR® Associate Professional in Human Resources Certification / Nishiyama / 625-2 / FM -- Measuring Behavior: After-Action Review -- Return on Investment -- Tracking and Reporting -- Career Development Practices -- Succession Planning -- Career Pathing -- Dual-Ladder Careers -- Career Counseling -- Change Management -- Popular Theories -- Chapter Review -- Questions -- Answers -- Endnotes -- Chapter 5 Compensation and Benefits -- Knowledge of -- Laws and Regulations…”

“…The aim of this book is to propose a critical analysis of these phenomena by questioning what follows from decisions to outsource modes of creation and funding to consumers. …”

“…Local budgets may be used to finance the outsourcing of some PUP labour market services, but local authorities usually find that in-house provision is cheaper…”

“…What You Will Learn Understand how you can outsource your work Learn to increase your capacity to handle a 1000 orders tomorrow Study how to repeat your process to deliver results to your customers Who Is This Video For This course is for single-person entrepreneurs, consultants, and freelancers…”

“…It identifies key contributors to failure in product life cycle management and particular emphasis is placed upon the importance of thorough Manufacturing Process Capability reviews for both in-house and outsourced manufacturing strategies. The readers attention is also drawn to the many hazards to which a new product is exposed from the commencement of manufacture through to end of life disposal. …”

“…The aim of this book is to propose a critical analysis of these phenomena by questioning what follows from decisions to outsource modes of creation and funding to consumers. …”

“…Jack offers his principles on "hugging" your associates-whether they are the sales team, the cleaning staff, the delivery people, the backroom financial wizards, the marketing and advertising departments, or outsourced staff. Hug Your People is just what today's employees and managers need…”

“…New topics include: Cyber Security; Foreign Exchange Risk Management; Using Enterprise Risk Management in Decision Making; Risk Appetite; Outsourcing Risk; Risk, decision-making, and cognitive bias; Enterprise Risk Management in Government, Ethics, and Innovation; How to teach Enterprise Risk Management; Scenario Planning as a Risk Management tool"--…”

“…Step by step, The Definitive Guide to Supply Management and Procurement covers all this, and more: Basic supply management concepts, purposes, and goals Linkages between procurement and other business functions Day-to-day transactional and long-term strategic activities Category analysis, supplier selection, contract negotiation, supplier relationship management, and performance evaluation Principles and strategies for establishing efficient, effective, and sustainable operations, from sourcing teams to supplier rationalization Technology for spend analysis, competitive bidding, eProcurement, eSourcing, auctions/reverse auctions, contract compliance, performance management, and more Requirements and challenges of global sourcing, including insource vs. outsource decisions; TCO analysis; risk management; negotiations, and supplier contract compliance Best practices for assessing performance using standard metrics and frameworks…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…and Foreign Exchange 288 7.4.4 Q Pricing and Multiple Risks 290 7.5 Options Pricing: Applications and Examples 292 7.5.1 Pricing Currency Options 293 7.5.2 Options and Martingale Pricing Relative to a Global Index 295 7.6 Spread and Two-Factor Options 296 7.6.1 Spread and Correlation Options 297 7.6.2 The Price and the Profit/Loss of a Foreign Investment 298 7.6.3 A Quanto Option 299 7.7 Optional Trading Strategies 300 7.7.1 The Protective Put and Foreign Trading 300 7.7.2 The Covered Call 303 7.8 The Greeks and Financial Risk Management 303 Appendix 7.A: Mathematical Review 304 7.A.1 Itô Calculus 305 7.A.2 The Feynman-Kac Formula 309 7.A.3 Stochastic Integral and Quadratic Variations (Benhamou, 2007) 310 7.A.4 Pricing, the Radon-Nykodim Derivative and Girsanov Theorem 311 7.A.5 Reducing a Dependent Vector to be Independent 312 References 314 8 Credit Risk and International Debt 315 Motivation 315 8.1 Introduction 315 8.2 Growth of Debt and Debt Dependency 317 8.3 Foreign Exchange is a Credit Bestowed to a Sovereign Entity 321 8.4 Credit and Global Risks 323 8.4.1 Country-Specific Risks 323 8.4.2 Foreign Exchange Risks 324 8.4.3 Credit Trading and Currency, Sovereign Bond Risks, Currency Stability 326 8.5 Credit Risk, Credit Derivatives, and Credit Default Swaps 330 8.6 Swaps 332 8.6.1 A Definition and Types of Swaps 332 8.6.2 The Theoretical Q-Price of Spread Options 334 8.6.3 A Swaps Pot-pourri 335 8.7 Credit Default Swaps and Securitized Volatility 338 8.8 Pricing Credit Risk 340 8.8.1 Reduced-Form Models 342 8.8.2 Credit Price and Debt Leverage: An Example 343 8.8.3 Utility and Credit, Debt Leverage and Reimbursement at the Second Period 344 8.9 Debt, The Merton Model, and Default 347 8.9.1 The Merton Debt Model and Foreign Exchange 349 8.9.2 Market Pricing Debt and Credit Risk 350 8.9.3 Debt and Options: A Merton Continuous-Time Model 351 References 355 9 Globalization and Trade: A Changing World 358 Motivation 358 9.1 Introduction 358 9.1.1 Trade and Globalization: A Gated and Changing World 361 9.1.2 Trade and Comparative Risks 363 9.1.3 Inversion and Outsourcing 365 9.1.4 Trade and Risk Externalities 365 9.1.5 Globalization, Gating, and Strategic Trades 366 9.2 Tracking Trade and Globalization 368 9.3 Strategic Trade and Gating 375 9.3.1 Strategic Trade 375 9.3.2 Trade Models 377 9.4 A Multicountry Financial Consumption Utility 378 9.4.1 A One-Period Utility Model: The Consumption Demand Side 379 9.4.2 A One-Period Utility Model: The Supply Side 380 9.4.3 A One-Period Financialized Utility Cournot Model 384 9.4.4 The Cournot Multiperiod Financial Consumption 386 9.5 The Demand Sector and its Supply 388 9.6 Conclusions 390 References 391 10 Compliance and Financial Regulation 395 Motivation 395 10.1 Introduction 395 10.1.1 Regulation, Politics, and Geopolitics 397 10.1.2 Regulatory Risks, Finance, and Compliance 399 10.1.3 Regulation and Risks: Economic Literature 401 10.2 Regulation Risks 403 10.3 Regulation, Technology, and Compliance 405 10.3.1 Importance of Technology and Information 405 10.3.2 Regulation, Technology, and Complexity Risks 407 10.4 Statistical and Compliance Risks 407 10.4.1 Statistical Regulation and Compliance 409 10.4.2 Bernoulli Audits and Noncompliance 409 10.4.3 A Beta Probability Distribution of Noncompliance 410 10.4.4 Auditing a Bank for Compliance 410 10.4.5 The Persistent Regulator 411 10.4.6 The Beta Prime Model 412 10.4.7 The Logit and Beta Prime Compliance Models 414 10.5 A Multivariate Bernoulli Compliance and Audits 415 10.5.1 Bernoulli Compliance 415 10.5.2 Bernoulli and a Codependent Model 417 10.6 Regulation and Compliance Games 418 10.7 Satisficing Games and Regulation-Compliance 421 10.8 Conclusion 423 Appendix 10.A: Games, Risk and Uncertainty 423 Appendix 10.B: Concepts of Games and Risk 424 References 428 Index 000.…”

“…Companies are becoming networked marketplaces that build on core competencies while outsourcing the rest. Many firms offer compensation beyond pay, including alternate work relationships, flexible workplaces, and training opportunities. …”

“…Despite the increase of high-profile hacks, record-breaking data leaks, and ransomware attacks, many organizations don’t have the budget to establish or outsource an information security (InfoSec) program, forcing them to learn on the job. …”

“…Meanwhile, the average salaries at some of these companies have been falling in real terms due to the rise of outsourcing and the use of cheap or precarious labour. …”

“…It has developed as organizations have moved away from outsourced contracts with a single supplier to an environment with multiple service providers. …”

“…Local offices are now allowed to outsource many employment services, including the professional counselling of jobseekers. …”

“…It presents methods that apply directly to supply chains involving a physical product, manufactured internally or outsourced, as well as physical operations such as oilfield services. …”

“…Coverage includes Frameworks for large-scale Scrum for multihundred-person product groups Testing and building quality in Product management and the end of the “contract game” between business and R&D Envisioning a large release, and planning for multiteam development Low-quality legacy code: why it’s created, and how to stop it Continuous integration in a large multisite context Agile architecting Multisite or offshore development Contracts and outsourced development In a competitive environment that demands ever-faster cycle times and greater innovation, the practices inspired by lean thinking and agile principles are ever-more relevant. …”

“…Address core business and operational requirements, including sponsorship, management, policies, procedures, workspaces, staffing, and technology Identify, recruit, interview, onboard, and grow an outstanding SOC team Thoughtfully decide what to outsource and what to insource Collect, centralise, and use both internal data and external threat intelligence Quickly and efficiently hunt threats, respond to incidents, and investigate artifacts Reduce future risk by improving incident recovery and vulnerability management Apply orchestration and automation effectively, without just throwing money at them Position yourself today for emerging SOC technologies…”

“…But most companies would rather slash costs, cut headcount, replace well-paid employees with lower-paid employees or outsourced workers, and reduce customer service. No wonder so many fail and how others focused on doing the right thing can remain profitable and growth-oriented for decades. …”