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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSABILITY IN THE CURRENT GLOBAL ECONOMIC CONTEXT
2012
In the current economic context, the social issue has become a major preoccupation for the current activity of the organizations that aim to create performance. This is because the modern organization is evaluated also from the point of view of its contribution to the social life of the community it belongs to. As Sophocles said “all benefactors think a little bit also about themselves”. Nowadays, managers not only do they have to lead the activities of the economic organizations in a profitable way, but also have to be responsible for the impact of these activities. Therefore, when confronted to the numerous opportunities and dangers, current companies and managers must find economically, …
The Analyses of the Teacher’s Activities Facing with Efficiency
2008
The element of education has here a very important role not only regarding the aspect of quality of the act but in integrating the need of quality in the national culture. The individual’s conception has to assimilate the conviction that the welfare can not exist without a responsible and quality labor. Starting form this mission, it becomes obvious that the entire university’s activity should be oriented towards the institution’s competitiveness growth both at a national level and at the international level through: the quality of the offer and the result of the activity, a good management, a financial politic adequate to the rational use of the resources and of drawing new resources, to s…
MOTIVATION – A STIMULATING FACTOR FOR INCREASING HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PERFORMANCE
2012
Motivation is the basis of behaviours and activities that people deliver inside the association in relation to the peculiarity of the challenges that follow a category or another of functional relations. Thus, in order to assure the performance of the modern associations there is the need to know and understand the elements that motivate or demotivate an employee and even more, to apply them. Individual and constructional performance is in direct relationship with the direct implementation of the management of human resources. Thus, only by knowing the motivational theories and by applying efficient managerial strategies in order to engage the employees in competitive achievement of the org…
Performance measures for hierarchical organizations: Frontier analysis as a decision support tool
2009
We extend the standard frontier efficiency models (data envelopment analysis [DEA] and stochastic frontier analysis [SFA]) by allowing the “decision making units” (DMUs) whose performances are assessed to consist of two different levels within hierarchical organizations. Generally, the lower level unit is responsible for “operations;” while higher level units are assumed to make “strategic” decisions. Our primary contribution in this paper is thus to extend the use of frontier efficiency models to assess each level performance with relevant technical and allocative inefficiency measures. We illustrate our approach using DEA applied to data from a sample of 1,585 branches of a major French b…
Employee Types and Endogenous Organizational Design
2008
This discussion paper resulted in an article in the 'Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization' (2011). Volume 80, issue 3, pages 553-573. When managers are sufficiently guided by social preferences, incentive provision through an organizational mode based on informal implicit contracts may provide a cost-effective alternative to a more formal mode based on explicit contracts and monitoring. This paper reports the results from a laboratory experiment designed to test whether organizations make full effective use of the available preference types within their work force when drafting their organizational design. Our main finding is that they do not do so; although the importance of social …
The specificity of functions and principles of fiscal management
2007
The multiple changes which take place in the public sector due to the economical social and political processes and phenomenon impose the development and the perfecting of public management in order to assure efficiency and efficacy. Although in the specialty literature, the concept of fiscal management or management of fiscal activity is not very well defined, we will try to define this concept, to identify the fundamental and specific objectives, to specify the content of specific functions and principles.
La réglementation de l’audit est-elle dans l’intérêt public:quelques enseignements du modèle français
2010
(VF)Cet article s’appuie sur les travaux académiques des dix dernières années pour évaluer les effets de la réglementation française visant à accroître l’indépendance des auditeurs. Pour les sociétés cotées en bourse, l’obligation de recourir à deux auditeurs se solde notamment par une moindre concentration du marché de l’audit : les Big Four détiennent une part de marché plus faible. Pour autant, les honoraires ne sont pas plus faibles, en raison vraisemblablement, d’une part, des coûts de coordination entre les deux auditeurs qui excèdent les bénéfices escomptés résultant d’un marché plus concurrentiel, d’autre part, de l’impossibilité de changer d’auditeur pendant la durée légale de six …
Lissage des résultats:les conclusions sont-elles contingentes aux options méthodologiques?
2010
Cette étude du lissage des résultats en France, qui porte sur un échantillon de 242 entreprises cotées au cours de la période 2000-2008, met en évidence deux principaux résultats. D’une part, des écarts importants sont constatés entre les diverses mesures de lissage utilisées dans la littérature. D’autre part, la mesure retenue influence la qualité des modèles explicatifs du lissage des résultats. Au final, ce travail original sur données françaises conduit à réinterpréter avec une grande prudence les résultats des études antérieures.
Réflexions sur l’investissement dans la réputation par les auditeurs et les analystes financiers;Discussions about investment in reputation on stock …
2010
(VF)Cet article s’intéresse à l’investissement dans un actif intangible spécifique : la réputation. Son analyse pour les opérateurs sur les marchés financiers est particulièrement intéressante car elle met en exergue les arbitrages possibles entre des profits à court terme issus d’un avantage informationnel et les gains à long terme générés par la construction d’une bonne réputation. Nous focalisons notre attention sur deux acteurs informationnels majeurs du marché des actions : les auditeurs et les analystes financiers. En théorie, ces acteurs sont incités à développer une bonne réputation, parce qu’ils sont en relation continue avec les investisseurs qui demandent des informations fiables…
LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING THE INTRODUCTION AND IMPLEMENT OF THE PROPOSED `FINANCIAL TRANSACTION TAX` ON PENSION FUNDS. IMPACT ON TRANSACTION COS…
2012
In economies in which pension obligations are substantial, it is important that there is a high degree of trust in the financial reporting of pensions by employers and by pension plans. The objective of this paper is to assess legal considerations regarding the introduction and implement of financial transaction tax mechanisms in private pension system. In line with this objective, an understanding of causes, implications, solutions for pensions is essential to being able to efficiently and effectively create a secure fiscal environment.