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Introducing Microsoft Teams : understanding the new chat-based workspace in Office 365
Gain industry best practices from planning to implementing Microsoft Teams and learn how to enable, configure, and integrate user provisioning, management, and monitoring. This book also covers troubleshooting Teams with step-by-step instructions and examples. You'll learn how to migrate from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams with a step-by-step tutorial. This Book Is For Unified communication administrators and IT support engineers who are currently supporting an existing unified communication platform such as Skype for Business (Lync). It would also help support engineers, new administrators, and consultant to start their journey with Teams.
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Public Entrepreneurs
Seizing opportunities, inventing new products, transforming markets--entrepreneurs are an important and well-documented part of the private sector landscape. Do they have counterparts in the public sphere? The authors argue that they do, and test their argument by focusing on agents of dynamic political change in suburbs across the United States, where much of the entrepreneurial activity in American politics occurs. The public entrepreneurs they identify are most often mayors, city managers, or individual citizens. These entrepreneurs develop innovative ideas and implement new service and tax arrangements where existing administrative practices and budgetary allocations prove inadequate to meet a range of problems, from economic development to the racial transition of neighborhoods. How do public entrepreneurs emerge? How much does the future of urban development depend on them? This book answers these questions, using data from over 1,000 local governments.
The emergence of public entrepreneurs depends on a set of familiar cost-benefit calculations. Like private sector risk-takers, public entrepreneurs exploit opportunities emerging from imperfect markets for public goods, from collective-action problems that impede private solutions, and from situations where information is costly and the supply of services is uneven. The authors augment their quantitative analysis with ten case studies and show that bottom-up change driven by politicians, public managers, and other local agents obeys regular and predictable rules.
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Driving Sustainable AI Implementation in Business: The Integrated Role of Economic Value Perception, Managerial Attitudes, and Behavioral Intentions
This research examines the relationships among economic value assessment, managerial perspectives, adoption willingness, and long-term AI utilization among organizational leaders in Peru. Using a quantitative cross-sectional design with covariance-based statistical analysis, data were collected from 390 management personnel (58.72% male, 41.28% female) representing diverse enterprises in northern Peru. Four hypotheses were evaluated concerning the effects of price–value on intention to use, attitude toward AI on intention to use, price–value on attitude toward AI, and intention to use on sustainable AI implementation. Results from partial-least-squares structural equation modeling showed significant direct effects of price–value on both intentions to use and attitudes toward AI, with attitudes also significantly influencing intention to use. The model exhibited exceptional explanatory power: price–value and attitudes explained 89.2% of the variance in intention to use, while intention to use accounted for 85.1% of the variance in sustainable AI use. These findings indicate that both economic considerations and psychological factors are critical for advancing sustainable AI adoption among business managers. Consequently, integrating price–value analyses and attitude-development components into AI implementation strategies is supported to enhance technology adoption success in business contexts.
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Understanding Perceptions of Post-Secondary Education Among Rural Manufacturing Business Managers
This study explored the ways post-secondary education intertwines with manufacturing in northwestern Pennsylvania with a particular focus on the perspectives of rural manufacturing business managers. The purpose of the study was to learn what skills and education the rural manufacturing business professionals believed their employees needed, how the professionals communicated their business and employee challenges with post-secondary educational leaders, and how their perceptions of post-secondary education changed during their tenure as rural manufacturing managers. This study provided valuable insight into the personal and technical skills employers seek when hiring new employees. Eight manufacturing business professionals who led businesses in two rural northwestern Pennsylvania counties participated in this study. Following Bailly’s (2008) model as described by Cai (2012), this study found that the participants used employee performance and skillset to impact their decisions for future hiring. The findings of this study suggest that skills are more important to the rural manufacturing business professionals than post-secondary degrees. In addition, this study found a lack of communication between rural manufacturing business professionals and post-secondary education leaders. These professionals addressed the need for skills-training programs to ensure employees were trained to meet the local workforce needs. Also, this study found a need for short-term employee development trainings to support operations, skills development, and training on new machines at the local businesses. Finally, post-secondary institutions did not include local manufacturing business managers on institutional advisory boards; therefore, the manufacturing leadership skills and knowledge of the manufacturing industry were not incorporated into post-secondary programs.Stemming from these findings, this study offers two important implications. First, there needs to be communication between rural manufacturing business professionals and post-secondary educators. This will allow for dialogue about workforce needs. Secondly, post-secondary education should consider ways to provide personalized trainings to local businesses to meet its training needs.
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Political power and corporate control
Why does corporate governance--front page news with the collapse of Enron, WorldCom, and Parmalat--vary so dramatically around the world? This book explains how politics shapes corporate governance--how managers, shareholders, and workers jockey for advantage in setting the rules by which companies are run, and for whom they are run. It combines a clear theoretical model on this political interaction, with statistical evidence from thirty-nine countries of Europe, Asia, Africa, and North and South America and detailed narratives of country cases.
This book differs sharply from most treatments by explaining differences in minority shareholder protections and ownership concentration among countries in terms of the interaction of economic preferences and political institutions. It explores in particular the crucial role of pension plans and financial intermediaries in shaping political preferences for different rules of corporate governance. The countries examined sort into two distinct groups: diffuse shareholding by external investors who pick a board that monitors the managers, and concentrated blockholding by insiders who monitor managers directly. Examining the political coalitions that form among or across management, owners, and workers, the authors find that certain coalitions encourage policies that promote diffuse shareholding, while other coalitions yield blockholding-oriented policies. Political institutions influence the probability of one coalition defeating another.
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Challenges and Opportunities for Human Factors/Ergonomics as a Strategic Partner for Business Managers: In-Depth Research of Experts’ Visions
The potential of human factors and ergonomics (HFE) contributions to business performances is underestimated. Companies have a narrow understanding of ergonomics and do not perceive it as a strategic partner. In order to call for attention within the HFE community and in the business world, the authors conducted a series of interviews with eleven leading HFE experts on their visions of HFE as a strategic aid to business. Results indicate the challenges and issues along with the opportunities and activities for cooperation between HFE professionals and business managers. The research illustrates examples of the crucial changes that must take place for the enhancement of HFE values and opens the floor for it as a strategic partner to business managers. HFE experts are recommended as key players and responsible actors for implementation of the changes with the aim of repositioning HFE within businesses.
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To Pay or Not to Pay? Business Owners' Tax Morale: Testing a Neo-Institutional Framework in a Transition Environment
In order to understand how the environment influences business owner/managers' attitudes towards tax morale, we build a theoretical model based on a neo-institutionalist framework. Our model combines three complementary perspectives on institutions—normative, cultural-cognitive and regulatory-instrumental. This enables a broader understanding of factors that influence business owner-managers' attitudes towards tax evasion. We test the resulting hypotheses using regression analysis on survey data on business owner/managers in Latvia—a transition country, which has undergone massive institutional changes since it was part of the Soviet Union over 25 years ago. We find that legitimacy of the tax authorities and the government (normative dimension), feeling of belonging to the nation (cultural-cognitive dimension) and perceptions of the risk and severity of punishment (regulatory-instrumental dimension) are all associated with higher tax morale for business owners and managers.
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The stimulus of European Union accession on the personal values formation process: a study of Croatia and Slovenia
The main purpose of this study is to investigate the change in the personal values orientations of individuals in Croatia and Slovenia resulting from the countries' accession to the European Union (EU). We examined business managers' and professionals' value orientation by using four individual-level higher-order dimensions of self-transcendence, self-enhancement, openness to change and conservation, as defined in Schwartz's value theory. To capture the effect of EU accession, we examined employees' values orientation before accession to the EU (Croatia N = 276; Slovenia N = 389) and after each country's accession (Croatia N = 223, Slovenia N = 336). This study reveals a substantial impact of this major socio-political change on the individual value-formation process. The value-formation of Croatia and Slovenia poorly follows manifested EU common principles and shared values, where Slovenians have more aversive look at the EU integration, then Croatians, what can be assigned to 'initial enthusiasm', as Croatia entered almost decade later. The identified 'EU integration gap' warns that accession to the EU is more associated with reaping economic benefits than with aligning the country's values with those emphasized by EU integration. The findings have important implications for value management in the EU, single countries, and organizations.
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From privilege to competition : unlocking private-led growth in the Middle East and North Africa
By focusing on market institutions, the quality of implementation of economic policies and the credibility of reforms from the private sector perspective, this report offers a new angle to the growth and employment challenge of the Middle East and North Africa region.
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