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Chapter 9: Active Risk Management for Retirement Income Portfolios; STATIC EXAMPLE; THE VIEW FROM THE CAPITAL MARKETS LINE; RISK MANAGEMENT AND EXPECTED RETURNS; SIMPLE RULES: FOR PASSIVE AND ACTIVE RISK MANAGEMENT; AN INELEGANT BUT SIMPLE PLAN; HIGH-WATER MARK FLOORING; THE CUSHION; RISK RULES--PERIODIC REBALANCING; RISK RULES--MORE ACTIVE REBALANCING; CPPI AND VOLATILITY; TAXATION AND ACTIVE MANAGEMENT; LOCKING IN FLOORING: LONG END VERSUS SHORT END; A QUICK NOTE ON USABILITY, SCALABILITY, AND APPROACHES OTHER THAN LIABILITY MATCHING; PLAYING WITH FIRE IN A RETIREMENT INCOME PORTFOLIO.

Concepts underlying productivity management and other measures of
organisational performance are discussed. Expert opinions can clarify
many "misunderstood" concepts which need an
interdisciplinary approach for exploration. The Delphi technique, as a
structured group communication process employing the group process or
participative approach, has been recommended with a view to formulating
appropriate policies. Four issues, namely organisational objectives
related to productivity improvement, productivity measures, problems
faced in implementing productivity improvement techniques or tools, and
recommendations to overcome the problems in manufacturing organisations
in India are extensively investigated through a Delphi study, conducted
during 1987‐88.

Conceptualising international and comparative management. Preface : Dominance, diversity and the historical process in management practice / Chris Smith, Brendan McSweeney and Robert Fitzgerald ; Work organisation within a dynamic globalising context : a critique of national institutional analysis of the international firm and an alternative perspective / Chris Smith ; Cultural diversity within nations / Brendan McSweeney ; Business systems, institutions and economic development : the value of comparison and history / Robert Fitzgerald -- Systems in transition. Preface : System as same and different / Brendan McSweeney ; The post-socialist transformation and global process : knowledge and institution building in organisational settings / Ed Clark ; The diffusion of HRM practices from the United Kingdom to China / Jos Gamble ; Surviving through transplantation and cloning : the Swiss Migros hybrid, Migros-Türk / Gül Berna Özcan -- Society as open and closed. Preface : Society and comparative differences / Robert Fitzgerald ; Capitalism and Islam : Arab business groups and capital flows in south-east Asia / Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown ; Challenges to the German theatrical employment system : how long-established institutions respond to globalisation forces / Axel Haunschild ; Between the global and the national : the industrial district concept in historical and comparative context / Andrew Popp ; Transnational learning and knowledge transfer : a comparative analysis of Japanese and US MNCs' overseas R & D laboratories / Alice Lam -- The search for global standards. Preface : Dominance, best practice and globalisation / Chris Smith ; The unravelling of manufacturing best-practice strategies / Alan Pilkington ; Policy transfer and institutional constraints : the diffusion of active labour market policies across Europe / Michael Gold ; Comparative management practices in international advertising agencies in the United Kingdom, Thailand and the United States / Chris Hackley and Amy Rungpaka Tiwsakul ; Corporate social responsibility in Europe : what role for organised labour? / Axel Haunschild, Dirk Matten and Lutz Preuss ; Can 'German' become 'international'? Reactions to globalisation in two German MNCs / Fiona Moore.

This book covers the issues related to human resource management (HRM) in an international context. It gives perspectives and future direction in International HRM research. The chapters explore the models, tools and processes used by international organizations in order to assist international managers to better face the challenges and changes in HRM. It is suitable to HR managers, engineers, entrepreneurs, practitioners, academics and researchers in the field.

This paper seeks to examine the training function in Barbados, specifically the training of executive personnel. It looks at the way in which training is designed, implemented and evaluated. A brief conceptual overview of management development and training is provided. The training function within four organisations is followed through Barbados Employers' Confederation (1988); Barbados Institute of Management and productivity (1990); Caribbean Centre for Development Administration (1983); and the Government Training Centre.(1991}. Of the four, two are in the private sector (Barbados Institute of Management and productivity, and Barbados Employer's Confederation) and the other two are in the public sector (Caribbean Centre for Development Administration, and the Government Training Centre). The interplay of theory and practice is conducted in relation to training policy, training method and posttraining evaluation. Towards the end of the paper, some general assessments are made and certain conclusions are reached. ; peer-reviewed

Management, organizations and contemporary social theory / Stewart Clegg & Miguel Pina e Cunha -- Ethnomethodology / Andrea Whittle & Frank Mueller -- Actor-network theory : Michel Callon, Bruno Latour, John Law / Damian O'Doherty -- Giddens and structuration theory / Ira Chatterjee, Jagat Kunwar and Frank den Hond -- Morphogenesis and reflexivity : margaret archer, critical realism and organizational analysis / Alistair Mutch -- Pierre Bourdieu and elites : making the hidden visible / Mairi Maclean and Charles Harvey -- Theodor Schatzki's theory and its implications for organization studies / Georg Loscher, Violetta Splitter and David Seidl -- Mary Douglas and institutions / Dean Pierides and Graham Sewell -- Norbert Elias and organizations / Robert van Krieken -- Luhmann and organizations as social systems / Xavier Deroy -- Organizing Foucault : power, knowledge and governmentality / Alan McKinlay and Eric Pezet -- The Frankfurt School and critical theory -- Edward Granter -- Judith Butler and performativity / Kate Kenny -- Castells and informationalism / Sandro Mendonça, Cátia Miriam Costa and Tiago Lima Quintanilha -- Liquefying modernity : Zygmunt Bauman as organization theorist / Stewart Clegg & Miguel Pina e Cunha -- Management, organizations and contemporary social theory : an index of possibilities / Miguel Pina e Cunha & Stewart Clegg -- Index.

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to bring the discussion on the relationship between management and medicine a step forward by focussing on: first, how the notion of hybrid and hybridity has been used in the literature on healthcare management. Second, the authors have mapped the alternative ways that the concept have been used in order to conceptualize a more specific set of possible combinations of managerial and professional roles in healthcare management. Hybrid management is a topic that ought to be important for training, communication among researchers and for identifying areas of future research: in management, in healthcare reforms, in sociology of professions and in theory of organizations.Design/methodology/approach– The authors provide a systematic literature review in order to map the various conceptualizations of hybrid management. The authors have searched for "hybrid leadership," "hybrid management" combined with hospitals and health care in a whole range of journals, identified in Google scholar, Academic Search Premier, Academic Research Library and Sage Publication. The authors have also used already existing literature reviews. The search has resulted in more than 60 articles and book titles that have been classified according to whether they make a fit with three alternative ways of conceptualizing hybrid management. The authors are aware that they might have missed some relevant literature but the literature included is quite comprehensive.Findings– In the literature the authors have found three conceptualizations of management. The clinical manager who combines professional self-governance with a general management logic. The commercialized manager who combines professional self-governance with an enterprise logic. The neo-bureaucratic manager who combines self-governance with a neo-bureaucratic logic.Originality/value– In most analyses of hybridity in management and organization the notion of hybrid has been used in a rather superficial way. By mapping the various uses of hybrid in the literature and suggest how a professional logic may be combined with a set of alternative logics of management the authors provide a platform for developing the concept of hybrid management into a more useful tool for analyses of changes in healthcare management.