SAM Advanced Management Journal articles from March 2000

SAM Advanced Management Journal archives from March 2000

From the Editor-in-Chief.
March 22, 2000... It gives me great pleasure to inform you that the SAM Advanced Management Journal has been awarded the 2000 Anbar Golden Page Award for Readability. This award will be presented in London on April 14, 2000. According to the e-mail notice I...

Sorrow and Guilt: An Ethical Analysis of Layoffs.
March 22, 2000... Closing the office door, looking straight into an employee's face, and telling him that he no longer has a job is not an easy task. When that employee's performance has been satisfactory or even exemplary, it is even more difficult for a...

Factors Affecting the Adoption of Advanced Manufacturing Technology in Small Firms.
March 22, 2000... Introduction Manufacturing firms with 250 employees or less currently constitute approximately 96% of all manufacturers in the United States (U.S. Bureau of Census, 1991). Trade alliances like the European Economic Community, NAFTA, and...

Building a Balanced Performance Management System.
March 22, 2000... Introduction With the shift from the industrial age to the information age, businesses are faced with new rules of competition and the need to respond quickly to changes in the marketplace. Increasingly, competitive success is being...

The Impact of an Education and Training Program on Attitudes of Employees Toward Co-Workers With AIDS.
March 22, 2000... The presence of AIDS education and training programs in the workplace has been well reported (Magnus, 1988; Watts, 1988; Brown, 1991; Pryor, Reeder, & McManus, 1991). Most of these reports have discussed employer and employee concerns about...

The CPA Profession: Responding to a Changing Environment.
March 22, 2000... Introduction We tell our business students that "accounting is the language of business." The relevance of accounting to business is not changing, but the responsibilities and career options for accountants are expanding. The traditional...

Internships: A Try Before You Buy Arrangement.
March 22, 2000... Introduction The practice of gaining supervised practical experience is nothing new. In fact, it's ancient: references are found to apprenticeships thousands of years ago. Known as internships today, it is a rite of passage for students in...

Defining the Arts of Quality: A Quality Model at Longwood College.
March 22, 2000... Introduction The purpose of this paper is to present the Quality Model that the Longwood College School of Business and Economics developed to help ensure that students have a positive, market-driven educational learning experience that...