Short Description:
Human Resource Management teaches HRM strategies and theories that any manager—not just those in HR—needs to know about recruiting, selecting, training, and compensating people. For questions about this textbook please contact textbookuse@umn.edu

Long Description:
Human Resource Management is adapted from a work produced by a publisher who has requested that they and the original author not receive attribution. This adapted edition is produced by the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing through the eLearning Support Initiative. For questions about this textbook please contact textbookuse@umn.edu

Word Count: 140210

ISBN: 978-1-77897-015-3

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This text explains the nuts and bolts of how different types of coins, bills, and checks; how they are connected; and how your dollars can earn money through the bank.

This compilation of secondary sources gives an account for how the Transatlantic slave trade became a key economic feature of the Western coast of Africa, as well as an important economic feature of the "New World" colonies. This is a guided reading with questions throughout for the purpose of assessing students' understanding. Student's are prompted to mark the text for key details as they follow along. An excellent source to print or to use digitally. 

Based on a fable about government debt, students identify the relevance of crowding out, monetizing a debt, external debt, and stimulus spending.

This context-rich problem helps students to apply the characteristics of imperfect competition to a real world setting.

The Foundation for Teaching Economics is pleased to make available to teachers the content outlines, classroom activities, and teacher materials (demonstration videos and lecture presentations) for each of our residential, one-day, and online curricula. Each curriculum topic link on the left connects you to an overview and table of contents. From there, you may: browse the lessons as web pages; access download links for lessons as editable word documents; use live source links to update statistical data; print instructions and student handouts for classroom activities; and, review and prepare for your classroom by reviewing activity videos and powerpoint lectures.

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A review of the causes and consequences of U.S. and global changes in economic inequality and intergenerational mobility. This book is the result of the collaborative efforts of 27 members of the 2019 SUNY-Oswego Seminar in Economic Theory and Policy class.

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Economic inequality has been rising and intergenerational mobility declining in the U.S. and many other advanced economies in the late 20th century and early 21st Century. In this book, 27 students in the 2019 SUNY-Oswego Seminar in Economic Theory and Policy class examine the causes and consequences of these changes.

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Income inequality in America is a serious issue. People are worried about a widening gap between the rich and the poor in the United States. But is the global story the same? In this video, Professor Tyler Cowen of George Mason University explains how globalization is affecting income inequality worldwide.

This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"A company's economic performance varies over time But a company's executives can use earnings management to reduce the variability of reported earnings - a common measure of economic performance This process, known as “income smoothing,” has been debated by regulators and researchers Some worry that executives may use income smoothing to mask poor economic performance Others argue that income smoothing allows executives to report earnings that better reflect the company’s true ongoing performance A new study examines how income smoothing impacts debt contract design and financial covenant effectiveness to provide evidence on these issues The study finds that debt contracts to borrowers who smooth income are more likely to include an earnings-based debt covenant And income smoothers are less likely to experience a spurious covenant violation, where a debt covenant is violated even though credit risk has not increased These findings suggest that smoothed earnings are more useful in monitor.."

The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.

Spreadsheets Across Curriculum module. Students build spreadsheets to examine the price of gasoline, 1978-2005. QL: using ratios and proportions to make comparisons.

How shall we judge the contributions to American society of the great financiers and industrialists at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries? In this lesson, students explore a variety of primary historical sources to uncover some of the less honorable deeds as well as the shrewd business moves and highly charitable acts of the great industrialists and financiers, men such as Andrew Carnegie, J. Pierpont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Cornelius Vanderbilt.

14.271 is a PhD-level course in industrial organization, introducing students to the basic building blocks of the field and exposing them to a variety of techniques. It is designed to start the process of preparing economics PhD students to conduct thesis research in the area. It is also intended to be of interest to doctoral students working in other areas of economics and related fields. The course integrates theoretical models and empirical studies.

This is a course in industrial organization, the study of firms in markets. Industrial organization focuses on firm behavior in imperfectly competitive markets, which appear to be far more common than the perfectly competitive markets that were the focus of your basic microeconomics course. This field analyzes the acquisition and use of market power by firms, strategic interactions among firms, and the role of government competition policy. We will approach this subject from both theoretical and applied perspectives.

Industry 4.0 Open Educational Resources

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The OER collection “Innovate on the Internet Computer” documents a variety of learning experiences. Parts I, II, and III are from the perspective of learning by instructions, learning by cases, and learning by conversations. Part I consists of 5 chapters that provide the basic but complete pipeline for developing innovative applications on the Internet Computer. Part II includes 5 chapters of case studies produced by students from the Duke CS+ project team “Decentralized Finance: Cryptocurrency and Blockchain on the Internet Computer” and beyond. Part III consists of chapters on conversations documented in Ask Me Anything (AMA) interviews of pioneers in academia and industry.

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Website:　https://ic.pubpub.org/

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This activity provides a classroom impact evaluation exercise that serves as an introduction to the primary investigative tool of current Development economics.

This reformation will present readers a view of interdisciplinarity and the foundational components that have been present throughout human history. You might ask, why is there a problem with interdisciplinarity now? What this book outlines are the questionable and potentially, malevolent ideals that have been pervasive in our society that go against the forms of logic and reason. This will be a catalyst towards a reform for epistemological connections in logic, ethics and emotion that relate to us as autonomous individuals that impact our learning, life, and society.

In this teaching exercise students will extend the conventional economic framework for analyzing the causes and consequences of unemployment to incorporate insight from psychologists and sociologists. Thus, the exercise adopts the hierarchical approach to interdisciplinary learning. Students will explore theories from psychologists and sociologists that link joblessness to emotional well-being and discover how economists then connect the psychological status of a nation's workforce to their productivity. These linkages are then built into standard economic models for analyzing aggregate output and prices (i.e., aggregate supply aggregate demand) and for employment determination (i.e., marginal productivity theory of labor) to obtain a richer more complete understanding of the impact of a recession. The analysis reveals that recessions are expected to be deeper and of greater duration when an interdisciplinary analysis is conducted. Moreover, alternative (i.e., non-neoclassical) paradigms within the discipline of economics for explaining joblessness are briefly described and brought into the discussion. Finally, policy options for eliminating a recession are re-considered given the interdisciplinary framework offered in this exercise.

This course uses the tools of macroeconomics to study various macroeconomic policy problems in-depth. The problems range from economic growth in the long run, to government finances in the intermediate run, and economic stability in the short run. Many economic models used today are surveyed.

Intermediate Microeconomic Theory Course Redesign Map

EC 358

This class will further your understanding of microeconomic theory by building on Principles of Microeconomics. We will explore principles of resource allocation, including consumer choice, theories of the firm and market structure, and an introduction to general equilibrium and welfare economics. You will be encouraged to think critically about how these economic concepts and tools can be applied to the real world and used to provide insight into current events.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:
1. Develop models of supply and demand grounded in your understanding of firm technological choice and costs and consumer utility and budget constraints
2. Define and identify partial and general equilibrium and hypothesize how policy changes may impact these equilibria
3. Classify different market structures (perfect competition, monopolistic competition, monopoly, etc) and assess their economic implications
4. Explain how externalities and asymmetric information can result in market failure and evaluate potential policy solutions for these failures.

University of Saskatchewan Edition

Short Description:
Intermediate Microeconomics is a comprehensive microeconomic theory text that uses real world policy questions to motivate and illustrate the material in each chapter. Intermediate Microeconomics is an approachable yet rigorous textbook that covers the entire scope of traditional microeconomic theory and includes two mathematical approaches, allowing instructors to teach the material with or without calculus. With real-world policy topics as an entrée into each subject, Intermediate Microeconomics will help students engage with the material and facilitate learning not only the concepts, but their importance and application as well. This edition was revised specifically to use in ECON 211 at the University of Saskatchewan. Enhancements in this edition include Canadian case examples, revised graphics, interactive glossary items, supplementary media, and finally, interactive self-checks.

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