Industrial Development Model and Spanish Industry in the EU
The Current Model of Industrial Development
The current model of industrial development represents a departure from the oil crisis of the mid-1970s, ushering in what has been termed the Third Industrial Revolution. This era has fostered new types of companies based on leading-edge technologies in computing, electronics, and related fields. Scientific and technological research and its application are paramount.
Uncompetitive companies often relocate to less developed countries to reduce production
Read MoreSocial Security Schemes and Pension Systems
Types of Social Security Schemes
The Social Security (SS) tax system is structured into several schemes:
- General: Covers employees in industry and services (and related).
- Special: Covers other groups with specific socio-economic characteristics.
The general scheme comprises the majority of workers and provides a level of protection. There is a tendency towards homogenization of coverage schemes.
Scheme Details
The obligation to contribute begins when a worker starts employment. Contributions are required
Read MoreInnovation Models, Strategies, and Management Techniques
1) Kline and Rosenberg’s Chain-Linked Model
3) Another non-linear model of innovation processes is Kline and Rosenberg’s (1986) “chain-linked model”. Describe and explain this model, (i.e. describe what constitutes an innovation process according to Kline and Rosenberg’s (1986) “chain-linked model”) (2p)
An innovation process is non-linear and complex with uncertainties, including market and technology uncertainty. They also describe it as a chain of old and new solutions.
The innovation
Read MoreOptimizing On-the-Job Training and Employee Well-being
On-the-Job Training: An Overview
On-the-job training (OJT) is the most common and often the most effective training method. It includes:
- Coaching and mentoring: Coaching involves guidance between a worker and supervisor, while mentoring pairs a senior employee with a junior employee (protégé).
- Job rotation, secondment, and shadowing: These involve exposure to different tasks, multi-skilling to train entry-level managers, and providing back-up support.
- E-learning: Delivered by electronic technology
Product Lifecycle, Market Segmentation, and Assortment
Attractive and Profitable Products
Attractive products are cheap and deal with high volumes, implying a high turnover. They serve to attract people to the store.
Profitable products are white label with the appropriate look of this performance (high margin and high volume).
Specific products generally have much room but with a small rotation.
- In an attempt to establish these three types of products:
The products that are attractive are the property price image.
Profitable products are professional and
Read MoreParsons’ Agile System: Functional Imperatives & Social State of Law
Parsons’ Agile System
Parsons’ agile system, highly influenced by Weber, is divided into four sub-systems that correspond to the parts of the agile scheme:
- Organismic Behavior (Adaptation)
- Supervisory Systems/Personality (Ability to Achieve Goals)
- Social System (Integration)
- Cultural System (Latency)
LI Structure
SIST. CULTURAL SOCIAL SYSTEM
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L: We provide the values and social norms, attitudes, and values.
I: We live in and we have to adapt to society. The mainstreamed
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