Day archives: August 24th, 2012

The New Knowledge Services: Next Steps for Career Professionals

Specialist Librarians as Knowledge Strategists, by Guy St. Clair. Presented at the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference, Chicago IL USA July 16, 2012 in a “Spotlight Session” sponsored by SLA’s Information Technology and Knowledge Management Divisions “Your job exists and you are in that job because you are employed by your parent organization to see …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

2011 Risks and Process of Retirement Survey

Society of Actuaries’ new report shows increasing longevity as a major retirement planning risk: “Life spans are continuing to increase. In the past half-century, life expectancy for newborn American males improved by an average of almost two years each decade, from 66.6 years in 1960 to 75.7 years by 2010. For females, the average increase …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

NBER Working Paper – The Value of Bosses

The Value of Bosses, Edward P. Lazear, Kathryn L. Shaw, Christopher T. Stanton. NBER Working Paper No. 18317. Issued in August 2012 “Do supervisors enhance productivity? Arguably, the most important relationship in the firm is between worker and supervisor. The supervisor may hire, fire, assign work, instruct, motivate and reward workers. Models of incentives and …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

Public Company Accounting Oversight Board – Report on the Progress of the Interim Inspection Program Related to Audits of Brokers and Dealers

“This report presents observations from inspections of portions of 23 audits at ten firms conducted as part of the interim inspection program. The audits and firms selected are not necessarily representative of all broker and dealer audits and their auditors. The approach used in the selection of audits of brokers and dealers considered a number …

Subjects: Government Documents