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Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to cover the issue of relationship between salaries and labour productivity and consider the possible positive effect of salary rise on the labour productivity levels. High productivity is the basic of stable economical growth, but in the recent years economies of many countries experienced decrease in its levels. In conditions of economical crisis it becomes clear that the rise of labour productivity is necessary condition in process of restoring and successful continuation of economical growth, which leads to necessity of deeper research of mechanisms which could enhance labour productivity. According to the aim the article analyses the relationship between average wages and labour productivity indicators on the example of four countries from different regions and of different level of economical development during 2012 – 2016, an attempt to evaluate the strength of links using correlation coefficientis made. As a result, conclusions about positive and negative relationship between significatives were made and recommendations on using obtained correlations were given.

Keywords: Labour Productivity, Labour Cost, The Relationship Between Indicators, Salaries.

References:

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3. Wakeford, “The productivity-wages relationship in South Africa: an empirical investigation,” Developement South Africa, 21, 2004, pp. 109-132.
4. K. Narayan, R. Smyth, “The effect of inflation and real wages on productivity: new evidence from panel of G7 countries,” Applied Economics, 41, 2009, pp. 1285 – 1291.
5. Verbic, F. Kuzmin, “Corfficient of structural concordance and an example of its application: labour productivity and wages in Slovenia,” Panoeconomicus, 56 (2), 2009, pp. 227 – 240.
6. Tang Chor Foon, “The non-economic effect of real wages on labour productivity: New evidence from the manufacturing sector in Malaysia,” International Journal of Social Economics, 39 (6), 2012, pp. 391 – 399.
7. Goschin, A.R. Danciu, M. Gruiescu, “The connection between labour productivity and wage in Romania. Territorial and sectoral approaches,”2008, Available online at: < http://masters.donntu.org/2010/iem/boreyko/library/article05.pdf> (03.04.2018)
8. Kumar, J. Webber Don, P. Geoff, “Real wages, inflation and labour productivity in Australia,” Applied economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, 44 (23), 2012, pp. 2945-2954.
9. Sidhu, “Productivity led wage dispatrity in the Indian industry,” Indian Journal of Industial relations, 45 (3), 2010, pp. 350 – 366.
10. Lopez-Villavicencio, J. Silva, “Employment protection and the non-linear relationship between the wage-productivity gap and unemployment”, Working paper CEPN-CNRS, University of Paris Nord, 2012.
11. Mora, J. Lopez-Tamayo, J. Surinach, “Are wages and productivity converging simultaneously in eoro-area countries?” Applied economics, 37, 2005, pp. 125-150.
12. J. Gordon, “Productivity, wages and prices inside and outside of manufacturing in the US, Japan and Europe,” European economic review, 31, 1997, pp. 685- 739.
13. Bildrici, E.A. Alp, ”The relationshipbetween wages and productivity: Tar unit root and
    Tar cointegration approach,” International Journal of Applied Econometrics and Quantitative Studies, 5, 2008, pp. 93-110.
14. Srtauss, M. Wohar, “The linkage between prices, wages and labour productivity: A panel study of manufacturing industries,” Southern Economic Journal, 70, 2004, pp. 920-941.
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Abstract: This paper is devoted to possibilities and ways of organizing performance systems in small and middle-sized enterprises as well as constrains for applications of performance management in the enterprises related to their scale and special characteristics issued from it. Modern approach to performance management systems that includes specific methods, practices and policies which are applied to improve organizational effectiveness in the accomplishment of mission and goals mostly aims at large scale organizations. As for enterprises of small and middle size, there is common opinion that performance system in enterprises of this scale is not necessary or ineffective in the realms of its cost. Such attitude is doubtful considering the importance of small and middle-sized enterprises in modern economy, including both local and national economies of any region. This paper presents the detailed review of performance system role in enterprises of small scope, analyses ways of such organization on the example of two small and three middle-sized enterprises and, as a result, gives recommendations on successful implementation of performance system into enterprises of this type.

Keywords: Performance Management, Human Resource Management, Performance Management Systems, Small And Medium-Sized Enterprises.

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Abstract: United States being a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic society, ongoing efforts are made to understand various groups and communities for various purposes. Older Asian Indian Americans are also one such group who needs attention whose potential to function at various capacities can contribute to better knowledge about this group, Improving quality of life as a point of interest for older Asian Indians in the United States, can help when considering programs and services for such population. in order to improve their quality of life.

Keywords: multi-cultural and multi-ethnic society, United States, Older Asian.

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Abstract: The present paper is an attempt to find the impact of M&A announcement on the share price of Indian acquirer firms. This study examines the 25 Indian domestic Mergers and Acquisitions held in year 2009 & 2010 by using event study methodology. Only firms from secondary sector of Indian economy were selected for this study. T test was applied on Average Abnormal returns (AAR) & cumulative Average Abnormal returns (CAAR) of observed event windows (-5,+5), (-2,+2) and (-1,+1) to examine statistical validity. After analysing all returns, it is found that Mergers and Acquisitions announcement do not have any significant impact on CAAR of Acquirer firms but AAR is statistically significantly positive on some days of (-5,+5)event window.

Keywords: Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Event study, Average Abnormal returns (AAR), cumulative Average Abnormal returns (CAAR), Market Model

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