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Human Resource Development (HRD) plays a strategic role in the organization

Posted on March 19, 2024July 26, 2025 by Dr, Mark Kern

Effective employee training, integral to HRD, aligns with firms’ strategies and is key for maintaining competitiveness and productivity. Measuring the return on training investment poses challenges due to non-random selection for training and the difficulty in finding productivity proxies. HRD’s strategic role includes workforce skill alignment and collaborating with educational institutions for tailored training, ultimately benefiting individuals, organizations, and society.

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Biblical Implications of Financial Research in the Aviation Industry

Posted on March 1, 2024July 26, 2025 by Dr, Mark Kern

Business practices rooted in Christian ethics prioritize stakeholder over shareholder value, encompassing employee welfare and environmental stewardship. John Bosco’s 19th-century apprenticeship models exemplify this by prioritizing the marginalized. Biblical teachings affirm just employer-employee relations, paralleled today in research underscoring the multifaceted benefits, including financial, of apprenticeships.

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Company Valuation Factors

Posted on February 10, 2024July 26, 2025 by Dr, Mark Kern

In a perfectively rational world, the market value of a company would be based strictly on the financial statements. The financial statements provide a look at the profitability, cash flow, assets, and liabilities of the organization. By reviewing the current financial documents along with variances from historical information, the investor decides on value based on…

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Biblical Support for Personal Finance

Posted on February 2, 2024July 26, 2025 by Dr, Mark Kern

The Bible encourages prudent financial planning to provide for oneself and family, emphasizing the importance of planning, saving, and investing. Various passages underscore the necessity of calculating costs, understanding objectives, diversifying investments, and saving wealth for future use. Moreover, it promotes saving for economic downturns and paying taxes to support communal needs, highlighting the importance of reserves for unexpected events. Financial prudence, as advocated in the Bible, aligns with wise wealth management and societal support structures.

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Impacts of Index Investing on Stock Market Ownership

Posted on December 9, 2023July 26, 2025 by Dr, Mark Kern

Index Investing, pioneered by Jack Bogle’s Vanguard 500 Index, has grown significantly, with passive funds now holding nearly $7 trillion in assets. Initially sluggish and criticized, these funds have changed stock ownership dynamics, influencing market volatility through rebalancing rather than business fundamentals, and raising concerns about market manipulation and reduced diversification due to ETFs’ specific focus.

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