Paper:ewp-io/0404002 From: Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 01:28:06 -0500
The Productivity of any organisation is directly correlated to the Effectiveness of the Employee Performance Appraisal System, subject to the Effectiveness of the Support Systems, depending upon the type of organizational business. INFERENCE Technology / Systems and Manpower are linked in an inter- related circle focusing towards Productivity DOCTORAL (Ph.D) RESEARCH WORK OF DR.VSR.SUBRAMANIAM IN JAMNALAL BAJAJ INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES. UNIVERSITY OF BOMBAY. INDIA. (1975). ================================================================= The First Doctrate awarded in the area of Management, after the inception of this Subject in the University. The Thesis is supported By :- A ) 7 Publications. B ) 5 Seminar Presentations. C ) 3 Open Discussion sessions, with Question/Answer & Review. D ) 2 Faculty Colloquium. E ) Randomly sampled / Normally distributed sectarian survey to provide a least-error probability. F ) Pre-test of the hypothesis in 3 representative sectors. G ) Evaluation by the University / Local Management Experts and a Professor in Management from a Foreign accredited University [ Manchester Business School, UK ]. H ) Expert Group Viva Voce ( Examination and Review ).
EconWPA began as a conversation between Bob Parks and Larry Blume on January 28, 1993. I located Paul Ginsparg's archive (then xxx.lanl.gov) and he graciously installed his software on a Sun Sparc system which was supporting the department of economics email and computation. EconWPA began accepting papers July 1, 1993 and had ftp, email, gopher and web interfaces. The web interface for submissions was engineered into existence in July 1995. A complete and catastrophic machine failure in 1999 caused the loss of EconWPA's email new paper announcment service at which time there were over 15,000 subscriptions with over 8,000 unique email addresses.

I was told that I could keep operating EconWPA (as well as many other services including rfe.wustl.edu, barnett.wustl.edu, and three RePEc servers) but I would receive no support (hardware, software, or anthing else) and (as had been the case) no compensation. At that point, given the apparent low valuation of my activities by the department, and university, it made no sense for me to continue operating EconWPA or other services.
Thanks to all who have supported EconWPA in the past.
A Chinese curse states May you live in intersting times. I have. Bob Parks - Jan 2006