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Drawing upon resource based theory which explains human capital as the key resource for the firms’ development, this paper hypothesized that the human resource management (HRM) was anchored on firm performance. HRM were conceptualized as 4- and unidimensional constructs, respectively. The main thrust of the paper is to assess the impact of HRM on firm performance. The research uses a sample of 85 firms surveyed in Sarawak, Malaysia. The findings suggested that incentives and information technology are positively related the firms’ performance. Implications of the findings, potential limitations of the study, and directions for future research were further discussed.

Over a 42-month period, 210 patients had a lower midline incision, usually extending around the umbilicus, that was closed with a continuous, running number 2 polypropylene suture. Patients in this study had various predisposing factors for wound disruption. Over 60% were operated upon because of gynecologic cancer. Additional high-risk factors included obesity in 56%, diabetes in 28%, previous irradiation or chemotherapy in 17%, and ascites in 8%. The operative procedures performed ranged from hysterectomies with node sampling to bowel resections and exenterations; wound complications were noted in seven patients. One patient had an incisional hernia. No eviscerations occurred. The closure is safe, expedient, and cost-efficient, and distributes tension equally over a continuous line.

In 1664 Molière and his troupe played in the gardens of Versailles, in front of the Sun King, La Princesse d'Elide a rewriting of the Desdén con el Desdén by Moreto. As Maria Grazia Profeti pointed out in her writings, Genette's analysis still allows, after some time from the critical works of the critic, to avoid the ever-present and threatening obstacles of moral, formal or aesthetic value judgements accompanied by the more or less declared idea of superiority or inferiority of an author or a culture and dramaturgy. Entering the Molierian laboratory, after having highlighted how much the French hypertext owes to its Spanish hypotext, the essay tries to recontextualize the pièce within the Royal Festivals of the Plaisirs de île enchantée also in the light of the reception of contemporaries: wearing virtually the spectacles of a spectator of the time, and taking into consideration the transvalorizations carried out by the French playwright, he also tries to grasp the meaning that the Molierian play may have assumed for the Sovereign and the public in the context of the political and sentimental biography of the King of France at that chronological height.

Background Postural control, that depends on many sensory contributors and motor skills, is altered in people with fibromyalgia (FM) 1–3. Knowing those contributors that could be impaired in this population is important to design an appropriate balance therapy. Objectives Due to the fact that people with FM use to present a strength loss 7, our main goal was to explore the relation between postural control and lower limb strength in this population. Further, the sensory inputs contributors to the postural control were assessed. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted in a sample of 40 FM patients. A force platform was used to assess postural control under five bipedal conditions: i) eyes-open (EO); ii) dual task (recalling a typical day in their life) (DT); iii) eyes-close (EC); iv) eyes-open over a foam (FEO); v. eyes-close over a foam (FEC). Three variables, “Ellipse”, “RMS” and “Sample Entropy” (SampEn), were recorded (for both directions). Further, maximal quadriceps (qdc) and hamstring (hmsg) isometric strength were assessed using a dynamometer. Spearman correlations were conducted to establish the relationship between postural control and strength and a repeated-measures MANOVA, to analyze differences between conditions. Results When EO and DT (performed with eyes open) were compared, no significant differences were obtained. However when patients closed their eyes, an increase in ellipse and RMS_AP and a decrease in variability were obtained. The same was true when the tests were performed over a foam (altering proprioception), Table 1. Furthermore, no significant correlations (p>0.05) were observed between strength and balance except for a weak significant correlation between hmsg strength and RMS_AP (rs=-0.33, p Conclusions Postural control worsens in FM people when some sensory inputs are altered or missed. Further, there is no correlation between lower limb strength and balance in this population. References Akkaya N, Akkaya S, Atalay NS, Acar M, Catalbas N, Sahin F. Assessment of the relationship between postural stability and sleep quality in patients with fibromyalgia. Clin Rheumatol. 2013;32(3):325–331. Jones KD, King LA, Mist SD, Bennett RM, Horak FB. Postural control deficits in people with fibromyalgia: a pilot study. Arthritis Res Ther. 2011;13(4):R127. Russek LN, Fulk GD. Pilot study assessing balance in women with fibromyalgia syndrome. Physiother Theory Pract. 2009;25(8):555–565. Gόes SM, Stefanello JM, Homann D, Lodovico A, Hubley-Kozey CL, Rodacki AL. Torque and muscle activation impairment along with insulin resistance are associated with falls in women with fibromyalgia. J Strength Cond Res Strength Cond Assoc. 2016; 30(11), 3155–3164. Acknowledgements Grant GV2016/140. Conselleria Educaciό Ciencia i esports. Valencia, Spain. Disclosure of Interest None declared

Facing industrial unrest in each of its Canadian petroleum refineries, the Imperial Oil Company embarked on a wide-ranging industrial-relations initiative in 1919. Patterned after Mackenzie King's "Rockefeller Plan," the logic was clear: joint worker-management councils would alleviate shop-floor discontent; a package of welfare benefits would reduce absenteeism and turnover; and a share-purchase plan would enhance worker loyalty to the Company. Where similar attempts at corporate welfarism in Canada generally failed, Imperial Oil enjoyed a union free status until 1946, and freedom from work stoppages until the early 1950s. What made it unique in this regard was its willingness and capacity to buy labour harmony; and in an era hostile to organized labour, its workers succeeded in extracting important monetary concessions as the price of their loyalty. Imperial Oil thus offers a cogent example of the conditions necessary for King's variant of welfare capitalism to flourish. Resume Faisant face a l'agitation industrielle dans chacune de ses raffineries de petrole canadiennes, la Compagnie Imperial Oil s'est engagee dans une initiative variee de relations industrielles en 1919. Modelee sur le «plan Rockefeller» de Mackenzie King, la logique etait claire: des conseils mixtes de patronat et de travailleurs diminueraient le mecontentement parmi les ouvriers; un contrat global d'avantages sociaux reduirait l'absenteisme et le renouvellement de personnel; et un plan pour acheter des actions ameliorerait la loyaute des ouvriers envers la compagnie. Alors que des essais similaires d'implanter politiques sociales de l'intreprise (corporate welfarism) ont echoues generalement au Canada, Imperial Oil a jouit d'une situation sans syndicat jusqu'a 1946 et sans arrets du travail jusqu'au debut des annees 50s. Ce qui l'a rendu unique a cet egard ce sont son empressement et son aptitude a acheter l'harmonie au travail; et a une epoque hostile a la main-d'oeuvre syndiquee, ses travailleurs ont reussi a arracher des concessions monetaires importantes comme prix de leur loyaute. De cette facon, Imperial Oil offre un exemple pertinent des conditions necessaires sous lesquelles la variante du «capitalisme de l'assistance social» (NdeT) de King a prospere.