All Publications

Date Publishedsort ascending Author
05/30/2012

Survey on Workforce Needs and Talent Development

A survey of the MAPI Human Resources Council was conducted to obtain benchmarking metrics around how manufacturing companies represented on the Council are addressing their needs for talent (at both the production worker and managerial/professional...

Leslie D. Miller
02/14/2012

Ethics and Compliance Function at Manufacturing Companies

Reflecting insights from 43 manufacturers, this MAPI survey shows that the compliance function is expanding and evolving, and offers keen insight on the various aspects of a Chief Compliance Officer position and the function's organizational...

Rae Ann S. Johnson
01/17/2012

The NLRB's Precedent-Overruling Decisions

During the last workweek in August 2011, as National Labor Relations Board (NLRB, or Board) Chairman Wilma Liebman's term was expiring, the Board issued a series of four important decisions that in combination substantially enhanced the ability of...

Leslie D. Miller
12/01/2011

Survey on Audit Fees 2011

  The sixth annual MAPI survey on audit fees found that the average revenue of 83 companies increased from FY2009 to FY2010 while their average audit fee fell. As a result, the average audit fee/revenue ratio fell. There was considerable variation...

Donald A. Norman, Ph.D.
11/29/2011

Survey of the Corporate Human Resources Function: 1st Edition

The members of the Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI Human Resources Council were recently surveyed to obtain broad, comprehensive benchmarking information about the corporate human resources (HR) function. Peer data was sought on HR functions'...

Leslie D. Miller