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Drawing inspiration from the psychological literature on social change [e.g., 1, 2], we classify approaches to development engineering into three categories based on the depth, sustainability, and scalability of the resultant change within a community. In this context, we define “first-order change” as charity or direct service, in which a donor meets the immediate needs of a beneficiary; we define...
Cloud Computing was growing so fast today. The services are Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS). This development of cloud computing align with the development of computer in this new age which turn people to work mobile and faster. Cloud computing could be one of the new tools in supporting learning process for students in Higher Education...
The widespread adoption of online education is severely challenged by issues of verifiability, reliability, security and credibility. Open Badges exist to address these challenges, but there is no consensus as to what constitutes best practices regarding the implementation of an Open Badge system within an educational context. In this paper we survey the current landscape of Open Badges from educational...
Objective: To revise the autonomous learning scale that developed by Michigan State University for its applicability in Chinese, and to explore the relationship between self-efficacy and autonomous learning of medical undergraduates. Methods: The general self-efficacy scale and autonomous learning scale are used to measure the medical undergraduates. Results: (1) The scale revised of autonomic learning...
Organizational identification is a perception that individual is consistent with the organization. The purpose of this paper was to explore the status of university teachers' organizational identification and the influencing factors by applying the computational statistics software SPSS19.0 to analyze the data. Method: 535 university teachers were investigated with two questionnaires and the data...
The use of an asynchronous video-annotated peer review system (VAPR) presents the opportunity to enhance teaching and diffuse pedagogical practice in higher education. The process involves the video recording of classroom teaching by each faculty member, which is then reviewed and annotated in real-time by faculty peers to identify specific instances of good practices, opportunities for improvement,...
The major objective of this paper is to report on the designed framework for utilizing IT to enhance knowledge sharing (KS) among educators. By using existing constructs derived from the information systems theories, namely: Social Exchange Theory (SET), Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) and The Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT). Based on the three existing theories tested,...
A new committee* under the Industrial and Commercial Power Systems (I&CPS) Department of the Industry Applications Society (IAS) received approval at the October 2014 IAS Annual Meeting, in Vancouver. This committee will be dedicated to the special needs and characteristics of the Educational and Healthcare segments of the US and World economies. For example, these two segments of the US economy,...
Women in Malaysia have been in the labor force for many years. However, the number of women in Malaysia holding higher managerial positions is rare although women possess higher education qualification and experience compared to men. This paper investigates the existence of barriers that may prevent women from filling up the top management positions and further investigates how these perceived barriers...
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships MBTI personality traits and career success, 147 employees were assessed. The results were as follows: (1)There was a significantly positive correlation between extraversion and career success.(2) Career success is not significantly different between 16 MBTI types.
In recent years, knowledge management has become an important issue for many organizations to boost their intellectual capital and business performance. Rather than the emphasis of system functions, a social cognitive model is proposed to examine the associations among members' cognition, interpersonal relationships, and their knowledge contribution behavior. The research results demonstrate that...
This paper is an empirical study in which we uses three-dimensional degree organizational commitment (OC) questionnaire developed by Meyer & Allen and abbreviated version of the innovative behavior (IB) questionnaire proposed by Kleysen. 181 valid questionnaires for high-tech enterprise knowledge employees (KE) are obtained through a sample survey. The results by data regression analysis, correlation...
This study aims to study the relation between knowledge management and knowledge management performance, in Taiwan semiconductor industry, as well as organizational citizenship behavior being the moderator in the relation. Questionnaires were distributed to R&D personnel of public-listed companies in Taiwan semiconductor industry, and total 470 effective samples were retrieved. For data analysis,...
This paper investigates the quality ranking of current Islamic websites using nine (9) website features (i.e. navigation, interactivity, legitimacy, objectivity, authority, relevancy, attractiveness, credibility, and reliability) in order to find the highest and lowest quality scores for individual websites based on their design & content feature. A heuristic evaluation method using single-user...
How does organizational learning affect strategic change? How does strategic change affect organizational performance? How does organizational learning influence organizational performance? Is strategic change a mediator between organizational learning and organizational performance? This article, considering strategic change as a mediator, integrates organizational learning, strategic change and...
At present, employment of college students has become the focus of Chinese government, society and universities, difficult employment for college students continuously highlight the problem of general weaker employment ability. Explore the elements of employability of college students is the key to solve the difficult employment and enhance the employability. From the perspective of employing unit,...
Previous research indicated that task conflict benefits knowledge sharing (KS), whereas relationship conflict damages it. However, little is known about the underlying process by which the two types of conflicts affect KS. By integrating conflict theory and transactive memory system (TMS) theory, this paper presented a mediational model to test whether two types of conflict have different effects...
Studying on leadership effectiveness is extremely important for enhancing organizational performance and leadership capacity of individual leaders. Based on relevant theory and research results, this paper put forward the factors that influence leadership effectiveness in three dimensions, collecting data through questionnaire survey, using SPSS17.0 software for statistical analysis of data. The variable...
With the development of technology and communication and the popularity of Internet in recent years, the network has become the second space for mankind; network and youth self-organizations based on Web-platform have influenced young people greatly. From the consideration of the overall development of youth and building a harmonious society, it's an important subject to reduce the negative influence...
By means of SPSS13.0, factor analysis on the influencing factors of tourism service competitiveness was carried out and eleven common factors were generated from the perspective of tourism destinations. According to their importance, eleven factors can be sequenced in order, which is helpful for tourism destinations to evaluate their service competitiveness and improve their service quality effectively.
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