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The article is focused on issues of enhancing the methodological instruments of corporate governance. The concept of a new approach to quality assessment of a company's corporate governance is rationalized.
Managing support tickets in large, multi-product organizations is difficult. Failure to meet the expectations of customers can lead to the escalation of support tickets, which is costly for IBM in terms of customer relationships and resources spent addressing the escalation. Keeping the customer happy is an important task in requirements engineering, which often comes in the form of handling their...
User centered design (UCD) provides principles and activities for improving usability. However, traditional UCD methods lack considering the context of users in low income, culturally diverse settings and where Information and Communication Technology (ICT) development is at its infant stage. Software development in low and medium income countries like Ethiopia is characterized by big difference in...
For one hand, graduates students from university cannot find a job. For another, enterprises cannot find a proper employee. This embarrassing situation needs university make reform from traditional structure of education in China. We need to do something to change this phenomenon. This article focuses on integration of education and industry, it is one method try to solve this problem.
The method of aggregation and disaggregation is one of the core methods of multi-resolution modeling (MRM), which is widely used in military simulation for its clear structure. In the process of disaggregation - aggregation - disaggregation, it is important to maintain the consistency of information when the resolution is changed. Because of the inconsistency, this paper classifies the interaction...
The quality of staff is of paramount importance in all businesses. However, in maritime industry it is crucial due to the nature of the business itself. Employees' lives could be exposed to risk, let alone that huge assets are in stake, if poor decisions are made. Employing quality and professional human resources requires a personnel selection process that would evaluate the best suited personnel,...
This paper reports on a summary overview of a study aimed at assessing the health of the Italian Local Public Transport system. In close cooperation with the Italian Ministry of Infrastructures and Transport, more than 500 Italian local public transport operator, covering most of Italian cities, were analyzed, to investigate their efficiency and effectiveness. All relevant economic and operational...
The chemical industry can be defined as a typical type of plant industry. As it is impossible to see inside of a plant directly, a system; PSS (Production Support System) that enables to monitor a process status with sensors is applied. Since it costs to implement PSS, a company checks the reasonability of the amount of investment from the viewpoints of resource saving, energy saving and man-power...
During the technologies development era, human resource management is one of key positions in the enterprises activity. Management also has to answer the purpose of the company and carry out objectives. The innovative technique of human resource management and motivation of employees - couch-management is presented in this article.
Tendencies in the information personnel analytics, relevance of measurement of personnel indicators, the most often measured indicators, for example, cost of recruitment; complexity of measurement of the more difficult, soft indicators, such as level of engagement of personnel, and other indicators, relevance of measurement of them, approaches to the solution of this task are presented in the.
This paper provides an understanding of what constitutes a Qualified Person, an Unqualified Person, and a Competent Person. Also included are the training requirements for each classification. The principles for performing a Needs Assessment, a Job/Task Analysis, and Job Hazard Analysis are addressed as they relate to the information gathering needed for the development of an effective training program...
"Big data", the word has been mentioned more and more. It is better to say that we are in such an era rather than that the "big data" era is coming. How to use good data, so that the hands of the data collected into a valuable thing, rather than a IoT of data garbage, is the problem that every industry has been thinking about. Every enterprise wants to seize the opportunity to...
Transporting products from the depot to various destinations is a general problem in logistics world. However, complications arise when the objective is changed from transporting goods to transferring people, as both distance-related costs and man-hour loss must be taken into account. This paper presents a Variable Neighbourhood Search (VNS) based heuristic that helps route planners of an oil and...
Many e-commerce web sites enable their customers to write product reviews and feedback in the form of ratings. This gives the company personnel an indication about their products' standing in the market, while also enabling fellow customers to form an opinion and help purchase a product. However, due to the reason of profit or fame, many target products are promoted or demoted in the form of spam...
One of the considerations that must be evaluated when performing a facility wide shut down for maintenance is an outline of the utility's scope of work. It is not as simple as coordinating the shutdown date and time but also requires identification of the utility inclusions and exclusions in the scope of work. Without proper identification, it leaves a lot of unknowns during the power restoration...
Electrical safety - Where were we yesterday? Where are we today? Where will we be in the future? The safety culture is continuing to evolve to provide a safer work environment for people working around electrical equipment. To improve electrical safety, it takes commitment to continuous improvement of the electrical safety culture. New thoughts and ideas to improve electrical safety are critical....
Over the decades, a variety of software development processes have been proposed, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. It is however widely accepted that there is no single process that is perfectly suited to all settings, thus a software process should be molded to the needs of its situational context. In previous work, we have consolidated a substantial body of related research into...
Juvenile Vocational Training Centre 7, Chiang Mai Province. Its responsibilities are to provide trainings for children and juvenile delinquents with various methods. In the past there had been many violent incidents occurred in organization. The most severe violent case affecting the center was taken place in B.E 2551 when a group of 11 juvenile delinquents used weapons to assault personnel to injury,...
As manufacturing firms (MFs) experience increasing competition in the global economy, it is vital to seek competitive advantage through the continuous improvement of performance within manufacturing processes. This requires a systematic approach to enhance performance by engaging staff at all levels to effectively take part in performance-enhancing efforts. The implementation of Toyota Kata has been...
Cooperative behavior enhances an organization's ability to reach goals. The present study investigated whether and how prepaid incentives and promised incentives influenced cooperation differently among organization members in an experiment. Results showed that promised incentives appear more effective in terms of cooperative behavior than prepaid incentives, and the perception of benefit is a mediator...
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