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Organizāciju cilvēkresursu analītikas attīstības līmenis Eiropā

2018

Cilvēkresursu analītika, kas operē ar datiem lēmumu pieņemšanas procesos, visā pasaulē kļuva par aktuālu tematu. Bakalaura darba mērķis ir izpētīt Eiropas cilvēkresursu analītikas attīstības līmeni un sniegt ieteikumus organizācijām, cilvēkresursu speciālistiem un akadēmiskām iestādēm, lai veiksmīgi ievest cilvēkresursu analītiku. Pētījuma pamatā ir kvalitatīvi dati, kuri tika iegūti intervējot četrus cilvēkresursu speciālistus. Secināts, ka ir būtiska vajadzība pēc cilvēkresursu analītikas un intervētiem organizāciju pārstāvjiem šī tēma ir pazīstama. Galvenais izaicinājums ir saistīts ar profesionālo prasmju trūkumu, tomēr nākotnei cilvēkresursu analītikas cerības ir pozitīvas.

Communication Professionals and Organisational Decision-Making: A Finnish Study of Practitioner Roles

2016

Traditionally, the debate on communication value and the contribution of communication professionals to organisational decision-making has been linked to diverging roles (managers, technicians). This chapter introduces an alternative view, based on an exploratory, qualitative study of communication professionals in Finland. It focuses on the diverse ways in which these professionals contribute to organisational decisionmaking. The results show a rich, constantly developing picture of communication practices, which challenges the traditional dichotomy of manager and technician roles. peerReviewed

Labor Market Flexibility and Unemployment: New Empirical Evidence of Static and Dynamic Effects

2012

The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between labor market flexibility and unemployment outcomes. Using a panel of 97 countries from 1985 to 2008, the results of the paper suggest that improvements in labor market flexibility have a statistically and significant negative impact on unemployment outcomes (over unemployment, youth unemployment, and long-term unemployment). Among the different labor market flexibility indicators analyzed, hiring and firing regulations and hiring costs are found to have the strongest effect.

Emotions et personnalité : au cœur des décisions chez un poisson monogame

2018

During their lives animals constantly need to make decisions that influence their survival and their reproductive success. The objective of this thesis was to evaluate the role of two variability sources in decision-making — personality and emotional states — in a sexual context in a monogamous fish, the convict cichlid. Our work about personality highlights its importance on pair compatibility and reproductive success. We also observe that reactive individuals adjusted their behaviour to their partner and thus increased their reproductive fitness. This result supports the hypothesis that reactive individuals are more flexible and thus compensate for their weak competitiveness.Personality t…

Construction of quality indicators based on pre-established goals: application to a colombian public university

2020

This study creates indicators of adequacy and excellence based on multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods and fuzzy logic. The calculation of indicators presents two main difficulties: The nature of the data (numerical, interval, and linguistic values are mixed) and the objective of each criterion (which does not have to reach either the maximum or the minimum). A method is proposed, based on similarity measures with predetermined ideals, that is capable of overcoming these difficulties to provide easy-to-interpret information about the quality of the alternatives. To illustrate the usefulness of this proposed method, it has been applied to data collected from students across nine …

Practitioners’ Perceptions of Co-Product Allocation Methods in Biorefinery Development—A Case Study of the Austrian Pulp and Paper Indust…

2022

The utilization of coproducts is a strategy that can be applied to increase the economic and environmental performance of industrial processes and thus reach an objective targeted in several environmental policies. In multi-output production processes, allocation needs to be performed to assess the products’ environmental and economic performance. It is crucial to choose an adequate allocation method, because this choice has been shown to strongly influence overall outcomes. Consequently, rash choices can lead to poor decision-making. Various ways to apply and combine allocation methods can be found in the academic literature, but it is often difficult to find sufficient guidance on how to …

Business life in pursuit of economic and political advantages in early-nineteenth-century Finland

2012

Promuovere l'autostima, l'autoefficacia e lo stile decisionale a scuola attraverso la scrittura espressiva

2015

Esprimere in forma scritta le proprie emozioni positive quando si pensa ai propri obiettivi di vita fa bene alla salute. È questa la conclusione cui è giunta laura King dopo aver analizzato gli effetti della trascrizione del proprio miglior sé proiettato nel futuro. James W. Pennebaker, pioniere della scrittura espressiva sperimentata secondo la modalità retrospettiva, ha invece sottolineato gli effetti sulla salute della scrittura di emozioni negative connesse ad episodi traumatici vissuti nel passato. Nel presente studio, si sono presi in considerazione i contributi dei due ricercatori per confrontare gli effetti della trascrizione delle paure e delle speranze riguardo al futuro su tre co…

Toward Value Co-Creation: Increasing Women’s Presence in Management Positions through Competition against a Set Target

2017

Despite empirical evidence that women’s presence in management positions is a source of value co-creation for firms, these positions are still male-dominated. Some evidence from experimental economics suggests that one reason for this imbalance is that women shy away from competition. However, most of these studies have focused on competition systems that pit individuals against each other. We present an economic laboratory experiment that compares competition against others with competition against a set target. The crucial difference is that whereas the former involves competing against opponents, the latter does not. Our results show that significantly more women are willing to compete a…

An interactive surrogate-based method for computationally expensive multiobjective optimisation

2019

Many disciplines involve computationally expensive multiobjective optimisation problems. Surrogate-based methods are commonly used in the literature to alleviate the computational cost. In this paper, we develop an interactive surrogate-based method called SURROGATE-ASF to solve computationally expensive multiobjective optimisation problems. This method employs preference information of a decision-maker. Numerical results demonstrate that SURROGATE-ASF efficiently provides preferred solutions for a decision-maker. It can handle different types of problems involving for example multimodal objective functions and nonconvex and/or disconnected Pareto frontiers. peerReviewed