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Women Directors and Corporate Social Responsibility
2011
The successes and failures of organizations are contingent on the decisions of senior management and its board of directors. Personality and experiences may have a tangible effect on the decision making process. This study assesses whether or not gender has a tangible effect on an organization’s decisions. A sample of Fortune 500 companies were examined to determine whether companies with a higher proportion of women on their boards of directors are more socially responsible. In general, a diversity of people generates a diverse set of opinions that impacts and improves the decision-making process. Our expectation was that gender diversity will increase socially responsible behavior by a co…
Interactive multimedia web in developing career counselling methods
2009
Career Counselling Web is an EU Leonardo project, built on a guidance and counselling web-site developed by Careers Wales with thousands of registered users. Careers Wales in Gwent is acting as advisor and is taking part in the project’s development of new counselling methods. Partners from Slovenia and Sweden act as providers of design and target groups needs. The goal is to develop the portal and the interactive counselling methodology and to make the final product readily transferred to different languages and regions. The project will adapt the Welsh innovation to Slovenian and Swedish systems. The technical development is made by one partner with the Slovenian and Swedish partners orga…
EAF Accreditation Framework for the European Career Guidance Practitioners at a Glance
2009
This contribution presents EAF Accreditation Framework for the European Career Guidance Practitioners, a framework developed to accredit at European level people delivering career guidance. EAF accredits main tasks, i.e. the 4 main identifiable and self standing activities a person delivering career guidance can accomplish: 1. Deliver information related to career guidance as a separate activity 2. Perform career guidance interviews 3. Carry out career guidance activities in small groups 4. Support clients on 1:1 base during a time span, including by networking and advocating on their behalf. EAF assessment is based on main tasks performance, i.e. during the assessment, the candidate must d…
Main challenges and options when accrediting people delivering career guidance at European level
2009
Accreditation of people delivering career guidance is one of the main steps to guarantee good quality in career guidance delivery. This contribution deals with the main challenges and options we face when developing frameworks at European level for accreting people delivering career guidance. Several approached are identified and discussed. A framework accrediting the main tasks people delivering career guidance can accomplish, differentiated by clients’ typology and an assessment focused on main tasks performance emerges as the best option.
The influence of variables of attitude on collective entrepreneurship
In the current global corporate climate that surrounds us, firms would do well to encourage the talent and creativity of their employees in order to achieve success. This is achieved, not by giving priority to individual talent, but by optimizing the collective as a whole and the firm¿s activity based on team work and joint effort. Heads of organizations might benefit from creating a favorable context for the birth and growth of collective internal cooperation, which is understood to be the collective ability to create and innovate on the part of the team, the firm or the organization. Having contrasted our hypotheses through research on Spanish firms, we have concluded that job satisfactio…
How to consult electronic resources
2011
How to consult electronic resources from the University library.
Adaptation of HORIVERT to architects Profession
2015
International audience; The architectural profession in France is a regulated vocation whose field of intervention covers the work submitted for a building permit that establishes the architectural project, but also involves more extended missions. Architecture is also an artistic occupation.The entire architecture sector consists mainly of small or micro-organizations. They are framed at national level by the National Council of the Order of Architects (ANOC), which has regional relays. It is an associative organization, independent but recognized by the government, which is in charge of regulating the profession and ensuring the training activities. It is important to keep in mind that th…
Information Technology Issues in Finland
2020
Information technology (IT) industry is essential in Finland because of its significant export contribution, extensive workforce, and research and innovation contributions. This chapter highlights key issues in this important industry. For instance, IT reliability and efficiency are the top issues necessary for the Finnish IT industry’s competitiveness in a global context. Furthermore, business intelligence and analytics tools, techniques and skills are central to the Finnish IT industry. The industry has a very experienced workforce that is however aging and thus there is a need for training of young personnel to join the industry. Generally, the Finnish IT workers are satisfied with their…
Teaching networking: an interpersonal communication competence perspective
2015
Modern working life calls for competences that enable people to be creative, innovative and effective. Studies looking at contemporary enterprises and organisations such as businesses and schools have shown that many of the qualifications that graduating students would need, including informal learning (see Gielen, Hoeve & Nieuwenhuis 2003), innovativeness (e.g. Moolenaar & Sleegers 2010; Obstfeld 2005) and creativity (e.g. Burt 2004; Perry-Smith & Shalley 2003), are associated with interpersonal relationships and social networks. According to a report on the national career survey (EK 2011a), effective networking is dependent on social skills such as the ability to establish contacts in mu…
A CRITICAL ANALISYS OF BRAND EQUITY EVALUATION METHODS
2012
Evaluating brand equity can be a difficult and complicated task in practice because it is almost impossible to capture the impact of all "brand-building blocks" and their impact on brand equity on a multidimensional level. Not only the brand itself determines its brand equity, but marketplace multipliers and consumer mindset also hold a significant importance in the process of evaluating brand equity. The aims of this paper are to highlight the applications and main critiques for each method and to suggest an approach that minimizes these drawbacks in order to propose a better method for evaluating brand equity.