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The Effects of New Emerging Technologies on Human Resources : Emergence of Industry 4.0, a Necessary Evil?
2017
Master's thesis Business Administration BE501 - University of Agder 2017 Based on dynamic capability theory and existing literature, the study empirically investigates the effects of new emerging technologies on human resources; to know if the emergence of Industry 4.0 is a necessary evil or not. Descriptive research design with deductive qualitative analysis (DQA) method was used to analyse data obtained from 6 companies in Norway. Consistent with the two hypotheses deduced in our study, results confirmed in the first place that new emerging technologies have positive effect on human resources productivity. Secondly, new emerging technologies have potential negative challenges on human res…
Cilvēkresursu vadība par viesu sūdzības apmierināšanas kvalitāti viesnīcu nozarē
2020
Pētījuma mērķis ir identificēt galvenos cilvēkresursu vadības elementus, kas ietekmē viesu sūdzību apmierināšanu, un izstrādāt ieteikumus, lai labāk atrisinātu sūdzības, kas pozitīvi ietekmē viesnīcas konkurētspēju. Pirmkārt, tas sniedz teorētisku pētījumu par cilvēkresursu vadības sistēmu, parāda attiecības starp HRM un viesu sūdzībām un to, kā sūdzības var rasties uzturēšanās laikā viesnīcā. Attīstības otrā nodaļa ir Uzbekistānas tūrisma nozares analīze, valsts reformas un HRM statistika šajā jomā. Pēdējā daļa no papīra ir empīrisks pētījums, kas ir darīts Hotel Uzbekistānā, kas precizē reālus jautājumus par sūdzībām un apmierinātības kvalitāti, ietekmējot uz HRM kā sviru.
Cilvēkresursu ietekme organizācijas inovācijas procesā.
2016
Mūsdienās viss ir vērsta uz inovāciju. Ja mēs skatāmies uzmanīgāk jauninājumiem, tā saistīta ar radīšanu kā evolūcija un procesu dzīvē, kas noved, kā arī citu sugu, pastāvēt. No ekonomiskā viedokļa patērētājs būs pirkt preci vai pakalpojumu, ja tās īpašības ir kaut kas atkal vai pievilcīgs, tikai, vai tas ir vai šķiet, ka jauns vismaz iegūt mūsu uzmanību. Visā pasaulē, uzņēmumiem un uzņēmējiem ir pilnībā izprata šo parādību un tas kopš tirdzniecisko apmaiņu sākumstadijā. Kopš tā laika uzņēmums piedzīvoja lielu attīstību tautsaimniecībā un zinātnē. Pēc piecpadsmit gadus pavadīja divdesmit pirmajā gadsimtā, inovāciju nekad nav bijis tik ātri, un, šķiet, lai apturētu. Tas ir iemesls, kāpēc ino…
Human resource management and corporate entrepreneurship
2011
PurposeThe aim of this paper is to introduce the special issue on “Human resource management and corporate entrepreneurship”.Design/methodology/approachThe paper discuses the articles in the special issue, which investigate the relationships between human resource management and entrepreneurship from different points of view, approaches and employing different empirical contexts.FindingsThe papers highlight different human resource management factors of entrepreneurial behaviour and their influence on corporate entrepreneurship. Results from different empirical contexts as small and medium‐size firms, case studies, joint ventures, in the USA, China, and Spain, among others, make important c…
Entrepreneurial success and human resources
2011
PurposeThis paper aims to determine factors that have an influence on human resource management and entrepreneurial success in the context of European innovative small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs).Design/methodology/approachA primary test questionnaire was tested with 50 Spanish entrepreneurs. The feedback from this study was used to improve the survey for a final test. Multivariate regression analysis was used to differentiate the factors that allow the explanation of the variables to be studied and factors that, a priori, seem to be the most relevant in explaining entrepreneurial success.FindingsThe study allows the determination of what factors make the European entrepreneur succe…
The lagged influence of organizations' human resources practices on employees' career sustainability: The moderating role of age
2020
Abstract Research has progressed in theoretically and conceptually defining career sustainability and its indicators. However, research is needed to understand the relationship between those indicators and the way individual and organizational factors contribute to it over time. We add to this literature by considering performance and wellbeing as indicators of sustainable careers. Specifically, we considered patterns in the relationship between performance and wellbeing, used as proxies for a sustainable career, and the effects of different human resource (HR) practices and age on career sustainability. Data came from two waves of 653 employees and their supervisors in 26 organizations in …
The effect of using a mobile literacy game to improve literacy levels of grade one students in Zambian schools
2014
This intervention study was conducted to document conditions under which a computer based literacy game (GraphoGame™) could enhance literacy skills of first grade students in an African city. The participants were first grade students from Government schools (N = 573). These students were randomly sampled into control (N = 314) and various intervention groups (N = 259). GraphoGame™ was administered on cellphones to students at their schools under supervision. Each student in the study was assessed using a battery of locally developed cognitive tests that measured emergent literacy skills (Orthography test), decoding competence (Spelling test), vocabulary (Picture Vocabulary Test—PVT) and ar…
Adapting marketing strategies: a linguistic analysis of wine advertising in Spain, 1970-2010
2019
The Spanish wine sector has undergone a series of changes in the last decades, particularly due to the decreasing domestic demand and the growing international competence. Consequently, Spanish wineries have had to adapt to this new situation by adopting new marketing policies. The aim of this study is to explore to what extent these new policies have been applied by means of the linguistic analysis and comparison of different types of advertisement in specialized printed media, focusing on the specific frequency of the most used word families in adverts from the 70s to present day. A corpus of 640 adverts has been compiled. We have particularly paid attention to the words that have been us…
Factors Contributing to Different Agency in Work and Study
2013
Most young adults today are following longer educational tracks and postpone entrance into the workforce. This 2-year study aimed to determine factors contributing to occupational self-efficacy in a representative sample of n = 1,891 young adults ( M = 23.92, SD = 2.17 years) with different work statuses (studying, in an apprenticeship, employed, or unemployed). Occupational identity, perceived work quality, the ability to cope with work stress, and symptomatology were assessed. Path analyses revealed that work status was the most important predictor of later occupational self-efficacy, with employment showing the strongest prediction of later agency in the professional domain. Ruminative e…
The Acquisition of Professional Expertise—a challenge for educational research
1997
This article examines the acquisition of professional expertise from the educational viewpoint and outlines emerging approaches to research on expertise. The starting points are the need to reflect the nature and content of expertise in the changing world and the aim to understand the preconditions for integrating the viewpoints of working life and education in developing prerequisities for expertise in educational contexts. The section after the Introduction briefly reviews how expertise has been conceptualized in recent research. The next section deals with the role of higher education in developing expertise from the viewpoint of constructivist approaches in research on learning. Then cu…