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The workplace is changing to meet modern business needs by becoming a more agile and responsive environment. Employees need to develop strong transversal competencies such as communication, leadership, and problem solving to support their performance and professional development within these environments. Many existing processes to help employees develop their competencies and get insights into their...
Our work proposes that the understanding of the relationship between communication and power structures is fundamental in teaching, learning and improving communication skills and, conversely, learning and improving communication skills enables people to become more aware of how power is operating in a given environment. Using situated observation in the workplace, our study investigates how pieces...
Knowledge management (KM) is a discipline that improves the ability of companies in solving problem, adapt with changing in business, also helping them to gain and sustain their competitive advantages. This study is carried out with the objective to identify the measurement scale of KM practices, and to explore the impact of KM practice on the performance of small and medium enterprises in Vietnam...
All along, the Big Four accounting firms are considered to provide a uniform and high standard of audit services, but whether it is as it claims to offer a unified and a high standard audit service, few scholars study this regard. China's capital market is the existence of a dual policy environment, which would provide a special policy context for our research. Based on this, we use the year of 2000–2012...
The financial market is very fickle and investors have the difficult task of following and trying to predict the swings of the market so that their strategies result in better financial returns. With the use of Big Data and Bayesian mathematical statistics based on prior knowledge and examples of training to determine the likelihood of a hypothesis, financial news can be tracked continuously and affecting...
A complex Business Transformation Project (BTP) needs a qualified Business Transformation Manager (BTM) to manage the complex implementation phase of the BTP. A BTM must be assisted with the optimal framework for a plethora of BTP's types of problems and phases. Tooling support for such projects is one of the main focuses of the business transformation research project that started in the year 2010...
Some issues of special disciplines require closer attention than now, which explains the need for the development of specialized laboratory stands for these disciplines. The Intellectual Laboratory is implemented in the form of an electronic course, which contains the necessary theoretical material, and is also equipped with an automated system for monitoring the performance of laboratory work. Conducting...
Educational systems of IT-companies typically provide a network space in which students and teachers can come together for teaching and learning. Using the microservice architecture offers advantages in application development.
Large software development organizations adopting agile methods need solutions and models to help scale agile to fit their needs. During recent years, several frameworks for scaling agile have been created by consultants, including the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Large-scale Scrum (LeSS) and Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD). However, research on how these frameworks are adopted in practice is seriously...
depicts key issues connected with development of state innovation policy in the field of higher economic education as well as innovative technological centers, created in the framework of the policy in order to regulate technological, research and methodology processes of a modern economic system, on the one hand; on the other hand, created in order to facilitate handling of modern applied aspects...
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.
Accurate and robust risk prediction methods are of critical importance in calculating insurance costs. In the present paper, we study the case of vehicle insurance and develop a computational intelligence based method for obtaining risk estimates based on the data provided by the client to the insurance company. The method is based on analyzing the contracts, processing the input data, applying classification,...
The traditional role of the teacher as holder of all wisdom has been put in question, at least in some circles, in the last few years. Changes brought on by Millennials, a new generation of students both eager to collaborate and restless, the ubiquitous overflow of information, the rise of agility, the proliferation of new teaching methodologies, and profound shifts in technology have generated alternatives...
Cross-domain learning text classification aims to train an accurate model for a target domain by using labeled text data from a source domain with different but related data distributions. To narrow the data distribution gap between different domains, most of the previous approaches utilize the bag-of-words model to obtain latent features representation of the text. However, this kind of model loses...
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...
According to IEC 60050 definition, live working is “an activity in which a worker makes contact with energized parts or encroaches inside the live working zone with either parts of his or her body or with tools, devices or equipment”. Live working is a worldwide used maintenance and repair methodology in electricity systems. In other words, it is possible to perform maintenance and repair works on...
One of the most interesting spheres which allow steady improvement of the quality of electricity supply service in the European Union and worldwide, but also in Poland, are the techniques and procedures to ensure reliable maintenance and repairs of the power network, power lines and installations and power equipment without the need to resort to power cuts.
The paper present the methods used in recent years in the national power grid to operate more efficiently as high voltage equipment. It includes shares of minor maintenance and operation undertaken by our company for management installations. It also briefly describes the results of applying new technologies and the technical analysis performed using such technical data. As part of asset management...
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