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Until 1976, the Portuguese electrical sector was fragmented into several companies operating at regional or even local scale. In the aftermaths of the April Revolution of1974, there was large-scale nationalization program to which the electrical sector was no exception. Electricidade de Portugal (EDP) was created in 1976 with the fusion of 13 nationalized companies. Several development programs were...
Key priorities for the universities interaction and cooperation in the framework of the Tempus project are considered. The student outsourcing as a form of cooperation with universities is a crucial one for the joint inter-university research projects, development of solutions for the industry in Ukraine, better use of existing universities' and enterprises' resources
The main problems of interaction between IT business and IT education for establishing the effective specialist training in this industry in Ukraine are analyzed. The key points, that are inherent in the educational field that prepares IT professionals and in the corporations that have successfully positioned in the IT market, are outlined.
Proximity off-shoring (near-shoring) on the Information Technology sector has been a common practice over the past 2 decades, mainly for software development functions. But the benefits harvested from the delivery of professional services on a near-shore model can be replicated to other functions from a business transformation programme, such as competence and training management projects, improving...
The given work is devoted to a series of issues related to the potential, requirements and appropriate ways to provide a successful outsourcing IT services to university department with marketable IT expertise. University is IT outsourcing partner which could catch special IT related needs and tasks of the companies or business and provide through the students those services for a profitable quantity/price...
This paper introduces basic concepts of school-enterprise cooperation and the training of ODC talents, proposes five strategies (Including building a joint laboratory, optimizing talent training curricula, entrusting projects, working out a professional master training program and building an industrial talent training alliance) based on the practical exploration of higher schools to deal with such...
Background: This study examines the nature, manifestations and causes of communication problems in international outsourcing engagements. Specifically, it explores a case of business process outsourcing (BPO), which is the transfer of a number of business processes, such as payroll, supply chain management, and customer relations to an external supplier. In this case, a company based in the US outsourced...
With the increasing demand of producer service in China economy, Service outsourcing is gaining more and more attention nowadays. In order to manage the producer service outsourcing well, an effective service supply chain mode should be constructed. In this article, we firstly establish a producer service supply chain (PSSC) model based upon the perspective of producer service outsourcing. And then...
This paper gives a comprehensive analysis on strategies for virtual HR management in modern enterprises. On the basis of summarizing the definition of virtual HR management and its characteristics, this paper elaborates on the causes of virtual HR management and the relationship between it and human resources outsourcing in concrete, and builds its classification models from two dimensionalities-uniqueness...
As China's software outsourcing industry grows at a brisk pace, the shortage of software professionals to handle outsourced jobs from Japan has become a bottleneck to the industry. This paper analyzes the multi-level need for such professionals and the status quo of the talent cultivation in China. The paper also reviews the successful experience of Hangzhou Institute of Service Engineering; it addresses...
In recent year, along with the fast development of service industry, the function of undertaking international transfer of service industry to the promotion of human capital is appearing. This article first analyzes how the international transfer of service industry promotes Chinese service industry's human capital from theory angle, and then we further check the preamble theoretical analysis from...
The U.S.A. has remained at the forefront of the world in the exploration of human resource management (hereinafter referred to as HRM). Some changes have taken place to HRM in U.S.A after the financial crisis. In this paper, firstly, the changes on environment of HRM in U.S.A. are analyzed from four perspectives-technological advancement, unemployment rate, labor force structure and outsourcing. Secondly,...
Offshore service outsourcing is the latest wave in the global realignment of economic activities. As a leading coastal province in eastern China, Shandong has made ambitious plans to foster internationally competitive service outsourcing industries. This paper provides a brief SWOT analysis for Shandong province and concludes that Shandong has great strength and opportunities to realize its ambition...
With the rapid development of Information technology in the current society, the benefits of IT outsourcing managed services to an enterprise is self-evident. Division of labor based on specialization helps enterprise promote efficiency and reduce cost. Aiming to promote development, some enterprises outsource some non-core businesses. The existing of campus third-party IT service outsourcing platform...
Personnel leasing service (PLS) is merging rapidly due to the demand of human resource management development in an enterprise. First of all, the functions of personnel leasing service are elaborated in this paper. Then, the operational mechanism of personnel leasing company (PLC) is analyzed utilizing the notion of product operation flow, namely "supply-manufacture-sales-service". Finally...
The benefits of Global Software Development are now well known and India currently has the lion's share in outsourced offshore software development. As a result, the demand for skilled IT professionals is increasing in India. In order to meet the demand, new academic institutes are being established and the existing ones are increasing their intake in IT-related courses. However, according to the...
In order to develop the service outsourcing industry for Chinese economy, a large amount of professional staff need to be supplied to the relevant enterprises. Therefore, the universities build up the corresponding major and an innovative education system to train the students for the outsouring industry which is also called international service engineering (ISE). The education system consists of...
This paper considers the issues of IT industry development in Ukraine and educational system response to new challenges in this field. The review of IT industry in Ukraine history and its modern state is done. It is shown that Ukrainian IT industry is the biggest in Eastern Europe and is growing fast. The problems of IT education in Ukraine in modern circumstances are described. It is claimed that...
Employee retention has been a buzzword for quiet sometime now. Companies across the globe are facing challenges vis-a-vis retaining their high potential or key employees. Many a practitioners have tried to device ways and means to counter the menace of attrition. With globalization, reaching its zenith coupled with opportunities emanating from otherwise considered the defensive sectors (like health...
In this paper, the author first gave a thoughtful analysis of the necessity of why there is an urgent need for China to quickly train the internationally qualified software talents and then reviewed the current situation of China software talent market and software industry. By categorizing the software professionals on the sector, a definition of high-level software talents with global suitability...
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