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Shared services is an organizational culture of sharing and innovation across the organization. It enables the sharing of services by functions of organization such as Finance, Human Resources and Information Technology through a common mechanism of a shared services centre. Delivery of services is through Information and Communication Technology infrastructure. Shared services increases productivity...
Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1978, p. VII) explicitly stated that he had created his General Systems Theory against over-specialization, i.e. to support interdisciplinary creative cooperation as the best way toward the necessary holism of approach and wholeness of outcomes of human activity. But he did not support this intention methodologically a lot. The now-a-days usual narrow over-specialization provides...
The Internet of Things (IoT) presents huge potential for designing new technologies. However it is not yet clear which of these technologies will actually be accepted as a part of our everyday lives. Alongside the development of prototypes and exploratory evaluations, other research methods could be useful in eliciting responses to future visions, and developing implications that can inform design...
As an external factor, FDI's spillover plays an important role in improving innovation capability of local firms in China. By integrating FDI's spillover, intellectual capital with innovation performance, this paper builds a conceptual model to explain how FDI's spillover affects innovation capability by intellectual capital. By questionnaire analysis of 240 local firms in Yangtze River delta and...
Taking into account the new era in engineering education the Engineering Education Research Team of COPEC — Science and Education Research Council has designed a program for an engineering school which main goal is to prepare engineers for the future work market, the engineer for future. The program has been designed in details in according to the present labor market for engineers, with its particular...
Ablution is a washing procedure involves water to a particular body to cleanse itself from small impurities. In Islam, ablution is a spiritual washing for all Muslims before performing the prayers. Prophet Muhammad Peace Be Upon Him (PBUH) has introduced this ritual as part of the prayers activity. This ritual has been recorded in the Holy Book's of Quran, the prophetic traditions called Sunnah or...
This paper describes the early stages of an experiment investigating the role of the computer as a creative collaborator in the game design process. We introduce the Shibumi set, a closed game system so simple that its rule space can be completely defined, yet deep enough to allow interesting games to emerge. Constraining the search space to such a closed system has computational benefits, but had...
We present strike response times comparison for a traditional and popular table top Indian game, Carrom, measured under three conditions: face-to-face/co-located live, virtual with live feed of the co-player and virtual without the feed of co-player. The game of Carrom, in Indian context, rates high on the social interaction experience and is played with extreme levels of engagement and involvement...
Eye contact provides a communicative link between humans, prompting joint attention. As spontaneous brain activity might have an important role in the coordination of neuronal processing within the brain, their inter-subject synchronization might occur during eye contact. To test this, we conducted simultaneous functional MRI in pairs of adults. Eye contact was maintained at baseline while the subjects...
In this paper, the review is vital for the development of scientific and technological research also highlights the efforts made sporadic in this area. And try to put some solutions and recommendations that help the advancement of scientific research to resolve issues in the Sudanese society as the quantity and quality. Despite the obstacles, the movement of scientific research did not stop completely,...
Most early work on high-performance work systems (HPWS) examines only the direct relationship between a set of management practices and performance outcomes and seldom investigates the black box between them. On top of the previous individual approach, our study would take a group level approach and investigate how the HPWS may change the performance, especially the innovation performance, through...
As the urban populations increase we have to think more deeply about how to make cities less stressful and more creative for people to live in. Live ability and quality of life are key factors whilst designing and managing energy, water, pollution and waste systems which are sustainable for the long term. New approaches are proposed with recommendations for achieving these goals.
This is a qualitative empirical study that contributes to the field human capital and brand innovation in China with regards specifically to the top level management of Chinese grown and owned enterprises. Using a tri-pronged framework of analysis based on grounded theory, critical discourse analysis and visual semiotics, this study focuses in particular on the recent growth of Geely Automobile, that...
This study was conducted to measure the readiness of PT Pertamina in implementing e-learning, where the study refers to the theories and methods of measurement have been developed by Aydin & Tasci. The results showed that PT Pertamina as a whole is ready for e-learning, but still need some improvement especially in the field of human resources. In addition, this study confirms that personal characteristics...
Objectifying subjectivity is central to the study of humanities. In aesthetics or philosophy of the arts, sensory-emotional values and critical reflection on art, culture and nature is studied to derive to new ways of seeing and of perceiving the world. Thus, the study of philosophy is designed to achieve high level thinking and intellectual development as propounded by Malaysia of Higher Educations'...
A conceptual framework is proposed to examine perceived structural constraints of elephant conservation centre and its' effects on participation in visiting activity. A brief discussion on elephant conservation effort is discussed in the earlier part of this paper. The paper then examines some attributes to perceive structural constraints with some effects are examined for participation and overall...
This study aims to investigate factors influencing attitude towards knowledge sharing (KS). KS is an organized attempt to accelerate sharing of knowledge and experiences, in any format, among individuals or groups. However, in many situations, people in organizations avoid sharing their knowledge. Prior studies show that existing knowledge in organizations is not being effectively shared. This is...
The sustainability concern has shaped a new approach to product innovation in 21st century. Greening the product innovation (GPI) is believed to positively impact the environment, as well as the economic growth. However, review of literatures indicates that firms are still ambiguous to embark on GPI, partly because they do not know what capabilities are required for such an effort. This paper aims...
The objective of this research is to investigate the effect of design factors which consist of training content, training delivery, trainer competency and opportunity to use on small businesswomen's goal setting activities. The instrument for this research is adapted and modified from the Training Transfer Model and Model for Excellence (American Society of Training and Development Competency Research)...
This paper explores the ethical issues in information communication technology (ICT) in Malaysian primary schools. Among ethical issues that have been identified are cyber crime, cyber bullying, internet fraud, hacking and others. However, cyber bullying are the major ethical issues in Malaysian primary schools. In this study, quantitative methodology has been chosen by distributing questionnaire...
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