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Recently, personal robots and home robots are developing by many companies and research groups. It is considered that a general effective interface for user of those robots is speech or voice. In voice instruction system, we propose the estimation method of a target. The present method is based on the instruction history of a user. Additionally, we propose the update algorithm of fuzzy rules based...
This research aims to investigate the usefulness of adopting knowledge modeling in corporate e-Learning systems and specifically the application of concept mapping tools in knowledge-based companies to create, model, and share knowledge between employees themselves and support collaborative problem solving and innovation from one side. The other side is to improve customer satisfaction due to better...
This paper is to discuss the B2C e-commerce companies' service quality evaluation from the entire service process. It puts three process as the first layer indicators. They are human-computer interaction, human-human interaction and purchase results. At the same time it divides into 17 factors as the second layer. This paper collects data from goods comments about Jing dong Mall and Dang dang. Combining...
Enterprises and industrial companies strive to improve their functional performance by identification of core competencies in order to utilize human resources and optimise the knowledge integration processes of the company. In addition, maintenance operations are one of the most important sections in industrial companies which consist of key personnel and also explicit and implicit knowledge resources...
Research in enterprise system security has largely focused on the development of theoretical models capable of demonstrating mathematically that they possess desired security properties. However, recent results confirm that many of these models cannot be applied in practice because of the unpredictability of human participants' behavior in business processes. Moreover, while malicious attacks remain...
This article analyzes the impact of the introduction of robotics in industry today and its impact on workers and unions. It offers possible solutions to reduce or eliminate the rejection of human beings with the introduction of robots in the workplace, and concludes that learning and formation are the keys to do it.
One of the most important tasks in Human resource management is to find a suitable human for the given position. It is a difficult task because for human beings what they can do well is not always what they want to do and even if they have capability of fulfilling the requested task, the relationship among the team members can prevent them from being the good worker in the given position. Therefore,...
In this fast growing world, rapid alterations in technologies result in having a huge influence on humans' standard of living, increase global opportunities and globalize shareholders' activities. Executives all over the world are expected to utilize the right technology in order to gain the high level of success for their organizations. These executives require sustainable knowledge, techniques and...
How do organizations know they are designing products and services that their customers will value? This paper describes the initial results of the first four stages of a methodology for integrating customer Values in Experience design (ViEx). The theory of universal value structure was adapted to examine customer values in two contexts: online interaction (N=725) and shopping experience (N=742)....
Despite anecdotal support, empirical evidence for network effects on women's advancement to corporate board membership has yet to be fully documented. To address these gaps in extant knowledge, the primary questions that the proposed project seeks to answer how network variables affect the likelihood of board membership for women differently from men? We found, from examining the networks of 489 directors,...
Enterprises resource planning (ERP) systems are becoming more commonly applied by modern companies to manage and support the enterprise-wide business processes. This paper aimed to investigate the understanding of managers and staff on ERP systems in Chinese SOEs. The study took a case study approach and used chi-square tests to analyze the data derived from questionnaires. The analysis results show...
Li Ning applies information technology into all aspects of its corporate governance, combing with its actual situation continuously in the process of information development, which greatly improves its corporate governance ability. Enhancement of such ability lays a foundation for the development of information in the company and forms the mutual promotion of the two. In such an era of changing information,...
Over the last decades it has been observed that many companies around the world have started to adopt Distributed Software Development (DSD) to create competitive advantages. Aiming to increase such advantages, many of these companies add some team motivation techniques to DSD. However, the motivation of DSD teams reveals some peculiarities that should be taken into account. This paper presents a...
By existing literature, it is observed that the concept of government governance mechanism is a black box, with very few studies specialized to analyze its elements and structure. Guided by the theory of fact, this paper tries to unclose this black box. The paper first investigates the elements of government governance elements, including governance entity, governance information, governance field,...
With the development of market economy, staff performance appraisal has been an important part of human resource management. However, due to the influence of old economic system, staff performance appraisal is susceptible to external factors and lack of effectiveness and orientation. Through analysis of the power enterprise, this paper proposes a quantitative and hierarchical assessment index system...
As the world has changed over the last decades because of the information technologies evolution, so did Marketing. Now, the major solution from the information technology evolution, i.e. Internet is being integrated with Marketing in order to reach a new generation of it, Marketing 4.0. This new generation is required, since customers are not only looking for products to satisfy their basic needs,...
The inclusion of humans in the systems comprising the System of Systems (SoS) mean that the boundaries of the SoS become fuzzy, and the interfaces become more complicated. Two particular issues are discussed; incompatibilities between organisations at the interfaces, requiring some changes to the ways companies operate; and incomplete information, requiring integrity of behaviour to enable trust to...
The importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has aroused wide attention of not only the corporation itself, but also the whole society. In 2006, SGCC (State Grid Corporation of China) published its first CSR report, started to make a commitment to social responsibilities. Since then, the five power generation groups published their CSR reports, sustainable development reports, or development...
High performance work system refers to a set of coherent human resource management practices that companies can implement with their workforce to expect better performance. This study complements the relevant literature by examining the relationship of high performance work system with another work result: individual's creativity performance. Surveying data from new product development team in Taiwanese...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the intellectual capital reporting practice of companies listed under Ace Market of Bursa Malaysia. This study also evaluates the relationship of firms' characteristics such as firm size, type of industry, type of auditor and profitability with intellectual capital disclosure (ICD) levels. The extent of ICD was measured by using content analysis method....
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