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House Of Quality (Hoq) Regarding Truck Drivers Requests, Sajjad Khaksari Nov 2015

House Of Quality (Hoq) Regarding Truck Drivers Requests, Sajjad Khaksari

SAJJAD KHAKSARI

"Quality Engineering & Italian Transport Companies" represents a preliminarily attempt to benefit from Quality Engineering methods for analyzing some parts of the real and hidden worlds of some Italian family-owned transport companies. It tries to highlight some things that normally remain neglected regarding the hidden internal workings of some Italian transport companies. In addition, this paper might be interesting for whoever wants to know more about this period in which some Italian family-run transport companies are facing the challenge of a future balancing modernism and traditionalism in their supply chain management (SCM).


Needs Assessment And Analysis Methods For Performance Improvement, Bahram Mahmoudi Mazraeh Shadi Mar 2015

Needs Assessment And Analysis Methods For Performance Improvement, Bahram Mahmoudi Mazraeh Shadi

bahram mahmoudi mazraeh shadi

ABSTRACT This review of needs assessment and needs analysis literature from the training and development field assembles common needs assessment methods and the proposed or best use of each method according to the reviewed literature for performance improvement. The most common needs assessment methods are task analysis, job/process analysis, performance improvement, competency-based assessment, strategic needs assessment, and knowledge and skill assessment which related to performance improvement. While performance analysis is sometimes used in literature to describe a type of needs assessment, in definition, it is needs assessment and analysis combined. Keywords: Task Analysis, Performance Improvement, Training and Development


Training Needs Assessment : A Case Study Of Huco In India, Bahram Mahmoudi Mazraeh Shadi Mar 2015

Training Needs Assessment : A Case Study Of Huco In India, Bahram Mahmoudi Mazraeh Shadi

bahram mahmoudi mazraeh shadi

Abstract The aim of this research is to study the nature of Training Needs Assessment within the context Managers in company of HÜCO (Maharashtra) in India and the impact of TNA on organizational performance. According to the findings of this study in the field of theoretical arguments arising from them found that training needs assessment (TNA) using the dimensions of strategic competence, which is compatible with McGhee and Thayer's three-fold analysis. This study achieves in survey method with the use of a questionnaire on the 25 Managers in company of HÜCO (Maharashtra) were regarded as the research samples to analyze …


Workplace Factors As Determinants Of Job Commitment Among Senior Non-Teaching Staff Of Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ogun State, Olukunle Saheed Oludeyi Feb 2015

Workplace Factors As Determinants Of Job Commitment Among Senior Non-Teaching Staff Of Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ogun State, Olukunle Saheed Oludeyi

Olukunle Saheed, OLUDEYI

Studies have focused on workplace environment in relations to health and safety of workers in health industries. There is however scanty empirical research on workplace environmental factors and employee job commitment in universities. While others showed the connection between work environment and job attitude across organisations, studies on workplace environment which are conducted in the university setting seem to focus on the influence of university environment on job performance of teaching staff and not on job commitment among senior non-teaching staff. Others focus their study on job commitment among lecturers. In a bid to fill this gap, this research work …


Work Made For Hire – Analyzing The Multifactor Balancing Test, Ryan G. Vacca Jan 2015

Work Made For Hire – Analyzing The Multifactor Balancing Test, Ryan G. Vacca

Ryan G. Vacca

Authorship, and hence, initial ownership of copyrighted works is oftentimes controlled by the 1976 Copyright Act’s work made for hire doctrine. This doctrine states that works created by employees within the scope of their employment result in the employer owning the copyright. One key determination in this analysis is whether the hired party is an employee or independent contractor. In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court, in CCNV v. Reid, answered the question of how employees are distinguished from independent contractors by setting forth a list of factors courts should consider. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court did not give further guidance on …