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Third Time’S The Charm: Choosing A Career In Librarianship, P. S. Mcmillen

Library Faculty Research

While many come to librarianship from other careers, I made my third major career change to the profession after a somewhat atypical process. I made myself the subject of a formal assessment process while completing a certificate program in career counseling.

Understanding The Assessment Center Process: Where Are We Now?, Filip Lievens, Richard J Klimoski

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Assessment centers have become widespread in Western Europe, Northern America, and Australia (Newell & Shackleton, 1994). The Task Force on Assessment Center Guidelines (1989) defined assessment centers as “a standardized evaluation of behavior based on multiple inputs. Multiple trained observers and techniques are used. Judgments about behaviors are made, in major part, from specifically developed assessment simulations. These judgments are pooled in a meeting among the assessors or by a statistical integration process” (p. 460).

Economic Justification For Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems Using Break-Even Analysis, Dheeraj Misra, M. K. Tiwari, R. P. Mohanty

Management Dynamics

No abstract provided.

Transitioning Towards A 'Paperless' Office, Jayant Krishna

Management Dynamics

No abstract provided.

Assessor Training Strategies And Their Effects On Accuracy, Interrater Reliability, And Discriminant Validity, Filip Lievens

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

This study compares the effects of data-driven assessor training with schema-driven assessor training and control training. The sample consisted of 229 industrial and organizational psychology students and 161 managers who were randomly assigned to 1 of these training strategies. Participants observed and rated candidates in an assessment center exercise. The data-driven and schema-driven assessor training approaches outperformed the control training on all 3 dependent variables. The schema-driven assessor training resulted in the largest values of interrater reliability, dimension differentiation, and accuracy. Managers provided significantly more-accurate ratings than students but distinguished less between the dimensions. Practical implications regarding the design of …

The Workforce Investment Act Of 1998: Implementation In The State Of Nsvada, Kimberly Meier

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The topic of this professional paper is the implementation of the Workforce Investment Act in the State of Nevada. I have prepared this paper for the Department of Public Administration in partial fulfillment of a Masters of Public Administration degree. The paper focuses on information gathered through interviews with various stakeholders including those providing services, those needing service and those who designed the plan for the State of Nevada. The data presented supports that the initial implementation was successful, however further study and analysis are required to determine long term effects. At the conclusion, suggestions to increase the effectiveness of …

Demand Your Piece Of Cake For Personal Growth, Gonesh Shermon

IIMB Management Review

The genesis of this article arises from a series of workshops titled 'Culture Beyond 2000' carried out by the author in a prominent manufacturing company, covering over 200 participants in groups of 25, over a 3-day period for each group. The context was the situation that arose on the induction of relatively new management staff into the new businesses of the company. The participants, mainly engineers and professionally qualified non technical staff averaged between 28 - 35 years. All belonged to the managerial cadre and 75% of the management staff were new to the company and were going into a …

Analysis Of Factors Influencing Tolerance Of Fraternization, George J. Matusak Iii

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis explores several factors that might explain discrepancies in the tolerance level of fraternization among company grade officers within the Air Force. Factors that may influence implementation may include the nature of the relationship (platonic or sexual), the sex of the participants (same or different gender or gender of the senior person), whether the incident occurred between people in the same chain of command, and whether the survey respondent was ever stationed at a remote location. This research used a survey sent out to a population of company grade officers and comprising of scenarios that varied the combination of …

Predictability, Work-Family Conflict, And Intent To Stay: An Air Force Case Study, Patrick J. Obruba

Theses and Dissertations

A survey was completed by 362 active duty Air Force members in December 2000 regarding their perceptions of schedule predictability, work-family conflict, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and intent to stay with the Air Force. Theory suggests that a program designed to create schedule predictability, the Expeditionary Aerospace Force (EAF), would moderate the relationship between predictability and intent to stay. Using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), plausible evidence was found to support the idea that schedule predictability plays a role in intentions to stay via work-family conflict, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment. Additional evidence supported the theory that the path relationships generated …

Factors Affecting Exchange Relationships Among Subordinates And Supervisors: A Study Of Military Officers, Laurie K. Richter

Theses and Dissertations

This research examined the effect of organizational structure on the relationships between subordinates and their supervisors using measures of leader-member exchange (LMX), mentoring effectiveness, perceived organizational support (POS), perceived opportunities for promotion, job satisfaction, affective commitment, and intent to remain. The sample obtained included 147 subordinate Air Force traditional Civil Engineer officers, Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) officers, Bioenvironmental Engineer officers, and 27 squadron commanders at 19 Air Force bases. The methods of multiple analysis of variance and structural equation modeling were used to evaluate five research questions and nineteen hypotheses. Overall, no differences were found between the types of subordinate …

Corporate Caregiver, Dipali Sikand

IIMB Management Review

My career as a Human Resources manager had led me to specialising in HR in the telecom business, first with the Essar group, then with JT Mobiles and the Northern Telecom group in Singapore as a Resourcing Director. I saw that people mainly took time off during office hours to do personal jobs - small jobs like paying their bills or buying tickets. This took up a major chunk of their time and it cost the organisation. I began to realize how vital it was for companies to find new ways of retaining employees and helping them use their office …

Factors Influencing Air Force Members' Tolerance Of Fraternization, Amanda G. Brandau

Theses and Dissertations

AFI 36-2909, provides the current policy on acceptable and unacceptable social interactions between Air Force members. The intent of distinguishing relationships as professional or unprofessional is to preserve proper respect for authority and maintain focus on the mission through professional relationships while avoiding the negative effects of unprofessional relationships. Fraternization is one unacceptable type, which governs relationships between officers and enlisted members. There have long been differences between official policy and actual practice in the area of fraternization. These differences likely influence the acceptance of existing policy, and the amount of tolerance toward behaviors that Air Force policy would consider …

Capturing The Policy That Air Force Raters Use When Writing Performance Appraisals On Junior Officers, Owen D. Stephens

Theses and Dissertations

This study examined the relationship between four dimensions of performance leadership, task performance, interpersonal facilitation, and job dedication and overall performance by junior officers in the Air Force. It was hypothesized that the four dimensions would have different relative importance to overall performance, ratee gender would have no effect on rating policy, and raters with greater experience would show greater rating consistency. Finally, it was hypothesized that the Conscientiousness factor of the International Personality Inventory Protocol and Positive and Negative Affectivity may be correlated with the relative importance of the four dimensions of performance and a rater leniency measure and …

An Investigation Of The Contracting Officer Career Pyramid, William B. Elyea

Theses and Dissertations

Air Force contracting officers rely on published guidance to assist in establishing their career objectives. This thesis uses empirical data to evaluate the published Air Force career guidance. The data set is comprised of complete duty histories from all active duty colonels, colonel selects, and general officers in the contracting career field. The guidance implies a career path to an exceptional career but provides no empirical validation. This thesis follows a rigorous procedure to objectively evaluate the Air Force guidance. The guidance is translated into 18 research questions based on its main tenets. Each duty occurrence is categorized by type …

Establishing A Career Development Plan For The System Support Manager, Noelia Mendoza

Theses and Dissertations

Career development plans are created to assist individuals in establishing their career objectives. The most commonly used career path model is the pyramid career model. It identifies the ideal job experiences, training, and education needed to reach career success. Although the model seems to provide everything needed to succeed, it fails to answer why the experiences identified are important. The answer to that question can be found in the competency model. This thesis looked at how the pyramid career model and competency model can be used to groom individuals. The variables that contribute to overall job performance and the competencies …

Job Retention Among Cps Social Workers In Riverside County, Donald Davis

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Ua35/1 Faculty Handbook, 16th Edition, Wku Provost

WKU Administration Documents

WKU faculty handbook designed to provide members of the faculty with general information about WKU, its history, philosophy, organization, policies and procedures, faculty responsibilities and benefits, and various services and facilities.

Managerial Accountants, The Equity Theory, Job Satisfaction, And Intent To Leave, Philip N. Gilmore

Faculty Dissertations

This research measures the relationships among variables of equity, job satisfaction, and intent to leave for managerial accountants. An accountant may be comparing the equity of his/her situation with that of another (referent) or simply measuring his/her outcome (such as pay, etc.) to his/her own input (such as effort, etc.) on the job. Two hypotheses are supported. First, the correlation between managerial accountants' job satisfaction and job equity is positive. Second, the correlation between managerial accountants' job satisfaction and intent to leave the job is not positive. Employers of accountants are encouraged to review their personnel policies to ensure that …

Investigating Business Casual Dress Policies: Questionnaire Development And Exploratory Research, Timothy Franz, Norton Steven D.

Psychology Faculty/Staff Publications

This study had two primary goals: to develop a questionnaire that can be used to determine what types and categories of attire are acceptable in today’s work environment for men and women and to provide a preliminary test of whether these policies impact work attitudes and behavior. Because of the lack of past theory and research to guide the project, human resource professionals were interviewed to help generate ideas for questionnaire design. Once developed, this questionnaire was completed by 95 students, most of whom worked full- or part-time. Analyses revealed that there are clear trends and categories that can be …

A Model Handbook Of Hiring And Employment Practices And Procedures For Selected Private K-12 Schools, Jan Marie Brown

All Graduate Projects

The purpose of the project was to develop a model handbook of hiring and employment practices and procedures for private K-12 schools. To accomplish this purpose a review of literature and current policies or procedures from public and private schools, agencies and organizations was conducted. Additional related information from selected sources was obtained and analyzed.

Visualizing Staff Information System (Vsis), Mook Lan Wong

Student Works (2000-2009)

The Visualizing Staff Information System also known as VSIS is a system to keep track the personal record of the staff in a company and with effective visual displays which concerned with exploring data and information to gain insight and understanding of the data. The software development tool used are Visual Basic 6.0, Seagate Crystal Report 7.0 and Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 is used as a database management system. Prototype model is conducted in the system development. Before an interview was conducted, a set of interview questions were prepared and sent to the respective company. Global Soft Manufacturing was one …

[Introduction To] Managing Human Resources In The Public Sector: A Shared Responsibility, Gill Robinson Hickman, Dalton S. Lee

Bookshelf

This book is written for the large number of public administration students and practitioners who are interested in becoming department managers and supervisors in various areas of government service. It emphasizes the interdependence between the human resource department and line managers in implementing personnel functions. It also provides enough background and history about human resource management in the public sector for line managers to appreciate why the field functions as it does.

Human Resource Management System (Hrms), Mee Mee Bong

Student Works (2000-2009)

HRMS (Human Resource Management System) is an interactive, web-based application developed using ASP (Active Server Pages). lt is designed to meet the need of accessing human resource information electronically by the employees of an organization. This system can be reach through network, only by authorized users. In this system, there are six modules that manage the human resource system, which are Staff Information/Personnel Management, Leave Management, Claims & Benefit Management, Training Courses, Notice Management and Search module. HRMS provides database processing system where users do not have to be concerned with the ways in which data are physically stored Rather, …

An Evaluation Of Fás's Excellence Through People Award, Antoinette Hogan

Theses

In 1997 FAS introduced the Excellence Through People Award, a human resource based quality standard. The main objective was to increase the level, relevance and quality of training being conducted in Ireland. It had become apparent that it was no longer sufficient to offer customers low cost products to try to gain advantage over competitors. Customers were becoming more sophisticated, with more disposable income. Also, technological developments were constantly shortening product lifecycles. Thus, what companies required was for their employees to know in real time what their customers value and to know how to provide it for them. It has …

Implementing And Sustaining Effective Online Learning In Organizational Environments, Amy S. Campbell

Graduate Research Papers

This literature review will address specific issues and concerns that are . prevalent when organizations begin to migrate training and learning activities to an online environment.

The structure of many organizations has been changing over the years to include a diverse and geographically dispersed work force. In an effort to continue to provide training and learning opportunities, while at the same time reducing travel and time away from work, more organizations are seeking to implement online learning alternatives. Online learning offers a unique learning alternative to traditional instructor-led training. However, organizations must be prepared to effectively support online learning and …

Critical Study Of The Managerial Selection Practices In Malaysian Business Organisations, Zeti Sheikh Othman

Theses : Honours

An exploratory study was made on the managerial selection practices of Malaysian business organizations. The data for the study was provided by 62 business organizations comprising 22 Malaysian-owned small and medium enterprises, 26 large locally-owned corporation and 14 Malaysian-based multinational companies. Comparisons of the selection practices were made between the two categories of Malaysian local companies; between the Malaysian local companies and the multinationals, and between selection practices of the Malaysian organizations combined with the practices in the developed countries as revealed by management literature. Analysis of the results reveal that generally there were little differences between the selection practices …

Leave Management System (Lms), Yim Khim Chan

Student Works (2000-2009)

This project attempts to further enhance and develop new features and functionalities for the existing Leave Management System (LMS) in the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology (FCSIT). The existing LMS is a web-based application designed to automate leave processing system in the faculty. Briefly, this project strives to test the efficiency of the system, to ease the process of leave application, to make the system user-friendlier, and to enhance the integrated system with the Attendance Management System (AMS). Its significance includes higher quality of the system in terms of its efficiency and effectiveness, faster processing time, and having …

Sistem Maklumat Tuntutan Elaun, Mamat Norazlena

Student Works (2000-2009)

Perkembangan teknologi dan industri komputer yang semakin pesat dan canggih,kini telah menjadi medan utama bagi menguruskan penggunaan maklumat dalam sesebuah organisasi. Sistem-sistem maklumat berasaskan komputer adalah penting dalam usaha pembangunan sumber manusia agar kejayaan dapat dicapai seiring denganperkembangan teknologi, selain meningkat kualiti serta produktiviti suatu yang dijalankan. Sistem maklumat tuntutan elaun adalah satu sistem yang dapat membantu melancarkan proses permohonan elaun supaya dapat diuruskan dengan lebih sistematik oleh semua pihak pengurusan di bahagian sumber manusia di sesebuah organisasi. Setiap maklumat berkenaan tuntutan yang dilakukan akan dikendalikan berdasarkan jenis elaun yang dituntut. Dengan adanya sistem ini, akan membantu kakitangan dalam mengemaskinikan …

Attendance Management System, Sze Eng Goh

Student Works (2000-2009)

Attendance Management System (AMS) is developed to automate entire workflow of the attendance logging system of Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology. This system is currently in used by all the staffs in faculty. The main purpose of this project is to enhance the current system and add new functionalities to the system. The lacking of the system and all the problems faced by users will be identified in the review of literature. With the findings and the gathered information, all the functions in the system will be consolidated and the feasibility of each module will be tested. Calendar …

Umpjj- Wcs (Wages Claims System) Through Web, Min Tat Ong

Student Works (2000-2009)

The final year thesis paper has divided into 2 major parts which are the WXET 3181 Latihan Ilmiah I and WXET 3182 Latihan Ilmiah II. The division of these 2 thesis paper is based on the 7 major stages in SDLC (System Development Life Cycle) context which WXET 3181 Latiban Ilmiah I covers 3 major stages in SDLC whereas WXET 3182 Latihan Ilmiah II covers the remaining 4 major stages in SDLC. The WXET 3181 Latihan Ilmiah I is a special 4 credit hours thesis paper which does not involve any lecture or tutorial classes but to let the FSKTM …