Program Executive Office Ground Combat Systems (PEO GCS) manages the development, systems integration, acquisition, testing, fielding, modernization and sustainment of the U.S. Army’s ground combat systems to provide world-class, affordable and relevant capabilities to soldiers and marines. Systems include the Abrams main battle tank, Bradley Family of Vehicles (FoV), self-propelled howitzers, ...

This paper presents the design of YACO (Yet Another framework for Collaborative work), a framework for supporting mobile collaborative work. Mobile collaborative work has been increasing in popularity in business domain. Coworkers cooperate and share expertise across sites and domains, employees may move from a location to another carrying devices (such as PDAs and laptops) in which they store ...

Computerization of the workplace is beginning to gather momentum in India. The capabilities of computers—what computers can do for us—are discussed at length, but the effects of computers—what they do to us—are not aired so widely. If full benefits of computerization are to be realized, the way computers affect employees needs to be understood and tackled. In this article, Kakoli Saha shows how...

Mobile computing device adoption in organizations is proliferating with the rapid development of mobile computing technology. In this paper, we proposed a new construct, the Information Processing Support Index (IPSI), to capture how well these devices support employees’ job-required information processing activities. The instrument yields scores that measure perceptions about mobile devices’ c...

This paper demonstrates a method that can be used to analyze the degree to which an organization’s systems engineering capabilities meet government-industry defined systems engineering needs. To demonstrate this process using universities as the case study, we summarize secondary research completed for nine institutions from various countries that offer systems engineering graduate level progra...

This study examines whether, as competition for readers and viewers increases among news producers, media organizations are focusing on hiring individuals whose talents most reflect the specific communication strengths and style of a particular medium, or whether news executives still seek more traditional journalistic skills in applicants. The study also examined differences in the types of ap...

In organizations, change ideas are often implemented as ‘instruments of modernity’ (Giddens, 1991) prescribing a unified pattern of work, behavior and thought (Suchman, 1995). Reflecting a strong belief in the engineerability of organizational reality, they generally serve the purpose of improving management control. A cultural critique of organizational change entails investigation of how ...

in today’s competitive world, psychological capital and work activities are considered as a key factor to suc cess and survival for organizations. so far, the literature has recognized various items that affect work activi ties in organizations. the study analyzes how psychological capital predicts work activities both directly and through the mediating role of innovation, subjective well-being...

Purpose: Considering the role and importance of establishing knowledge management in different organizations, the aim of the current research was presenting the effective factors model on the establishment of knowledge management in the rowing federation. Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was quantitative. The research population was ...