We study single and multi-period quantity flexible contracts involving one demand forecast update in each period and a spot market. We obtain the optimal order quantity at the beginning of a period and order quantities on contract and from the spot market at the then prevailing price after the forecast revision and before the demand materialization. The amount that can be purchased on contract ...

The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore the perception of managers and talents of perceived retention factors in the textile industry in Yazd province, Iran. In this regard, phenomenography is used to map the different perceptions of both talents and their managers. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 22 talented individuals who were selected according to an ...

Variational autoencoders (VAE) represent a popular, flexible form of deep generative model that can be stochastically fit to samples from a given random process using an informationtheoretic variational bound on the true underlying distribution. Once so-obtained, the model can be putatively used to generate new samples from this distribution, or to provide a low-dimensional latent representatio...

This paper constructs a labor-market matching model with heterogeneous workers. Due to matching frictions, there may be a mismatch of talents within a production team, forcing a worker to specialize in a task at which she is not talented. We consider a partnership model where production takes place in teams consisting of two workers. We characterize the steadystate of the matching equilibrium. ...

Talent evaluation is a very important part in the human resources development and management process, and it has certain implications for talent prediction and planning, allocation and management, and training. In this paper, the author makes a fuzzy evaluation model of creative talents based on analytic hierarchy process. By using fuzzy analytic hierarchy process, we combine qualitative indica...

It takes all sorts to build a team, from creative problem solvers focused strategists and coordinators, collectively dwelling honeybees may also benefit the individual strengths of their nest mates. ‘Individuals with different abilities, some faster learn, others slower but more accurate, help group be efficient cope broad spectrum problems encountered in nature,’ says Martin Giurfa Université ...

Governments and local communities across the world have recognized that key to building prosperity and stimulate regional growth is fostering entrepreneurship among their people especially youth. Youth entrepreneurship has become a topic of interest for research scholars and also a subject of major concern for the Government. While youth entrepreneurship is an under-explored field, the main fac...