It is now five years since we last reviewed performance management practices and fifteen years since we first began this important research project. Over this period we have witnessed four important developments in human resource management. First, the connection between an organisation’s performance and how it manages its people has now been established empirically: human resource practices di...

Customer value creation is allegedly at the centre of relationships between service recipients and service providers (such as financial service organisations in general, and commercial banks in particular). This research considers the role of customer value creation in the strategic response of banks to external changes in their growth opportunities. The analysis established that there had been...

Customer value creation is allegedly at the centre of relationships between service recipients and service providers (such as financial service organisations in general, and commercial banks in particular). This research considers the role of customer value creation in the strategic response of banks to external changes in their growth opportunities. The analysis established that there had been...

New types of cooperation between companies in the manufacturing sector are coming into being. Since nowadays the creation of and involvement in supply chains is for most companies standard practice, new forms of cooperation are now emerging: production networks. The paper describes current developments in the field of production networks along with techniques and methods for their operation and...

background : chronic kidney disease (ckd) is a complicated kidney problem causing permanent renal failure in progressive stages. the final stage of ckd is called esrd in which most accepted management is hemodialysis (hd). arterio-venus fistula (avf) is the most practical way of making proper access to the blood circulatory system however, maturation of the avf is a challenge, since there are n...

The aim of this paper is to present current efforts towards the creation of a comprehensive open repository of Polish language resources and tools (LRTs). The work described here is carried out within the CESAR project, member of the META-NET consortium. It has already resulted in the creation of the Computational Linguistics in Poland website containing an exhaustive collection of Polish LRTs....

PURPOSE To discuss intraoperative and postoperative femtosecond laser-assisted LASIK flap complications and their management. METHODS Review of published literature. RESULTS Flap creation is a critical step in LASIK. The femtosecond laser has improved the overall predictability and safety of the lamellar incision, but complications can still occur during or after flap creation. Although man...

muslim philosophers have since their long history encountered lots of severe surges of doubts and oppositions, so they did their best to remove them all through deep investigation which brought about the progress of islamic philosophy both in quantity and quality. muslim philosophers were sometimes challenged by such questions as, determinism, the temporal creation of the world, the otherness o...