This article reviews the Business Process Reengineering (BPR) vision of radical business process change, focusing upon the use of information technology, to facilitate a shift away from linear work organization towards parallel processing and multidisciplinary team working. To approach such a change, by focusing on the technologies aspect to the detriment of a regard on managerial, technologica...

Language resource quality is crucial in NLP. Many of the resources used are derived from data created by human beings out of an NLP context, especially regarding MT and reference translations. Indeed, automatic evaluations need highquality data that allow the comparison of both automatic and human translations. The validation of these resources is widely recommended before being used. This pape...

Introduction Organisations and their employees face ongoing challenges in the form of new strategic initiatives designed to keep pace in an increasingly complex business environment. In order for these challenges to be successfully met, new behaviours are required on the part of employees (Sims 1994). Defining these new behaviours is initiated through the organisation's human resource (HR) prac...

Purpose: This study outlines and tests a high commitment model of human resource (HR) practices and its association with outcomes through a path including employee perceptions and attitudes, thereby seeking a new way of opening the so-called ‘black box’ between human resource management (HRM)

The impact of the Human Resource (HR) capability on the firm’s performance and its involvement in developing business strategies are becoming increasingly important particularly in high tech Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Not surprisingly, the main debate in HRM, particularly in SMEs, is nowadays concerned with the relationship between HR capabilities and the firm’s overall performa...