This study examined the influence of two organizational context variables, codes of conduct and supervisor advice, on personnel decisions in an experimental simulation. Specifically, we studied personnel evaluations and decisions in a situation where codes of conduct conflict with supervisor advice. Past studies showed that supervisors’ advice to prefer ingroup over outgroup candidates leads to...

The aim of this research is to design a testing process for FedEx Corporation that more thoroughly integrates testing activities throughout the software development life cycle. With the new process, testing personnel will be actively involved in the planning, requirements, and design of the project. This should have the side-benefit of increasing morale among testing personnel as they are commi...

This chapter reviews personnel selection research from 1995 through 1999. Areas covered are job analysis; performance criteria; cognitive ability and personality predictors; interview, assessment center, and biodata assessment methods; measurement issues; meta-analysis and validity generalization; evaluation of selection systems in terms of differential prediction, adverse impact, utility, and ...

this study aimed to explain the role of self-leadership and self-management on human capital of ministry of c.l and s.w. the research method was descriptive and correlational and data analysis metod was sem that using cochran's sampling formula that sample size was determined 306 personnel by simple random sampling. self-leadership and self-management of abili and mazari (2014) with reliab...

The paper presents the findings of research into the extent and impact of restricted access to ICT based communications for specific groups of staff in UK further and higher education organisations. Educational institutions disseminate key corporate information internally via email, intranets and Virtual Learning Environments. However, the extent to which access to electronic communications is ...

Concerns about the mental health of military personnel deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan has led to a new generation of research. This review is an examination of the UK literature on the mental health consequences of deployment of armed forces personnel to Iraq and Afghanistan. As yet, deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan has not been associated with a general increase in mental health problems fo...

Personnel scheduling involves scheduling people to timeslots and possibly locations. This problem remains the subject of much research interest with a survey in every decade since the 1970’s [2, 8, 4]. Several models including Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) [6], mathematical programming (linear programming, 0-1 integer programming etc.) [3], and different solution methods (exact [3] or h...

Nurse rostering is a complex scheduling problem that affects hospital personnel on a daily basis all over the world. The need for quality software solutions is acute for a number of reasons. In particular, it is very important to efficiently utilise time and effort, to evenly balance the workload among people and to attempt to satisfy personnel preferences. A high quality roster can lead to a m...

Managing a career in the information technology (IT) industry presents varying opportunities for IT workers. A major question for technical workers is whether or not to move to a managerial career in order to advance. This research study addresses the perception of IT career paths among IT personnel Poland. Poland was used because of its historical leadership in the struggle to gain freedom fro...