In recent years, research on IT usage has increasingly focused on post-adoption usage, rather than initial acceptance of a technology regarded as new. Consistent with this recent trend, we seek to understand what factors influence employees’ ongoing IT use and processes they rely on for expanding their knowledge and skills within organizational workgroups. Based on recommendations by Jasperson,...

This research aims to analyze how creativity techniques can enhance workers’ soft skills. In addition, this study understand the environment that surrounds company workers affect their performance. Therefore, a quantitative methodology was developed through questionnaire with 87 answers from employees of large companies in area Marketing and Management. The data studied reliability find relatio...

Some dairy farmers look at their employees as a cost factor, which needs to be kept minimal. Others see their employees as a resource. With proper management, employees can help keep a farm successful in the long run. How a farmer looks at his or her employees determines how employees will be managed and what role labor will play on a farm. If you are the kind of farmer who sees employees as a ...

A routine work requires few skills, so employees can be skilled easily. Therefore, the productivity and the quality of work greatly depend on employees’ work motivation. However, as a routine work is often not interesting to almost all employees originally, a method for promoting and keeping employees’ work motivation is required for keeping or increasing the productivity and the quality of wor...

The article explores how organisations learn to manage their skill endowments. By capitalising on the resource-based theory of the firm, we investigated incentives and bargaining processes giving raise to different organisational forms and different pattern of rents appropriation. We built an agent-based model to simulate a market where employees, bearing skills, bargain their salaries with fir...

This paper extends the (Lucas, Bell J Econ 9:508–523,1978) model of occupational choices by individuals with different skills, beyond the simple options of self-employment or wage-employment, by including a second choice for the selfemployed. That is, an option to hire employees and so become self-employed with employees (SEWEs), or to be self-employed without employees (SEWNEs).We solve for th...

Healthcare organizations compete for employees in the same way television networks compete for new talent. Organizations also compete over experience, knowledge, and skills new employees bring with them. Organizations that can acclimate a new employee into the social and performance aspects of a new job the quickest create a substantial competitive advantage. Onboarding is the term used for ori...

Knowledge is more and more a key factor within companies [10]. Nearly 40 percent of all employees are so called ”’knowledge workers”’. Distribution and inquest of knowledge within companies are supported by skill management systems. Although not all aspects and potentials of this instrument are yet utilized skill management systems have spread widely within business organizations. This paper su...