The purpose of this study is to investigate the barriers and the sources of resistance to information technology (IT) change projects in hotel firms and evaluate strategies adopted in seeking to overcome these barriers. Based on an in-depth literature review, the authors developed an interview protocol. The authors collected empirical data from the Information Technology Managers and the Hotel ...

This paper describes a main memory data storage system for a distributed system of heterogenous general purpose workstations. We show that distributed main memory storage managers are qualitatively diierent from distributed disk based storage managers. Specii-cally, we show that load balancing, which is crucial to disk-based systemss26], has little eeect on the performance of a memory-based sys...

We argue that general context data distribution can be achieved by establishing a network of context managers. The context managers have a uniform core which is surrounded by the appropriate functionality to make it deployable in applications, user and organizational infrastructure, and on top of sensors. When access to the context manager is mediated and policed, we say that it is a context se...

the aim of this study was to evaluate the needs assessment component of service education programs for the managers and staff at the department of youth and sports based on the iso 10015 standard. the research method was a descriptive survey conducted as a case study. the statistical population consisted of all managers and staff, consisting a total of 120 of the esfahan province general direct...

OBJECTIVES The central aim of the present study was to examine differences in the functioning of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis between 29 burned-out, 33 work-engaged, and 26 healthy reference managers, as identified with the Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey and the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale. METHODS All of the managers were employed in a large Dutch telecommunicati...

Frustrated by the inadequacies of traditional performance measurement systems, some managers have abandoned financial measures like return on equity and earnings per share. "Make operational improvements and the numbers will follow," the argument goes. But managers do not want to choose between financial and operational measures. Executives want a balanced presentation of measures that allow th...

AIM This study describes the views of nurse managers and staff members on human resource development (HRD) in health care. Our interest here is whether there are any differences between these two groups. BACKGROUND The need for HRD in order to cope with an ageing workforce and a diminishing number of younger nurses. METHODS A postal questionnaire was sent to a random sample of nursing staff...

In software transactional memory (STM) systems, a contention manager resolves conflicts among transactions accessing the same memory locations. Whereas atomicity and serializability of the transactions are guaranteed at all times, the contention manager is of crucial importance for guaranteeing that the system as a whole makes progress. A number of different contention management policies have ...