abstract this study aims to explore the impact of human resources investment on competitive advantage that incorporates human capital as a mediator variable. for this purpose a questionnaire was designed to collect data of the research variables. validity and reliability of measurement instruments was obtained using confirmatory factor analysis. questionnaire was then distributed among a sample...

As data-driven approaches started to make their way into the Natural Language Generation (NLG) domain, the need for automation of corpus building and extension became apparent. Corpus creation and extension in data-driven NLG domain traditionally involved manual paraphrasing performed by either a group of experts or with resort to crowd-sourcing. Building the training corpora manually is a cost...

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...

since the mid-19 th century, human activities have increased greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide in the earth's atmosphere that resulted in increased average temperature. the effects of rising temperature include soil degradation, loss of productivity of agricultural land, desertification, loss of biodiversity, degradation of ecosystems, reduced fresh-water resou...

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...