Employee retention is one of the challenges facing many business organisations today. For many organisations, strategic staffing has become a concern because the ability to hold on to highly talented core employees can be crucial to future survival. This empirical study examined the current human resource management (HRM) practices of Australian organisations in the retention of their core empl...

Greene, John L.; Siegel, William C. 1994. The status and impact of state and local regulation on private timber supply. General Technical Report RM-255. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station. 22 p. State and local regulatory enactments that affect private forest management are identified and summarized. The results o...

By the end of 2001, an estimated 40 million people worldwide—2.7 million under age 15—were living with HIV/AIDS. More than 70 percent of these people (28.1 million) live in Sub-Saharan Africa. Another killer, malaria, is responsible for as many as half the deaths of African children under the age of five. The disease kills more than one million children each year—2,800 per day—in Africa alone. ...

Purpose – The most research of Knowledge Management merely pays attention to it’s relation with dimensions of the organizations especially contextual dimensions. The purpose of this work is to explore the contextual dimensions of organizations for finding the interactions between of these dimensions and Knowledge Management and to identify the critical success factors, drivers and constraints, ...

The aim of this paper is to compare risk profiles of individual software development (ISD) and packaged software implementation (PSI) projects. While researchers have investigated risks in either PSI projects or ISD projects, an integrated perspective on how the risk profiles of these two types of information system (IS) projects differ is missing. To explore these differences, this work conduc...

This study investigated the project risk in information systems design and development in the context of Hong Kong. While a large majority of the past research studies was conducted using the Delphi method, multiple case study research methodology was employed in this study in order to provide compelling evidence of the phenomenon. Another novel approach was the application of the causal mappin...

This paper focuses on the benefit of collaborative maintenance and current supported mobile technology. Mobile technologies and solutions are very popular in consumer applications and the exploitation of these technologies is expanding. In large-scale industries, maintenance of mobile solutions has not yet attracted much attention. One explanation is the lack of competence and knowledge for ado...

From the perspective of reducing the environmental impact, this study applies Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Delphi Method to construct a product assessment framework for early product planning and development stage to evaluate a product‟s impact and influence on the environment. This study firstly collects the environmental performance indicators through intensive literature review and ...

This article is based on an online DELPHI Questionnaire study of the management problems of Internet/Web systems development. Three questionnaires are used.. The 26 most important problems are presented. No individual problem is overwhelmingly rated as most important.. However, two clusters of related Internet problems, which together include 13 of the top 16 problems stand out as the two most ...

In today’s complex and constantly changing business world, business/IT alignment is high on the agenda of executive management. To achieve such alignment, it is important that an organization should have a clearly established corporate mission and a well-defined support strategy and business goals. Furthermore, the translation into and linkage with the company’s IT strategy and goals must be ca...