A company’s greatest asset is its people provided they are fully engaged. In our increasingly service-based economies, social relationships and swift coordination among employees are the means by which a lot of work gets done. Thus, whether organizations and their employees flourish or languish largely depends on the quality of the social connections they nurture. The quality of the workplace c...

Today’s collaboration in e-science and business environments is no longer limited to the boundary of a single organization. People belonging to different organizations collaborate together to achieve a common goal by establishing virtual teams. The current trend is to rely on SOA-based tools and services for virtual teams and their collaborative processes because SOA offers many technologies to...

This paper investigates which factors are more effective when taking advantage of benefits perceived by firms in their collaborations with public research organizations (PROs). The empirical study is based on a survey of that have collaborated the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), largest PRO Spain. We performed an ordinal probit regression, where dependent variables...

you cannot find any modern society without organizations. all societies need the organizations for achieving their diverse goals. modern professional organizations are doing many functions for their host societies such as: producing and distributing high quality products, provision of health, education, recreation and entertainment services, security and safety. the specialized organizations co...

Communication research on public health organizations and people living with HIV/ AIDS (PLWHA) have paid insufficient attention to PLWHA organizations. These organizations, constituted and operated by PLWHA, advocate on behalf of PLWHA with more powerful institutions in society and serve as sources of empowerment and support. I drew on the culture-centered approach to health communication and i...

This paper provides the author’s personal views and perspectives on software process improvement. Starting with his first work on technology assessment in IBM over 20 years ago, Watts Humphrey describes the process improvement work he has been directly involved in. This includes the development of the early process assessment methods, the original design of the CMM, and the introduction of the ...

We describe a model of virtual humans to be used in training for non-team interactions, such as negotiating with people from other organizations. The virtual humans build on existing task, dialogue, and emotion models, with an added model of trust, which are used to understand and produce interactional moves. The model has been implemented within an agent in the SASO-ST system, and some example...