This article introduces the concept of awareness, which emerged in the field of computer-supported cooperative work and relates it to several psychological constructs. It reports the support of awareness by technological means and discusses potentialities of group awareness tools to support collaborative learning. A prototypical tool is introduced, which is intended to support online learning g...

We analyze the effort and pricing decisions in a two facility supply chain in which one of the parties can exert costly effort to increase demand. We consider an outsourcing model in which the supplier makes the effort decision and an in-house production model in which the manufacturer decides on the effort level and we compare these two models with each other. We analyze and compare several co...

according to recent researches in the field of positive organizational scholarship, one of the effective components on employees’ job performance and psychological wellbeing is the concept “thriving at work” which implies a feeling of vitality and learning by a person simultaneously while doing job tasks. the results of pearson correlation test in this research show that thriving at work has a ...

Purpose There is strong evidence that year-long work placements make students more employable and produces better academic performance. Despite this, UK participation rates remain stubbornly low. The authors examine the influence of performance on students' willingness ability to complete placements. Design/methodology/approach This study’s novel conceptual framework distinguishes by their inte...

Due to the many demands put on them, educators are a profession that faces difficulties. In addition being accountable for teaching, academics now expected complete other institutional require-ments, such as writing academic journals, research, publications, meetings, advice, volunteer work, and business partnerships. But they also have obligations their own families themselves. Is it even poss...