The benefits of automation lead to increase levels of technology intervention. However, automation can have negative effects, such as reducing employee knowledge (deskilling). Other authors claim that automation may also raise knowledge (up-skilling). This study analyzes the effect of automation on an employee’s knowledge to determine the presence of deskilling – if the knowledge of the task de...

When Jeff Skilling, former CEO of Enron, applied to Harvard Business School at the age of 26, he had trouble coming across positively to the admissions officer. He had spent most of his college years gambling (and losing) thousands of dollars in the stock market rather than focusing on schoolwork, and this was evident from his transcript. At some point during the interview the admissions office...

Paper presented at the Conference on Biodiversity, Biotechnology and the Protection of Traditional Knowledge, Washington Univ. School of Law. Submitted to Prof. Charles McManis of the Washington Univ. Law School with the an agreement that I will have an opportunity to update the paper before it is published. This is vital because the paper deals with a rapidly changing situation in India, and s...

objectives the current study aimed to compare the two methods based on the perceptions of the nurses working in neonatal intensive care units (nicu). patients and methods a comparative-descriptive study carried out on 35 nicu nurses in taleghani and al-zahra teaching hospitals in tabriz, iran, in 2013. data were collected by self-administered questionnaire (13 items). data analysis, including t...

Despite decades of focus on gender and skills training, the Technical Vocational Education Training (TVET) landscape in Sub-Saharan Africa remains deeply gendered rooted wider structures patriarchal inequality exploitation. Engaging with recent theoretical moves toward gender-transformative gender-just TVET programming, this paper explores how a gradual revisioning can be mobilised to challenge...