In any firms, human resource (HR) practices are the direct investments on employees’ human capital through which firms achieve competitive advantage and employees enhance their human capital. Recognizing the structure of HR practices comprised of distinct patterns would maximize the chances to understand the firms’ ways of developing core competencies. This paper analyzes 472 employees’ respons...

The problem of locating, recruiting, and retaining information technology (IT) professionals in a market plagued by supply-demand imbalances is increasingly becoming a top priority with senior IT executives Although there is widespread acknowledgement in the practitioner literature of the pivotal role played by the IT human asset, the academic literature provides limited robust explanations for...

T he role of the Human Resource function in firms has changed in parallel with the economic shift from agrarian to manufacturing to services-and now to information . Early on, HR was considered a staff function, not integral to the firm . Its role was administrative or transactional, its work-product often regarded as a commodity . One factor in changing HR's role is the increased reliance on k...

Seropositive umbilical cord blood transplant (UCBT) recipients are at increased risk for CMV complications. To reduce CMV complications, we adopted an intensive strategy that consisted of ganciclovir administered before transplantation (5 mg/kg intravenously daily from day -8 to day -2), high-dose acyclovir (2 g, 3 times daily) after transplantation, and biweekly monitoring with a serum CMV PCR...

1. The foundation of a value-added HR function is a business strategy that relies on people as a source of competitive advantage and a management culture that embraces that belief; 2. A value-added HR function will be characterized by operational excellence, a focus on client service for individual employees and managers, and delivery of these services at the lowest possible cost; and 3. A valu...

The rhino mouse, a single gene recessive mutation, is characterized by abnormal epidermal differentiation and maturation leading to the loss of hair at 1 month of age as well as follicular and epidermal hyperkeratoses. We evaluated the lids and corneas of nine rhino mice and their normal litter mates at various ages from 3 months to 1 year. Tissue specimens were studied by light microscopy, sca...