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Promoting Social Dialogue in European Organizations: Human Resources Manageme…
This volume focuses on describing the social dialogue system in organizations from an Human Resources Management perspective. Based on the NEIRE model for industrial relations, key factors are determined contributing to creative social dialogue in European organizations. Actual data from surveys and interviews from more than 700 CEO and HR managers in eleven European countries give insights in …
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- 9783319086057
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Working in the service sector : a tale from different worlds
The rise to prominence of the service sector - heralded over half a century ago as the great hope for the twenty-first century - has come to fruition. In many cases, employment in the service sector now outnumbers that in manufacturing sectors, and it is accepted that in all developed countries, the service sector is the only one in which employment will grow in future. The reasons for this is …
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- 9780203500583
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- xix, 357p. : ill.
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- 331.793094 WOR w
Enhancing future skills and entrepreneurship : 3rd Indo-German Conference on …
This open access book presents the proceedings of the 3rd Indo-German Conference on Sustainability in Engineering held at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India, on September 16–17, 2019. Intended to foster the synergies between research and education, the conference is one of the joint activities of the BITS Pilani and TU Braunschweig conducted under the auspices of Indo-Ge…
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- 9783030442484
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- ix, 292p. : ill.
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- 628 ENH e
Measuring the business value of cloud computing
The importance of demonstrating the value achieved from IT investments is long established in the Computer Science (CS) and Information Systems (IS) literature. However, emerging technologies such as the ever-changing complex area of cloud computing present new challenges and opportunities for demonstrating how IT investments lead to business value. Recent reviews of extant literature highlight…
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- 9783030431983
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- xxiii, 125p. : ill.
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- 004.6782 MEA m
Digital transformation of learning organizations
This open access volume provides insight into how organizations change through the adoption of digital technologies. Opportunities and challenges for individuals as well as the organization are addressed. It features four major themes: 1. Current research exploring the theoretical underpinnings of digital transformation of organizations. 2. Insights into available digital technologies as well a…
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- 9783030558789
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- xxi, 252p. : ill.
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- 658.406 DIG d
Internal crowdsourcing in companies : theoretical foundations and practical a…
This open access book examines the implications of internal crowdsourcing (IC) in companies. Presenting an employee-oriented, cross-sector reference model for good IC practice, it discusses the core theoretical foundations, and offers guidelines for process-management and blueprints for the implementation of IC. Furthermore, it examines solutions for employee training and competence development…
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- 9783030528812
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- viii, 220p. : ill.
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- 658.4058028546 INT i
Managing distributed cloud applications and infrastructure : a self-optimisin…
The emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT), combined with greater heterogeneity not only online in cloud computing architectures but across the cloud-to-edge continuum, is introducing new challenges for managing applications and infrastructure across this continuum. The scale and complexity is simply so complex that it is no longer realistic for IT teams to manually foresee the potential iss…
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- 9783030398637
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- xxiii, 163p. : ill.
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Technical, economic and societal effects of manufacturing 4.0 : automation, a…
This open access book is among the first cross-disciplinary works about Manufacturing 4.0. It includes chapters about the technical, the economic, and the social aspects of this important phenomenon. Together the material presented allows the reader to develop a holistic picture of where the manufacturing industry and the parts of the society that depend on it may be going in the future. Manuf…
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- 9783030461034
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- xxviii, 266p. : ill.
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- 670.427 TEC t
Anticipating and Preparing for Emerging Skills and Jobs: key issues, concerns…
This open access book analyzes the main drivers that are influencing the dramatic evolution of work in Asia and the Pacific and identifies the implications for education and training in the region. It also assesses how education and training philosophies, curricula, and pedagogy can be reshaped to produce workers with the skills required to meet the emerging demands of the Fourth Industrial Rev…
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- 9789811570186
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- xxvi, 353p.: ill.
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- 658.31 ANT a
Can music make you sick? : measuring the price of musical ambition
“Musicians often pay a high price for sharing their art with us. Underneath the glow of success can often lie loneliness and exhaustion, not to mention the basic struggles of paying the rent or buying food. Sally Anne Gross and George Musgrave raise important questions – and we need to listen to what the musicians have to tell us about their working conditions and their mental health.” Em…
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- 9781912656615
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- XI, 186 p.
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- 781.59 ANN c
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