152,167 research outputs found
Keeping Our Best: Econometric Analysis of Retention and Performance at Engineering Solutions
This study analyzes the retention and performance of 100 engineers who started work at âEngineering Solutionsâ in 1996, of whom 65 were still with the firm in 2002. The retention analysis shows that the firm retained disproportionately the better performers, those with the psychological attributes that make for greater success, those with greater work attachment, and those with fewer dependent-related job issues. The performance analysis shows that the top-rated engineers are primarily those who exhibit favorable psychological characteristics, that a few other characteristics make a small difference to performance, and that the remaining variables make no difference at all
JISC Preservation of Web Resources (PoWR) Handbook
Handbook of Web Preservation produced by the JISC-PoWR project which ran from April to November 2008.
The handbook specifically addresses digital preservation issues that are relevant to the UK HE/FE web management communityâ.
The project was undertaken jointly by UKOLN at the University of Bath and ULCC Digital Archives department
Curating E-Mails; A life-cycle approach to the management and preservation of e-mail messages
E-mail forms the backbone of communications in many modern institutions and organisations and is a valuable type of organisational, cultural, and historical record. Successful management and preservation of valuable e-mail messages and collections is therefore vital if organisational accountability is to be achieved and historical or cultural memory retained for the future. This requires attention by all stakeholders across the entire life-cycle of the e-mail records.
This instalment of the Digital Curation Manual reports on the several issues involved in managing and curating e-mail messages for both current and future use. Although there is no 'one-size-fits-all' solution, this instalment outlines a generic framework for e-mail curation and preservation, provides a summary of current approaches, and addresses the technical, organisational and cultural challenges to successful e-mail management and longer-term curation.
The selection, appraisal and retention of digital scientific data: dighlights of an ERPANET/CODATA workshop
CODATA and ERPANET collaborated to convene an international archiving workshop on the selection, appraisal, and retention of digital scientific data, which was held on 15-17 December 2003 at the Biblioteca Nacional in Lisbon, Portugal. The workshop brought together more than 65 researchers, data and information managers, archivists, and librarians from 13 countries to discuss the issues involved in making critical decisions regarding the long-term preservation of the scientific record. One of the major aims for this workshop was to provide an international forum to exchange information about data archiving policies and practices across different scientific, institutional, and national contexts. Highlights from the workshop discussions are presented
Myopia, customer returns and the theory of planned behaviour
As a prevalent and growing form of customer behaviour, deshopping is on the
rise. Retailers' focus on good customer service and the offering of lenient
returns polices has led to the growth in this fraudulent behaviour of customers
in returning goods. This paper considers retailer myopia in the context of
dishonest customer returns, applying the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) using
a quantitative questionnaire with 535 female consumers. The findings highlight
the extent of the behaviour with 50% admitting to partaking in deshopping. The
TPB variables can be utilised to manage and prevent deshopping. The results
indicate that currently these customers perceive it to be easy to deshop as
there are no consequences with the result that such behaviour continues to grow.
If retailers were less myopic they would monitor returns more thoroughly and
make it less easy for such customers to get away with undesirable deshopping
behaviour. The paper makes recommendations for retailers to manage or alter
perceived behavioural characteristics for customers, which in turn, would reduce
tendencies for dishonesty in customers returning goods for refunds. Retail
myopia is evident with deshopping behaviour with consequences for retailers in
time, effort and costs
Recruiting Older Workers: Realities and Needs of the Future Workforce
This chapter examines literature pertaining to the recruitment of older workers. It begins by addressing the question of relevance and why older worker recruitment matters. It then examines what is known about older workers, including their attitudes, motivations, and behaviors. Next the chapter addresses what employers are looking for in older workers and, more specifically, discusses the continuum of employersâ practices from those that aggressively try to attract and retain older workers and apply a conservation model of older worker management to those that apply a depreciation model and focus primarily on retrenchment and downsizing older employees. Finally, it addresses how employers can recruit older workers through changes in organizational policies and practices
Planning and managing the cost of compromise for AV retention and access
Long-term retention and access to audiovisual (AV) assets as part of a preservation strategy inevitably involve some form of compromise in order to achieve acceptable levels of cost, throughput, quality, and many other parameters. Examples include quality control and throughput in media transfer chains; data safety and accessibility in digital storage systems; and service levels for ingest and access for archive functions delivered as services. We present new software tools and frameworks developed in the PrestoPRIME project that allow these compromises to be quantitatively assessed, planned, and managed for file-based AV assets. Our focus is how to give an archive an assurance that when they design and operate a preservation strategy as a set of services, it will function as expected and will cope with the inevitable and often unpredictable variations that happen in operation. This includes being able to do cost projections, sensitivity analysis, simulation of âdisaster scenarios,â and to govern preservation services using service-level agreements and policies
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