Managing Technology and Administration Innovations: Four Case Studies on Software Reuse

A software process innovation, such as software reuse, involves both technology and administration innovation. Following literature on organizational change, absorptive capacity, innovation assimilation stages, and software reuse, we develop a process model of the assimilation trajectory of an organization¡¯s innovation. The model postulates that actors at different organizational levels implement strategy, process, and culture changes in order for an organization to advance through the stages of innovation assimilation. The actions at these levels instill routines that establish the absorptive capacity for implementing future innovations. Case-study data collected from four software development sites ¨C two reporting failure in the reuse program, and two reporting success ¨C revealed that programs that implemented change at the strategy, process and culture levels scored higher on all paths in the model than non-successful programs. The right incentives help in the latter stages of innovation assimilation during which culture change by operational staff is important

Get yourself connected: conceptualising the role of digital technologies in Norwegian career guidance

This report outlines the role of digital technologies in the provision of career guidance. It was commissioned by the c ommittee on career guidance which is advising the Norwegian Government following a review of the countries skills system by the OECD. In this report we argue that career guidance and online career guidance in particular can support the development of Norwa y’s skills system to help meet the economic challenges that it faces.The expert committee advising Norway’s Career Guidance Initiativ

Resources for Workplace Diversity: An Annotated Practitioner Guide to Information

[Excerpt] We are pleased to offer this updated edition of Resources for Workplace Diversity: An Annotated Practitioner Guide to Information, a unique offering of The Workplace Diversity Network. Our goal is to assemble a selected, annotated list of compelling and useful resources available to help diversity practitioners create organizations that are diverse and productive. As a working group, we agreed that useful resources would include newly published books as well as historic, seminal works that provide insight and illumination irrelevant of their age. In the updated edition, we’ve expanded existing sections, added new ones and referenced online access where possible. Designed with practitioner needs in mind, Resources for Workplace Diversity is meant to be an evolving document, one that will grow according to the needs and recommendations of its users. To capture the advantage of networking, we invite you to suggest additional resources that you have found to be valuable

High school students’ social media usage : an application on user behaviors, preferences and reasons based on the uses and gratifications theory

06.03.2018 tarihli ve 30352 sayılı Resmi Gazetede yayımlanan “Yükseköğretim Kanunu İle Bazı Kanun Ve Kanun Hükmünde Kararnamelerde Değişiklik Yapılması Hakkında Kanun” ile 18.06.2018 tarihli “Lisansüstü Tezlerin Elektronik Ortamda Toplanması, Düzenlenmesi ve Erişime Açılmasına İlişkin Yönerge” gereğince tam metin erişime açılmıştır.Günümüz dünyasında, insanlar ve kitle iletişim araçları arasında etkileşimli bir iletişim süreci vardır. Bireylerin birbirleriyle etkileşim içinde oldukları yeni medya teknolojileri türüne sosyal medya denir. Bu anlamda zamanlarının çoğunu sosyal medyada geçiren bireyler günlük yaşamlarının yanı sıra çevrimiçi bir yaşam da sürdürürler. Sosyal medyadan en çok zaman geçiren ve etkilenen gruplardan biri de lise öğrencileridir diyebiliriz. Bu nedenle, bu çalışma Eskişehir'deki lise öğrencilerinin sosyal medya kullanım motivasyonlarını Kullanımlar ve Doyumlar Kuramı çerçevesinde belirlemeyi amaçlamaktadır. Anket ile yapılan araştırmada, 445 kullanıcıya hazırlanan ölçek soruları soruldu. Çalışmada, nicel veri toplama tekniklerinden biri olan anket uygulanmış olup, elde edilen veriler Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) programı ile yorumlanmıştır. Elde edilen veriler kodlama yöntemiyle çözümlenmiştir. Faktör analizi ile 5 farklı kullanım ve memnuniyet saptanmıştır. Bunlar Eğlenme ve Rahatlama Motivasyonu, Sosyal Etkileşim Motivasyonu, Gözlem ve Rehberlik Motivasyonu, Karar Verme-Bilgi Motivasyonu ve Kişisel Sunum Motivasyonu olarak sıralanabilir. Bazı kullanıcıların demografik özellikleri ve sosyal medya kullanım biçimleri, farklı kullanımlar ve memnuniyetlerle ilişkilendirilmiştir.In today's world, there is an interactive communication process between people and mass media.The type of new media technologies or courses through which individuals interact each other is called social media. In this sense, individuals who spend most of their time on social media courses have constructed an online life apart their daily lives. One of the most influenced groups by social media is high school students. Therefore, this study aims to determine the motivations of social media usage of high school students in Eskisehir within the framework of Uses and Gratifications Theory. In the research conducted with the questionnaire, 445 users prepared scale questions were asked. The questionnaire, which is one of the quantitative data collection techniques, is applied and, the obtained data is interpreted through the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) program. The data obtained were interpreted by coding. Factor analysis revealed 5 different uses and gratificaiton. These can be listed as Recreation and Relaxation Motivation, Social Interaction Motivation, Observation and Guidance Motivation, Decision-Making-Information Motivation and, Personal Presentation Motivation. Some user demographics and social media usage patterns have been associated with different uses and gratifications

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Untangling the Web: A Guide To Internet Research

[Excerpt] Untangling the Web for 2007 is the twelfth edition of a book that started as a small handout. After more than a decade of researching, reading about, using, and trying to understand the Internet, I have come to accept that it is indeed a Sisyphean task. Sometimes I feel that all I can do is to push the rock up to the top of that virtual hill, then stand back and watch as it rolls down again. The Internet—in all its glory of information and misinformation—is for all practical purposes limitless, which of course means we can never know it all, see it all, understand it all, or even imagine all it is and will be. The more we know about the Internet, the more acute is our awareness of what we do not know. The Internet emphasizes the depth of our ignorance because our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. My hope is that Untangling the Web will add to our knowledge of the Internet and the world while recognizing that the rock will always roll back down the hill at the end of the day