What Methods can an Organization Utilize to Spur Employees into Exploring New and Innovative Solutions to Organizational Challenges?

There is an overwhelming consensus among researchers that employee innovation can be generated through an organized process. Such a process involves the development of innovation leaders, widening employee access to challenge-pertinent information, and providing employees with adequate resources for experimentation. By implementing each of these steps, an organization can develop an employee innovation engine that will consistently produce innovative solutions to organizational challenges

What Strategies do Companies use to Transform Employees into Social Media Advocates?

There is an overwhelming consensus among researchers that employees have the potential to become excellent social ambassadors for their company. Readers of social media sites believe employees to be credible representatives of their organization, and therefore positive employee social media posts can create the image of a gratifying work environment and attract valuable talent to a particular organization. To capitalize on that recruitment advantage, an organization must initiate a process that enables and encourages employees to speak about the positive aspects of their work environment on social media platforms

What Factors Will Transform the Contemporary Work Environment and Characterize the Future of Work?

There is an overwhelming consensus among researchers that the contemporary work environment is transforming at a rapid pace. Advanced technology, increasing globalization, and the influx of a new generation of workers are all factors that will change the structures that govern the contemporary workplace. To prepare for the future of work, an organization must comprehend the manner in which each of these factors will engender changes in the evaluation of skillsets, the employer value proposition, and the available labor force

Shaping Laguerre-Gaussian laser modes with binary gratings using a Digital Micromirror Device

Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) beams are used in many research fields, such as microscopy, laser cavity modes and optical tweezing. We develop a holographic method of generating pure LG modes (amplitude and phase) with a binary amplitude-only Digital Micromirror Device (DMD), as an alternative to the commonly used phase-only Spatial Light Modulator. The advantages of such a DMD include very high frame rates, low cost and high damage thresholds. We show that the propagating shaped beams are self-similar and their phase fronts are of helical shape as demanded. We estimate the purity of the resultant beams to be above 94%