How do MNC R&D laboratory roles affect employee international assignments?

Research and development (R&D) employees are important human resources for multinational corporations (MNCs) as they are the driving force behind the advancement of innovative ideas and products. International assignments of these employees can be a unique way to upgrade their expertise; allowing them to effectively recombine their unique human resources to progress existing knowledge and advance new ones. This study aims to investigate the effect of the roles of R&D laboratories in which these employees work on the international assignments they undertake. We categorise R&D laboratory roles into those of the support laboratory, the locally integrated laboratory and the internationally interdependent laboratory. Based on the theory of resource recombinations, we hypothesise that R&D employees in support laboratories are not likely to assume international assignments, whereas those in locally integrated and internationally interdependent laboratories are likely to assume international assignments. The empirical evidence, which draws from research conducted on 559 professionals in 66 MNC subsidiaries based in Greece, provides support to our hypotheses. The resource recombinations theory that extends the resource based view can effectively illuminate the international assignment field. Also, research may provide more emphasis on the close work context of R&D scientists rather than analyse their demographic characteristics, the latter being the focus of scholarly practice hitherto

Autorski system informatyczny wspomagający podejmowanie decyzji w zakresie planowania i doboru personelu w MSP

The strategic management of intellectual capital involves rethinking how the companies creates value from a knowledge-centric perspective and redesigning and orchestrating the role of staff knowledge in the firm's strategy. This paper presents the author's software system for facilitating decision making at a strategic level in terms of the profitability of investment in staff knowledge. This software is a computer implementation of the method for planning and selection of personnel in SME.Strategiczne zarządzanie kapitałem intelektualnym w przedsiębiorstwach, w szczególności w sektorze MSP, wymaga właściwego postrzegania wartości wiedzy oraz pracowników wiedzy. W artykule przedstawiono autorski system informatyczny wspomagający podejmowanie decyzji w zakresie planowania i doboru personelu w MSP. System ten stanowi implementację autorskiej metody planowania i doboru personelu w MSP

The ERP system in the intellectual capital management process in SME

W artykule podjęto próbę określenia roli systemów informatycznych klasy ERP w procesie zarządzania kapitałem intelektualnym. Ściśle określono funkcję użyteczności personalnej w MSP, a następnie pokazano proces zarządzania tak zdefiniowaną wiedzą. Sformułowano, na podstawie przeprowadzonych badań, proces zarządzania kapitałem intelektualnym w przedsiębiorstwach sektora MSP, na podstawie danych z systemów ERP.It this paper the role of ERP system in the intellectual capital management process is presented. The personnel usefulness function for the m-th employee in the n-th functionality area in the SMEs is strictly described. Based on the research result, the intellectual capital management process in SMEs using the data from ERP system is formulated

Strategic managing intellectual capital in an innovative SME

Knowledge, skills and intangibles have now a decisive role in building a competitive advantage of company [20]. For enterprises of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME), consistent with the author's developed reference SME model, proposed a personnel usefulness function, that allows to determine the value of knowledge in the enterprise. This paper presents selected results of research focused on the level of innovations of the SME sector. Consequently a set of indicators, that describe innovative company and the procedure of strategic managing intellectual capital in an innovative SME were formulated. Use of the presented procedure could be a guarantee of achieving the assumed level of innovation in the enterprise

The concept of system supporting decision making enabling to asses and forecast of knowledge in SMEs – research results

Knowledge in the paper is understood as improving qualifications and skills among employees in SMEs. This paper presents the matrix of indicators enabling to assess knowledge in SME. Factor influencing the development of the intellectual capital in the SME (the value personnel usefulness function) was defined. Methods of evaluating profitability of investments in the intellectual capital, known from the subject literature, were demonstrated. The SMEs reference model in the context of assess knowledge in SME is proposed. Consequently the value personnel usefulness function, measures of intellectual capital in SME (determining indicators enabling to asses knowledge based on measurement of input and output data from SMEs studies; SMEs which implmented ERP (indicators base) were discusse

Model oceny efektywności procesów biznesowych w aspekcie zarządzania pracownikami wiedzy

This article elaborates on the model of managing knowledge workers. The authors aim at analysing a effectiveness of business processes in the sale functional area in enterprises based on the research results. Specifically, likely consequences of managing knowledge workers as "sale specialist" on the effectiveness of internal business processes are studied. This was followed by a discussion on the results of the literature and empirical studies. The summary shows the directions of a further work.W artykule zaprezentowano model oceny efektywności procesów biznesowych w obszarze sprzedaży w aspekcie zarządzania pracownikami wiedzy na podstawie wyników badań empirycznych. Zaprezentowano wyniki badań dotyczące wpływu wymiany wiedzy pomiędzy pracownikami wiedzy na wartości zdefiniowanych wskaźników oceny efektywności procesów biznesowych. W podsumowaniu pokazano kierunki dalszych prac

Benchmarking methodology based on ERP system evaluation: case study

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a computer-based information system for enterprise integration. ERP integrates information from all functional areas of enterprise to support management processes. The implementation of ERP is an expensive and time-consuming process but for contemporary enterprises it is a necessity. The effective enterprise management is impossible without on-line information about business processes executed in all functional areas. The ERP implementation involves a strategic decision that influences enterprise development for many years. Thus, ERP systems should evolve together with enterprises. The paper proposes a benchmarking methodology that enables evaluating the implementation of an ERP system in three manufacturing companies focused on make to-order production. The enterprises make small series or single prototype production. The research is based on benchmarking of the enterprises that implemented ERP systems in the past years. It involves comparison of the most important financial ratios and statistical data extracted from the ERP system. Results of data analysis are a basis for a proposed procedure of ERP evaluation. The procedure enables not only evaluating the ERP system implementation but also determining functional areas that require support, changing business processes or functionality of ERP. The proposed benchmarking methodology presents how much the ERP system is adapted to enterprise requirements. Examples presented are based on a case study of Polish enterprises

Analiza poziomu automatyzacji procesów logistycznych w MSP

The paper presents the results of survey research of 300 Polish small and medium enterprises. The project "The prototype of e-business service platform" was realized in cooperation with MaxElectronik company as a part of “Initech” Ministry of Science and Higher Education and founded by the National Centre for Research and Development based on the contract ZPB/8/67012/IT2/10. The research was focused on the identification of business process automation level. To analyze the automation level, the following business processes are identified: sales process, logistic process, human resource management process, financial management process. The main goal of the research was analyze of possibilities time reduction of the processes by implementation SAAS system (software as a service) in the enterprise. In the article only a part of the research is presented that is concerned with the automation of logistic process in small and medium enterprises.Artykuł przedstawia wyniki badań ankietowych 300 małych i średnich polskich przedsiębiorstw. Badania były realizowane w ramach projektu "Prototyp Platformy Usług e-Biznesowych" realizowanym w ramach Przedsięwzięcia Ministra Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego "IniTech", finansowanym przez Narodowe Centrum Badań i Rozwoju w ramach umowy ZPB/8/67012/IT2/10 we współpracy z firmą Max Elektronik SA. Badania obejmowały między innymi analizę procesów w obszarze finansów, sprzedaży, logistyki, zarządzania personelem, opracowanie modeli procesów biznesowych dedykowanych sektorowi MŚP, analizy ilościowe stopnia automatyzacji oraz zapotrzebowania na automatyzację procesów biznesowych. W artykule przedstawiono część wyników badań dotyczących możliwości automatyzacji operacji procesu logistycznego realizowanego w przedsiębiorstwach sektora MSP