HR Shared Services (HRSS): Model and Trends

[Excerpt] The findings of this research project are based on interviews with 44 Human Resources (HR) leaders across 39 national and international companies within 15 industries ranging from manufacturing to consulting services. The interviews ranged from 45 minutes to one hour, and sought to understand models, best practices, and trends. The interview included questions about employee experience, technology, and the integration between HR Shared Services (HRSS) and the overall HR Organization. To provide background information and data, the HR leaders answered a short survey, giving details about the structure of their HRSS, locations, areas of HR that had work performed in the shared services organization, systems, and technology capabilities

Identidad y discurso institucional: lo religioso, lo étnico y lo nacional en los dirigentes armenios

Los armenios argentinos constituyen un caso de agrupamiento en el que se da una coexistencia entre lo religioso, lo étnico y lo nacional que, desde el punto de vista institucional, remiten a diversos organismos comunitarios. En el presente artículo nos proponemos analizar los procesos de gestión de la identidad por parte de los dirigentes de las instituciones armenias de Buenos Aires en la actualidad a través de sus discursos y representaciones acerca de lo comunitario y lo armenio. En contraposición a los diversos trabajos sobre el tema que se centran en la noción de herencia cultural y hacen foco en los procesos de interpretación narrativa que los propios actores realizan sobre su pasado, nos centraremos aquí en analizar el modo en que diferentes grupos de especialistas con trayectorias de socialización distintas pugnan por imponer definiciones en un campo en el que más de una memoria comunitaria se reclama como verdadera.Argentine Armenians constitute a group in which religion, ethnicity and nationality coexist, dimensions which are, institutionally speaking, related to different community organizations. In this article we will try to analyze the processes of identity management held by leader of Armenian institutions in Buenos Aires today, through their speeches and representations of community and Armenian aspects. Contrasting with papers which deal with this topic focusing on notions of cultural inheritance and on processes of narrative interpretations done by actors over their past, we will focus our analysis in the ways in which different groups of specialists, with different socialization paths, struggle to impose their own definitions in an area in which more tan one of the community’s memories proclaims itself as the truth.Fil: Levita, Gabriel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Laborales; Argentin

Comunidade étnico-religiosa e estado-nação: representações dos dirigentes armênicos sobre as relações entre o religioso, o étnico e o nacional

O presente artigo surge a partir da realização de uma série de entrevistas, trabalhos com arquivos e observações etnográficas no âmbito de um trabalho de campo sobre as instituições armênias em Buenos Aires, e objetiva apresentar um conjunto de reflexões em torno das formas em que diversos tipos de “especialistas armênios” representam a relação entre a comunidade étnico-religiosa e o Estado nacional. Sucessivas análises do material empírico recolhido permitem pensar o modo pelo qual, a partir dos diferentes quadros dirigentes das instituições armênias, se elaboram e impõem definições divergentes sobre o armênio, nas quais o religioso e o étnico se relacionam e se articulam de diferentes modos com as representações sobre os Estados-nação argentino e armênio. Assim, diversos grupos de especialistas com trajetórias de socialização distintas disputam para impor definições em um campo no qual mais de uma memória comunitária se apresenta como “verdadeira”. Neste sentido, o estudo das relações entre o religioso e o estatal – para este caso em que o grupo religioso possui uma forte ancoragem étnica – permite indagar sobre modelos de articulação complexos que se convidam a ser pensados em relação aos imaginários do mundo católico.Fil: Levita, Gabriel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Laborales; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires; Argentin

Estructura social y pluralización religiosa: un análisis del nivel socioeconómico de los pentecostales

El presente trabajo busca indagar acerca de los vínculos entre religión y estructura social a partir de los datos brindados por la Primera Encuesta sobre Creencias y Actitudes Religiosas en Argentina, realizada por el CEIL- PIETTE CONICET, la ANPCyT y universidades nacionales. La misma avala estadísticamente la muy trabajada hipótesis sobre el menor nivel socioeconómico de los pentecostales. Nuestro trabajo se propone, partiendo de esa constatación empírica, realizar posteriormente una lectura conceptual del material estadístico y retomar algunas de las más difundidas líneas de investigación sobre las transformaciones de lo religioso y sobre el pentecostalismo para plantear nuevas preguntas teóricas y epistemológicas. De este modo, las reflexiones basadas en el paradigma de la modernización y en el establecimiento de correlaciones lineales entre religión y posición en la estructura social se muestran heurísticamente débiles frente a perspectivas que privilegian el estudio de afinidades en un contexto que combina al mismo tiempo pluralización religiosa y fragmentación social.This work looks for investigating on the links between religion and social structure from the information offered by the First Survey on Religious Beliefs and Attitudes in Argentina made by the CEIL - PIETTE CONICET, the ANPCyT and national universities. This survey gives a statistical support to the hypothesis on the minor socioeconomic level of Pentecostals. Our work aims to make a conceptual analysis of the statistical material and then to reread some of the most spread lines of research on the transformations of the religious thing and on the Pentecostalism to raise new theoretical and epistemological questions. Thus, works based on the paradigm of modernization and on the establishment of linear correlations between religion and position in the social structure prove to be heuristically weak opposite to perspectives that favor the study of affinities in a context that combines at the same time religious pluralization and social fragmentation.Fil: Levita, Gabriel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Laborales; Argentin

PENGARUH DISIPLIN KERJA , MOTIVASI, DAN KEPUASAN KERJA TERHADAP KINERJA KARYAWAN PADA PT. ARDENDI JAYA SENTOSA SIDOARJO

Sumber daya manusia merupakan bagian yang cukup penting, yaitu turut menentukan keberhasilan sau perusahaan dalam mencapai tujuan organisasi. Karyawan yang efektif dibutuhkan dalam menghadapi kompetisi pasar global yang semakin kuat. Seseorang dengan tigkat kinerja karyawan yang tinggi menunjukkan sikap yang positif terhadap pekerjaan tersebut, dan sesorang yang tidak puasa dengan pekerjaanya menunjukkan sikap yang negatif terhadap pekerjaan itu. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguji Disiplin kerja, Motivasi, Kepusan Kerja terhadap Kinerja kayawan bagia marketing di PT. Ardendi Jaya Sentosa Sidoarjo. Penelitian ini menggunakan data primer yang diperoleh dengan menyebar kuesioner kepada 55 responden dengan menggunakan teknik “purposiv sampling” teknik analisis yang digunakan adalah SPSS 22 (Statistical Product And Service Solutions) Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa disiplin Kerja berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap kinerja karyawan dengan koefisien regresi sebesar 0,042, motivasi berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap kinerja karyawan dengan koefisien regresi sebesar 0,035, da kepuasan kerja berpegaruh positif dan signifikan terhdap kinerja karyawan dengan regresi sebesar 0,00

“That fiction is a lady”: Gendering Fiction in Virginia Woolf’s Essays

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Christine Reynier, Virginia Woolf's ethics of the short story (2009)

Before the publication of Ralf Freedman’s Virginia Woolf: Revaluation and Continuity (1980), Dean Baldwin’s Virginia Woolf: A Study of the Short fiction (1989) and Dominic Head’s chapter on Woolf in The Modernist Short Story: A Study in Theory and Practice (1992), Virginia Woolf’s short stories were considered by critics to be the marginal part of her canon. Woolf was better known as a novelist, and many critics tended to adopt her own “casually dismissive attitude” (Reynier 2) when referring..

A kinetics and mechanistic study of the atmospherically relevant reaction between molecular chlorine and dimethyl sulfide (DMS)

A gas-phase kinetics study of the atmospherically important reaction between Cl2 and dimethyl sulfide (DMS)Cl2 + CH3SCH3 → products has been made using a flow-tube interfaced to a photoelectron spectrometer. The rate constant for this reaction has been measured at 1.6 and 3.0 torr at T = (294 ± 2) K as (3.4 ± 0.7) × 10–14 cm3 molecule–1 s–1. Reaction (1) has been found to proceed via an intermediate, (CH3)2SCl2, to give CH3SCH2Cl and HCl as the products. The mechanism of this reaction and the structure of the intermediate were investigated using electronic structure calculations. A comparison of the mechanisms of the reactions between Cl atoms and DMS, and Cl2 and DMS has been made and the relevance of the results to atmospheric chemistry is discussed

PREDICTION OF LOG P AND SPECTRUM OF QUERCETINE, GLUCOSAMINE, AND ANDROGRAPHOLIDE AND ITS CORRELATION WITH LABORATORY ANALYSIS

Objective: This study was aimed to confirm the result of computational prediction of log P and spectrum (ultraviolet-visible, 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR) of quercetin, glucosamine and andrographolide with laboratory analysis.Methods: Quercetine, glucosamine and andrographolide, were downloaded from ChemSpider and were geometry optimised. Log P and spectrum were calculated and predicted and the data obtained were compared with laboratory results. The correlation was calculated by employing mean absolute deviation (MAD), mean square error (MSE), mean forecast error (MFE), and mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) parameters.Results: The smallest energy value of geometry optimisation was provided by ab initio method. Log P prediction showed good accuracy, with r-value 0.995 and p-value 0.05 respectively. The error parameters were: MAD 0.19; MSE 0.06; MFE 0.16, and MAPE 8.62%, respectively. Prediction of λ maximum by ab initio, semiempirical, and molecular mechanics were respectively: MAD 2.67, 6.67, and 28.67; MSE 8.67, 45.33, and 830; MFE 2.67, 6.67, and 28.67; and MAPE 1.10%, 2.79%, and 11.99%; r-value 0.997, 0.997, and 0.979; and p-value 0.044, 0.043, and 0.129. 1H-NMR and 13C-NMR spectra prediction were: MAD 0.73 and 1.58; MSE 1.15 and 7.41; MFE 0.27 and 0.69; MAPE 18.35% and 2.68%; r-value 0.942 and 0.986; and p-value 0.001 and 0.001.Conclusion: There is a positive correlation between computational ab initio calculation method with experimental results in predicting log P and spectrum of quercetine, glucosamine, and andrographolide

EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF HERBAL MEDICINES IN ASIA

Herbal medicine (HM) is a part of future alternative health care. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), almost 70-80% of the population of developing countries rely on HM as an immediate need for health services, one of which is the Asian region. With the high trend of a healthy lifestyle using natural ingredients, drug safety must be a significant concern. This review article aims to provide information on studying the toxicity of Asian herbal plants to hepatotoxic and nephrotoxic activities. The research method was conducted by searching using the keywords “Herbal Medicine(HM),” “Efficacy,” “Nephrotoxicity,” “Hepatotoxicity,” “Asia,” “extract” on the Google site and Google Scholar. The primary data sources used consisted of national journals, international journals, and the WHO website. Articles were screened using the inclusion criteria of Indonesian and English journals published in the last ten years. Of the toxicity study articles discussing 10 herbs-induced liver injury (HILI) and 10 drug-induced liver injury (DILI) that we reviewed, it is known that the dose consumed has a more significant effect on the incidence of hepatotoxicity and nephrotoxicity than the duration of administration with low doses. However, the period of administration with high doses has a significant relationship with liver and kidney damage. Therefore, disseminating safety studies to the public is very important to maximize drug efficacy and avoid hepatotoxicity and nephrotoxicity.Keywords: herbal medicine (HM); hepatotoxicity; nephrotoxicity; Asia; safet