How Should We Measure the Effectiveness of our Corporate University Programs?

As a result of the sub-optimal performance of recent graduates, the corporate university was created. Now, the corporate university is a central part of many learning organizations. Although firms with the largest investments in their people have proven to outperform other firms by 17% to 35% on the Standard and Poor’s index, the fact is corporate universities still cost money, a lot of it. So, numerous firms have sought out to forge methods of measuring the effectiveness of corporate universities to determine the business impact and the potential need of improvement. However, determining what to measure and how to do so has proven to be a challenging task, one that many firms haven’t yet tackled. For instance, one study found that 39% of organizations spend less than 1% their training budget on measurement and 94.3% of firms spend less than 5%, although measurement is crucial to improving the success of a corporate university. Thus, this paper will present a variety of the best approaches that can be used to measure the efficacy of a corporate university

What Ways Can We Use Big Data to Offer More Personalized and Tailored HR Services to our Employees?

Big data analytics—analytic techniques operating on big data—is continuing to disrupt the way decision-making is occurring. Instead of relying on intuition, decisions are made based on statistical analysis, emerging technologies and massive amounts of current and historical data. Predictive analytics, which will be featured in much of the research below, is a type of big data analytics that predicts an outcome by correlating the relationships of various factors. These predictions can be made utilizing a variety of organized structured data and disorganized unstructured data (i.e. social media posts, surveys, etc.

What are the Latest Trends in Career Pathing Models as Well as the Most Effective Ways to Accelerate High Potential Development?

The war for talent is raging, making attracting, retaining, and developing high-performers more challenging than ever. Many of the “Baby Boomer” executives will be retiring in the near future, and only 15% of organizations in North America and Asia believe they have sufficient qualified successors for key positions. Additionally, 25% of surveyed organizations said they fail to keep top-performers, further illustrating the urgency and importance of the need to design optimal programs for developing future leaders. Thus, the content below will provide insight into the factors that make development program for “high potentials” successful

Landslide Hazards : Geotechnical Aspects and Management Policies

The landslides that frequently occur in the hilly areas in Jordan, particularly along the roads and highway routes during the years of intense rainfalls, resulted in a substantial increase in the cost of projects and delay in their completion, in addition to the deportation of people affected or endangered by landslides from their homes. The paper discusses the common characteristics of the landslide-prone areas in Jordan as well as the main causes of slides and their consequences. It discusses the role of site investigation and monitoring systems in reducing the hazard intensity as well as the total cost of construction. Classification of landslideprone areas, according to the level of risk and cost of prevention/mitigation measures into prohibitive, restricted and regulated areas is suggested. This classification aims at controlling the construction activities in the areas susceptible to landslides risks. The different components of landslide risk management are defined and discussed with the suggestion of establishing a National Hazard Management Board to be responsible for drafting of landslides risk management policies

The Role of Social Media in Breast Cancer Care and Survivorship : A Narrative Review

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Primary Leiomyosarcoma of the Male Breast: A Case Report

Primary leiomyosarcoma of the breast is a rare tumour with only around thirty cases reported in the literature. Most of the cases reported are in females, while only a few are reported in males. We present a case of primary breast leiomyosarcoma in a 59-year-old man that presented with a subareolar lump which felt to be benign clinically and radiologically but proven to be a leiomyosarcoma on excision

Non-surgical site pain in women following breast cancer surgery : a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Integrative, In Silico and Comparative Analysis of Breast Cancer Secretome Highlights Invasive-Ductal-Carcinoma-Grade Progression Biomarkers

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