Job Quality and Job Satisfaction Among Casino Workers: The Case of Foxwoods

This article examines the quality of casino jobs at the largest Indian casino in the United States. It uses survey responses to measure how Foxwoods\u27 employees evaluate various aspects of their jobs, and it also considers other aspects of job quality such as wages, fringe benefits, and wage inequality. The results are part of the growing literature that considers issues important to the gaming industry in the United States

Egyptian electronic government: The university enrolment case study

E-government projects have potential for greaterefficiency and effectiveness of government operations. For thisreason, many developing countries governments have investedheavily in this agenda and an increasing number of e- governmentprojects are being implemented. However, there is a lack of clearcase material, which describes the potentialities and consequenceexperienced by organizations trying to manage with this change. TheMinistry of State for Administrative Development (MSAD) is theorganization responsible for the e- Government program in Egyptsince early 2004. This paper presents a case study of the process ofadmission to public universities and institutions in Egypt which is ledby MSAD. Underlining the key benefits resulting from the initiative,explaining the strategies and the development steps used toimplement it, and highlighting the main obstacles encountered andhow they were overcome will help repeat the experience in otheruseful e-government projects.Keywords—Case studies, Egypt, Electro

The Application of the Viable Systems Model to Information Technology Governance

Information technology governance has become a key issue for organizations as IT decision-making authority and responsibility is devolved away from a central IT function to local IT units and increasingly out of the remit of IT specialists altogether. Research to date has either been conceptual treatises on the issue, or recounts the structures and mechanisms that are currently in place in the organizations studied, even though these may have emerged rather than having been explicitly planned. This paper reports on research that is exploring how to describe, diagnose, and design appropriate IT governance structures. Using a participatory research design, where researchers and practitioners are both co-subjects and coresearchers in the research process, it proposes Beer’s viable systems model (VSM) as a guiding framework in considering IT governance. It illustrates how the VSM-influenced IT governance model can be used to describe, diagnose, and design an effective governance structure

Mind the gap : diagnosing the relationship between the IT organisation and the rest of the business

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Managing for IS Success: A Resource-Based Theory Perspective on IS Management

As information systems (IS) become inextricably linked with an organization’s strategy and operations, the requirement for an IS capability becomes paramount. This capability represents the organization’s ability to continuously deliver value from IS investments and is portrayed as the capacity to fuse IT knowledge and business knowledge, to construct a flexible IT infrastructure, and to exploit in full IS investments. Drawing on resource based theory, this paper extends the discourse in the literature, which is usually conducted at the organizational level, to an explicit incorporation of component resources. A model is developed linking IS capability with competencies, roles, knowledge, skills and personal attributes

The World's Oldest Church

Michael Peppard provides a historical and theological reassessment of the oldest Christian building ever discovered, the third-century house-church at Dura-Europos. Contrary to commonly held assumptions about Christian initiation, Peppard contends that rituals here did not primarily embody notions of death and resurrection. Rather, he portrays the motifs of the church’s wall paintings as those of empowerment, healing, marriage, and incarnation, while boldly reidentifying the figure of a woman formerly believed to be a repentant sinner as the Virgin Mary. This richly illustrated volume is a breakthrough work that enhances our understanding of early Christianity at the nexus of Bible, art, and ritual