The Contemporary Human Resources Function

Abstract Current companies encounter important challenges day to day. Many factors such as the economic globalization, the change in the way of working, the Internet boom, and the importance that the service sector is experiencing nowadays influence the new society in which persons and businesses actually cope. Each of these contingencies obligates the Human Resource function to adapt to new organizational goals moulding their strategies and tactics to the in fashion topics. In this work we present the classical functions integrated in the Human Resources department constituting its base of performance. We also deal equally with the high performance practices and the importance that is acquiring the binomial human resources management strategies – business performance such as new tendencies applicable in this area.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Does diversity in top management teams contribute to organizational performance? The response of IBEX 35 companies

This study contributes to the spread of theoretical and empirical knowledge regarding the Upper Echelons Theory, considering the training and demographic diversity in the Top Management Team (TMT) as a singular characteristic of each company, in our case those belonging to the IBEX35 index. Taking into account the skills of the members, a greater financial performance is expected. Once we obtained the statistical results, we concluded that the inclusion of women in the TMT increased Net Sales and EBITDA. Features such as age, training and nationality are also examined in this work.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Descripción del puesto de Responsable de Calidad en el Servicio de Transfusión Hospitalaria

En este trabajo se da a conocer la formación necesaria para desarrollar el puesto de Facultativo responsable del sistema de calidad en el servicio de transfusión hospitalaria así como las funciones encomendadas al mism

Research Trends in Disability and Work: A Bibliometric Analysis

The aim of this study is to analyze the status, trends and future research potential areas in the literature about "disability and work". We delve into the content of the papers focused on disability and work published in any journal of a large number of interdisciplinary categories of the Social Science Citation Index during the 1991–2016 period. Bibliometric methods are used to describe the evolution of publication activity, the most representative contributors, the methodologies applied, and the content of the articles in order to explore the main themes researched. For this purpose, an innovative co-word analysis was used, using the technique applied by VOSviewer software, which allows creating knowledge maps based on data from a bibliographic nature to visualize scientific information on a specific research topic. These analyses enable the identification of potential venues for future research that could be meaningful to advance in the consolidation of the discipline.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Perfil formativo de los consejeros de las empresas del IBEX 35 en España

En este estudio de carácter teórico-empírico se ha relacionado la variable Perfil formativo de los Consejeros de las empresas que componen el IBEX 35 con su evolución financiera medida en base a las ventas netas. Verificadas las hipótesis, se puede decir que el perfil más adecuado para incrementar las ventas empresariales en las empresas del IBEX en 2013 lo conforma la figura de un Consejero, que presenta un nivel formativo de Doctorado, además de haber recibido una formación adecuada al cargo que desempeña.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Gestión de la diferenciación en la transfusión de neonatos y niños

La población pediátrica transfundida representa una pequeña proporción respecto a todos los pacientes transfundidos. En los últimos años aunque se han ido desarrollado nuevas guías de transfusión pediátrica la evidencia de las recomendaciones sigue siendo baja por la falta de estudios bien diseñados. Los programas de Hemovigilancia ponen de manifiesto que el número de complicaciones relacionadas con la transfusión es mayor en la población pediátrica que entre los adultos.No hay patrocinadores en este trabajo

Ergonomía y Discapacidad: Una revisión de la literatura

El presente estudio bibliométrico sobre ergonomía y discapacidad, recoge un total de 38 artículos científicos donde se exponen teorías, estudios e investigaciones de distintas instituciones y organismos a nivel internacional dedicadas a la investigación, desarrollo e implementación de sistemas y estructuras organizacionales, para lograr la eficiencia, adaptación y mejoras de métodos ergonómicos. El propósito de estos estudios es evitar lesiones y accidentes laborales que conducen a la discapacidad laboral que limitan la capacidad de los trabajadores, también para combatir el absentismo laboral a causa de la incapacidad temporal que influye de forma negativa sobre la productividad laboral y al aumento de los costes para las empresas

Association of Salivary Human Papillomavirus Infection and Oral and Oropharyngeal Cancer: A Meta-Analysis

BACKGROUND: Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection has been recognized as an important risk factor in cancer. The purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to determine the prevalence and effect size of association between salivary HPV DNA and the risk of developing oral and oropharyngeal cancer. METHODS: A systematic literature search of PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, LILACS, Scopus and the Cochrane Library was performed, without language restrictions or specified start date. Pooled data were analyzed by calculating odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Quality assessment was performed using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS). RESULTS: A total of 1672 studies were screened and 14 met inclusion criteria for the meta-analysis. The overall prevalence of salivary HPV DNA for oral and oropharyngeal carcinoma was 43.2%, and the prevalence of salivary HPV16 genotype was 27.5%. Pooled results showed a significant association between salivary HPV and oral and oropharyngeal cancer (OR = 4.94; 2.82-8.67), oral cancer (OR = 2.58; 1.67-3.99) and oropharyngeal cancer (OR = 17.71; 6.42-48.84). Significant associations were also found between salivary HPV16 and oral and oropharyngeal cancer (OR = 10.07; 3.65-27.82), oral cancer (OR = 2.95; 1.23-7.08) and oropharyngeal cancer (OR = 38.50; 22.43-66.07). CONCLUSIONS: Our meta-analysis demonstrated the association between salivary HPV infection and the incidence of oral and oropharyngeal cancer indicating its value as a predictive indicator

Association of Candidate Gene Polymorphisms With Chronic Kidney Disease: Results of a Case-Control Analysis in the Nefrona Cohort

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a major risk factor for end-stage renal disease, cardiovascular disease and premature death. Despite classical clinical risk factors for CKD and some genetic risk factors have been identified, the residual risk observed in prediction models is still high. Therefore, new risk factors need to be identified in order to better predict the risk of CKD in the population. Here, we analyzed the genetic association of 79 SNPs of proteins associated with mineral metabolism disturbances with CKD in a cohort that includes 2, 445 CKD cases and 559 controls. Genotyping was performed with matrix assisted laser desorption ionizationtime of flight mass spectrometry. We used logistic regression models considering different genetic inheritance models to assess the association of the SNPs with the prevalence of CKD, adjusting for known risk factors. Eight SNPs (rs1126616, rs35068180, rs2238135, rs1800247, rs385564, rs4236, rs2248359, and rs1564858) were associated with CKD even after adjusting by sex, age and race. A model containing five of these SNPs (rs1126616, rs35068180, rs1800247, rs4236, and rs2248359), diabetes and hypertension showed better performance than models considering only clinical risk factors, significantly increasing the area under the curve of the model without polymorphisms. Furthermore, one of the SNPs (the rs2248359) showed an interaction with hypertension, being the risk genotype affecting only hypertensive patients. We conclude that 5 SNPs related to proteins implicated in mineral metabolism disturbances (Osteopontin, osteocalcin, matrix gla protein, matrix metalloprotease 3 and 24 hydroxylase) are associated to an increased risk of suffering CKD