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Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsMonitoring Educational Organizations' Culture of Sustainable Consumption: Initiating and Evaluating Cultural Change in Schools and UniversitiesDaniel FischerProblem Statement: Patterns of consumption are considered as a main driver of unsustainable development. In the debate, education and educational organizations are unisonous considered as a key player to contribute to a more sustainable socialization of young consumers. Both schools and universities are challenged to become places and life-worlds in which sustainable consumption can be learned and experienced. The objective … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 1 · 18 Dec 2010 · 8,853 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsOutcomes of Human Resource Development InterventionsAbdullah HaslindaProblem statement: In Malaysia, Human Resource Development (HRD) plays an important role in the economic development of the country. Despite government policies encouraging the implementation of HRD activities, as well as the substantial infrastructural and financial support provided, the benefits or outcomes of the HRD activities being implemented and provided to employees have not been examined. The aim of this … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 5, Issue 1 · 31 Mar 2009 · 8,795 accessesView PDFCite
Case ReportOpen accessIn the keywordsSocial Psychology and Performative Interventions in Human Systems. The GENERATIVE MethodAlessio Nencini, Alessandro Meneghini, Marco PratiThe purpose of this paper is to describe the GENERATIVE method, a methodology for promoting change in human systems (i.e., contexts involving human interactions, such as organizations, communities, institutions). The first part of the paper is focused on the description of the interactionist and constructionist epistemological background adopted. The second is dedicated to the presentation of human systems as socially … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 1 · 29 May 2015 · 7,416 accessesView PDFCite
Review ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractStructural Barriers to the Deployment of AI Foundation ModelsHristo Hristov, Elena Somova, Emil FuchedzhievArtificial Intelligence (AI) foundation models excel at benchmarks but are not always cost-effective or successfully deployed in enterprise systems. This paper analyzes the failures in their deployment through interconnected structural components characterized by: Economic constraints (computational costs, memory, and latency that scale with increasing use of AI model services), cognitive constraints (related to training objectives that optimize plausibility rather than … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 22, Issue 10 · 5 Oct 2026 · 808 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA Proposed Mining Based Business Continuity Information System for Educational InstitutesAmira M. Idrees, Ahmed Ibrahim El Seddawy, Mayada EL MoaazIt has become an essential element for all organizations to be engaged in a more deliberate transform for prevention, protection, preparedness, mitigation and reaction to Business Continuity Management (BCM) and recovery. It is becoming risky for the organization to reply of disaster plan which targets to minimize the causes of the disruption. An organization should take a proactive approach to … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 15, Issue 8 · 17 Aug 2019 · 7,422 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractChallenges of Agile Development and Implementation in a Developing Country: A Zambia Case StudyDouglas Kunda, Mwenge Mulenga, Muwanei Sinyinda, Victoria ChamaAgile development is a software development process that advocates adaptive planning, early delivery, evolutionary development and continuous betterment and supports rapid and flexible response to change. The purpose of Agile development is minimize project failure through customer interactions and responding to change. However, Agile development is vulnerable to failure because of a number of factors and these factors can be … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 14, Issue 5 · 6 Sep 2017 · 9,442 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractAssessing the Environmental and Socio-Economic Risk Factors of Climate Vulnerability in Low-Income Settlements of Kitwe City in ZambiaGeorge Kasali, Julius Kanyembo, Mapenzi Phiri, Mainza SibajeneRecent findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have clearly shown that climate change represents an urgent and irreversible threat to human societies and the planet and especially to the social and economic development of Africa.Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine and identify the risk factors associated with climate vulnerability in selected slum settlements of Kitwe … …American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 13, Issue 2 · 25 Mar 2017 · 8,183 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractBarriers to Research Utilization among Registered Nurses at Hamad Medical CorporationAbdulqadir J. Nashwan, Ahmad A. Abujaber, Dana B. MansourThis study aimed to determine the barriers to research utilization from HMC registered nurses' perspectives. This quantitative descriptive study used a newly developed 25-item questionnaire. The questions were categorized into three domains: Nurse-related, System-related and Research-related Barriers. The questionnaire was distributed electronically via e-mail service to all registered nurses in Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) (N = 5000). About 901 responses … …International Journal of Research in Nursing, Vol. 7, Issue 2 · 1 Dec 2016 · 8,130 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractOrganizational Culture from an Internal and External Stakeholders’ PerspectiveRonald Jungnitsch, Jol Stoffers, Petra NeessenA culture change within an organization may be of importance in this turbulent world. An assessment of the current and desired cultural profiles can help estimate as to whether any changes are required. In this study the organizational culture of a housing association was examined from both the staff’s and external stakeholders’ perspectives. How does the current culture compare with … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 13, Issue 6 · 22 Jun 2016 · 8,182 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractThe Effect of National Culture on Total Quality Management and Organizational PerformanceRabiul Islam, Abdullah ALNasserSoft-hard total quality management comprises of the utility of human resource management-style personnel policies to product commitment to quality and a management ideology that supports cultural change maxims, continuous improvement and customer satisfaction. The aim of the study is to determine the mediator effect of national culture on the relationship between soft-hard total quality management and organizational performance in municipalities. … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 10, Issue 10 · 5 Sep 2013 · 7,254 accessesView PDFCite