Current Issue : July - September Volume : 2011 Issue Number : 3 Articles : 5 Articles
The aim of this empirical paper was to show the comparison between the effectiveness of Human Resource (HR) professionals and the organizational factors (namely, leadership, organizational support and reward system), based on a study on the HR professionals in two private universities ââ?¬â?? A university(AU) in Pakistan and B university(BU) in Malaysia. Both are private universities which have multi disciplinary business, technology and education related programs. Both institutions own sophisticated systems (both humans and technology). Consequently, the human resource management (HRM) practices in AU and BU could be said to be quite advanced because of this. The approach employed in this study was to gather data on the human resource professionals from the perspectives of knowledge workers (the faculty members) in the two institutions. The data was collected through survey questionnaires which were distributed to 110 AU and 150 to BU knowledge workers. However, 73 questionnaires were returned from AU (response rate 70 %) while only 66 questionnaires were obtained from BU (44 % response rate). The study shows that there was a correlation between leadership and HR effectiveness in AU (0.58) and also in BU (0.699). The correlation between organizational support and HR effectiveness was low in AU (0.49) but strong in BU (0.673). The correlation between reward system and HR effectiveness was found to be fair for both AU (0.53) and BU (0.51). For AU, the weakest predictor was organizational support (0.49) while for BU, it was the reward system (0.51)....
International researchers have increasingly recognised the interaction between work and nonwork roles as an interesting and important topic.\r\nThe purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of different workââ?¬â??nonwork conflict subscales and differences between demographic groups in workââ?¬â?? nonwork conflict.\r\nThe researchers chose a random sample of mining employees (n = 245) from a platinum mine in Rustenburg. The researchers used self-developed items similar to items developed in the Workââ?¬â??nonwork Interference Scale of Koekemoer, Mostert and Rothmann (2010) to measure conflict between work and various nonwork roles. The researchers used descriptive statistics, paired-sample t-tests, multivariate analysis of variance and one-way analysis of variance to analyse the data.\r\n Workââ?¬â??nonwork conflict was more prevalent than nonworkââ?¬â??work conflict. Workââ?¬â??family conflict was more prevalent than workââ?¬â??domestic conflict and workââ?¬â??religion/ spirituality conflict. The researchers found significant differences for marital status and language groups about workââ?¬â??nonwork conflict. Results showed that participants who spoke African languages experienced higher levels of privateââ?¬â??work conflict....
This paper highlights some recent components related to the endogenous growth literature; in particular, (i) research and development progress, direction, and diffusion; (ii) human-capital accumulation; (iii) wage inequality; (iv) nonscale economic growth, showing how each one has been treated by the existing seminal literature and the expected impact of bringing them together. The connection of the different components is mainly done by involving the leading literature on North-South technological-knowledge diffusion by imitation under trade, and the prevailing literature on intra- and intercountry wage inequality....
The purpose of this research was to study the impact of effective factors of organizational learning on human resource productivity of western educational organizations in the city of Isfahan in Iran. Based on research objective, the following hypotheses were considered: Analyzing the impact of continual training on manpower productivity, analyzing the impact of knowledge production and employees� cooperation of practical decision on manpower productivity, analyzing the impact of supporting and encouraging employees by managers on manpower productivity, analyzing the impact to being flexible and experimental morale of personnel on manpower productivity. Research methodology was descriptive survey in which 25 questions were distributed among the employee of the organizations by using cluster sampling. The statistical population of the research included all of the western educational organizational employees in which 208 samples were selected according to the cluster sampling. Descriptive analysis and student t test were applied for analyses of data. The research results indicated that employees continued training, supporting and encouraging by the managers, and having flexible and experimental morale have positive effects on manpower productivity, but knowledge production and employees cooperation in job decisions have not had that much impact on manpower productivity....
South Africa is currently experiencing a serious shortage of skilled workers. It has a negative effect on South Africa�s economic prospects and on global participation in South Africa (SA). This skills shortage severely affects socioeconomic growth and development in SA.\r\nThis study focuses on the causes and effects of the skills shortages in South Africa.\r\nThe researchers undertook a literature study to identify the nature, extent and effect of skills shortages in South Africa. They consulted a wide range of primary and secondary resources in order to acquire an in-depth understanding of the problem. The article explains the research approach and method comprehensively. It also outlines the research method the researchers used.\r\nThis study shows that several factors cause serious skills shortages in SA....
Loading....