Shared service centers and professional employability

Elsevier Editorial System(tm) for Journal of Vocational Behavior Manuscript Draft Title: Shared Service Centres and Professional Employability Shared Service Centres and Professional Employability

The paper presents evidence case study evidence of evolutionary changes in business support functions resulting in a fundamental hollowing out of the professional space over time and distance, creating the 'hourglass' profession. In an IT-enabled, boundaryless world, many professional activities can now be undertaken, in the manner of the Martini slogan, 'any time, any place, anywhere'. This pa...

Motives for establishing shared service centers in public administrations

Shared service centers (SSCs) have gained the interest of politicians and public administrations to improve efficiency. By unbundling and centralizing activities, the basic premise for SSCs seems to be that services provided by one local department can be provided to others with relatively few efforts. The introduction of a SSC is a major decision having a long-term impact on all the participan...

The effect of shared service centers on administrative intensity in English local government

Shared thematic elements in photochemical reaction centers.

The structural, functional, and evolutionary relationships between photosystem II and the purple nonsulfur bacterial reaction center have been recognized for several years. These can be classified as "quinone type" (type II) photosystems because the terminal electron acceptor is a mobile quinone molecule. The analogous relationship between photosystem I and the green sulfur bacterial (and helic...

Optimal Staffing in Service Centers

This paper considers optimal staffing in service centers. We construct models for profit and cost centers using dynamic rate queues. To allow for practical optimal controls, we approximate the queueing process using a Gaussian random variable with equal mean and variance. We then appeal to the Pontryagin’s maximum principle to derive a closed form square root staffing (SRS) rule for optimal sta...