Employee portals are utilized by many companies to improve information exchange and communication between their employees as well as to better support business processes. Assessing the benefits of employee portals has become important, owing to limited IT budgets and the need to justify investments in portals. In this paper, we propose a conceptual model for measuring the effectiveness of emplo...

This paper focuses on the changing prevalence and activities of workplace employee representatives over the period 1980-2004. The broad changes that affected industrial relations in Britain over this period had profound effects for trade unions. How did these changes affect employee representation in the workplace? The paper assesses whether the numbers of shop stewards fell in line with union ...

Employee or independent contractor designation has significant tax implications for the Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA). On superficial view, it appears that a CRNA who is medically directed would be under a number of controls that would force the CRNA to be in an employee status. However, on analysis, it seems that for tax purposes a CRNA can be medically directed while also bein...

a r t i c l e i n f o The existing operations management literature has extensively investigated the associations between customer satisfaction and firm performance. However, how to improve customer satisfaction through employee empowerment, service reward, and service training has rarely been investigated. In this research, we tied human resource and service operations management to each other...

this correlational study focused on formal organizations' administrative performance values. it examined the managers' (unit supervisors') employee performance appraisal process in relation to sex and personality differences among unit supervisors in tehran, shahid beheshti and iran medical sciences university hospitals (tehran, 1996). first 537 male and female managers performin...

Enterprises are constituted by a number of employees, Employee Satisfaction directly determine their level of enthusiasm, which affecting the basic conditions of human resources. In this area, the research about retail industries is weak. In view of this paper is to make my own explorations. So I explore the characteristics and features of investigation upon the research of Employee Satisfactio...

This paper investigates the effect of employee diversity in terms of gender, age, ethnicity and education on the firm’s likelihood of introducing an innovation. The analysis draws on data from a recent innovation survey. This data is merged with a linked employeremployee dataset that allow us to identify the employee composition of each firm. We test the hypothesis that employee diversity is as...

Role of employee commitment is always been accepted as an active catalyst for improving organizational satisfaction. In this research employee satisfaction is taken as dependent variable and employee commitment is employed as independent variable, whereas employee performance is used as moderating variable. Sample for this study is selected from employees working in various private and public o...

Shippers and motor carriers are impacted by and react differently to travel time variability due to their positions within the supply chain and end goals. Through interviews and focus groups these differences have been further examined. Shippers, defined here as entities that send or receive goods, but do not provide the transportation themselves, are most often concerned with longer-term disru...