Job design is an aspect of managing organizations that is so commonplace it often goes unnoticed. Most people realize the importance of job design when an organization or new plant is starting up, and some recognize the importance of job design when organizations are restructuring or changing processes. But fewer people realize that job design may be affected as organizations change markets or ...

BACKGROUND To develop a web-based computer adaptive testing (CAT) application for efficiently collecting data regarding workers' perceptions of job satisfaction, we examined whether a 37-item Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ-37) could evaluate the job satisfaction of individual employees as a single construct. METHODS The JCQ-37 makes data collection via CAT on the internet easy, viable and fas...

Grid computing is a group of clusters connected over high-speed networks that involves coordinating and sharing computational power, data storage and network resources operating across dynamic and geographically dispersed locations. Resource management and job scheduling are critical tasks in grid computing. Resource selection becomes challenging due to heterogeneity and dynamic availability of...

Grid computing is a computation methodology using group of clusters connected over high-speed networks that involves coordinating and sharing computational power, data storage and network resources. Integrating a set of clusters of workstations into one large computing environment can improve the availability of computing power. The goal of scheduling is to achieve highest possible system throu...

Women doctors in the United Kingdom hit the headlines in 2014 with the news that women were heads of five Royal Colleges, including the first-ever female President of the Royal College of Surgeons, that bastion of male tribal culture. The Physicians, GPs, Pediatricians, and Pathologists all had women at the helm, and have now been joined by the Ophthalmologists. Dame Sally Davies is the first-e...

Distributed-memory parallel supercomputers are an important platform for the execution of high-performance parallel jobs. In order to submit a job for execution in most supercomputers, one has to specify the number of processors to be allocated to the job. However, most parallel jobs in production today are moldable. A job is moldable when the number of processors it needs to execute can vary, ...

The Job selection process in today’s globally competitive economy can be a daunting task for prospective employees no matter their experience level. Although many years of research has been devoted to job search and application resulting in good integration with information technology including the internet and intelligent agent-based architectures, there are still many areas that need to be en...

BACKGROUND Large-scale biological jobs on high-performance computing systems require manual intervention if one or more computing cores on which they execute fail. This places not only a cost on the maintenance of the job, but also a cost on the time taken for reinstating the job and the risk of losing data and execution accomplished by the job before it failed. Approaches which can proactively...