This paper analyzes the returns to training that was co-fi nanced by the German voucher program Bildungsprämie. The estimation strategy compares outcomes of participants in voucher training with voucher recipients who intended to participate in training, but did not do so because of a random event like course cancellation by the provider of training. We fi nd no impact of voucher training on wa...

A recent focus on understanding emotions in organizations has resulted in increased attention to the role of Emotional Intelligence (EI). Emotional Intelligence (EI) is a type of intelligence that helps individuals to perceive, assimilate, understand, and manage emotions (Mayer & Salovey, 1997). The aim of this study is to understand the role of EI on individual attitudinal and performance outc...

Today, artificial intelligence especially the expert systems are used in science, engineering, business, manufacturing, management and many other fields. Human resource is one of the most strategic resources for a society and so forth for every type of organization, therefore offering a reasonable and intelligent service for employees of an organization is very essential. For this purpose, we h...

One goal of the public employment service is to facilitate matching between unemployed job seekers and job vacancies; another goal is to monitor job search so as to bring search efforts among the unemployed in line with search requirements. The referral of job seekers to vacancies is one instrument used for these purposes. We report results from a randomized Swedish experiment where the outcome...

Grid computing is distributed computing environment, which enabling the dynamic selection, sharing resources based on availability, capability, performance or cost of these computing resource and simultaneously also based on organization specific requirements. The main purpose of Grid computing is to share the computational power, storage memory, network resource to solve a large problem. The g...

—This paper presents an approach based on semantic annotation of CVs and job offers for automating recruitment on the web. The main idea consists on modeling formally the semantic content of these documents in term of their acquirements (case of a CV) or requirements (case of a job offer) using a shared ontology between recruiters and job seekers. The domain ontology built is inspired from the ...

BACKGROUND Dutch construction workers are offered periodic health examinations. This care can be improved by tailoring this workers health surveillance (WHS) to the demands of the job and adjust the preventive actions to the specific health risks of a worker in a particular job. To improve the quality of the WHS for construction workers and stimulate relevant job-specific preventive actions by ...

participation of workers in decision making commensurate with their functional capacity is very useful for the development of human resources which accelerates the goal attainment. participative management and its theoretical history in the west, leadership and management theories through utilization of the results of questionnair regarding the styles. of leadership, combination of personnel re...

Developing an autonomous intelligent vacuuming robot for household floors is not an easy task. The function of an autonomous vacuuming robot can be simply stated as to autonomously vacuum household floors while interacting appropriately with things one normally expects to find on floor such as furnitures, pets, trash, etc. However, underlying this simple job description are its numerous tough j...

This paper presents an ongoing research to determine the most popular skills of the e-commerce workforce based on e-commerce skills requirements present in online job locator websites. A large number of online job ads for e-commerce related positions have been already identified representing different geographical areas of the United States. Data is being collected and analyzed regarding types ...