This paper reports a teaching experience of business systems analysis (BSA) to cyber-security management students. This unit places great emphasis on connecting security function to business requirements from a socio-technical (ST) perspective. Specific topics of lectures and seminars are discussed to outline the necessity of tuning and tailoring BSA content to fit the needs of contemporary sec...

System Dynamic Simulating Modeling is one of the most appropriate and successful scientific dynamics modeling methods of the complex, non linear, natural, technical and organizational systems. The methodology of this method, together with use of digital computer, showed its efficiency in practice as very suitable means for solving the problems of management, of behavior, of sensibility, of flex...

With increased emphasis on encouraging students to pursue degrees in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), there is a general concern that society is losing the benefits associated with liberal arts education. One possible approach to achieving the benefits of higher paying STEM degrees along with the social benefits of liberal arts training is to encourage double majoring among co...

Indian manufacturing firms operating in rapidly changing and highly competitive market, over the last few decades, have embraced organization-wide transformation to achieve cultural and operational excellence. In recent years, numerous approaches have been proposed to improve business and manufacturing performance. Lean practices in particular, Total Productive Management (TPM) and Total Qualit...

EAP courses for various disciplines are designed as a conduit between academic research and practical applications (Paltridge & Starfield, 2013, p. 175). On the other hand, one of the main missions of ESP practitioners is to prepare learners for realities of English on the job (Paltridge & Starfield, 2013, p. 185). This study aimed to provide a profile of target professional English needs of Ir...

Abstract: Increasing returns to schooling and rising inequality are well documented for developed countries and for some developing countries. The growing demand for skills is associated with recent technological developments. It is argued that computers in the workplace represent one manifestation of these changes. Research in the United States and developed countries documents a premium for c...

the purpose of this research was to study deterrent factors for entrepreneurship in relation with personality and environmental characteristics for graduates of agriculture. the statistical population of the research is composed of graduates (n=98) have been able to establish a business in the field of agricultural production, in boushehr province (one of the southern provinces of iran). validi...