Abstract Today’s society is undergoing a paradigm shift driven by the megatrend of sustainability. This undeniably affects all areas Western life. paper aims to find out how luxury industry dealing with this change and what adjustments are made companies. For purpose, interviews were conducted managers from industry, in which they asked about specific measures taken their companies as well tren...

What compels an organization to revisit its strategic intent? Management often will question an organization’s direction when faced with poor business results. In 1994, however, the Center for Quality Management reexamined its direction at a time when the organization was very successful and not in distress. This planning effort afforded CQM a unique opportunity: to reassess our strategic direc...

This study intends to propose a modern model in the field of human resources (HR) strategic management through designing human resources&rsquo competence framework. Based on this strategic orientation of organization on human resources management system has been investigated considering the mediating role of competence approach in Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran. In order to implem...

The agent paradigm promotes the concept of goalorientation. Mainstream object-oriented modeling techniques do not account for such an agent-specific aspect. Therefore, dedicated techniques for agent-oriented modeling are required which are based on the concepts and notations of object-oriented modeling and extend these in order to support agent-specific concepts. Especially, the relation betwee...

This study examines the structural and systematic processes of the Human Resources Division at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago for evidence of incorporation of the University’s 20122017 Strategic Plan. In conducting the study the structure of the Human Resources Management Division and its functions were carefully reviewed and measured against the strategic...

Properties such as logging, persistence, debugging, tracing, distribution, performance monitoring and exception handling occur in most programming paradigms and are normally very difficult or even impossible to modularize with traditional modularization mechanisms because they are cross-cutting. Recently, aspect-oriented programming has enjoyed recognition as a practical solution for separating...

This report is an overview of the eld of object oriented programming. It presents a brief historical perspective of the eld, then summarizes some major achievements. Four strategic research directions are then presented: technologiesintegration,software components, distributedprogramming, and open implementations. Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a technique for improving productivity, qual...

The paradigm of service-oriented computing (SOC) has emerged as an approach to provide flexibility and agility, not just in systems development but also in business process management. This modular approach to defining business flows as technology independent services has gained unanimous popularity among end-users and technology vendors alike. Although there is a significant amount of research...