OBJECTIVE Although general attitudes toward individuals with disabilities are often positive, these perceptions do not always lead to equal footing in the hiring process. This study examined stereotypes of job applicants perceived to be blind and the role of applicant blindness in hireability ratings made by human resource managers. Specifically, we highlighted a unique challenge for individual...

Researchers still debate the relevance of using cultural frameworks and socio-economic differences between countries versus focussing on institutional differences when analysing issues affecting the transfer of human Resource policies between countries. this paper first compares four countries from europe and Asia on a macroeconomic level as well as on cultural dimensions. it then investigates ...

Many complex distributed applications require quality of service (QoS) guarantees on the end-to-end transfer of information across a distributed system. A major problem faced by any system, or infrastructure, providing QoS guarantees to such applications is that resource requirements and availability may change at run-time. Consequently, adaptive resource (and, hence, service) management mechan...

the aim of this study is to investigate human resource competencies in iranian petroleum company. this study is a descriptive-analytical approach. in this research, we examined human resource competencies in six main categories including; credible activist, culture & change steward, talent manager/organizational designer, strategy architect, operational executor, business ally, as well as 21 su...

As organizations continuously evolve, it is important to know who can lead and manage an organization to be effective, efficient, and productive. Managers with human skills are needed to help an organization mature and develop; just like a toddler needs a parent to help him or her mature and develop into an independent, sustainable, and self-sufficient adult. This study on 200 middle managers s...

This study investigates the emphasis placed on different managerial roles of information technology (IT) executives and IT project managers. Six managerial roles from Mintzberg’s classic role model were applied in this research: resource allocator, leader, spokesman, monitor, liaison, and entrepreneur. Two surveys were conducted in Norway in 2000/2001 to investigate the management roles. The fi...

D istributed mission-critical environments employ a mixture of hard and soft real-time applications that usually expect a guaranteed range of quality of service. These applications have different levels of criticality and varied structures ranging from periodic independent tasks to distributed pipelines or event-driven modules. The underlying distributed system must evolve and adapt to the high...