...today’s world, it makes it difficult to determine when is the appropriate time to use each method of communication in every day interactions. Even further, researchers wanted to investigate appropriate ways to use methods of communication in significant events in a relationship, specifically relationship termination. Each potential choice has its own consequences, which is why it important to examine what leads individuals to chose to terminate a relationship with mediated communication versus face to face. The purpose of this study is to explore a new area of romantic relationships, the mediums of communication used to terminate the relationship. Most communication research examines how relationships grow through the use of mediated communication. Research about how relationships are ended through mediated communication versus face to face is relatively absent. Pettigrew (2009) conducted a study on text messaging and the connectedness it can bring to close interpersonal relationships. Researchers discovered that participants valued text messaging because they felt it was a way to privately and directly communicate with their loved ones and gain constant connectedness (Pettigrew, 2009). As a result text messaging seems to be becoming a more acceptable way of communicating important messages to the ones you love, despite the fact that “they filter out several channels of communication like vocal tone, volume, hand gestures, and so on” (Pettigrew, 2009, p. 697). Romantic partners –married...
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...FACULTY OF BUSINESS, ECONOMICS & LAW RBUS2900 Business Research Method Article Review: Trust and Team Performance This paper will be analyzing and critiquing three main articles of trust and its direct and indirect effect on team performance. The selected articles are collected from the journal of occupational and organisational psychology, organization science and journal of business and industrial marketing, published no earlier than 2009 Contents RBUS2900 Article Review: “Trust and Team Performance” 2 I. Introduction 2 II. Research Design Characteristics 3 III. Summaries of the Three Articles 3 3.1. Article1: “The differential effect of team members’ trust on team performance: The mediation role of team cohesion” (Mach, Dolan & Tzafrir, 2010) 3 3.2. Article 2: “Getting everyone one board: The role of inspirational leadership in geographically dispersed teams” (Joshi, Lazarova & Liao, 2010) 5 3.3. Article 3: “Managerial trust and NPD performance: Team commitment and longevity as mediators” (Doyan, 2010) 6 IV. Critiques of the Three Articles 7 4.1. Article1: “The differential effect of team members’ trust on team performance: The mediation role of team cohesion” (Mach, Dolan & Tzafrir, 2010) 7 4.2. Article 2: “Getting everyone one board: The role of inspirational leadership in geographically dispersed teams” (Joshi, Lazarova & Liao, 2010) 8 4.3. Article 3: “Managerial trust and NPD performance: Team commitment and longevity as mediators” (Doyan, 2010) 9 ...
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...Information Technology March 2014 Semester Assignment Introduction to Database (DIT2503) Assignment Topic Task 1: Knowledge Discovery – Individual (100 Marks) – SUBMISSION WEEK 8 Name: Kevin Yeap Kong Shien Nie Justin Ling Student ID: 0319297 0319226 0319826 No. Title Page 1 Cover Page 1 2 Table Content 2 3 Question 1 3-7 4 Question 2 8 5 Question 3 9 6 Question 4 10-11 7 References 12 Database Question 1: Data Model/Database Model Flat file Flat file data model is model where data was store as a plain text file in a single table. Each line of the table hold each record with field and it is separated by commas or tabs. It cannot contain multiple tables like relational database. All the data stored by flat file, a computer file system will be store in a single...
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...maintain their friendships. This research shows they use Facebook more to maintain and strengthen past and current friendships and less to meet new people. By defining Generation Y, it is evident recent studies on Facebook use and relationship maintenance has only examined the latter half of this group. Current literature provides a wealth of information on those born from 1990-2002; it does not provide studies on the earlier half of Generation Y, those born from 1976-1989. Generation Y encompasses a broad range of age groups. Given the continued emergence and integration of technology in everyday life, it is important to understand how it is being used. The proposed study aims to examine the way the elders of Generation Y maintain relationships on Facebook. B. Statement of the Problem The research intends to answer the following questions: 1) Do Facebook users born from 1976-1989 use the site to maintain relationships? 2) What relationship maintenance behaviors are commonly performed on Facebook? 3) Has the use of Facebook affected the way the early half of Generation Y maintains friendships? 4) Has the frequency of offline communication been replaced by online communication through Facebook for this portion of Generation Y? 5) Has this online communication affected the perceived quality of relationships for the early half of Generation Y? 6) How does relationship maintenance for the latter half of Generation Y compare to previous research on the early half of Generation...
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...Supply Chain Management: An International Journal Theoretical perspectives on information sharing in supply chains: a systematic literature review and conceptual framework Joakim Kembro Kostas Selviaridis Dag Näslund Article information: Downloaded by National Institute of Industrial Engineering NITIE At 14:05 29 January 2016 (PT) To cite this document: Joakim Kembro Kostas Selviaridis Dag Näslund , (2014),"Theoretical perspectives on information sharing in supply chains: a systematic literature review and conceptual framework", Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Vol. 19 Iss 5/6 pp. 609 - 625 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/SCM-12-2013-0460 Downloaded on: 29 January 2016, At: 14:05 (PT) References: this document contains references to 137 other documents. To copy this document: permissions@emeraldinsight.com The fulltext of this document has been downloaded 1329 times since 2014* Users who downloaded this article also downloaded: Muhammad Mustafa Kamal, Zahir Irani, (2014),"Analysing supply chain integration through a systematic literature review: a normative perspective", Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Vol. 19 Iss 5/6 pp. 523-557 http:// dx.doi.org/10.1108/SCM-12-2013-0491 Florian Kache, Stefan Seuring, (2014),"Linking collaboration and integration to risk and performance in supply chains via a review of literature reviews", Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Vol. 19 Iss...
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...Final Project Proposal This paper aims to explore how humor, a site of construction of gender identity and power relation, is employed by both males and females to negotiate their power relations and either subvert or confirm their gender roles. I believe this topic is of particular interest because though a number of studies have been conducted to examine the relation between gender practice and occupational practice, and ways of constructing gender roles via humor. Concentration is rarely deployed on humor use by males and females at workplace. This review is important because there is a growing number of female practitioners participating in different sectors and industries. They are frequently confronted with paradoxical situations of their gender role of feminity and their professional competence and leadership, usually tagged with masculinity. This paper will offer some insights to professional females about how they can resolve such paradoxes at their workplace through the employment of humor. Besides, this topic is of particular interest because it can be seen through the review of the body of literature, that the meaning and effect of humor, as a linguistic means can never be captured nicely. It can have different functions in different context, which is in accordance with the “ambiguity” and “polysemy”put forward by Tannen (1993), so this paper will probes into the fluidity and ambivalency of this linguistic means. Moreover, one big context in this review...
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...August 31, 2006 Mr. Shubhankar Shil Lecturer School of business Independent University, Bangladesh Subject: Submission of the internship report. Dear Sir, With due respect, I would like to inform you that it is a great pleasure for me to submit the internship report on “The effects of customer service management on business performance in Bangladesh cell phone industry an empirical analysis” as requirement for BBA 499 program. Through out the completion of the report, I came to know about many things regarding the current world on the concept of customer service management on business performance. I have tried my best to put thorough effort for the preparation of this report. Any shortcomings or fault may arise as my unintentional mistakes. I will whole heartedly welcome any clarification and suggestion about any view and conception disseminated through this report. Sincerely Yours .…………………… Nayeemur Rahman Mia Id # 0210034 Contact: Mobile: 01711503442 E-mail: nayeemur@grameenphone.com Acknowledgement I would like to convey my respect to my course supervisor Mr. Shubhankar Shil, Lecturer, School of Business, Independent University, Bangladesh for his eager, helpful and enthusiastic guidance which encouraged me to accomplish this report on “The effects of customer service management on business performance in Bangladesh cell phone industry”. Without his incessant support this work would not have found the right track which I believe it did...
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...the IT possibilities for e-HRM are endless: in principal all HR processes can be supported by IT. This paper aims at giving a clear definition of what HRM and e-HRM actually is, as well as the current uses and technologies utilizing the e-HRM concept. This paper will also discuss some of the pros and cons associated with e-HRM from 4 different perspectives: individual, operational, relational, and transformational. Keywords: e-HRM, HRM, technology, management With the rapid development and expansion of the internet the realization and application of e-HRM has intensified. Technological optimist assume, that from a technical perspective, the IT possibilities for e-HRM are endless: in principal all HR processes can be supported by IT. Surveys of HR consultants suggest that both the number of organizations adopting e-HRM and the depth of applications within the organizations are continually increasing. (CedarCrestone, 2005) In addition, there is anecdotal evidence that e-HRM is becoming increasingly common and may lead to remarkable changes. (Anonymous, 2001) This paper aims at giving a clear definition of what HRM and e-HRM is, as well as the current uses and technologies utilizing the e-HRM concept. This paper will also discuss various pros and cons associated with e-HRM from four distinct perspectives: individual, operational, relational, and...
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...Cornell University ILR School DigitalCommons@ILR CAHRS Working Paper Series Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS) 5-1-2003 Extending the Human Resource Architecture: Relational Archetypes and Value Creation Sung-Choon Kang Cornell University Shad S. Morris Cornell University Scott A. Snell Cornell University, ss356@cornell.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cahrswp Part of the Human Resources Management Commons This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS) at DigitalCommons@ILR. It has been accepted for inclusion in CAHRS Working Paper Series by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@ILR. For more information, please contact hlmdigital@cornell.edu. Extending the Human Resource Architecture: Relational Archetypes and Value Creation Abstract Theories of knowledge-based competition focus on internal resources as the source of value creation. The HR architecture (Lepak & Snell, 1999) brought human resource management directly into this forum by developing a model of human capital allocation and management. We attempt to extend the HR architecture by introducing a framework of relational archetypes—entrepreneurial and cooperative—that are derived from unique combinations of three dimensions (cognitive, structural, and affective) that characterize internal and external relationships of core knowledge employees. Entrepreneurial...
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...Information Systems and Technology Trends Occurring in the Workplace Nancy M. Gonzenbach Southern Illinois University Carbondale Information Systems and Technology Trends Occurring in the Workplace Introduction The advancement of technologies in business is changing the world of work. Businesses find they must incorporate many of the new technological procedures, processes, policies, hardware, and software into their environment to remain competitive. The impact from these technological advances on how work is performed affects the workforce far differently now than what has been seen over the past 25 years. One of the greatest impacts has been on the workers themselves, and the challenge of training and preparing to remain abreast in today’s workforce is tremendous. This challenge, which is facing today’s workers, is something educators cannot afford to ignore. Technology has created a revolution in today’s educational environment, and this change in education makes teaching more rewarding and far more challenging (Bryant, 2001). Review of Literature The field of information systems is constantly changing, and these changes are impacting the way workers think, the processes and procedures used to accomplish wo rk, and the tools used to accomplish goals needed to be competitive in the workforce. In today’s work environment “trends such as the globalization of the economy and the evolution of e-commerce are changing the very nature of work” and “success in the wo rkplace of...
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...(2007). Wisdom hierarchy: Representations of the DIKW hierarchy. Journal of Information Science 3 3. Goldman, N. (2013). Towards practical, high-capacity, low-maintenance information storage in synthesized DNA. 4 4. Gray, J. (1981). The transaction concept: virtues and limitations. In: VLDB '81: Proceedings of the seventh international conference on Very Large Data Bases 5 5. Codd, E. F. (1970). A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks. Communications of the ACM 7 6. Chen, P. (1976). The entity-relationship model: Toward a unified view of data. ACM Transactions on Database Systems 8 1. Gray, J. (2009). Jim Gray on eScience: A transformed scientific method. The Fourth Paradigm: Data-intensive scientific discovery Gray states that there is need to distinguish data-intensive science from computational science; he defines an emerging fourth paradigm for scientific exploration. This paradigm is derived from the deluge of data being produced within scientific research fields, and the necessity for tools which can be utilised within the whole research cycle; data capture, curation, analysis and visualisation. He identified that currently the data being produced is not being organised, or published in a systematic way; he states that there is a need for “Laboratory Information Management Systems, which provide a pipeline from either an instrument or simulation into a data archive”. Previous to the fourth paradigm there was experimental science, theoretical...
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...the equity theory, attachment styles, when to reveal and when to conceal, and the cognitive dissonance theory. These factors play a very big role in relationship baggage and they are all discussed extensively through many scholarly articles. The following articles illustrate the research done on the topic of partner baggage as it pertains to these particular factors in romantic relationships. Keywords: partner baggage, relational uncertainty, relational turbulence, dark side, interpersonal relationships According to an article by Sidelinger and Booth-Butterfield, partner baggage is defined as, “negative attributes and situations which create obstacles to optimal relationship outcomes” (Sidelinger & Booth-Butterfield, 2009, p. 405). That is just a really fun way of saying that one or both participants of a relationship have some issues that could be potentially detrimental to the relationship. Partner baggage is very common in most relationships, 69% of couples reported this about partner baggage (Sidelinger & Booth-Butterfield, 2009, p. 414). There is a lot of ambiguity in relationships to begin with (Spitzberg & Cupach, 2011, p. 31), but partner baggage adds another element of relational uncertainty. To understand partner baggage in relationships better, we will discuss this through the equity theory, attachment styles, when to reveal and when to conceal, and cognitive dissonance. Literature Review Equity Theory The equity theory can help couples determine...
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...1.0 Introduction. This chapter of the project report comprises of the background of the study, statement of the problem, general and specific objectives of the research, scope of the study and significance of a computerized records management system. 1.1 Background information. I have much concentration on one of primary school known as kyegera parents primary school. It is one of the many privately owned primary schools in kampala district. This primary school was constructed and started operating in 2006 to offer good education to the young generation in the district and perhaps competite with the rest of the country’s schools. The manual based granding system is the current system used by this education institute as I analyze this system I found that the system was costly in terms of purchasing papers, calculator and minimising error. A computerized granding management system for an education institution is all about simpling stundents granding, securing reports, managing and quick retrieval of data and storage of large volume of data with the help of hard drive and can be kept for long period of time. It also allows deletion and editing of data which cannot be done on paper. 1.2 Problem statement. The institutions current system is mainly manual based granding system which are costly in terms of granding using calculator , storage and securing records from intruder to access them. 1.2.1 General objective. The purpose of this project is to design a computerized...
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...1 Social Capital and Facebook Groups' Members Knowledge Sharing Behavior Manal ElKordy Assistant Professor Business Administration Department Faculty of Commerce Alexandria University Alexandria, Egypt melkordy@hotmail.com Abstract The main challenge of any virtual community is the supply of enough content through the active sharing of knowledge among community members. This paper integrates the factors of social capital theory; namely, social ties, knowledge self-efficacy, fairness, identification, and openness; with individual motivations to share knowledge; namely, reputation, and enjoy helping; to explain why people share their knowledge on Facebook groups. The models' efficacy was tested using online survey of 237 Facebook groups' members. The model explained 34% of the variance in knowledge sharing behavior where knowledge self efficacy, identification with group, and perceived group openness were found to positively influence knowledge sharing behavior. Contrary to expectations, social ties, perceived group fairness, and individual motivators showed no significant influence on knowledge sharing behavior. Theoretical and practical implications of the results are discussed. Keywords: Social capital, individual motivations, knowledge sharing behavior, Facebook Groups, virtual communities, Egypt. 2 1. Introduction The widespread of internet access has fuelled the growth of virtual communities where more people are sharing their knowledge, experiences, and opinions...
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...Dept. of Business Information Systems Blvd. Carol I, nr. 22, Iasi, 700505, Romania Tel: + 40 744 497 654, Fax: + 40 232 217 000 fotache@uaic.ro ABSTRACT With an impressive theoretical foundation, normalization was supposed to bring rigor and relevance into such a slippery domain as database design is. Almost every database textbook treats normalization in a certain extent, usually suggesting that the topic is so clear and consolidated that it does not deserve deeper discussions. But the reality is completely different. After more than three decades, normalization not only has lost much of its interest in the research papers, but also is still looking for practitioners to apply it effectively. Despite the vast amount of database literature, comprehensive books illustrating the application of normalization to effective real-world applications are still waited. This paper reflects the point of 1 view of an Information Systems academic who incidentally has been for almost twenty years a practitioner in developing database applications. It outlines the main weaknesses of normalization and offers some explanations about the failure of a generous framework in becoming the so much needed universal guide for database designers. Practitioners might be interested in finding out (or confirming) some of the normalization misformulations, misinterpretations, inconsistencies and fallacies. Theorists could find useful the presentation of some issues where the normalization theory was...
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