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What We Expect and What We Get? Total Rewards for Potential Employees
Publication date: 2018 Source:Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238 Author(s): Elena-Sabina Turnea It would be advised that those who are looking to change their job or get a new one to be very well informed with respect to what kind of organizational rewards they can expect. In most of the cases, people want to be rewarded, but do not know what they need. Compatibility tests used in professional practice or job rotation on workstations are great possibilities to find out what kind of organizational rewards people are able to claim. Without a doubt, total reward will be applied differently, depending of ...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - April 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Attraction and Retention of the Employees. A Study based on Multinationals from Romania
This study has focused on two key steps taken from human resource management: attracting candidates to job interviews and maintaining the chosen personnel in companies. The research model was designed so that the two aspects are simultaneously and comparatively analyzed. (Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences)
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - April 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Influencing Factors and Outcomes of the Learning by Sharing Process
Publication date: 2018 Source:Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238 Author(s): Ionuţ Viorel Herghiligiu, Alexandru Pohonţu, Marius Pislaru, Adrian Vilcu The mergіng оf оrgаnіzаtіоnаl leаrnіng theоry аnd knоwledge mаnаgement іn recent yeаrs hаs gіven rіse tо іmроrtаnt іnsіghts regаrdіng the leаrnіng рrоcess аnd knоwledge trаnsfer thаt stіll requіres much reflectіоn іn оrder tо be іntegrаted іntо рrаctіce. However, few studies could be found in literature which focuse on what and how the influencing factors are related to organizational learning and ...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - April 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Business-process Modelling of basic Customs Procedures in EAEU
Publication date: 2018 Source:Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238 Author(s): Ekaterina N. Salimonenko, Evgeny A. Stepanov Customs procedures improvement is conducted to reduce the time of customs control. Reducing customs control time will lead to reducing operating and transaction costs of participants of customs control procedures as well as of participants of foreign economic activities. Business-process improvement models of basic customs procedures has a hierarchical structure to carry out specification on several levels. The model comprises official sequence of actions and stages of the data pro...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - April 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Microgrid supply management
Publication date: 2018 Source:Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238 Author(s): Cezara Rat, Cristian Vasar, Ovidiu Gana, Octavian Prostean Microgrids represent a means of improving the conventional electrical grid network, making it more reliable, secure, cooperative, efficient and, especially cleaner. This paper presents the management of a hierarchical DC-coupled microgrid with distributed architecture implemented in a microgrid laboratory containing two renewable sources, namely wind and hydro. Power supply management strategies are applied in order to supply a critical, non-dispatchable load. Due t...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - April 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Implementation of Eye-Tracking Technology in Holonic Manufacturing Systems
This study discusses the implementation of Eye-Tracking technology as an holon. (Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences)
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - April 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

A Comparison Between Smart City Approaches in Road Traffic Management
Publication date: 2018 Source:Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238 Author(s): Mădălin-Dorin Pop, Octavian Proștean The population growth and economic development increase the need for mobility. As consequences, we can mention the environmental impact of CO2 emissions and that the road accidents are among the top 10 causes of death worldwide. As a solution to this problem, the concept of Intelligent Transportation Systems emerged. Part of this concept is smart city approach, consisting in a combination of Internet of Things and Information and Communication Technology to manage city issues. After 201...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - April 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Packaging Scorecard for Closed-loop Logistics Systems: A Sustainable Development Perspective
Publication date: 2018 Source:Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238 Author(s): François Fulconis, Bernd Philipp Packaging is omnipresent in modern production, distribution and consumption systems. It has multiple functions. They refer to the quality of the products it covers, their advertising/promotion via its marketing aspects and to the logistics via handling/storage/transportation activities it enables. Indispensable partner of different supply chain actors (suppliers, manufacturers, logistics service providers, carriers, wholesalers, retailers, consumers), it is at the heart of packaging scorecard...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - April 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Supply Chain Monitoring: LLPs and 4PL Providers as Orchestrators
This article explores this little known reality that portends a strategic disruption, based on a case study of a global LSP. (Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences)
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - April 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Reducing Ergonomic Strain in Warehouse Logistics Operations by using Wearable Computers
Publication date: 2018 Source:Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 238 Author(s): Anca Mocan, Anca Draghici Ergonomics is the study that deals with the design of products and processes that improve both human well-being and overall system performance. In order to reduce the ergonomic strain that the workers in the warehouse sector experience, while also increasing competitiveness and tact time, businesses have to understand the importance of emerging technologies and how these can be applied successfully in their working area. This paper offers a grading of existent wearable computer technology that can be...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - April 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Implementation of Early Childhood Physical Activity Curriculum (SPARK) in the Central Valley of California (USA)
This study is funded by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture of the United States Department of Agriculture, grant number 2011-68001-30167. The NSFS project consists of four major component interventions in the areas of nutrition, physical activity, economic and art-community engagement to induce behavioral change in our target population in order to achieve obesity prevention. SPARK Physical Education (PE) represents a paradigm shift in the traditional PE world. The SPARK programs are designed to involve all children, be more active, inorporate social skills, and emphasize both health-related fitness and sill de...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - March 9, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

ICT in Teaching Foreign Languages to Adult People with Acquired Severe Visual Impairment
Publication date: 21 February 2017 Source:Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 237 Author(s): Olga Malinovská, Libuše Ludíková Introduction. Learning a foreign language is an essential part of all levels of the education system in the modern society. Nevertheless a common language course may not be appropriate for a person with severe visual impairment. During the course of the English language for adults with visual impairment it was possible to ask the students which way of teaching was satisfactory for them and how it was possible to take advantage of new technologies such as email and the internet....
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - March 9, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Social Mapping in the Context of a Community-build Day: Strategy to Strengthen Links with Community in a Small Rural School
Publication date: 21 February 2017 Source:Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 237 Author(s): Odet Moliner, Auxiliadora Sales, Aida Sanahuja In this paper we present a strategy for linking the school with its territory carried out in a colegio rural agrupado (a rural primary school serving several small populations on different sites) in the province of Valencia (Spain). A one-day community-building event was organised to promote community participation and development, with two aims: to provide information on the projects carried out in the school with local community involvement; and to apply a particip...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - March 9, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Multiculturalism in Education: Barriers of Communicative Creativity in the Case of Nonresident and Foreign Students in Group Training tasks Solving
Publication date: 21 February 2017 Source:Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 237 Author(s): Barieva Khene Railevna The high performance of the future specialist today is directly connected with his or her ability to think creatively and productively. Developing competencies of interpersonal communication interactions is hampered by the trend towards the virtualization of communication and the intensification of migration process. The latter carries inevitable controversy in national and regional traditions of social communications, whereas the virtualization of communication contributes to barriers in int...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - March 9, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Development of a Scale to Measure Attitudes Toward Professional Values: An Analysis of Dimensionality Using Rasch Measurement
Publication date: 21 February 2017 Source:Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 237 Author(s): B. Boroel, V. Aramburo, M. Gonzalez The purpose of this study was to create and validate a scale of attitudes towards professional values. It corresponds to the phase of analysis of metric properties in an intentional sample of 1008 bachelor student's equivalent to 30.74% of the population of the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California. The sample of students represents six knowledge areas: Social and Business Sciences, Human and Education Sciences, Natural Sciences, Exact Sciences, Technology and Engineering, a...
Source: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - March 9, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research