Human capital analytics, also known as human resources analytics or talent analytics, is the application of sophisticated data mining and business analytics techniques to human resources data. Human Capital Analytics provides an in-depth look at the science of human capital analytics, giving practical examples from case studies of companies applying analytics to their people decisions and providing a framework for using predictive analytics to optimize human capital investments.
As an infectious disease, malaria consumes around 250 million yearly clinical cases and with more than half a million annual deaths. It has shown tremendous burden for the economic and social life of many countries around the world, particularly in the tropical and developing nations. The conventional wisdom claims that the prevalence of malaria infection either prolongs or should be positively correlated with outbreaks of civil conflicts. We contend that malaria infection should deter civil conflict occurrences because warming parties should avoid engaging each other in areas with rampant malaria infection. We test the hypothesis with 20 years of geo-referenced panel data of conflict event and malaria risk from Sub-Sahara Africa. Our result renders strong support for our hypothesis that areas with more malaria infection tends to have less civil conflicts.
Popular approaches to organizational leadership note that productivity and innovation in U.S. organizations could be greatly improved if top managers placed more emphasis on organizational values and culture. Recent findings in transformational leadership research prescribe top management to develop and share a vision for the organization, model that vision, encourage innovativeness, support employee efforts, and allow employees input into decisions concerning their jobs (Bass, 1985; Kouzes & Posner, 1988). These actions should act to improve productivity by increasing positive attitudes and clarifying the roles of the employees. This study examined the relationships between these five actions and employee commitment, job satisfaction, and role ambiguity. Results suggest that top-management actions are strongly related to all three of these outcomes. The results also suggest that the effects of certain actions vary for different organizational settings.
Boyd Au knows business. From starting his company, Enzer, with his partner, each with S5,000 in 1984, to listing it on the Singapore Stock Exchange in 2001 and achieving a turnover of S80 million in 2006, this entrepreneur knows what it takes to be successful. His winning business style has been recognised and lauded - with Enzer scooping up the Superbrands award for three consecutive years! Though he sold off his business in 2007, Boyd remains passionate about entrepreneurship. He started 7 Notes Capital, focusing on private investments and offers training, coaching and mentoring programmes o
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Private mortgage lending business is an important business segment for retail banks. There are two main reasons for this. Firstly, the comparatively low risk. On the one hand, because many years of experience in this segment enable optimal risk management. On the other hand, the financed properties also provide optimum security. Due to the small size of this business segment, private construction financing was unattractive for major banks for a long time. On the other hand, this division was a core business for regional banks and savings banks. However, as a result of the banking crisis in 2007 and 2008 and the ECB's ongoing low-interest policy, the private mortgage lending sector is now attractive to all market participants. This is reflected in fiercer competition. The importance of customer communication has therefore also increased in the advertising for new business. Since financial and personnel resources are limited, corporate communications are faced with the challenge of addressing potential customers as efficiently as possible. Communication science has already developed a number of concepts for optimal, integrated communication. These are based on average consumers. Against the background of possible regional deviations in media usage and consumer behaviour, this work explains that banks and savings banks with a regionally defined business area should set different priorities within the communications mix than supraregional providers. To this end, a field study was conducted in rural areas of the Nuremberg metropolitan region and analysed using a chi-square test. The study revealed the continuing importance of branches and personal advice, despite increasing digitalisation. At the same time, the necessity of closely networking stationary sales and online offers in rural areas becomes clear.
This baseline study on the status quo of Zambian radio reporting quality revealed central training needs for Zambian radio reporters. The study used two methods: - Semi-structured interviews with staff of various radio stations and local media experts were held. They should render an insight into the enabling environment of the radio landscape in Zambia, the journalists' working conditions and role models and thus allow the research team to detect training needs - The status quo of radio news journalistic quality was elaborated with a content analysis tool developed by IAM. The analysed sample consisted of daily news of four different radio stations, recorded in June 2006. The tool contains a quality criteria catalogue derived both from democracy theory and the interviews mentioned above. The main results of this baseline study are: 1. Zambian radio journalists have developed role models much in line with basic 'Western' journalism values, like objectivity, balanced reporting, enabling the listener to take own decisions, analysing complex issues, supporting public debate, giving a voice to all sides 2. However, prevailing working conditions – at least those of news journalists –mostly prevent the journalists from realising basic quality criteria they have set for themselves, like including more than one source for a news report etc. 3. The quality assessment shows a number of deficiencies in Zambian radio journalism, among them: a. The diversity of sources is rather limited and does not match with standard requirements. b.Government sources are highly considered, whereby other sources are rather neglected, especially by the state broadcaster ZNBC. c. Reporting on background of events and issues is highly neglected and needs to be strengthened. d. Some broadcasters hardly cover struggle as an element of public debate, concerning political issues. e. The diversity of viewpoints in news reports is low, thus preventing the public from deriving the full scope of opinions and viewpoints around an issue. f. Soundbites are still used on a low level; sources seldom get an opportunity to be heard directly. g. The perspectives of the general public are not much considered in news reports yet. It neither appears as a source. These results lead to two main training needs: 1. Reduce the deficiencies discovered above and thus increase the quality of reporting 2. Training has to be on individual as well as on station/editorial level in order to initiate real change ; This baseline study on the status quo of Zambian radio reporting quality revealed central training needs for Zambian radio reporters. The study used two methods: - Semi-structured interviews with staff of various radio stations and local media experts were held. They should render an insight into the enabling environment of the radio landscape in Zambia, the journalists' working conditions and role models and thus allow the research team to detect training needs - The status quo of radio news journalistic quality was elaborated with a content analysis tool developed by IAM. The analysed sample consisted of daily news of four different radio stations, recorded in June 2006. The tool contains a quality criteria catalogue derived both from democracy theory and the interviews mentioned above. The main results of this baseline study are: 1. Zambian radio journalists have developed role models much in line with basic 'Western' journalism values, like objectivity, balanced reporting, enabling the listener to take own decisions, analysing complex issues, supporting public debate, giving a voice to all sides 2. However, prevailing working conditions – at least those of news journalists –mostly prevent the journalists from realising basic quality criteria they have set for themselves, like including more than one source for a news report etc. 3. The quality assessment shows a number of deficiencies in Zambian radio journalism, among them: a. The diversity of sources is rather limited and does not match with standard requirements. b.Government sources are highly considered, whereby other sources are rather neglected, especially by the state broadcaster ZNBC. c. Reporting on background of events and issues is highly neglected and needs to be strengthened. d. Some broadcasters hardly cover struggle as an element of public debate, concerning political issues. e. The diversity of viewpoints in news reports is low, thus preventing the public from deriving the full scope of opinions and viewpoints around an issue. f. Soundbites are still used on a low level; sources seldom get an opportunity to be heard directly. g. The perspectives of the general public are not much considered in news reports yet. It neither appears as a source. These results lead to two main training needs: 1. Reduce the deficiencies discovered above and thus increase the quality of reporting 2. Training has to be on individual as well as on station/editorial level in order to initiate real change
In: Wasserwirtschaft, Wassertechnik: wwt ; Praxismagazin für Trink- und Abwassermanagement, Band 73, Heft 6, S. 36-37
In Bietigheim-Bissigen wird seit Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts die Kraft der Enz genutzt, um CO2-neutralen Strom zu gewinnen. In der denkmalgeschützten Rommelmühle erzeugen drei Turbinen jährlich ca. 1,5 Mio. kWh Strom. Nun wurden die Turbinengetriebe ausgetauscht.
Manfred Scheck: Zwangsarbeit und Massensterben. Politische Gefangene, Fremdarbeiter und KZ-Häftlinge in Vaihingen an der Enz 1933 bis 1945. Metropol Verlag Berlin 2014. 295 Seiten mit zahlreichen Abbildungen. Hardcover € 22,–. ISBN 978-3-86331-200-8
Manfred Scheck, Zwangsarbeit und Massensterben, Politische Gefangene, Fremdarbeiter und KZ-Häftlinge in Vaihingen an der Enz 1933 bis 1945, Berlin: Metropol 2014. 295 S., zahlr. s/w Abb. ISBN 978-3-86331-200-8. Geb. € 22,–
