Careers and a knowledge society : case study of the impact of education on capacity building for work

The concept behind Farmer Producer Organizations is that farmers, who are the producers of agricultural products, can form groups and register themselves under the Indian Companies Act 1956. The aim is to enhance farmer’s income, capacity building, competitiveness, and increase their advantage in emerging market opportunities. To examine the role of farmer producer organization in enhancing farmers, a case study was conducted in Karnal District of Haryana. Study the management and governance system of FPC and assess the impact of FPC on members was the objective of the case study. Personal interviews and group discussion methods were used for data collection and gathering information on FPC. Mishti farmer producer organization was established on 25 march 2013 for collecting, processing, and marketing milk and milk products. It covered eight villages of Karnal and collect raw milk from members and non-members farmers at high price than other value chain actors. The result of the study indicate that farmer who supplies milk to FPC, get 8-10 rupee per lit high price than others. It also provides bonus to member farmers who are shareholders of the company and their income from dairy farming is enhanced by 25-30 percent. FPC also plays a significant role in enhancing the backward and forward linkage of farmers and capacity building of farmers in different agricultural aspect. Members of FPC are highly satisfied with the services provided by FPC and its performance in local areas.

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Serious Games, Mental Images, and Participatory Mapping: Reflections on a Set of Enabling Tools for Capacity Building

Informatics ◽

10.3390/informatics7010007 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 7 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Teodora Iulia Constantinescu ◽

Oswald Devisch

Keyword(s):

Capacity Building ◽

Capability Approach ◽

Building Process ◽

Participatory Processes ◽

Urban Transformations ◽

The One ◽

The Impact ◽

The City ◽

The Capability Approach

Increasing complexity of societal questions requires participatory processes that engage with capable participants. We adopted Horellis’ stance on participation as not an isolated event but a constant communication between different groups that can be assured by using enabling tools. We applied the Capability Approach to frame a capacity-building process and understand how this framework can support a collective of entrepreneurs to become aware of their capabilities (and the impact of an ongoing urban renewal process on these capabilities). The Capability Approach emphasizes the personal and structural conditions that impact a person’s capability to choose—the conditions that affect the process of determining what a person values. The paper builds on a two year capacity-building process conducted in Genk, Belgium, and proposes a conceptual framework for building capacities, in which the process and outputs collide with ideas of choice, ability, and opportunity, notions central to the Capability Approach. The case study looks at one of the main commercial streets of the city (Vennestraat) and reflects on a set of enabling artefacts used to engage proprietors in the capacity-building process. This capacity-building process, characterized by the idea of space and capabilities, advances a critical viewpoint on issues related to participatory processes and gives practitioners a set of enabling tools to start a conversation over complex urban transformations, such as the one in Vennestraat.

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The Influence of Critical Factors on Business Model at a Smart Factory: A Case Study

Business Systems Research Journal ◽

10.2478/bsrj-2019-0004 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 42-52 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Andrej Jerman ◽

Ivan Erenda ◽

Andrej Bertoncelj

Keyword(s):

Business Model ◽

Business Models ◽

Knowledge Society ◽

Major Change ◽

Study Data ◽

Smart Factory ◽

Critical Factors ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

The Impact

Abstract Background: The crucial elements of a smart factory, employees, machines, and products, have an important effect on current business models. Objectives: The main aim of our study is to present a case study of the impact of Industry 4.0 on the business model in a smart factory. The paper discusses the changes of business models of the organisation and determines critical factors that influence the business models in a knowledge society. Methods/Approach: Our sample included managers, from the company TPV, who are in charge of implementing a digital business model, and who are the most knowledgeable informants on the topic of our study. Data was obtained from, most widely used method for data collection in qualitative research, semi-structured interviews with managers. Content analysis was conducted for the purpose of our study. Results: Results of our study show that the major change will be that machines will have a “mind” of their own, whose main goal will be to work in production, and the role of employees will be primarily in expressing their creativity, carrying out urgent interventions and performing custody of processes. The key critical factors influencing business models in a smart factory are top management and leadership orientations, motivation of employees, collective wisdom, creativity and innovations. Conclusions: The study represents useful guidelines for strategic management of innovative companies in the earliest stages of the process of decision-making process.

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“Industrialising” the capacity building of local entrepreneurs. A case study of 1001fontaines’ “4G Project” in Cambodia

Social Business ◽

10.1362/204440821x16206324311187 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Guillaume Martin

Keyword(s):

Best Practices ◽

Capacity Building ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Scale Up ◽

Small Water ◽

National Review ◽

Long Run ◽

Building Project ◽

The Impact

In Cambodia, only 16% of the population in rural areas has access to safely managed and clean water supply services, putting the health of 10.12 million people at stake. (Cambodia’s Voluntary National Review 2019 of the Implementation of the 2030 SDG Agenda).1001fontaines, a community-based enterprise located mainly in Cambodia, responds to this issue by enabling the production of safe drinking water directly in the targeted communities, through the establishment of small water enterprises. These units, called water kiosks, are entrusted to local entrepreneurs and supported in the long run thanks to a franchise model. In 2014, 1001fontaines suffered from low-performing water kiosks, which impacted the viability of the whole portfolio. As a result, 1001fontaines decided to launch the so-called “4G” capacity building project to upgrade the initial and continuing training of water entrepreneurs, expand distribution channels, and further leverage the local “O-We” brand to reach more beneficiaries. The “4G project” was implemented from 2014 to 2015, and resulted in the identification of best practices to be followed by every water entrepreneur. Since 2016, 1001fontaines has generalised the use of these best practices to build the capacities of new entrepreneurs.This case study aims to investigate the impact of the “4G project” and its conclusion on the water kiosks’ performance and on 1001fontaines’ ability to better and faster scale up its approach in Cambodia.

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The Impact of Preparedness in Defying COVID-19 Pandemic Expectations in the Lower Mekong Region: A Case Study

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene ◽

10.4269/ajtmh.20-1499 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Andrew Corwin ◽

Tanarak Plipat ◽

Rattanaxay Phetsouvanh ◽

Mayfong Mayxay ◽

Phonepadith Xangsayarath ◽

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Keyword(s):

Infectious Disease ◽

Avian Influenza ◽

Capacity Building ◽

Influenza A ◽

Lao Pdr ◽

Laboratory Diagnostics ◽

Mekong Region ◽

Sporadic Cases ◽

The Impact

Dire COVID-19 expectations in the Lower Mekong Region (LMR) can be understood as Cambodia, the Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam have stared down a succession of emerging infectious disease (EID) threats from neighboring China. Predictions that the LMR would be overwhelmed by a coming COVID-19 tsunami were felt well before the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic had been declared. And yet, the LMR, excepting Myanmar, has proved surprisingly resilient in keeping COVID-19 contained to mostly sporadic cases. Cumulative case rates (per one million population) for the LMR, including or excluding Myanmar, from January 1 to October 31 2020, are 1,184 and 237, respectively. More telling are the cumulative rates of COVID-19–attributable deaths for the same period of time, 28 per million with and six without Myanmar. Graphics demonstrate a flattening of pandemic curves in the LMR, minus Myanmar, after managing temporally and spatially isolated spikes in case counts, with negligible follow-on community spread. The comparable success of the LMR in averting pandemic disaster can likely be attributed to years of preparedness investments, triggered by avian influenza A (H5N1). Capacity building initiatives applied to COVID-19 containment included virological (influenza-driven) surveillance, laboratory diagnostics, field epidemiology training, and vaccine preparation. The notable achievement of the LMR in averting COVID-19 disaster through to October 31, 2020 can likely be credited to these preparedness measures.

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Critical Application to the Concept of Formal and Authority Becoming a New Concept of Talent Management

The International Human Sciences Review ◽

10.37467/gka-humanrev.v1.1504 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. 1-8

Author(s):

Juan Nicolas Montoya Monsalve

Keyword(s):

High Performance ◽

Knowledge Society ◽

Talent Management ◽

Performance Practices ◽

Business Objects ◽

And Control ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship

The aim of this paper is to analyze the concept of formal authority in organizations, using a theoretical discussion of its components, their mainstreaming in the administrative process, and its effect on the proactive development of business objects, pretending to determine if this variable is proactive or not, in the development of high performance practices in Human Resource Management, and whether or not a restriction, for people to become their strategic base and/or competitive. We also try, from a case study to determine the effect of expression authority in non-hierarchical designs, the effects of structural position in organizations, the impact of leadership, the relationship of structures and the charges regarding the successes and achievements of the organization, the effect on intra-relationships and communication, imposing, authoritarian, non-cooperation with the lack of consistency with individual purposes, mission and Provisional Record, the continium of bad decisions, relationship with management and control, and finally connect all these elements with the current organizational individuals, immersed in a knowledge society.

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