scholarly journals Development and education of company managers

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-46
Author(s):  
Irena Milojević ◽  
Duško Jovanović ◽  
Iva Matić
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Initial Step ◽  
Proper Selection ◽  
Good Basis ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Operational Practices ◽  
Quantitative Indicators

Proper selection of persons to perform managerial work (in various forms of ownership) is an important initial step, and after proper selection, one should continuously work with persons who will perform that work, monitor them, guide and work on their career development. When choosing a leader, one must take into account the knowledge he should possess, desirable traits (intellectual, voluntary and emotional personality traits), attitudes, the degree of authority he enjoys and the nature of functioning -the group he works with to solve problems. Important personality traits, which should be taken into account when choosing a person for managers are: temperament, interests, character and abilities, and they can be determined to some extent on the basis of certain qualitative and quantitative indicators. Numerous knowledge from practice, although various sciences and scientific disciplines provide a good basis for high efficiency and effectiveness, show that there are many managerial (managerial) problems, and there are few good managers. The aim of this paper is to provide certain theoretical knowledge that provides a good basis for improving operational practices aimed at properly identifying candidates for managers, their proper education and training throughout their working lives and career development.

A Lightweight SE-YOLOv3 Network for Multi-Scale Object Detection in Remote Sensing Imagery

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lifang Zhou ◽  
Guang Deng ◽  
Weisheng Li ◽  
Jianxun Mi ◽  
Bangjun Lei
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Computational Cost ◽  
Image Data ◽  
Detection Accuracy ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
One Stage ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Spatial Pyramid Pooling ◽  
Feature Augmentation

Current state-of-the-art detectors achieved impressive performance in detection accuracy with the use of deep learning. However, most of such detectors cannot detect objects in real time due to heavy computational cost, which limits their wide application. Although some one-stage detectors are designed to accelerate the detection speed, it is still not satisfied for task in high-resolution remote sensing images. To address this problem, a lightweight one-stage approach based on YOLOv3 is proposed in this paper, which is named Squeeze-and-Excitation YOLOv3 (SE-YOLOv3). The proposed algorithm maintains high efficiency and effectiveness simultaneously. With an aim to reduce the number of parameters and increase the ability of feature description, two customized modules, lightweight feature extraction and attention-aware feature augmentation, are embedded by utilizing global information and suppressing redundancy features, respectively. To meet the scale invariance, a spatial pyramid pooling method is used to aggregate local features. The evaluation experiments on two remote sensing image data sets, DOTA and NWPU VHR-10, reveal that the proposed approach achieves more competitive detection effect with less computational consumption.

Action Regulation Theory

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannes Zacher
Keyword(s):  
Mental Models ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cognitive Effort ◽  
Work Behavior ◽  
Cognitive Representations ◽  
Regulation Theory ◽  
Régulation Theory ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness

Action regulation theory is a meta-theory on the regulation of goal-directed behavior. The theory explains how workers regulate their behavior through cognitive processes, including goal development and selection, internal and external orientation, planning, monitoring of execution, and feedback processing. Moreover, action regulation theory focuses on the links between these cognitive processes, behavior, the objective environment, and objective outcomes. The action regulation process occurs on multiple levels of action regulation, including the sensorimotor or skill level, the level of flexible action patterns, the intellectual or conscious level, and the meta-cognitive heuristic level. These levels range from unconscious and automatized control of actions to conscious thought, and from muscular action to thought processes. Action regulation at lower levels in this hierarchy is more situation specific and requires less cognitive effort than action regulation at higher levels. Workers further develop action-oriented mental models that include long-term cognitive representations of input conditions, goals, plans, and expected and prescribed results of action, as well as knowledge about the boundary conditions of action and the transformation procedures that turn goals into expected results. The accuracy and level of detail of such action-oriented mental models is closely associated with the efficiency and effectiveness of action regulation. One of three foci can be in the foreground of action regulation: task, social context, or self. A task focus is most strongly associated with high efficiency and effectiveness of action regulation, because it links task-related goals with relevant plans, behavior, and feedback. Action regulation theory has been applied to understand several phenomena in the field of industrial, work, and organizational psychology, including proactive work behavior, work-related learning and error management, entrepreneurship, occupational strain and well-being, reciprocal influences between personality and work, innovation, teamwork, career development, and successful aging at work.

Towards Ultra Thin and High Efficiency ZnxCd1-xS/CdTe Solar Cell by AMPS 1D

2012 ◽  
Vol 622-623 ◽  
pp. 1183-1187
Author(s):  
Md. Sharafat Hossain ◽  
Mahmud Abdul Matin ◽  
M.A. Islam ◽  
Mohammad Mannir Aliyu ◽  
Takhir Razykov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cell ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Surface Recombination ◽  
Initial Step ◽  
Absorber Layer ◽  
Window Layer ◽  
Back Surface ◽  
Cdte Solar Cell ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Contact Barrier

The main motivation of this work was to obtain high efficiency at reduced CdTe absorber layer thickness and replacing ZnxCd1-xS as window layer in conventional CdS/CdTe solar cells. The conventional CdTe baseline case was the starting point of this investigation to analyze ultra thin and high efficiency ZnxCd1-xS/CdTe solar cell for optimal value of x. The initial step of the analysis was to decrease the CdTe absorber layer to the extreme limit of 1 µm and at this thickness the proposed cell has shown satisfactory level of efficiencies. The ultimate step was to insert a suitable back surface field (BSF) with As2Te3 to reduce the back contact barrier height and back surface recombination loss of the ultra thin cell. All the analysis was done using the widely used simulator Analysis of Microelectronic and Photonic Structures (AMPS 1D). The conversion efficiency of 18.02% (Voc = 0.89 V, Jsc = 25.34 mA/cm2, FF = 0.78) without BSF and an efficiency of 20.3% (Voc = 0.93 V, Jsc = 25.97 mA/cm2, FF = 0.825) with As2Te3 BSF were achieved for the proposed cells from 1 µm and 0.6 µm CdTe absorber layer respectively. Moreover, the normalized efficiency of the proposed ultra thin cells linearly decreased with the increasing operating temperature at the gradient of -0.35%/°C, which indicates better stability of the ultra thin cells.

Examining the effect of personality traits on workplace spirituality

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 1005-1017
Author(s):  
Hasan Tutar ◽  
Emre Oruç
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Workplace Spirituality ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Negative Behaviors ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positive Effect

Purpose The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between five-factor personality traits and workplace spirituality. Design/methodology/approach The research design of the study is prediction design, one of the quantitative research designs. The participants included 408 people working in a public university in Turkey as an academic or administrative staff. Five-factor personality traits and workplace spirituality scales were used to collect data. Findings Extraversion and conscientiousness have a positive effect on workplace spirituality. Openness, agreeableness and neuroticism have no significant effect on workplace spirituality. Research limitations/implications This study is limited to the relationship between “five-factor personality traits” and “workplace spirituality”. As the participants of the study were chosen among those who voluntarily agreed to participate in the study, the generalizability of the results is limited. The results are limited to explaining the questions such as “what”, “how much” and “who”. Practical implications The conclusions of the study are important in terms of showing the managers that everyone cannot be motivated and satisfied by the same motivators and therefore her or his perception of workplace spirituality will not be the same. Managers can improve organizational efficiency and effectiveness by raising employees’ workplace spirituality. It shows that employees attach importance to workplace spirituality, especially since Turkish culture has a conservative structure. In this way, motivation and job satisfaction of employees will increase and negative behaviors in the organization will decrease. Originality/value It can be argued that this study makes a significant theoretical contribution to research on the effect of workplace spirituality on the employee.

In pursuit of information: evaluating strategic plans

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-201
Author(s):  
Cigdem Baskici ◽  
Yavuz Ercil
Keyword(s):  
High Efficiency ◽  
Practical Implication ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Measuring System ◽  
Information Flows ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Strategic Goals

Purpose The purpose of this study is to propose a measuring system based on the information flow to carry out a more precise assessment of strategic plans. Design/methodology/approach An action research method is used with system dynamics. The indicators obtained from the strategic plans were assessed through information records. Findings The output of this study is a dynamic model which is produced by the workflows and processes in which decision-makers can apply experiments. By this means, it can be used as a measuring system based on information flows produced within the organization. Practical implications The first practical implication is that it can be possible to measure how much of the current workflows matched the strategic goals. Second, it can be possible to measure how much the budget allocated to the strategic plans corresponds to the amount of the total works. Third, it gets ability to managers to provide the opportunity to carry out experiments through the designed model. Originality/value As it uses information flows as measuring variable, this study is one of the novel approaches in strategy measurement systems. It also promises high efficiency and effectiveness because the assessment of goals and actions in strategic plans are sources of information which shed a light on the future strategic options to the decision-makers of the organizations.

scholarly journals Research on Classification of Substation Background Information for Monitoring

2019 ◽  
Vol 136 ◽  
pp. 01023
Author(s):  
Wang Yang ◽  
Li Heng-xuan ◽  
E Shi-ping ◽  
Zhang Kan-jun
Keyword(s):  
High Efficiency ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Electrical System ◽  
Information Monitoring ◽  
Electrical Grids ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness

The substations are important parts of modern electrical grids. The monitoring of background information in substations should be carefully managed to keep the smoothly operating of the electrical system. However, there are still some problems in present substations. As a result, some problems can not be handled efficiently and effectively. In order to improve the robustness of information monitoring of substations, this study first analyses the typical problems in the substations. Afterwards, several ways are proposed to handle these problems. As all the information in the substations are standardized, classified and automatically diagnosed, the occurred problems can be smoothly solved with high efficiency and effectiveness.

Study on the Installed Position Determination Method of the Air Condensers in High Temperature Mine

2014 ◽  
Vol 1065-1069 ◽  
pp. 2129-2132
Author(s):  
Ping Chen ◽  
Fang Fang Li ◽  
Yu Tian Li
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Cooling System ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Air Cooling ◽  
Determination Method ◽  
Coal Face ◽  
Position Determination ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
The Ideal

Mine cooling system plays an important role in the high temperature mine. The installed position of the air condensers in the intake airway has great influence on the cooling efficiency and effectiveness of coal face. According to the concept of the air cooling length, we mainly study the effective installation position of the mine air condensers in the intake airway and put forward the installed position determination method of more groups of air condensers. Through the average calculation method, the ideal installed position of the air condensers is determined. Thus the efficiency of the mine cooling system is improved, and the safety and high efficiency of the mine production is ensured.

scholarly journals Characteristics and features of the formation of humoral immunity after immunization with Sputnik V and Vero Cell vaccines

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 456-465
Author(s):  
T. V. Amvrosieva ◽  
I. V. Belskaya ◽  
Z. F. Bohush ◽  
N. V. Paklonskaya ◽  
Yu. B. Kaltunova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Vero Cell ◽  
Antibody Formation ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Cell Vaccine ◽  
World Science ◽  
Post Vaccination ◽  
S Protein ◽  
Practical Information ◽  
Quantitative Indicators

The presented work contains an analysis of seroprevalence, tension, and duration of post-vaccination immunity to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in the residents of the Republic of Belarus after immunization with two vaccine preparations available in the country: Sputnik V and Vero Cell.It was found that seroconversion after the injection of the Vero Cell vaccine occurred significantly later than after the Sputnik V vaccine (p < 0.001). Nevertheless, two-stage immunization with the vaccines provided a sufficiently high efficiency of the inoculated antibodies to the S protein of the COVID-19 pathogen: the proportion of seropositive persons reached 99.19 [96.89; 99.97] % for Sputnik V and 96.03 [90.81; 98.53] % for Vero Cell. The efficiency of antibody formation after immunization with the Vero Cell vaccine was lower in older persons (in the group > 65 years). The proportion of individuals with the highest IgG score for the SARS-CoV-2 S protein was higher after the Sputnik V administration compared to that in response to the Vero Cell vaccine (p < 0.05), and gradually decreased over time. However, no significant decrease in the level of seropositive individuals after 90 days from the start of immunization with the both vaccine preparations was detected. In COVID-19 survivors immunized with the Sputnik V vaccine, the quantitative indicators of post-vaccination antibodies reached their peak values after 1 dose of the vaccine. The obtained results complement the accumulated world science and practical information on the problem of the postvaccination immunity formation in the context of the use of different drugs against COVID-19.>< 0.001). Nevertheless, two-stage immunization with the vaccines provided a sufficiently high efficiency of the inoculated antibodies to the S protein of the COVID-19 pathogen: the proportion of seropositive persons reached 99.19 [96.89; 99.97] % for Sputnik V and 96.03 [90.81; 98.53] % for Vero Cell. The efficiency of antibody formation after immunization with the Vero Cell vaccine was lower in older persons (in the group > 65 years). The proportion of individuals with the highest IgG score for the SARS-CoV-2 S protein was higher after the Sputnik V administration compared to that in response to the Vero Cell vaccine (p < 0.05), and gradually decreased over time. However, no significant decrease in the level of seropositive individuals after 90 days from the start of immunization with the both vaccine preparations was detected. In COVID-19 survivors immunized with the Sputnik V vaccine, the quantitative indicators of post-vaccination antibodies reached their peak values after 1 dose of the vaccine.The obtained results complement the accumulated world science and practical information on the problem of the postvaccination immunity formation in the context of the use of different drugs against COVID-19.

scholarly journals Measurement of the return on investment in education and in-house training

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (325) ◽  
Author(s):  
Józef Dziechciarz
Keyword(s):  
Personal Development ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Traditional System ◽  
Level Of Satisfaction ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
The Impact ◽  
And Training

The level of awareness and acceptance of the need to enhance volume and intensity of investment in education and in-house training is increasing. This phenomenon stems from the following facts: the aging of the European societies; an intense technological and organizational progress; and a noticeable process of extension of the scope and length of professional and personal development and activity; accompanied with employees' expectations for better quality of life. The increase in the level of acceptance of the need for increased investment in education and training of employees is accompanied by new challenges, including, in the first place, the need to redefine the approach to investment in training and to the evaluation of its results. The „High-Efficiency‟ point of view, alongside the assessment of the advisability of investment in education and training within a company, raises the need to move away from the traditional system of input oriented financing (i.e. financing resources) and to move towards output oriented funding (i.e. financing results). In other words, instead of paying for teaching, companies want to pay for teaching results. This means that the companies which finance education and training, rise - in the process of assessing the training results – fundamental questions about the improvement of the efficiency of the company; and how an increase in the qualifications of workers facilitates the achievement of organizational objectives. On the other hand, the training results assessment from the participant‟s point of view includes a question about the efficiency of the supplier of educational and training programs, and whether the supplier is able to achieve the promised results. The existing business reality is that the efficiency and effectiveness assessments often do not go beyond the survey measuring the level of satisfaction and self-esteem of the participants. This, in turn, causes a visible quantitative pressures, accompanied by insufficient care for quality and inability to use modern techniques to measure the impact of education and training on business performance. As a result, many entrepreneurs treat the investment in training and education of their employees solely as an expense and a disruption of operations. This is due to the fact that managers do not see a direct effect of the investments on the performance of the company. In addition, managers fear possible hazards in the form of expense claims; loss of trained personel to competitors‟ companies, or excessive self-empowerment of the employee. The study is devoted to presentation and discussion of modern techniques measuring the effectiveness of investment in education and training. The list of methods includes an analysis based on objectives, the targeted evaluation, systemic evaluation, judicial evaluation, and assessment prior to the program.

Modeling the Player

Gamification ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 668-682
Author(s):  
Johannes Konert ◽  
Michael Gutjahr ◽  
Stefan Göbel ◽  
Ralf Steinmetz
Keyword(s):  
Learning Styles ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
Social Connectedness ◽  
Short Version ◽  
Game Based Learning ◽  
Learning Style Inventory ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Profile Characteristics ◽  
Style Preferences

For adaptation and personalization of game play sophisticated player models and learner models are used in game-based learning environments. Thus, the game flow can be optimized to increase efficiency and effectiveness of gaming and learning in parallel. In the field of gaming still the Bartle model is commonly used due to its simplicity and good mapping to game scenarios, for learning the Learning Style Inventory from Kolb or Index of Learning Styles by Felder and Silverman are well known. For personality traits the NEO-FFI (Big5) model is widely accepted. When designing games, it is always a challenge to assess one player's profile characteristics properly in all three models (player/learner/personality). To reduce the effort and amount of dimensions and questionnaires a player might have to fill out, we proved the hypothesis that both, Learning Style Inventory and Bartle Player Types could be predicted by knowing the personality traits based on NEO-FFI. Thus we investigated the statistical correlations among the models by collecting answers to the questionnaires of Bartle Test, Kolb LSI 3.1 and BFI-K (short version of NEO-FFI). A study was conducted in spring 2012 with six school classes of grade 9 (12-14 year old students) in two different secondary schools in Germany. 74 students participated in the study which was offered optionally after the use of a game-based learning tool for peer learning. We present the results statistics and correlations among the models as well as the interdependencies with the student's level of proficiency and their social connectedness. In conclusion, the evaluation (correlation and regression analyses) proved the independency of the models and the validity of the dimensions. Still, especially for all of the playing style preferences of Bartle's model significant correlations with some of the analyzed other questionnaire items could be found. As no predictions of learning style preferences is possible on the basis of this studies data, the final recommendation for the development of game-based learning application concludes that separate modeling for the adaptation game flow (playing) and learn flow (learning) is still necessary.

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