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How to Motivate and Retain Knowledge Workers in Organizations: A Review of the Literature

abstract

With the exponential growth of information and the increasingly rapid rate of change,
one of the most valuable resources in organizations today is knowledge workers. These
individuals are pivotal to effective change management and organizational sustainability.
Knowledge workers process, synthesize and generate knowledge in order to problemsolve
and innovate in organizations. Characterized by a high level of education, superior
interpersonal communications skills, and exceptional information processing abilities,
these employees are generally more concerned with adding value to the organization
than earning a high salary. Based on the research, some ways to motivate and retain
knowledge workers include: providing challenging and meaningful work, enabling
learning and career development opportunities, ensuring adequate resources, recognizing
contributions, and creating a supportive environment.

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مقاله ای در زمینه مدیریت منابع انسانی

Finding a Normal Woman Selection Processes for Board Membership

Abstract

The higher the organization level, the lower the
percentage of women in governance. The purpose of the
present study was to explore how men and women negotiate
women’s ‘fit’ as candidates for boards of national sport
organizations.We based our analysis on in- depth interviews
with male chairs and female board members. The results
provide evidence that men can control boards by affirming
and negating affirmative action policies and by framing the
process of recruitment and selection in such a way as to
reproduce the male-dominated culture in the board. Women,
in their turn, tend to negotiate their entry by distancing
themselves from their gender and proving their ‘fit.’

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مقاله انگلیسی در زمینه آموزش الکترونیکی (مجازی)

Clustering in Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Workloads

Abstract

Peer-to-peer file sharing systems now generate
a significant portion of Internet traffic. A good
understanding of their workloads is crucial in order
to improve their scalability, robustness and
performance. Previous measurement studies on
Kazaa and Gnutella were based on monitoring
peer requests, and mostly concerned with peer
and file availability and network traffic. In this
paper, we take different measurements: instead
of passively recording requests, we actively probe
peers to get their cache contents information.
This provides us with a map of contents, that
we use to evaluate the degree of clustering in the
system 1, and that could be exploited to improve
significantly the search process.

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