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Reimagined onboarding process as a tool to avoid attrition of Millennials and Gen Zs in companies in Finland
Full text linkThe purpose of this research is to offer a solution to companies in Finland for reducing attrition rates of Millennials and Gen Zs through the improved and customized onboarding process. The findings will eventually assist the author in the process of developing her business idea and service design. On these grounds, the research has aimed to gather information about onboarding practices in Finland from the perspective of Millennials and Gen Zs.
The primary data that was used was collected in the period from January to July 2020 in two ways. One way was a survey that was launched online through social media platforms and e-mail, and another way was semi-structured interviews that were conducted with the participants face-to-face or via online video calls on Skype and Zoom. The sample of the respondents counted 58 persons in total, of whom 51 answered to the survey and 7 to the interview. All respondents were between 18 and 39 years old, males and females who have had an experience of working in Finland.
Since the collected data was quantitative and qualitative, several analysis methods were used. Quantitative data were analyzed through descriptive statistics and inferential statistics and for analyzing qualitative data, methods that were used were content analysis and narrative analysis.
The results revealed that the onboarding process does have a significant impact on the Millennials’ and Gen Zs decision to work for a company long term. Therefore, companies in Finland were advised to have a formal onboarding process in place for each new Millennial and Gen Z employee. However, the onboarding process needs to be for at least 6 months long and it should include orientation, job training, career planning, and frequent follow-up and feedback sessions.
Further research may be needed to understand the perspectives of companies and HR professionals in Finland on this topic. It would also be beneficial to research the recent events related to the Covid19 pandemic and its impact on the onboarding process planning and HR Management in general
Target Selection and Evaluation Practices in Innovation-Driven Big Tech M&As: Case Studies from Google and IBM
No full textThis research investigated the target selection and evaluation practices of Big Tech companies for M&A in the context of acquiring innovation. Using Eisenhardt’s case study method, the case studies of Google's acquisition of Motorola and IBM's acquisition of Red Hat were analyzed and compared through two key perspectives– overall corporate and specific strategic perspective. The study combined primary data collected through semi-structured interviews with M&A specialists from Google and IBM and publicly available secondary data.
The study found that for successful target selection, in the early-stage evaluation, an acquirer needs to consider balancing proactive and reactive strategies, evaluate the target from overall corporate and specific strategic perspectives, and balance an outward-looking approach to identifying high-value targets with an inward-looking assessment of specific internal business needs to efficiently mitigate risks. By employing these practices, acquirers are likely to increase their chances of making successful M&A decisions that contribute to long-term value creation.unknown accessibilityei tietoa saavutettavuudest
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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