The purpose of this study was to explore human resource (HR) managers' perceptions of training practices (i.e., needs assessment, trainee preparation, training program review, accountability, management support, knowledge transfer, and performance improvement) in Saudi private s…
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The construction industry is the largest industry in the world and operates in knowledge-based project organisations. The success of projects relies on the management of both tacit and explicit knowledge. This situation calls for a method for disseminating tacit knowledge from i…
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are widely recognized as an important part of the economy, particularly important in countries like Mexico, where SMEs make up almost 90% of the industry. However these SMEs do not consider their impact on the environment and surrounding commu…
The awareness on the importance of managing knowledge as the most important assets that need to be fully utilised has become the key competitive issue lately. In Malaysia, the concern was not only from companies but also from the Government of Malaysia itself. At the end of the …
The history of post-disaster reconstruction programs, especially in developing countries, is replete with the failure to provide safe-construction methods that can be sustained and repeated over time, in spite of the usually acclaimed success of these projects by those in charge…
The U.S. Army's deployment tempo has put pressure on the Army's available training time to prepare for deployments. To better support units' training, and subsequently, preparations for and conduct of counterinsurgency and stability operations, the Army created the Stryker Warfi…
This thesis will look at the astronomy surrounding The Book of the Constellations of the Fixed Stars , by the Arabic-writing astronomer al-S[dotbelow]ufi. The origins of the fixed-star astronomy included in al-S[dotbelow]ufi's book, both Greek and Arabic, will be analyzed and co…
This dissertation contributes to recent lines of inquiry into the determinants of and efficient conduct of science and the contribution of science to the broader economy. Each chapter is a detailed examination of a certain part of the conduct of science at universities in the Un…
Concepts such as "brain drain", although now outdated, capture the essence of the uneven distribution of costs and benefits of the migration of skilled workers from south to north. There is solid evidence of the positive contributions of skilled immigrants to their host economie…