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Talent acquisition due diligence leading to high employee engagement: case of Motorola India MDB
Authors: Srivastava Pallavi , Bhatnagar Jyotsna 
Published: August 2008

PurposeWith talent management becoming an area of growing concern, there is a need for practicing due diligence in their talent acquisition strategy. To meet the demands for talent with a specific skill set in a given timeline, the organizations are adopting innovative recruitment practices to find the correct skill sets and competencies. The purpose of this paper is to discuss some of these practices and also to investigate talent acquisition and its relationship to levels of employee engagement.Design/methodology/approachThe investigation is carried out with the aid of a case study on Motorola India‐ Mobile Devices Business.FindingsBy reflecting recruitment and culture need fit, an environment is created at the workplace where employees feel more passionate about their work and exhibit the behaviours that organizations need to drive better results.Research limitations/implicationsThis is a qualitative study which could be further enriched by empirically measuring person‐organization fit and its impact on the level of engagement.Practical implicationsIt is suggested that organizations should make efforts to build effective, practical and holistic talent strategies that are not only able to attract talent but also address employee engagement and the retention of key skills thus boosting the productivity and business performance. During talent acquisition, due diligence is required in assessing the person‐organization fit and providing an enabling work environment to keep the talent anchored to the organization.Originality/valueThe paper highlights the impact of due diligence in talent acquisition, which is the most crucial problem faced by the organizations in the present times, by means of a case study.
Trends in learning content management
Authors: Little Bob 
Published: August 2008

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the latest trends in technology‐delivered learning.Design/methodology/approachAn interview with Fabrizio Cardinali, co‐chair of European Learning Industry Group (ELIG) and CEO of Giunti Labs.FindingsGreater emphasis on increasingly informal and personalised content and learning experiences is producing increases in “just‐in‐time”, informal, personalised, customised pieces of learning content, combining to produce “just‐in‐time”, informal, personalised, customised learning experiences. The increasing use of mobile and location‐based content delivery means that learning is becoming localised and personalised. There is a growth in informal access to learning via portals and software‐as‐a‐service (SaaS) systems. This means that the learning content can now be customised by the learner rather than the developer or producer. With the development of digital marketplaces, a network of content providers operating as “learning clearing houses” has grown up. They take content, version it, deliver it and track it once it has been delivered.Practical implicationsToday's big challenge facing providers of corporate learning materials is how to enrich existing standards for learning content publishing and distribution such as SCORM – especially adding web services protocols to content packages making the learning experience richer and more personalised. Other challenges relate to how to develop web‐based services to search, query and retrieve repositories of learning content.Originality/valueThis paper explores the latest trends in technology‐delivered learning, especially as they affect national and international competitiveness.
On entering the workforce
Authors: Rabey Gordon 
Published: August 2008

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to consider whether secondary school education is adequately preparing young people for entering into the workplace.Design/methodology/approachThe paper seeks to match the expectations of the employee with the qualities which might be expected in school‐leaver appointees.FindingsThe paper suggests there are gaps, but accepts that to date this has not been challenged. Recommends consideration of some components for bridging this area.Originality/valueImplementation would require some new thinking of teaching and presentation, but the benefits could be significant.
Reductionism and library and information science philosophy
Authors: Jones Bonna 
Published: August 2008

PurposeThe purpose of this article is to consider the meaning of “reductionism” within the context of renewed efforts to make library and information science philosophy.Design/methodology/approachThis article argues that the question of reductionism, as discussed in other traditions of thought, is relevant to the conversation about development of new library and information science (LIS) philosophy. Based on the viewpoint that one can be opposed to philosophical reductionism yet still be in favour of science, some forms of reductionism are described and links are drawn to library and information science by way of examples.FindingsHow reductionism is defined and understood should be addressed in the efforts to make new LIS philosophy.Originality/valueBeing “non‐reductionist” can be a stance in its own right, as evidenced by broader transdisciplinary conversations, but this is yet to be considered at any depth in LIS.
Exploring fact‐focused relevance and novelty detection
Authors: Otterbacher Jahna , Radev Dragomir 
Published: August 2008

PurposeAutomated sentence‐level relevance and novelty detection would be of direct benefit to many information retrieval systems. However, the low level of agreement between human judges performing the task is an issue of concern. In previous approaches, annotators were asked to identify sentences in a document set that are relevant to a given topic, and then to eliminate sentences that do not provide novel information. This paper aims to explore a new approach in which relevance and novelty judgments are made within the context of specific, factual information needs, rather than with respect to a broad topic.Design/methodology/approachAn experiment is conducted in which annotators perform the novelty detection task in both the topic‐focused and fact‐focused settings.FindingsHigher levels of agreement between judges are found on the task of identifying relevant sentences in the fact‐focused approach. However, the new approach does not improve agreement on novelty judgments.Originality/valueThe analysis confirms the intuition that making sentence‐level relevance judgments is likely to be the more difficult of the two tasks in the novelty detection framework.
Gender differences in the online reading environment
Authors: Liu Ziming , Huang Xiaobin 
Published: August 2008

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to explore gender differences in the online reading environment.Design/methodology/approachSurvey and analysis methods are employed.FindingsSurvey results reveal that female readers have a stronger preference for paper as a reading medium than male readers, whereas male readers exhibit a greater degree of satisfaction with online reading than females. Additionally, males and females differ significantly on the dimension of selective reading and sustained attention.Originality/valueUnderstanding gender differences would enable a better understanding of the changing reading behavior in the online environment, and to develop more effective digital reading devices. Factors affecting gender differences in the online reading environment are discussed, and directions for future research are suggested.
Product innovativeness and performance: a focus on SMEs
Authors: Salavou Helen , Avlonitis George 
Published: August 2008

PurposeThe aim of this paper is to classify firms according to dimensions of product innovativeness (PI) and identify differences in performance on the product and the firm basis in the context of SMEs.Design/methodology/approachTo answer the questions this empirical study raises, a sample of 128 SMEs is clustered on the basis of the PI construct. After validating the clusters, an analysis of variance is performed to detect differences, if any, across performance measures on PI profiles of SMEs.FindingsThis paper provides evidence in support of three groups featuring different levels of PI, namely the straight imitators (low PI), the product innovators (high PI) and the concept innovators (medium PI). Further, it shows that these groups demonstrate differences in their performance potential at the product but not at the firm level.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper refers to an empirical study of SMEs in a European Union (EU) member state since 1981, namely Greece, which is far from restricted to the evidence provided herein. Further research is needed to confirm and extend the present results by replicating the principal features of this study with SMEs in countries within the EU, especially small ones.Practical implicationsThe identification of successful PI profiles could become a major challenge to the management of SMEs. At a national context, this identification could direct efforts in designing different supportive actions for different groups of SMEs according to their PI profiles within the wider EU innovation policy initiatives.Originality/valueThe paper provides insights into supportive actions for different groups of SMEs according to their PI profiles.
The nature of market orientation and the ambidexterity of innovations
Authors: Li Ci‐Rong , Lin Chen‐Ju , Chu Chih‐Peng 
Published: August 2008

PurposeThis study aims to consider that a proactive‐ and responsive‐market orientated firm is able to align with the development of radical (exploratory) innovations as well as incremental (exploitative) innovations to realize its organizational ambidexterity.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is based on a questionnaire survey/analysis of a sample of 227 high‐technology firms in Taiwan.FindingsThe research findings reveal that both types of market orientation provide different managerial efforts to develop and foster different types of innovation competencies; and then, those effects would be moderated through external and organizational factors.Practical implicationsThrough the deployment of ambidextrous structures, managers could effectively arrange the portfolio of product‐markets with an array of proactive‐ and responsive‐ market orientation to align the potential conflicts concerning the exploration and the exploitation.Originality/valueThis study is a pioneer in the field that reveals how a proactive‐ and responsive‐ market orientated firm could systematically operate to accomplish its ambidexterity of innovations.
Perceptions of core elements for sustainability management systems (SMS)
Authors: Esquer‐Peralta Javier , Velazquez Luis , Munguia Nora 
Published: August 2008

PurposeThe concepts of sustainable development (SD) and management systems (MS) are finding increasing acceptance in a variety of fields, including academy, politics, and non‐governmental organizations. These concepts are also being used by the general population. This paper aims to describe the perception of different experts by discussing the usefulness of sustainability management systems (SMS) as holistic systems that might integrate environmental, social, and economic elements.Design/methodology/approachThis research was framed by the general systems theory and its nature is totally qualitative and exploratory in order to understand the significant attributes that affect or benefit a management system to reach sustainability. A total of 14 interviews were conducted with several experts around the world. Some are professional persons in sustainability issues in general, and some in environmental, health and safety (EHS) issues in particular.FindingsThe results shows that, although there is a continuous debate on the sustainability approach, several core elements can be addressed for sustainability management systems (SMS). For instance, 71.4 percent of the interviewees agreed that management systems are useful for sustainable development, or at least potentially useful, and 42.9 percent of the experts declared that having a clear understanding of the long‐term economic benefits for the company is an important incentive for their implementation.Research limitations/implicationsInterviews were conducted with a limited number of experts and there was no field verification of claims. Therefore, conclusions derived from these sources depend on the veracity of the information provided by participants. Expert bias may also have an impact on the outcomes of this research.Practical implicationsThe findings provide management systems' practitioners with key elements when sustainability management systems are being created, maintained and evaluated.Originality/valueThe findings are not results from general concepts, but rather elicited from empirical data from fourteen sustainability, and health and safety experts around the world.
Dancing “the management”: on social presence, rhythm and finding common purpose
Authors: Atkinson David 
Published: August 2008

PurposeThis paper seeks to explore the concept of dance as a metaphor for relating to the challenges of management and human relations within the organisational space. It asks in what way can the art‐related concept of dance be applied to the benefit of a dominant science‐led management learning and practice.Design/methodology/approachThe paper explores its topic through counter‐factual argument, drawing on a recently published theory of art‐related management practice. It invokes dance as an application of the theory to further explore that theory's relevance to management and organisational thinking.FindingsThe concept of an organisational dance is explored by considering the notions of presence and rhythm. A definition for social presence is derived in order to present an ability of the individual to perceive a socially constructed reality, against which collective movement – aligned within a concept of organisational rhythm – permits a form of dance to emerge. The organisational dance sets up a form of social constructionism in which new forms of knowledge might arise through creative play.Originality/valueThe paper argues that the metaphor of dance can usefully provide new insight into thinking about management, by providing an intellectual basis for writing about organisational dance. The paper concludes that the research question is not (empirically) “what dances are being practiced” but, in order to better support managers in practice, “how do we make the organisation dance?”
Social software and libraries: a literature review from the LASSIE project
Authors: Secker Jane 
Published: August 2008

PurposeThis paper aims to provide an overview of the published literature and current use of social software by libraries primarily in the UK and USA.Design/methodology/approachThe paper's approach is a literature review and desk research.FindingsLibraries are experimenting considerably in this area and many Web 2.0 applications have been developed by libraries and librarians over the past few years. These tools offer the potential to enhance library services.Research limitations/implicationsThe area is one of rapid change, so the findings will date quickly.Practical implicationsAn overview of which technologies are being used most widely and might offer the most potential for library staff considering experimenting in this area.Originality/value of paperWeb 2.0 is an area with which many library staff need to become familiar quickly. This paper provides a useful overview of the topic.
Second Life: the seventh face of the library?
Authors: Parker Lyn 
Published: August 2008

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to give a brief introduction to Second Life, and to provide an outline of how one academic librarian has got involved with using it and reviews the issues that have arisen from a library perspective.Design/methodology/approachThe paper offers a reflection on whether library activities in Second Life are different from library services in the real world and suggests that Second Life is just another “face” of the library.FindingsSecond Life is still in the very early stages of development. There are various barriers and challenges to overcome before it can be used widely within universities. However, this paper shows it does provide an opportunity to experiment and explore what information resources are required in this environment and how librarianship and librarians need to evolve to cater for users in a three dimensional world.Originality/valueThis paper is based on personal experience and offers as many questions as answers.
New generation of catalogues for the new generation of users
Authors: Merčun Tanja , Žumer Maja 
Published: August 2008

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to describe some of the problems and issues faced by online library catalogues. It aims to establish how libraries have undertaken the mission of developing the next generation catalogues and how they compare to new tools such as Amazon.Deign/methodology/approachAn expert study was carried out in January 2008 to evaluate six library catalogues (one traditional and five recently modernised) and compare them to Amazon.FindingsWhile the traditional catalogue has stayed far behind, the modernised catalogues have taken two different approaches in becoming the “next generation catalogue”. Two catalogues focused on improving functionality while two others decided to introduce Web/Library 2.0 trends first. At this point, none of the catalogues offer as vast a range of features as Amazon does, but one catalogue managed to surpass Amazon in some of the examined features.Research limitations/implicationsThe chosen set of tested catalogues may not be representative and we cannot draw conclusions for the whole population of library catalogues.Originality/valueThe paper shows the current state of library catalogues and draws attention to some important issues concerning Web 2.0 trends. Features presented in the tabular outline can be used as pointers for further development of library catalogues.
Use of Web 2.0 technologies in LIS education: experiences at Tallinn University, Estonia
Authors: Virkus Sirje 
Published: August 2008

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to describe the experiences of the Institute of Information Studies of Tallinn University in introducing ICT, including Web 2.0 technologies, in library and information science education, and to explore the role that these can play in new models of learning and teaching.Design/methodology/approachWeb 2.0 applications are reviewed in this paper and the role that these can play in new models of learning and teaching. The introduction of new technologies into library and information science (LIS) education is examined through a case study at the Tallinn University.FindingsWeb 2.0 is influencing the way in which people learn, access information and communicate with one another. The Institute of Information Studies of Tallinn University has a long history in using ICT in its teaching and learning. Experiences with open and distance learning and e‐learning have transformed teaching and learning, provided new alternative delivery modes, and helped to reach new target groups. Recently the staff have been experimenting with Web 2.0 technologies and a few have successfully adopted them in teaching and learning.Practical implicationsThe paper suggests that in order to be successful in our modern society LIS educators should take advantage of new ICT and consider the learning preferences of digital natives as well as digital immigrants. Web 2.0 supports constructivist approaches to learning and has great potential to socialise online learning to a greater extent than we have previously seen. Web 2.0 technologies should be implemented taking into account pedagogical perspectives.Originality/valueThis paper supports the idea that integration of information and communication technologies, including Web 2.0 technologies, into LIS education is an important challenge for LIS educators.
Digital libraries and repositories in India: an evaluative study
Authors: Mittal Rekha , Mahesh G. 
Published: August 2008

PurposeThe purpose of this research is to identify and evaluate the collections within digital libraries and repositories in India available in the public domain.Design/methodology/approachThe digital libraries and repositories were identified through a study of the literature, as well as internet searching and browsing. The resulting digital libraries and repositories were explored to study their collections.FindingsUse of open source software especially for the creation of institutional repositories is found to be common. However, major digital library initiatives such as the Digital Library of India use custom‐made software. The collection size in most digital libraries and repositories is in a few hundreds.Practical implicationsThe paper highlights the state of digital libraries and repositories in India in late 2007.Originality/valueThe paper is the first of its kind that attempts to identify and evaluate digital libraries and repositories in India. It also gives a comprehensive listing of digital libraries and institutional repositories in India available in the public domain.
Implementation of an open source library management system
Authors: Bissels Gerhard 
Published: August 2008

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to describe the selection process and criteria that led to the implementation of the Koha 3.0 library management system (LMS) at the Complementary and Alternative Medicine Library and Information Service (CAMLIS), Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is a report based on internal documentation.FindingsKoha 3.0 was selected because the GNU licence (open source) was considered more future‐proof than proprietary products, and more open to customisation to meet the special needs of the library.Research limitations/implicationsThe library is still in the early stages of the LMS implementation. How far the Koha LMS implementation has met the library's needs will only become clear after at least one year's use.Practical implicationsThe conclusions drawn from this report relate to the concept of implementing an open source LMS. The author will report on the completed implementation in a year's time.Originality/valueThis is amongst the first implementations of Koha in the UK. Experience and conclusions from this installation might influence decisions at other libraries.