How has Japan become a major economic power, a world leader in the automotive and electronics industries? What is the secret of their success? The consensus has been that, though the Japanese are not particularly innovative, they are exceptionally skilful at imitation, at improving products that already exist. But now two leading Japanese business experts, Ikujiro Nonaka and Hiro Takeuchi, turn this conventional wisdom on its head: Japanese firms are successful, they contend, precisely because they are innovative, because they create new knowledge and use it to produce successful products and technologies. Examining case studies drawn from such firms as Honda, Canon, Matsushita, NEC, 3M, GE, and the U.S. Marines, this book reveals how Japanese companies translate tacit to explicit knowledge and use it to produce new processes, products, and services.

The knowledge-creating company : how Japanese companies create the dynamics of innovation

This section offers suggestions related to helping a student deal with bullying in schools, as well as creating an environment where that individual can easily return to the school community. It also mentions the significance of the method 'Shared Responsibility' in dealing with the situation.

Assessing the Impact

Software engineering: theory and practice

While the quality literature abounds with prescriptions for how quality should be managed, no one has proposed an organization-theory explanation for how quality is managed in organizations. This paper proposes a system-structural model of quality management that relates organizational quality context, actual quality management, ideal quality management, and quality performance. The relationships between organizational quality context and actual and ideal quality management are investigated using data collected from 152 managers from 77 business units of 20 manufacturing and service companies. A previously reported instrument is used to measure managers' perceptions of ideal and actual quality management in terms of eight critical factors including product/service design, training, employee relations, and top management leadership. Several measures are used to characterize organizational quality context including company type, company size, degree of competition, and corporate support for quality. The results indicate that organizational quality context influences managers' perceptions of both ideal and actual quality management. This suggests that knowledge of organizational quality context is useful for explaining and predicting quality management practice. Important contextual variables are corporate support for quality, past quality performance, managerial knowledge, and the extent of external quality demands.

The effects of organizational context on quality management: An empirical investigation

Personal Knowledge Towards A Post Critical Philosophy

Article history: Received: October 16, 2019 Received in revised format: January 3

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The effect of performance appraisal on job performance in governmental sector: The mediating role of motivation

Entrepreneurship can be defined as the process and mind-set to initiate and develop economic activity. Studies have shown entrepreneurship to be a crucial driver of economic growth. This study sought to examine the factors that influence entrepreneurial attitudes among students in Arab countries. More specifically, it sought to examine the role of universities, role models, the entrepreneurial curriculum and students’ demographic characteristics in promoting Arab students’ entrepreneurial attitudes. The study employed a quantitative research design, where data was gathered from a sample of 1500 undergraduate Arab students in government universities and subjected to one-way ANOVA tests. Descriptive statistics (means and standard deviations) was used to draw additional conclusions from the gathered data. The results showed that Arab students acknowledge the role played by universities, the entrepreneurship curriculum, role models and demographic variables in influencing their attitudes towards entrepreneurship. Universities and the entrepreneurial curriculum were found to be the greatest influencers of students’ entrepreneurial attitudes, ahead of role models and demographic variables. However, the low overall mean showed that most students do not believe that these institutions have played their role satisfactorily. Regarding the moderating effect of demographic variables, ANOVA results showed that age, academic major and work experience were not important determinants of students’ entrepreneurial attitudes. However, one’s country, their gender and academic level were found to be significant influencers of entrepreneurial attitudes. Male students were more entrepreneurially inclined than their female counterparts were and so were those in third and fourth years of study, compared to those in their freshman and sophomore years. The overall finding of the study was that universities need to play a more profound role in influencing students’ entrepreneurial attitudes.

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Factors Influencing Entrepreneurial Intentions among Arab Students

Article history: Received: October 7, 2018 Received in revised format: November 29, 2018 Accepted: December 14, 2018 Available online: December 14, 2018 High rates in turnover of skilled employees can turn to be a very significant concern in organizations world-wide. Turnover affects productivity, product or service quality and of course profitability. As Human Resources (HR) activities can be considered as a primary source of sustainable competitive advantage in organisations, it would also play a major role in employees’ intention to stay or to leave. This paper examines the influence of different human resource practices on employees’ job satisfaction and organizational commitment and eventually on job turnover with a focus on the governmental sector in the State of Qatar. In order to develop such investigation, a model was suggested and an online questionnaire was developed and distributed. Hypotheses were tested on a sample of more than 250 highly ranked employees in Qatar. Statistical correlations were conducted to examine the relationships among variables under investigation. The results show that positive relationships were observed between the HR practices under investigation and job satisfaction and organizational commitment which indicate intention to stay. © 2019 by the authors; licensee Growing Science, Canada

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The impact of human resource practices on job satisfaction and intention to stay in emerging economies: Model development and empirical investigation among high caliber governmental employees in Qatar

Qatar’s Entrepreneurship sector faces major obstacles that impede its growth prospects. While  Qatar  has  started  to  focus  more  on  improvement  of  the  entrepreneurial  environment through   semi-governmentalagencies   and   creation   of   economic   free   zones,   the   overall environment  is  still  riddled  with  numerous  problems  that  hinder  the  achievement  of  this  goal.Emergence  of  private  sector  as  a  main  force  behind  Qatar’s  economic  growth  will  depend heavily on country’s ability to catalyze positive change in this area.The  main  objective  of  this paper  is  to  explore  the  main  obstacles  face  Entrepreneurship  sector  in  Qataras  an  emerging economyand  to  find  out  if  any  differences  could  be  found  between  males  and  females  in assessing  these  obstacles.Amixed  approach  is  followed  starting  with  aqualitative studyto determine  obstacles  followed  by  a  quantitative  examination  of  differences  between  males  and females.Interviewswith  different  entrepreneurship  stakeholders  reveal  four  main  obstacles facing Qatari entrepreneurs. These obstacles include: bureaucratic requirements, limited access to funding, restrictive and biased legal conditions, and social constraints.Statistical results show that there is no difference between males and females in assessing these obstacles and that both genders face nearly the same barriers.

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Investigating Critical Obstacles to Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies: A Comparative Study between Males and Females in Qatar

This paper focuses on presenting a conceptual model in order to integrate sustainability in cloud computing resulting in facilitating transmission of knowledge in education with a focus on developing countries. From one perspective and while cloud computing has been considered as a recent area of research due to arguments round its value to organizational performance, sustainability has turned to be a typical common norm due to the discovery of uncertainty in various human aspects. From a different perspective, the role of Knowledge Management in enhancing organisational success has been detected in different researches. The main consensus after these researches is that the more effective management of knowledge is the more effective the organizational performance will be. Therefore, this paper presents a theoretical framework of potential links among cloud computing, knowledge management and sustainability.

Ahmed Mehrez

Papers

The effect of performance appraisal on job performance in governmental sector: The mediating role of motivation

Factors Influencing Entrepreneurial Intentions among Arab Students

The impact of human resource practices on job satisfaction and intention to stay in emerging economies: Model development and empirical investigation among high caliber governmental employees in Qatar

Investigating Critical Obstacles to Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies: A Comparative Study between Males and Females in Qatar

Modelling Sustainability, Cloud computing and knowledge transmission in education in developing countries