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Journal articles on the topic "Courier Companies"
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Porębska, Ewelina, Jacek Caban, and Mateusz Sopoćko. "Development of courier services in Poland." Transport and Communications 3, no. 1 (2015): 22–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.26552/tac.c.2015.1.5.
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The article presents the genesis of courier services in Poland, since the first such businesses in 1982. Courier companies in Poland are relatively short on the market, holding the prominent place in the economy of the country. The courier services in comparison with the countries of Western Europe are still in the development stage. After 2000 began the process of merger of best organised national courier companies by the largest global companies. In the article are presented factors affecting development of courier service in Poland, as well as the changes, which occurred within a few years, such as the level of employment, enterprises operating range and their generated revenue.
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Chodakowska, Ewa, and Joanicjusz Nazarko. "The models evaluating courier and messenger companies in Poland." Ekonomia i Zarzadzanie 8, no. 4 (2016): 50–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/emj-2016-0032.
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Abstract Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a well-established, popular, and often used method for efficiency evaluation of units from all sector, both commercial and non-profit organisations, of any scale of operations. Network DEA models are a relatively recent approach used to examine the efficiency of decision-making units (DMUs) having an internal structure of sub-processes. The article presents the concept of DEA network models in estimating the efficiency of courier and messenger companies with relations to their business clients. The considerations are supported by an example of data concerning leaders from the sector of couriers and messengers in Poland and one of the biggest and most popular online stores. The results are compared with the traditional DEA approach. In addition, to measure reliability for DEA scores, the jackknife procedure was performed. The author proves the usefulness of network DEA as a research and management tool.
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Skowron-Grabowska, Beata, Tomasz Szczepanik, and Petr Besta. "Knowledge Management in Intelligent Organizations." System Safety: Human - Technical Facility - Environment 1, no. 1 (2019): 1012–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/czoto-2019-0128.
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AbstractThe aim of the paper was to present the specificity of knowledge management in courier companies as an example of intelligent organizations. Knowledge management is a modern concept that emphasizes using the most valuable resources of enterprises such as employees and it offers conditions for development of knowledge, sharing it, and thinking creatively. The paper presents courier companies as an example of intelligent organizations that use knowledge management in the implementation of courier services. The article presents the results of a survey that identified the use of knowledge in courier companies and analysed the factors that made the surveyed companies become intelligent organizations. The solutions implemented in enterprises that influenced the emergence of a competitive advantage were evaluated. Furthermore, the benefits achieved by the companies surveyed due to knowledge management and the growth of their intelligence were analysed.
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Zielińska, Edyta, and Sylwia Siedlecka. "Criteria for assessing the quality of courier services in Poland." AUTOBUSY – Technika, Eksploatacja, Systemy Transportowe 19, no. 6 (2018): 987–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.24136/atest.2018.215.
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The article presents information on the essence of the courier activity in Poland. The range of services provided by courier companies in our country was described. Also, the importance of such activity in fulfilling the individual needs of society was discussed. The most important criteria for determining the level of quality of the services offered by the companies that deliver various types of parcels home and abroad were set forth. Moreover, opinions of some cus-tomers using the services of three courier companies operat-ing in Poland, i.e. DPD, UPS and GLS, were provided.
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Khan, Nosheen, Hafiz Waqas, and Rizwan Muneer. "Impact of Rewards (Intrinsic and extrinsic) on Employee Performance With Special Reference to Courier Companies of City Faisalabad, Pakistan." International Journal of Management Excellence 8, no. 2 (2017): 937–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.17722/ijme.v8i2.894.
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The study has conducted to measure the effect of rewards (Intrinsic & Extrinsic) on employee job performance. The experiences and personal opinions of employees working in different couriers companies were analyzed through questionnaires in the city of Faisalabad. The key objective of the study was to find that the rewards affect the performance of an employee. Statistical package (SPSS) has been used to conduct the analysis of the study. Employees like Field Supervisors, Couriers from selected courier companies (TCS, OCS, Leopard and Express Courier Services) were randomly chosen. The focus of the study was to distribute and highlight an adequate level of incentives to the employees and create balance in distribution of rewards so that every employee contributes his efforts for the growth of the company. This study also focuses on two major rewards, intrinsic and extrinsic rewards. Rewards plays a motivational role in the personality of an employee and urge them to produce loyalty and show good performance By the results study shows that there is a strong relationship between both type of rewards and on employee performance. Concluding, the study has verified and explores further research opportunities that can enhance the understanding of rewards and employees job performance. 
 
 Keywords: Intrinsic Rewards, Extrinsic Rewards, Job Performance, TCS, OCS, Leopard
 & Express Couriers.
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WYRWA, Dariusz. "Factors of competitiveness of polish courier companies." Scientific Papers of Silesian University of Technology. Organization and Management Series 2018, no. 118 (2018): 669–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.29119/1641-3466.2018.118.52.
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Nyaga, Jacinta Wahu. "FACTORS AFFECTING THE PERFORMANCE OF COURIER SERVICE INDUSTRY: A SURVEY OF COURIER COMPANIES IN KENYA." International Journal of Supply Chain and Logistics 1, no. 1 (2017): 44. http://dx.doi.org/10.47941/ijscl.v1i1.86.
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Purpose: The study is an assessment of the factors affecting the performance of courier companies in Kenya.Methodology: A descriptive survey study design was used. The population of this study was 134 courier firms. The sampling frame consisting of 134 firms was obtained from the CCK website. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select the sample. A sample of 68 firms was considered representative and they were selected by the use of the lottery method. The researcher opted for a questionnaire as a data collection tool. Data was analyzed by the use of descriptive statistics and specifically, means, frequencies and percentages. The analysis tools were simple tabulations and presentations using spreadsheets such as excel. The data was then presented using tables, charts and narratives.Results: The study findings indicate that the companies have invested heavily into the training of their employees. Thus having in place a properly trained workforce can be said to be a factor that has contributed to the success being experienced in the courier service sector. From the study it emerged that there was high motivation among employees in courier firms as evidenced by their attitude towards work itself and promotion factors. However, they were not very happy with the pay factor. It is important to note that it would have been against logical expectation if the findings on the pay issue were different. The courier service firms come out as having in place reliable and very good customer service. The companies take into considerations suggestion made by the customer and prospective customers into the designing of products and services. ICT is another factor that attributes to the phenomenal growth of the courier service firms. Though the current state of infrastructure is bad, it seems to favor the growth of courier service firms. The courier firms have taken the challenge of poor infrastructure and turned it into an opportunity. In so doing, they have invested in motor bikes in order to beat the traffic jam challenge. This has enabled them to meet the demands of their clients increasing their popularity and hence more business.Unique contribution to theory, practice and policy: The study recommended that future statistical research taking into account regression and correlation analysis can be conducted on the effects of the noted factors on the various growth indicators such as market share, revenues and profits. Such a study would verify or repute the findings of this study. Future study can also be conducted on an individual factor identified in the conceptual framework of this study.
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Nyaga, Jacinta Wahu. "FACTORS AFFECTING THE PERFORMANCE OF COURIER SERVICE INDUSTRY: A SURVEY OF COURIER COMPANIES IN KENYA." International Journal of Supply Chain and Logistics 1, no. 1 (2017): 44–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.47941/ijscl.86.
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Purpose: The study is an assessment of the factors affecting the performance of courier companies in Kenya.Methodology: A descriptive survey study design was used. The population of this study was 134 courier firms. The sampling frame consisting of 134 firms was obtained from the CCK website. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select the sample. A sample of 68 firms was considered representative and they were selected by the use of the lottery method. The researcher opted for a questionnaire as a data collection tool. Data was analyzed by the use of descriptive statistics and specifically, means, frequencies and percentages. The analysis tools were simple tabulations and presentations using spreadsheets such as excel. The data was then presented using tables, charts and narratives.Results: The study findings indicate that the companies have invested heavily into the training of their employees. Thus having in place a properly trained workforce can be said to be a factor that has contributed to the success being experienced in the courier service sector. From the study it emerged that there was high motivation among employees in courier firms as evidenced by their attitude towards work itself and promotion factors. However, they were not very happy with the pay factor. It is important to note that it would have been against logical expectation if the findings on the pay issue were different. The courier service firms come out as having in place reliable and very good customer service. The companies take into considerations suggestion made by the customer and prospective customers into the designing of products and services. ICT is another factor that attributes to the phenomenal growth of the courier service firms. Though the current state of infrastructure is bad, it seems to favor the growth of courier service firms. The courier firms have taken the challenge of poor infrastructure and turned it into an opportunity. In so doing, they have invested in motor bikes in order to beat the traffic jam challenge. This has enabled them to meet the demands of their clients increasing their popularity and hence more business.Unique contribution to theory, practice and policy: The study recommended that future statistical research taking into account regression and correlation analysis can be conducted on the effects of the noted factors on the various growth indicators such as market share, revenues and profits. Such a study would verify or repute the findings of this study. Future study can also be conducted on an individual factor identified in the conceptual framework of this study.
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Anvekar, Sandhya. "Courier Services in India: Concerns for Effective Service Delivery." Ushus - Journal of Business Management 6, no. 2 (2007): 83–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.12725/ujbm.11.8.
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The courier industry in India is like a vital link of communication between persons and corporations meant for individual and industrial benefits. It is an industry worth Rs. 50 billions and is on steady pace of development. More than 2300 courier companies operating in India, it is a challenge for the service provider of courier services to be unique, competent and provide effective service delivery.
 An insight into the crucial and critical incidents of service failure and strategizing by closing these failures will ensure effective service deliveries by the courier service providers. A trained and skilled front stage personnel, committed delivery boys/runners and efficient distribution networking can enable the courier service operators to provide failure free effective service delivery.
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Gulc, Aleksandra. "Multi-stakeholder perspective of courier service quality in B2C e-commerce." PLOS ONE 16, no. 5 (2021): e0251728. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251728.
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Under conditions of the rapidly developing e-commerce sector especially during pandemic, ensuring high quality of courier service is essential both for clients, as well as courier companies. However, the literature lacks research linking the perspective of clients and organization in the context of courier service quality. The study aims to identify the factors determining courier service quality, their functions and interrelationships in business-to-customer (B2C) e-commerce. The main effect of research is the relational model, which is an original and complex approach to courier service quality considering the multi-stakeholder perspective of an online shop, a courier company and an e-customer. Apart from scientific contribution, the model can be used into managerial practice to formulate the recommendations for e-commerce and courier service sector. The research process involved using the quantitative method (electronic surveys conducted among e-shops and e-clients) and the qualitative method (in-depth-interviews carried out among courier enterprises). Finally, based on the empirical research results, the structural analysis was used to develop the model. As a result, the following groups of factors were distinguished that determine the quality of courier services: crucial, determinant, result, autonomous and external factors.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Courier Companies"
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Engelbrektsson, Gustaf. "Forecasting future delivery orders to support vehicle routing and selection." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-236482.
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Courier companies receive delivery orders at different times in advance. Some orders are known long beforehand, some arise with a very short notice. Currently the order delegation, deciding which car is going to drive which order, is performed completely manually by a (TL) where the TL use their experience to guess upcoming orders. If delivery orders could be predicted beforehand, algorithms could create suggestions for vehicle routing and vehicle selection. This thesis used the data set from a Stockholm based courier company. The Stockholm area was divided into zones using agglomerative clustering and K-Means, where the zones were used to group deliveries into time-sliced Origin Destination (OD) matrices. One cell in one OD-matrix contained the number of deliveries from one zone to another during one hour. Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM) Recurrent Neural Networks were used for the prediction. The training features consisted of prior OD-matrices, week day, hour of day, month, precipitation, and the air temperature. The LSTM based approach performed better than the baseline, the Mean Squared Error was reduced from 1.1092 to 0.07705 and the F1 score increased from 41% to 52%. All features except for the precipitation and air temperature contributed noticeably to the prediction power. The result indicates that it is possible to predict some future delivery orders, but that many are random and are independent from prior deliveries. Letting the model train on data as it is observed would likely boost the predictive power.<br>Budföretag får in leveransorder olika tid i förväg. Vissa order är kända lång tid i förväg, medan andra uppkommer med kort varsel. I dagsläget genomförs orderdelegationen, delegering av vilken bil som kör vilken order, manuellt av en transportledare (TL) där TL använder sin erfarenhet för att gissa framtida order. Om leveransorder skulle kunna förutsägas i förväg kan fordonsrutter och fordonsval föreslås av algoritmer. Denna uppsats använde sig utav ett dataset från ett Stockholmsbaserat budföretag. Stockholmsområdet delades in i zoner med agglomerativ klustring och K-Means, där zoner användes för att gruppera leveranser in i tidsdelade Ursprungsdestinationsmatriser (OD-matriser). En cell i en OD-matris innehåller antalet leveranser från en zon till en annan under en timme. Neurala nätverk med lång-kortsiktsminne (LSTM) användes för förutsägelsen. Modellen tränades på tidigare OD-matriser, veckodag, timme, månad, nederbörd, och lufttemperatur. Det LSTM-baserade tillvägagångssättet presterade bättre än baslinjen, det genomsnittliga kvadratfelet minskade från 1,1092 till 0,07705 och F1-poängen ökade från 41% till 52%. Nederbörd och lufttemperatur bidrog inte märkbart till förutsägelsens prestation. Resultatet indikerar att det är möjligt att förutse vissa leveransorder, men att en stor andel är slumpmässiga och oberoende från tidigare leveranser. Att låta modellen tränas med nya data när den observeras skulle troligtvis öka prognosförmågan.
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Jonsson, Hanna, and Alexander Wahrgren. "Group composition at companies : How should multinational companies group employees for internal courses?" Thesis, KTH, Skolan för teknikvetenskaplig kommunikation och lärande (ECE), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-198643.
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Group composition is common in education and is fairly well examined at a school level but not within competence development in a working environment. How should a group of coworkers be grouped when attending a course? This can be a complicated question, especially at a big company such as Atlas Copco which has employees from all over the world. The main object with this report is to find which aspects has to be taken into account when putting people together in groups at a multinational company and secondly give a proposal to Atlas Copco for how the groups should be constructed in the company. The data collected for this report was gathered mostly during the two focus group discussions that were held by the researchers. This material was complemented with interviews held before and after the focus groups meetings, to get a more profound picture of the company. The outcome of the interviews and discussions were then compared with relevant literature on the subject, to be able to make an analysis on the important factors. Findings from the analysis shows that language and previous knowledge are limiting factors and should therefore determine if a person is allowed to attend a certain course. The more knowledge the course participants have in the subject and how well the participants understand the spoken language, the more information exchange will occur between the teacher and course participants. Geographical cultural differences were found to have a slight importance when designing groups but not so significant that special action has to be taken. Combining or keeping separate departments apart during a course were found to be a question on whether or not the different subcultures at the company could be mixed or not. In this case the informants in the research believed it was more beneficial for the company to mix, to prevent the subcultures to grow in separate ways. The conclusion is that the most important aspect of a group constellation are the language and previous knowledge in the subject of the course. This must therefore be taken in consideration when designing a group in a multinational company, if the goal of the course is to efficiently spread information to and among the participants. If an additional aim with the course is to make the participants learn to know other departments’ way of working it should be considered to have quotas for different departments to make the group heterogeneous in this way to enable for the participants to learn from each other.<br>Gruppsammansättningens betydelse är en omdiskuterad företeelse som är vanligt förekommande i utbildningssammanhang och är relativt väl utforskat på skolnivå men inte när det gäller kompetensutveckling inom arbetslivet. Hur ska en gruppsammansättning av arbetskamrater se ut vid ett kurstillfälle? Det kan vara en komplicerad fråga, speciellt på ett stort företag som Atlas Copco vilka har anställda över hela världen. Huvudsyftet med denna rapport är att finna vilka aspekter som behöver tas hänsyn till när folk blir sammansatta i grupper i multinationella företag och ge förslag till Atlas Copco hur grupperingen ska genomföras inom företaget. Data för denna rapport insamlades mestadels under två fokusgruppsdiskussioner som hölls av forskarna. Som komplement till detta material hölls intervjuer både före och efter fokusgruppsmötena för att få en bredare inblick i företaget. Resultatet från intervjuerna och diskussionerna jämfördes sedan med relevant litteratur för att analysera de viktiga faktorerna. Resultat av analysen visar att språkkunskaper och tidigare kunskap i ämnet behöver vara begränsande faktorer vid bestämmandet om en person tillåts närvara vid specifika kurser. Om en person inte har tillräcklig kunskap i språket kursen hålls i, sker inget lyckat informationsutbyte mellan lärare och kursdeltagare och samma gäller aspekten med tidigare kunskap. Geografiskt kulturella skillnader visades vara av ringa betydelse vid designande av grupper men inte så viktiga att det behövs vidtas speciella åtgärder. Huruvida olika avdelningar ska blandas vid kurstillfället visade sig vara en fråga ifall olika subkulturer inom företaget kan blandas. I det här fallet tyckte informanterna det var fördelaktigt för företaget att blanda subkulturer som förhinder mot att de växer ifrån varandra i olika riktningar. Slutsatsen visar att om målet för en kurs inom kompetensutveckling på ett multinationellt företag är att sprida information till och mellan deltagarna så är de viktigaste aspekterna vid formande av grupper, språk och tidigare kunskap. Om ett ytterligare mål är att deltagarna ska lära sig om olika avdelningar och hur de arbetar är det möjligt att sätta kvoter för de olika deltagande avdelningarna för att kursen ska genomföras och säkerställa en heterogenitet i detta avseende för att deltagarna ska ges bästa möjlighet att lära av varandra.
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Szumski, Edward Joseph. "Development of a curriculum for a course in photonics and fiber-optic technologies for telecommunications." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1403.
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Ding, Yiwen. "Formes modulaires p-adiques sur les courbes de Shimura unitaires et compatibilité local-global." Thesis, Paris 11, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA112035/document.
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Cette thèse s'inscrit dans le cadre du programme de Langlands local p-adique. Soient L une extension finie de Q_p, \rho_L une représentation p-adique de dimension 2 du groupe de Galois Gal(\overline{Q_p}/L) de L, lorsque \rho_L provient d'une représentation \rho globale et modulaire (i.e. \rho apparaît dans la cohomologie étale des courbes de Shimura), on sait associer à \rho une représentation de Banach admissible de \GL_2(L), notée \widehat{\Pi}(\rho), en utilisant la théorie de la cohomologie étale complétée d'Emerton. Localement, lorsque \rho_L est cristalline (et assez générique), d'après Breuil, on sait associer à \rho_L une représentation localement analytique de \GL_2(L), notée \Pi(\rho_L). Dans cette thèse, on montre divers résultats sur la compatibilité entre les représentations \widehat{\Pi}(\rho) et \Pi(\rho_L), qui s'appelle la compatibilité local-global, dans la cas des courbes de Shimura unitaires. Par la théorie des représentations localement analytiques de \GL_2(L), le problème de compatibilité local-global se ramène à l'étude des variétés de Hecke X construites à partir du H^1-complété des courbes de Shimura unitaires. On montre des résultats sur la compatibilité local-global dans le cas non-critique en utilisant la théorie de la triangulation globale. On étudie ainsi les formes modulaires p-adiques sur les courbes de Shimura unitaires, à partir desquelles on peut construire des sous-espaces rigides de X à la manière de Coleman-Mazur. On montre l'existence des formes compagnons surconvergentes sur les courbes de Shimura unitaires en utilisant les théorèmes de comparaison p-adique, d'où on déduit des résultats sur la compatibilité local-global dans le cas critique<br>The subject of this thesis is in the p-adic Langlands programme. Let L be a finite extension of \Q_p, \rho_L a 2-dimensional p-adic representation of the Galois group \Gal(\overline{\Q_p}/L) of L, if \rho_L is the restriction of a global modular Galois representation \rho (i.e. \rho appears in the étale cohomology of Shimura curves), one can associate to \rho an admissible Banach representation \widehat{\Pi}(\rho) of \GL_2(L) by using Emerton's completed cohomology theory. Locally, if \rho_L is crystalline (and sufficiently generic), following Breuil, one can associate to \rho_L a locally analytic representation \Pi(\rho_L) of \GL_2(L). In this thesis, we prove results on the compatibility of \widehat{\Pi}(\rho) and \Pi(\rho_L), called local-global compatibility, in the unitary Shimura curves case. By locally analytic representations theory (for \GL_2(L)), the problem of local-global compatibility can be reduced to the study of eigenvarieties X constructed from the completed H^1 of unitary Shimura curves. We prove results on local-global compatibility in non-critical case by using global triangulation theory. We also study the p-adic modular forms over unitary Shimura curves, from which we construct some closed rigid subspaces of X by Coleman-Mazur's method. We prove the existence of overconvergent companion forms (over unitary Shimura curves) by using p-adic comparison theorems, from which we deduce some results on local-global compatibility in critical case
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"A proposed new service to be offered by courier companies in Hong Kong: a study of potential strategic alliance with retailing companies." Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5888050.
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by Ko Fung, Alice and Ng Kwok Pui, Ricky.<br>Includes questionarire in Chinese.<br>Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 72-74).<br>ABSTRACT --- p.iii<br>TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.v<br>ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.vii<br>Chapter<br>Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION AND STATEMENT OF PROBLEM --- p.1<br>Chapter II. --- LITERATURE REVIEW --- p.7<br>Origins of Express Delivery Service --- p.1<br>Development of Internatiomal Express Delivery Service --- p.9<br>Emergence of Express Delivery Services in Hong Kong --- p.11<br>BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.13<br>Chapter III. --- INDUSTRY REVIEW --- p.15<br>Industry Profile --- p.15<br>Competitive Profile --- p.16<br>Customer Profile --- p.21<br>Chapter IV. --- METHODOLOGY --- p.23<br>Hypotheses --- p.23<br>Research Design Multi-dimensional Approach --- p.24<br>Chapter V. --- MORNING EXPRESS COURIER: AN IN-DEPTH LOOK --- p.34<br>Service Provided。 --- p.34<br>Mode of Operation --- p.37<br>Service Highlights --- p.40<br>Chapter VI. --- RESEARCH FINDINGS --- p.41<br>Results of Percentage Counts --- p.41<br>Retailers --- p.41<br>Customers --- p.47<br>Results of Cross-Tabulations --- p.52<br>Retailers --- p.52<br>Customers --- p.54<br>Chapter VII. --- ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATIONS --- p.56<br>Chapter VIII. --- RECOMMENDATIONS --- p.63<br>Target Market --- p.63<br>Retail Shops --- p.64<br>Consumers --- p.64<br>Positioning --- p.65<br>Product --- p.65<br>Price --- p.66<br>Place --- p.67<br>Promotion --- p.68<br>Chapter IX. --- LIMITATIONS AND FURTHER RESEARCH --- p.71<br>REFERENCE NOTES --- p.72<br>APPENDICES --- p.75
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Haywood, Sean. "An assessment of the impact of the Skills Development Act (97 of 1998) on South African courier companies." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/6285.
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M.B.A.<br>A detailed, history of Skills Development has been presented by the Researcher in the literature review (Chapter 2) in order to provide readers, unfamiliar with South Africa's history, more perspective should they require it. The technical detail of the Skills Development Act as well as the myriad of acronyms used in the field is elaborated in detail in order to provide the reader with a more detailed understanding of the mechanics of the Act. This provides a framework for understanding why resistance is encountered by senior management and company owners with regard to committing their companies to the national skills drive. The objective of this study is to firstly to place the current status of Skills development in context by providing the historical perspective of Skills development in South Africa. Secondly, with the aid of questionnaires, the Researcher attempts to focus on the impact of the SDA on Courier companies, particularly in relation to past training habits and the current status quo. In this process, the extent of Senior Management knowledge and commitment is also uncovered. Finally, recommendations are submitted and then triangulated, by means of a focus group. This select group of current managers in the industry will assist by corroborating the findings and recommendations of this study. This was done, as there is a lack of published literature and research material on this subject in South Africa at present. The broader goals of the Act are firstly to create a prosperous and equitable society through economic growth and social development. The creation of employment requires a larger skills base and development of skills especially among previously disadvantaged individuals. Secondly, an increase in productivity is a priority for the South African Government, as it is widely known that South Africa does not rank highly on the global countries productivity scale. 4 Research will show that the impact of the Skills Development legislation has been most noticeable in the larger Courier companies. These large companies, previously invested substantial amounts of money in HR and training infrastructure, and now reap the financial rewards of that investment. As the large companies have the HR infrastructure to adhere to the detailed requirements of the Act, they capitalise on the rebates and discretionary grants available. Small to medium (SMME) courier companies are not adapting to the new processes and in many cases, are not complying with Skills legislation at all. SMME's lack the infrastructure required to introduce, implement and monitor the legislation in their organisations, they either don't comply, or hire consultants to window-dress the process in order to recoup a portion of the levies paid. The following solutions are proposed: A simple, uncomplicated administrative process allowing SMME's to register for the Skills Development Levy rebates. A sustained marketing drive (or awareness campaign) from Government (SETA's), focusing specifically on SMME's, is required in order to educate owners of SMME's with regard to the benefits of legislative compliance. Inclusion of Non-Governmental (NGO's) role-players, such as the Courier Associations, Bargaining Councils and training organisations, in a campaign to focus on the SMME's. Fewer administrative delays with regard to rebate payments from South African Revenue Services to the Levy payers which will further enhance the attractiveness of the process to SMME's
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"A Neural Network Model for a Tutoring Companion Supporting Students in a Programming with Java Course." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.53908.
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abstract: Feedback represents a vital component of the learning process and is especially important for Computer Science students. With class sizes that are often large, it can be challenging to provide individualized feedback to students. Consistent, constructive, supportive feedback through a tutoring companion can scaffold the learning process for students.
This work contributes to the construction of a tutoring companion designed to provide this feedback to students. It aims to bridge the gap between the messages the compiler delivers, and the support required for a novice student to understand the problem and fix their code. Particularly, it provides support for students learning about recursion in a beginning university Java programming course. Besides also providing affective support, a tutoring companion could be more effective when it is embedded into the environment that the student is already using, instead of an additional tool for the student to learn. The proposed Tutoring Companion is embedded into the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE).
This thesis focuses on the reasoning model for the Tutoring Companion and is developed using the techniques of a neural network. While a student uses the IDE, the Tutoring Companion collects 16 data points, including the presence of certain key words, cyclomatic complexity, and error messages from the compiler, every time it detects an event, such as a run attempt, debug attempt, or a request for help, in the IDE. This data is used as inputs to the neural network. The neural network produces a correlating single output code for the feedback to be provided to the student, which is displayed in the IDE.
The effectiveness of the approach is examined among 38 Computer Science students who solve a programming assignment while the Tutoring Companion assists them. Data is collected from these interactions, including all inputs and outputs for the neural network, and students are surveyed regarding their experience. Results suggest that students feel supported while working with the Companion and promising potential for using a neural network with an embedded companion in the future. Challenges in developing an embedded companion are discussed, as well as opportunities for future work.<br>Dissertation/Thesis<br>Masters Thesis Software Engineering 2019
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Ren, Tsuan-Sheng, and 任傳生. "A Study of Employees Learning Style and Learning Model on Learning Effectiveness -Using A Telecommunications Company’s e-Learning Courses as an Example." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/23453109945909775178.
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碩士<br>國立臺灣師範大學<br>科技應用與人力資源發展學系人力資源碩士在職進修專班<br>99<br>A Study of Employees Learning Style and Learning Model on Learning Effectiveness -Using A
Telecommunications Company’s e-Learning
Courses as an Example
Author: Ren, Tsuan-Sheng
Adviser: Chu, Yih-Hsien
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This study is aimed at understanding how employees adopt e-learning as a platform to access knowledge. Further, explore the current status of em-ployees with different learning styles and the impact of learning. In order to achieve the purposes of this research, the researchers have developed a set of questionnaires for a domestic telecommunications company's customer ser-vice department to fill out in January 2011. A total of 250 questionnaires were distributed, which were recollected with a return rate of 100%. Ac-cording to the collected data, we come up with some findings with mutiple analytical methods.
Firstly, 5 factors that affect employee participation in e-learning are: (1) How easy the digital learning system depends on the user’s own perception. (2) Programs that can enhance his/her job performance and career develop-ment with a combination of learning activities (3) The development of a cul-ture will constantly promotes the adoption of e-learning (4) The coorelation between digital learning activities such as the training and human resources development system (5) The richness of media and digital learning environ-ment.
Secondly, the learning style differs form the "convergence" and the "as-similationist" under the dimensions. The differences results form the differ-ent levels of education. Concerning the learning mode of the "asynchronous learning" dimension, gender differences cause significant difference. In the "synchronous learning" aspect, different levels of education is a major reason making the difference. Also regarding the "cognitive" and "skills" persepec-tive, there are significant differences because of gender differences.
Thirdly, the learning styles do not have huge impact on affecting the results of the learning level.
Lastly, only learning of the skills faces a significant impact in the mode of learning. Types of asynchronous learning have greater effects on the im-pact of learning.
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KUO, YU-PING, and 郭幼萍. "The research of the relationship between the organization culture consciousness and the pleasure of remaining in office of the life insurance field business managers - take one of the Kaohsiung and Ping Tung region life insurance companies as an example development and lead class in refresher courses." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/23369377540017922363.
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碩士<br>國立高雄師範大學<br>成人教育研究所<br>100<br>The purpose of this research is to discuss the relationship between the organization culture consciousness and the pleasure of remaining in office of the life insurance field business managers; to understand the relationship between the organization culture consciousness and the pleasure of remaining in office of the life insurance field business managers due to the variability of their different backgrounds; to know the influence of the organization culture on the pleasure of remaining in office. Expect the result of this research and concrete proposal to be useful in the practice and to become the future research reference.
First, collect the documents of the organization culture and the pleasure of remaining in office; discuss, analyze and take as the foundation of this research theory construction and develop the reference of the research tool. Then, propose the research construction, make the questionnaires and pretesting in order to develop the research tool: “The relationship between the organization culture consciousness and the pleasure of remaining in office of the life insurance field business managers’ questionnaires.”
The object of study is the field business managers of the Kaohsiung and Ping Tung region life insurance companies which have 32 agencies. Investigate. Send out 489 questionnaires. Get back 374. 350 questionnaires are valid. The availability is 71.6%. After finishing the questionnaires, use the SPSS statistical software to describe the statistical analysis, the relationship between the accumulation and discreteness, single sample t examination, change single factor and single variability to one-way ANOVA, change the double factor to two-way ANOVA and so on. Based on the result of the analytic data, this research obtains the following conclusion:
(1) The feeling level in the faith and the values of the life insurance field business managers with the organization culture consciousness is the highest. The feeling level in the team concept is the lowest.
(2) The team concept in the organization culture consciousness of the life insurance field business managers whose seniority is under 3 years is higher than that of the managers whose seniority is 3-6 years obviously.
(3) The systematization in the organization culture consciousness of the life insurance field business managers whose agency has 15-24 groups is higher than that of the managers whose agency has over 25 groups.
(4) The work achievement and the whole pleasure of remaining in office of the life insurance field business managers under 46 years old are higher than those of the managers under 35. But their work investment is higher than that of the managers under 45 years old.
(5).The work investment, the work achievement and the whole pleasure of remaining in office of the life insurance field business managers are higher than those of supervisors. The work achievement of the field assistant managers in the pleasure of remaining in office is higher than that of supervisors.
(5) The work investment, the work achievement and the whole pleasure of remaining in office of the life insurance business managers whose seniority is over nine years are higher than those of the managers whose seniority is within 3-6 years.
(6) The work investment and the whole pleasure of remaining in office of the life insurance field business managers whose yearly income is over NT$600,000 are higher than those of the managers whose income is under NT$600,000. The work satisfaction in the pleasure of remaining in office of the managers who earn NT$600,000-1,200,000 is higher than that of the managers who earn NT$360,000-600,000. It is higher in the ones with NT$1,200,000 than those with under NT$600,000. It is higher in the ones with NT$600,000-1,200,000 than those with NT$360,000.
(7) The variability of the different backgrounds and different organization culture consciousness in the pleasure of remaining in office of the life insurance business managers are no noticeable difference.
Books on the topic "Courier Companies"
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Levchaev, Petr. Finance companies. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/22549.
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The textbook describes theoretical, methodological and practical bases of Finance companies. Logical structure of presentation allows you to consistently learn as the basic material of the course and the topics corresponding to the conceptual higher level of knowledge.
 For a comprehensive assimilation of the provisions of the course "Finance organizations" topics of the discipline are given control questions and tasks for self-examination of knowledge of students, thesis topics and modern research directions of Finance of organizations and themes of final qualification works, questions to prepare for the exam, and recommended reading. Set out the problematic situation of Finance companies in the innovation economy.
 Meets the requirements of Federal state educational standard of higher education of the last generation.
 For students, postgraduates and teachers of economic specialties. Be useful to a wide circle of readers interested in the problems of Finance companies.
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Friis, Janice. The breakfast companion: Revised whispered recipes. Word of Mouth Pub., 1998.
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Sanders, Pete. First steps in counselling: A students' companion for basic introductory courses. 3rd ed. PCCS Books, 2003.
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William, Hamilton. A student electronic-discovery primer: An essential companion for civil procedure courses. Carolina Academic Press, 2016.
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Frankland, Alan. Next steps in counselling: A student's companion for certificate and counselling skills courses. PCCS Books, 1995.
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Espinosa, Martha Luca. Spoken miracles: A companion to the Disappearance of the universe. Hay House, 2007.
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The other voice: A companion to the text of the Course, chapters 1-15. DeVorss Publications, 1997.
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The Golfer's companion: An illustrated guide to the highlights,history, and best courses, holes, and players of professional golf. Merehurst Press, 1992.
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Björkin, Mats. Postwar Industrial Media Culture in Sweden, 1945-1960. Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462984929.
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During the 1950s, companies aiming for international markets demanded new theories and methods of communication. Ideas regarding cybernetics, systems analysis, new accounting practices, and budgetary principles as well as theories of information, communication, marketing, public relations, and organization were discussed at conferences, seminars, and courses, and in articles and books. At the same time, new technologies changed corporate communication, from a loose-leaf accounting system to mechanical and electronic business machines, from written texts and oral presentations to slide shows, audio tapes, films, television, and flannelgraphs. By looking at a vast array of objects and relations related to uses of media technologies in Swedish industry from the end of World War II to the breakthrough of television, this book shows what happened in the glitches between mass communication and interaction, and how Swedish postwar industry worked to disrupt established understandings of communication.
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The e-policy handbook: Rules and best practices to safely manage your company's e-mail, blogs, social networking, and other electronic communication tools. 2nd ed. American Management Association, 2009.
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Richardson, James, and Jackie Davenport. "Your Nursing Course." In The Nursing Companion. Macmillan Education UK, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-36693-0_2.
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Southall, Humphrey. "Enhancing life-courses." In The Routledge Companion to Spatial History. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315099781-6.
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Bures, Regina M. "Companion Animal Caregiving and Well-Being." In Well-Being Over the Life Course. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64085-9_3.
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Windeatt, Barry. "Courtiers and Courtly Poetry." In A Companion to Medieval Poetry. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444319095.ch33.
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Thompson, Neil, and Sue Thompson. "Your Social Work Course." In The Social Work Companion. Macmillan Education UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-50218-6_1.
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Harrison, Barry. "What is Economics?" In Introductory Economics Course Companion. Macmillan Education UK, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13004-7_1.
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Harrison, Barry. "Perfect Competition." In Introductory Economics Course Companion. Macmillan Education UK, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13004-7_10.
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Harrison, Barry. "Monopoly." In Introductory Economics Course Companion. Macmillan Education UK, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13004-7_11.
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Harrison, Barry. "Price Discrimination." In Introductory Economics Course Companion. Macmillan Education UK, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13004-7_12.
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Harrison, Barry. "Imperfect Competition." In Introductory Economics Course Companion. Macmillan Education UK, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13004-7_13.
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Yin, Tan Jia, Law Xuen Ee, and Ganeshsree Selvachandran. "A Study of Oil Price and Other Contributing Factors to the Profitability of Courier Companies." In the 2019 International Conference. ACM Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3335550.3339903.
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Peter, Geoffrey J. "Hands-On Graduate Courses in Lean Manufacturing (LM) Emphasizing Green and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)." In ASME 2010 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2010-37921.
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The author developed and taught the second hands-on graduate course in a series of three Environmentally Friendly Manufacturing (EFM) courses offered at the Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering and Technology (MMET) Masters Program at the Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT), Portland Center. Courses in this series include Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing (ECM-1), Lean Manufacturing (LM) emphasizing Green and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), and Emission Control in Manufacturing (ECM-II). The first two-thirds of the course curriculum consisted of regular classroom lectures, limited homework, two case studies, discussions, videos, and visits to two companies that were implementing or had implemented LM. In addition, a guest lecturer from Washington State Department of Ecology discussed relevant LM and environmental case studies. The final third of the course curriculum consisted of hands-on industry-based case studies. Students gained real-world experience in the manufacturing facilities of the four companies that elected to participate in the pilot project. The LM course, taught from an engineer’s point of view, emphasized the engineer’s role at the initial product design stage, and or manufacturing process design, including building design. This paper describes the course content of the LM curriculum, the innovative methods developed to teach the course, and the methods used to teach LM to graduate students with different undergraduate educational backgrounds including individuals with no prior industrial experience. It discusses three industry-based case studies, company profiles, and the benefits derived by participating companies and graduate students. Curriculum effectiveness was determined at the end of the course in part through students’ and industry participant’s comments. Future publication will describe the contents and case studies of the third ECM II in the EFM course curricula.
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Borja, Vicente, Javier N. Ávila Cedillo, Marcelo López-Parra, Alejandro C. Ramírez-Reivich, Arturo Treviño Arizmendi, and Luis F. Equihua Zamora. "Teaching Sustainable Design Within a Product Innovation Process in Mexico: Linking Two One-Semester Design Courses." In ASME 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2013-13571.
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This paper documents the process, the outcomes and the lessons learned from two design courses aimed at incorporating environmental, economic and social concerns during the product development process. These courses are co-taught by professors of the Engineering and the Industrial Design Schools of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Each course lasts one academic semester and includes engineering graduate and undergraduate students from industrial design and engineering. The two courses are “New Product Development” (NPD) and “Design for Sustainability” (DS). The NPD course runs in collaboration with the University of California at Berkeley (UCB) and it has been taught at UNAM since 2008. The course fosters the development of product concepts that address particular user needs related to sustainability issues and enhance user’s experience and innovation. The DS course is aimed at introducing students to the most representative approaches, methodologies and tools related to sustainability. DS takes the NPD process as a background, i.e. takes the NPD product concept produced by students and evaluates its environmental impact, and its technical and economic feasibility. Some issues on entrepreneurship and social responsibility are also covered. For both courses design projects are paramount. Some of the projects carried out by the students during the courses are proposed by students themselves and some others are put forward by companies. The first part of this paper includes some background information on representative sustainability courses reported in the literature. Then the complete process model comprised by the NPD and DS courses is presented. Some details of the actual courses contents and lecture activities are also described. Representative projects developed within the courses, one of which is now a startup company, are presented. Finally, insights and lessons learned are discussed.
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Di Maso, Rosa, and Maria Beatrice Ligorio. "An example of innovative university teaching: the model of Constructive and Collaborative Professional Participation." In Fifth International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Universitat Politècnica València, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/head19.2019.9293.
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This contribution presents a blended course model called Constructive and Collaborative Professional Participation (CCPP), developed since 2005. We will describe theories of reference, course structure, activities performed and methods adopted. Starting from a socio-constructivist framework, both online individual and group activities and offline individual and group activities were organized together with Role Taking, "expert" and "Jigsaw" groups inspired by the Aronson method, web-forum and in presence discussions aimed at building various products. The model has been implemented in university courses about Psychology of e-learning and involves companies from the field to professionalize the activities. Academic and business tutors have been purposely trained, to support student participation. Following the Design Based Research methodology, at the end of each edition various kinds of data were collected: questionnaires, interviews, and focus groups with the students and feedback from the tutors and the companies involved. The course trained students on skills related to the syllabus, together with communication, organizational and self-assessment skills. Our results also showed how it was possible to develop identity positioning, in particular the transition from positions as students towards professional positioning.
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Ormazabal, Marta, Elisabeth Viles, Vanessa Prieto-Sandoval, and Carmen Jaca. "Environmental training at companies. The case of Volkswagen Navarra." In Third International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/head17.2017.5518.
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Companies have made great strides in strengthening their environmental maturity and sustainable production. Nevertheless, many of them have not transmitted their knowledge to their workers, and this makes it more difficult to have employees participate in their company’s sustainability improvement process. In the particular case of Volkswagen Navarra, they have a lot of experience in environmental management, but they don’t have a proper program for teaching their workers so they can be more involved in the environmental aspects of the company. This paper proposes an environmental training program that can be used either as an e-learning course or a face-to-face course with the objective of providing employees with the knowledge and skills necessary to participate in the improvement of environmental aspects.
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Mrvica Mađarac, Sandra, Zvonimir Filipović, and Marko Eljuga. "E-COMMERCE IN TRADE COMPANIES DURING THE CONDITIONS OF A PANDEMIC CRISIS: CASE STUDIES." In EU 2021 – The future of the EU in and after the pandemic. Faculty of Law, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.25234/eclic/18349.
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E-commerce in trade companies during the course of the pandemic crisis has become more than a technology; it includes a whole range of activities such as business processes, business organization, communication, customer relationship management, the E-sales orientation and business progress through the Information and Communication technologies. The consequences of the pandemic COVID-19 are reflected on the various spheres of social life, including the businesses of the companies. New strategies and techniques in business have positively contributed to the survival of trading companies on the market in the new situation. Therefore, trading companies were forced to adjust their way of working, doing business and maintaining contacts with the customers and suppliers in the new situation. E-commerce in trading companies has become much more than the E-sales. Digitalising business leads to the implementation of E-commerce of the supply chain management that leads to speeding up and maintaining of the business processes. Due to rapid technological changes, E-commerce needs to follow new trends on the Information and Communication technologies market in order to remain effective. E-commerce can also help to organize communication processes. Online sales in the situation of the pandemic crisis have proven to be an effective sales method with which trading companies can maintain their sales in contactless customer relations. With the E-commerce can be improved all the company's business relations by the introduction of opportunities that it provides in business, by building architecture of E-commerce and by implementation of applications for business enterprises taking into account the potential costs and benefits of introducing this kind of business. However, with the introduction of E-commerce, both of the marketing strategies and the market expansions can be improved. In the paper are listed and analysed changes in the trade operations of the two companies due to the pandemic crisis; one deals with the sale of agricultural machinery and the other with the sale of food products: at this point we examine and compares the differences in the business processes management with the customers and suppliers in the normal way of doing business also in the new occasions, that is the consequential business adjustment in the course of pandemic.
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Judmayer, Aljosha, and Edgar Weippl. "Cryptographic Currencies Crash Course (C4)." In the 25th International Conference Companion. ACM Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2872518.2891066.
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Karimi, Amir. "Use of Interactive Computer Software in Teaching Thermodynamics Fundamental Concepts." In ASME 2005 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2005-81943.
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In recent years many publishing companies have provided optional computer software for engineering textbooks. Some of these software packages are tools for enhancing classroom instruction and others are capable of engineering analysis. Several software are currently available as an option with most engineering thermodynamics. They can be used for thermodynamic property evaluations and are extremely useful tools in analysis and design in introductory courses. They are also useful in teaching fundamental thermodynamic concepts. The most significant advantage of these software programs is that no prior knowledge of programming language is necessary in their applications. This paper will discuss the benefits associated with the use of computer software in introductory thermodynamics courses. Available software tools are compared and, in each case, their strengths and limitations are highlighted. The paper describes how one software tool has been integrated into our introductory thermodynamics course to teach the fundamental concepts. Several examples are provided.
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Hetherington, D., and G. White. "Understanding power supply from a railway operating company's perspective." In 3rd IET Professional Development Course on Railway Electrification Infrastructure and Systems. IET, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/ic.2007.1641.
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Nguyen-Duc, Anh, Letizia Jaccheri, and Pekka Abrahamsson. "An Empirical Study on Female Participation in Software Project Courses." In 2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings (ICSE-Companion). IEEE, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icse-companion.2019.00094.
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