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Hearing Aid Industry. The Hi-Tech Human Side
Hearing aids are vital medical devices that offer people with hearing loss the opportunity to regain their hearing function, whether it's congenital or due to a variety of factors that result in reduced hearing capacity. Typically dispensed through prescribed channels, their use requires the expertise of specialized professionals trained to regulatory standards established in almost every country. Over ...
A Strategic Imperative. The Role of HR Management in Italian PSOs
Nowadays, the role of human resource management in the public sector is widely acknowledged as critical for effectiveness and value generation in this context. In OECD countries, the share of GDP devoted to salaries of state employees ranges from 5.1% in Japan to 14.9% in Norway, while in Italy it is 9.7% (OECD, 2023). Public sector personnel accounted for as much as 29.2% of the workforce in Norway ...
War for Talent or Trawl Fishing? Balancing HR Needs and Quality in PSOs
The trend of reducing the number of public sector employees, which has characterized all OECD countries since the reforms of the 1970s and 1980s, is particularly notable in Italy. Here, the slimming down process began in the early 1990s, in contrast to the 15% growth in the 1980s. The reasons for this contraction have been investigated by scholars of public administration reforms (Pollit & Bouckaert, ...
Bridging the Skills Gap. How New Competencies Drive Innovation
Public organizations are required to address rapidly changing social demands, voiced by diverse stakeholders with ever-evolving expectations for high-quality services. The effectiveness of the response of these entities hinges on having the right human capital to fulfill their mission and satisfy societal needs. Therefore, government organizations should take strategic decisions concerning the size ...
Next Generation Performance Appraisals. Balancing Administrative and Development Goals
Traditionally, performance appraisal systems (PAS) have teetered between an ostensibly “administrative” purpose, using comparisons between individuals to make important decisions with organizational implications (awarding bonuses, assigning tasks, or green-lighting promotions and salary increases), and a “developmental” approach, based on identifying employees’ strengths, weaknesses and ...
The Ocean Disclosure Initiative. A New Platform for Collective Change
The Business for Ocean Sustainability Report, Third Edition: Seizing the Blue Opportunity[1] (One Ocean Foundation et al., 2023) examined, in part using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), a comprehensive sample of over 2,500 annual or sustainability reports from international companies. The focus was on analyzing objectives, actions, and outcomes concerning direct and indirect impacts on ...
Key Factors for Managing AI in Business
Some advances in knowledge and its application undoubtedly arouse more interest than others, raising many hopes for solutions to humanity's problems. In this case, we are referring to artificial intelligence, which has become the subject of debate and competition between the supporters and detractors of a discipline that is now at the center of the world's attention because of its importance and the ...
Trusted Sustainability
In recent years, sustainability has become a growing strategic priority for companies. This is the result of increased community and institutional attention to issues related not only to environmental sustainability, but also to diversity, inclusion, and a growing focus on fair and equitable treatment of employees and suppliers within the supply chain. According to the stakeholder view, a company ...
Internet of Beings. AI and Hyper Data Revolutionize Healthcare
The use of telemedicine dates back to at least as early as the inception of the Internet (Hjelm, 2017). In the same year that Vincent Cerf and Robert Kahn proposed using the Internet Protocol for internal Pentagon communication, astronauts donned spacesuits equipped to continuously monitor their vital signs, sending data back to Houston and streaming it live to a global audience during the Moon landing. ...
At the Wheel with Gen Z. Charting the Roadmap for Future Urban Mobility
The UN’s 2030 Agenda emphasizes the pivotal role of mobility in the Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG 11), focusing on safe, affordable, accessible, and sustainable transportation (United Nations, 2023). In parallel, the European Green Deal aims to achieve climate neutrality by 2050, highlighting sustainable and smart mobility initiatives and investments in clean technologies (European Commission, ...