Set Of Capabilities Research Articles

The discriminatory impact of non‐adherence to leadership selection criteria

PurposeThis research aims to fill a gap in the literature concerning the extent to which recruitment interviewers may substitute leadership capability sets (CSs) differing from those in the job specification (JS).Design/methodology/approachSemi‐structured interviews were conducted with senior personnel involved in senior staff selection in a higher education (HE) institution.FindingsThe interviews reveal that the majority of respondents select candidates against transactional capability sets (TcCSs), ignoring the largely transformational capability sets (TfCSs) laid down in the JS.Research limitations/implicationsThe research is anchored in a single organisation and in a single sector, HE. It would be useful to extend the research to another institution in the public sector within both the public and the private sectors. It would furthermore be useful to identify the practical measures needed to overcome the problems identified here.Practical implicationsOrganisations pursuing diversity initiatives or attempting to influence the culture of an organisation and its leadership style need to be aware of the extent, hitherto unrevealed, to which the leadership CSs laid down in the official selection criteria can be disregarded in favour of CSs substituted, consciously or unconsciously, by recruiters. If the practice identified here is representative across the HE sector, then a failure to follow the leadership CSs contained in a JS can serve as a barrier to the appointment of women who may favour the deployment of TfCSs. It may also serve as a barrier to the introduction of transformational leadership and cultures.Originality/valueThe paper provides useful information on CSs laid down in the official selection criteria and whether they can be disregarded in favour of CSs substituted, consciously or unconsciously, by recruiters.

An Extended Service Filtering Technique for Mass Calling-Type Services Using Intelligent Peripheral in an SCP-Bound Network

This paper proposes an extended service filtering technique to prevent overload in service control point (SCP) due to televoting (VOT) or mass calling (MAS) services with the heavy traffic characteristics. Also, this paper compares this extended technique with the existing overload control techniques, and calculates steady state call blocking probabilities in intelligent network (IN) under overload conditions. The proposed technique considers SCP overload and IN Capability Set (CS)-1 services (such as VOT or MAS service) that have to use the specialized resources of intelligent peripheral (IP). This technique uses first an activating step in which SCP requests service filtering to service switching point (SSP). Then, in the filtering step, SSP sends filtering results to SCP periodically or each N-calls. Also, when filtering time-out expires, SSP stops service filtering, and sends service filtering response to SCP in the deactivating step. This paper applies this technique to VOT/MAS service, and calculates SCP and SSP-IP (circuit) call blocking probabilities by using an analytical VOT/MAS service model. With the modeling and analyzing of this new technique, it shows that this technique reduces the traffic flow into SCP from SSP and IP prominently.

ITU-T‘s internodal broadband signalling protocol

Broadband integrated services user part (B-ISUP) is an internodal signalling protocol defined by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU-T). Its purpose is to establish, maintain and release asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) connections in a public network, via the use of signalling messages. The initial release of B-ISUP was in February 1995, known as capability set 1 (CS-1). Since then, continued progress has been made extending the capabilities of B-ISUP with the development of CS-2. This paper provides an overview of the B-ISUP signalling protocol capabilities and describes its impact on the traditional Signalling System No 7 (SS7) architecture.

International standards for intelligent networks

An overview of the current state of intelligent network (IN) standards as described on CCITT's capability set 1 (CS1) is presented. The key to the success of CS1 lies in it being simple enough to be realizable with limited impact on existing software technology and network signaling, rich enough to provide a nontrivial, commercially deployable, initial set of services, and open-ended for growth, both in terms of service richness and penetration, and new capabilities enabled by new technologies. The objectives of IN and CS1, the main characteristics of CS1, and the framework and directions for IN evolution are discussed. >