Management Approval Research Articles

Consumerisation of IT: Intersection of development streams of business and personal IT

Background: In the age of IT consumerisation, private owned IT artifacts are increasingly used for business purposes. Management's approval is not required, but various approaches are used to create effective management strategies. Purpose: The historical development trends of business and personal ICT are examined in the paper to understand their intersection-IT consumerisation. Study design/methodology/approach: The paper provides a preliminary research assessment. The informative outcomes drawn from diverse perspectives and the comprehensive nature of 'gray literature' should serve as guidance for the direction, adjustments, and modifications of future research. Findings/conclusions: A number of technological and market factors have led to the consumerisation of IT. As a spinout from business IT, personal IT has had a feedback effect on it: the proliferation of computers and mobile devices on the consumer market, combined with affordable Internet-related resources, not only changed personal IT usage patterns, but also redefined the expectations that users have for enterprise software. In order to create an effective IT consumerisation management strategy, it is imperative to understand them. Limitations/future research: The paper is a starting point for future empirical research in the field of IT consumerisation, and as such, may be amended according to new knowledge that is obtained subsequently.

Influence of Innovation Climate on Attraction and Retention of Human Capital Among Small and Medium Enterprises in Kenya

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) globally are currently operating in dynamic and uncertain business environments, making it necessary to attract and retain valuable human capital that can give them a competitive edge over peers. Most of these enterprises lack resource advantages and suffer from liabilities of size and newness, resulting in a big challenge in their attempts to compete favorably with large established firms. The ability of an enterprise to create and sustain a healthy and supportive innovation climate is consequential to its ability in attracting and retaining valuable human capital. This research aimed to ascertain the influence of innovation climate on attracting and retaining human capital among SMEs in Kenya. The top 100 SMEs for the year 2019 formed the study sample. A response rate of 59% was achieved. The study utilized structured questionnaires to collect data from founders of enterprises, and in their absence, the top management team was engaged. The data analysis methods used included SPSS and partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). This yielded results which established that various dimensions of innovation climate, including organizational support for innovation, organization structure, teamwork, leadership behaviour, and manager's approval, have a significant and positive influence on the attraction and retention of human capital among SMEs in Kenya. From these findings, it is recommended that founders and top management teams of SMEs should put in place a supportive and healthy innovation climate where human capital holders feel comfortable working and growing their careers in the long run. Such measures are instrumental in the attraction and retention of valuable human capital.

Nurse managers' perception of night-shift napping: A cross-sectional survey.

Night-shift work often results in sleep deprivation, and this in turn results in fatigue that jeopardizes both nurse and patient safety. Napping is considered a viable deterrent to fatigue, yet hospital administration has been slow to adopt napping. To identify nurse managers' knowledge and approval of napping practices for nurses on night shifts. Nurse managers at nine Jordanian hospitals (n=129) were surveyed using an Arabic version of a questionnaire previously used in a Canadian study. Descriptive statistics were used to describe results, and a one-way ANOVA was used to determine if relationships existed among nurse manager's approval of napping and nurse demographic characteristics. The majority of nurse managers (61%) knew nurses were napping during breaks. However, the managers reported there was no written policy for napping. A majority thought there were more benefits to napping than drawbacks. Some 55% of nurse managers recognized fatigue as a cause of errors or incidents regarding patient safety, and 40% perceived fatigue to be a factor in staff injuries. This study supports an urgent need for shared responsibility among nursing administration, and bedside nurses to develop evidence-based programs to counteract the effects of nurse fatigue.

IPTV 서비스를 이용하는 사용자의 효율적인 성인인증 모델 설계

Recently IPTV that transmits multimedia contents in real time through internet, cable TV net and satelite net gets the limelight. But IPTV service that gives service to users by various media has a problem of not supporting user certification fully. This paper suggests a certification model which prevents getting access permission of IPTV service by sending illegal certification information by adolescent through integrating mobile communication technique with RFID(Radio Frequency IDentification) technique which is a key technique of Ubiquitous environment. This model performs the process of adult certification by keeping synchronization with user's certificaiton information that is saved in data-base of certification server and contents server after getting the system of class categorization in contents server to overcome disadvantage of simple adult certification system that is popular in the existing internet. Also, it adapts double hash chain technique not to down load illegally contents without the permission of manager even if an adolescent gets manager's approval key.

Bottom up process improvement tricks

Most everyone in our field acknowledges that software process improvement cannot succeed unless management is committed to implementing it. Fortunately, the move to SPI can be a two-way street, initiated as easily from the bottom up as from the top down. Taking this bottom-up approach, I present some tricks that practitioners down in the trenches can use to win upper management's approval of and support for SPI.