Russian Student Readiness for Professional Service: from Actual to Desired by R. A. Zayakina

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Customer Participation in Professional Services Operations And Its Impacts On Flexibility and Costs by Juliana Barreto, Ricardo Silveira Martins

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Transforming the Art of Fiction: Walter Besant, Professional Service and the Society of Authors by Richard Salmon

“…How did members of the Society conceive of its role in providing professional service in relation to the wider field of the literary market? …”
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NIGERIAN CONSTRUCTION-RELATED PROFESSIONAL SERVICES FIRMS TO ADOPT LEAN CONSTRUCTION PRACTICES by Olajide Olamilokun, Umar Datti Yusuf, Emmanuel Dele Omopariola

Subjects: “…adoption, construction-related professional services firms, lean construction (LC), Nigerian construction industry, readiness…”
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Critical Factors Affecting Quality of Building Projects: Professionals Service Providers’ Perspectives by Olusola Aluko, Modupe Mewomo

Subjects: “…Building projects, Client, Professional service providers, Quality standard…”
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ALIGNING STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES TO CORPORATE GOVERNANCE OBJECTIVES IN CONSTRUCTION PROFESSIONAL SERVICE FIRMS by Frank Boateng, De-Graft Owusu-Manu, Michael Adesi, Erika Parn, David John Edwards

“…This imbalance has culminated in several high-profile corporate scandals orchestrated by top management – consequently, this research seeks to establish a nexus between strategic corporate objectives and corporate governance objectives within construction professional service firms. –The study is positioned within the positivist philosophical tradition and adopts a quantitative approach that used a survey questionnaire to collect data form construction professional service firms.115 survey questionnaires were administered to respondents using the purposive sampling technique in which 80 completed questionnaires were retrieved for an analysis representing a response rate of 69.5 per cent. …”
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Organisational career conversations: exploring the experiences and perceptions of professional services line-managers in higher education by Sarah Allbeson

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ESSENCE OF THE PROBLEMS OF PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ACTIVITIES OF CIVIL SERVANTS AT THE STAGE OF RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION by D. Simutova

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‘It feels like you’ve joined the university club’: the transformative potential of Fellowship recognition for professional services staff by Caroline Ball, Chris Ribchester

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Not quite an academic, not quite professional services: supporting students’ wellbeing and development in the ‘third space’ as a peer-mentoring coordinator by Emma Norman

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Knowledge, distributed leadership and (structured) agency: a view on academic policy curation by Françoise McKay

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Readiness of University Students for Public Service by V. S. Nikolskiy, P. A. Ambarova, N. V. Shabrova, D. I. Zemtsov, A. P. Metelev

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Exploring the relationship between employee engagement and counterproductive work behaviour by Sphindile Mvuyana, Thokozani Ian Nzimakwe, Reward Utete

“…The study also revealed lack of an effective probationary period, unequal treatment of academic and professional services staff in terms of retention strategies, and insufficient attention given to employee engagement were among the primary factors contributing to disengagement within the institution.DiscussionThe study concluded that there is a pressing need for change and the implementation of new systems to enhance employee engagement at the organisation. …”
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Research on technical scheme of SDN intelligent management and control orchestration system by Yanxia TAN, Guangquan WANG, Zelin WANG, Yanlei ZHENG, He ZHANG, Chenfang ZHANG, Sai HAN, Shikui SHEN

“…As users put forward more stringent quality of service requirements for the network, operators focus on the intelligent transformation and construction of various networks.Firstly, the current situation of software defined network (SDN) transformation and construction of various professional networks in the industry were briefly introduced, and then the problems existing in the transformation process were analyzed.Then, the scheme of SDN intelligent management and control orchestration system were proposed to meet users’ requirements for end-to-end service provisioning of cross professional services, and realize intelligent analysis of resource data at the network level to improve operation and maintenance efficiency.Finally, the service provisioning process of private line service and real-time alarming process and practice under the proposed architecture were introduced.…”
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General idea of application system for space-ground integrated information network by Chunting WANG, Lijun ZHAI, Ning LI, Ningning LU

“…The space-ground integrated information network can offer global coverage by connected air,ocean and land networks with hybrid orbit satellite constellation.This infrastructure can provide a new solution for applications of marine,aviation,aerospace,inclusive information system and global commercial broadband communication.It can also support the implementation of national strategies such as B＆amp;R with communication applications.On the basis of fully drawing on international advanced technology,industry and application service experience,through the development of a typical application demonstration system,the capability of the world-wide integrated information network was verified and more application requirements and business models were drawn.And some preliminary considerations and ideas were put forward for the construction of a typical application system of the space-ground integrated information network in the future,providing basic public services and professional services to all kinds of users worldwide.…”
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L’auto-entrepreneur, instrument de compétitivité ou adoucissant de la rigueur ? Bilan de trois années de fonctionnement du régime by Nadine Levratto, Evelyne Serverin

“…Three forms of autonomy are privileged: productive autonomy (section 1), implying the availability of financial and material resources required to provide really professional services; autonomy of decision (section 2), which determines the capacity to assume the entrepreneurial risks and autonomy of earnings (section 3), which measures the possibility of obtaining means of subsistence thanks to its work. …”
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Understanding compassion fatigue among social workers: a scoping review by Tian Wu, Chun-Rong Lu

“…Exposure to significant sources of trauma and stress among social workers is increasingly identified as an important issue that can impact the quality of professional services, and the social worker’s well-being. …”
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Harnessing the power of professional associations to unite the third-space community by Craig Morley, Nicola Grayson

“…We explore the unique difficulties of career progression for those in the third space compared to the more recognised and established routes for academic colleagues, or those who work in professional services who are employed on ‘academic’ contracts. …”
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Bridging the gap: a new approach to student academic support at the University of Exeter by Nicky King, Jess Johnson, Hannah Jordan, Hannah Lyons

“…The model places pastoral mentors within departments to bridge the ‘third space’ gap between academic and professional services student support. For students who are struggling or starting to struggle, they connect the various strands of support systems that can be overwhelming and become a known friendly and non-judgemental advocate within their department who can make a real difference to their ability to succeed in their studies. …”
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Stuck in the middle with you: the role of senior leaders as third space professionals by Alison Purvis, Beth Fielding-Lloyd, Melissa Jacobi, Dave Thornley, Nick Woolley

“… This collaborative opinion piece offers the perspective that senior leaders must move beyond their traditional places within the academic or professional services spaces to act as hybrid professionals or translators. …”
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