The changing needs in company‐based shop steward training
The shop steward, as the most direct representative of employees at the workplace, fulfils an important, often complex and changing function within the firm. This article, using a particular shop stewards' course as a case study, assesses the shop stewards' training needs and suggests some possible reforms.
Training and industrial relations—a broader perspective
An analysis of the assumptions underlying the traditional approaches to training demonstrates their inadequacy when it comes to the development of training in an industrial relations context. By taking a broader approach, however, suitable training strategies and methods can be developed.
Performance Evaluation of Fuzzy Routing Algorithms for a New Fuzzy Mixed Metric Approach
Optimizing routing decisions has been an important subject in research of communication networks. The present paper is introducing a new fuzzy mixed metric approach, which takes routing decisions based on fuzzy costs in parallel to crisp cost of other metrics. The present paper evaluates the new fuzzy approach for its performance. The paper first describes the new fuzzy approach and the fuzzy routing algorithms developed for the approach and then the performance is evaluated both in empirical and analytical terms to show its advantages over the previous fuzzy approaches and traditional link- state routing approach. The paper analyzes the performance for different cases to show the efficacy of load on delay. The present paper bargains with three such cases.