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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Employment Decisions"”.
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Major Factors That Influence the Employment Decisions of Generation X Consulting Engineers
… determine the major factors that influence their employment decisions. Engineering consulting firms throughout the United States, particularly those in Lynchburg, have struggled to recruit young engineers in recent years. The recruiting of young engineers has been regarded by managers and …
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The Effects of Interviewer Self-Monitoring on Male Appearance Discrimination in Employment Decisions
… appearance discrimination toward men as regards employment decisions and the extent to which the degree of interviewer selfmonitoring influences these decisions. Past research has indicated that discrimination does indeed occur for women, but no empirical research has been conducted on male …
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Critical Race Mixed Methods Study on the impact of workplace racism on the health and employment decisions of K-12 educators of color
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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An Examination of Teacher Supports
… locations and how these supports impacted their employment decisions. A convenience sampling was used to identify the participants from the researcher/participant’s professional network. Data collection methods included individual semi-structured interviews that were conducted via the University …
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The employment process : effects of the resume, interview, and reference report.
Research in the employment process has traditionally focused upon resume construction and interviewing. While revealing, this research tells us little about how the resume, interview, and a third component, the reference report, interact to shape employment decisions. This study observed the …
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Discrimination in personnel decisions: the effects of applicant sex and physical attractiveness
… of physical attractiveness stereotypes on employment decisions. The present research examined sex-role stereotypes and PA-stereotypes using appropriately sex-typed and PA relevancy-typed jobs. The second purpose of the research was to extend the findings that the causal attributions made …
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How Did COVID-19 Influence Women's Participation in the Labor Force?
… needs, experienced the largest margin of employment disruption, and faced difficult choices regarding family and paid employment. The history of women’s presence in the paid labor force, gendered wage gap and socio-cultural discrimination has long been the subject of study. However, the …
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Common Characteristics of School Administrators Who are Perceived as Effective in Meeting the Needs of Students with Disabilities.
… improve their leadership skills and guide their employment decisions.</p>
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Personality and Rater Leniency: Comparison of Broad and Narrow Measures of Conscientiousness and Agreeableness
… appraisal ratings provide the basis for numerous employment decisions, including retention, promotion, and salary increases. Thus, understanding the factors affecting the accuracy of these ratings is important to organizations and employees. Leniency, one rater error, is a tendency to assign …
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What do firm boundaries do? : employment relationships and transaction governance in internal and outsourced IT projects
… two different levels of analysis: the individual employment relationship; and the overall transaction. Specifically, I carry out a detailed comparison of the use of regular employees, independent consultants and outsourced vendors on Information Technology (IT) projects within a large financial …
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Labor allocation decisions of Virginia's farm families
… demand characteristics influence the off-farm employment decisions of both the operator and spouse, though not in a uniform manner. Additionally, variables found to be important to off-farm labor force participation were primarily not farm specific. Changes in the non-farm economy are expected …
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The HESI exit examination as a predictor of employment success
… registered nurses in the acute care setting. Employment of new graduate nurses is a challenge for hospitals. The assessment process requires an investment of time and dollars. The best candidates need to be selected for available positions. The study was conducted at an 888-bed hospital …
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Essays on inequities in labor and education markets
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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The effect of health on the labour force outcome among working age individuals in the UK
… two, the effect of health shocks on exit from employment among working age individuals using data from British Household Panel Survey was estimated. Factor analysis was used to model health as an unobservable concept with two correlated dimensions (mental and physical). Past mental and physical …
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The Impact of Applicant Disability on Personnel Managers' Evaluative Judgments
… whether a relationship existed between perceived employment decisions and (a) applicant disability; (b) applicant work record; and (c) personnel managers' demographic characteristics. The population from which the sample was drawn consisted of personnel managers in personnel associations and …
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Factors that influence "other-race" faculty decisions to accept, remain in, and consider leaving faculty positions at four southeastern public universities
… to identify the factors that influence the decisions of black faculty at two public traditionally white institutions (TWIs) and of white faculty at two public traditionally black institutions (TBIs) to <u>accept</u>, <u>remain in</u> and <u>consider</u> leaving faculty positions at such …
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An investigation of the relationship between the presence of U.S. employees abroad and the changes in the taxation of their foreign earned income
… benefits to encourage U.S. citizens to accept employment positions abroad so that they might, in turn, support the export of U.S. goods and services. The purpose of this study was to determine whether changes in the taxation of foreign earned income have any effect on the presence of American …
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In search of well-being in the workplace: Exploring the emancipatory potential of participatory action research
… than enhancing real employee participation in employment decisions. I challenge the inevitability of such co-option and set out to achieve genuine participation and empowerment. Through a participatory action research (PAR) programme in a medium-sized, internationally-owned manufacturing firm …
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Labor Migration in China
… studies how networks affect migrants' migration decisions, employment, and wage levels by using 2005 China's mini-census. Different from existing studies, this paper takes into account the existence of self-selection in the labor market. With the help of a theoretical model, we have a better …
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Three Essays on Corporate Policies
… studies the interactions between acquisition decisions of multinationals and innovation decisions in the subsidiaries they buy. My coauthors Maria Guadalupe and Catherine Thomas, and I use a rich panel dataset of Spanish manufacturing firms and a propensity score reweighting estimator to show …
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