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100 Years of Training and Development Research: What We Know and Where We Should Go
(2017-01-01)Training and development research has a long tradition within applied psychology dating back to the early 1900’s. Over the years, not only has interest in the topic grown but there have been dramatic changes in both the ... -
A Brief Guide to the AAUP Salary Data
(2004-01-01)[Excerpt] The AAUP data not only document faculty salary levels, but may also play a role in determining future levels. They represent average data for all full-time faculty members at the university, excluding faculty in ... -
A Careers Perspective on Entrepreneurship
(2016-03-01)[Excerpt] What if being an entrepreneur were treated like any other occupation—teacher, nurse, manager? What if the decision to found a new venture were thought of as one of many options that individuals consider as they ... -
A Comparison of the Economic Status of Working-Age Persons with Visual Impairments and Those of Other Groups
(2003-03-01)This article compares the economic status of working-age individuals with visual impairments with those with nonvisual impairments. It shows that the employment rates and mean household incomes were lower and the receipt ... -
A Comparison of the Effects of Positive and Negative Information on Job Seekers’ Organizational Attraction and Attribute Recall
(2010-01-01)To date there have been no direct studies of how strong negative information from sources outside of organizations’ direct control impacts job seekers’ organizational attraction. This study compared models for positive and ... -
A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Union Commitment in Australia
(1993-01-01)This paper evaluates the applicability of the different factor structures of union commitment identified in previous studies to the Australian case. Confirmatory factor analysis results using LISREL VII suggest that union ... -
A Dead-End Street: Female Immigrants and Child Care
(1993-03-01)[Excerpt] Over the past few decades, two highly significant, yet distinctly different influences have affected the U.S. labor market: the mass movement of adult women with young children into the labor force and an upsurge ... -
A Descriptive Analysis of Layoffs in Large U.S. Firms Using Archival Data over Three Decades and Interviews with Senior Managers
(2005-08-29)This paper uses data on over 4,600 layoff announcements in the U.S., covering each firm that ever existed in the Fortune 500 between 1970 and 2000, along with 40 interviews of senior managers in 2001 and 2002 to describe ... -
A Discussion of Social Protection and Private Insurance
(1994-01-01)[Excerpt] This is a thoughtful and thought-provoking paper, informative and interesting. I learned a lot from reading this and have already passed it on to others. In my comments, I would like to do four things: highlight ... -
A Diversity of New Work Organization: Human-Centered, Lean, and In-Between
(1994-06-01)Lean production, from Toyota, is said to be paradigmatic for future production organization in the auto industry. This article challenges that view. Case studies at auto plants in the U.S., Germany, and Sweden show a wide ... -
A Helping Hand is Hard at Work: Help-Seekers’ Underestimation of Helpers’ Effort
(2016-01-01)Whether people seek help depends on their estimations of both the likelihood and the value of getting it. Although past research has carefully examined how accurately help-seekers predict whether their help requests will ... -
A Human Rights Problem on Campus
(2002-04-02)[Excerpt] Standing for tolerance, diversity, and dialogue in an otherwise "my-way" society, Yale, Brown, UMass and Columbia should lake the lead in honoring workers' rights, not frustrating them: in reversing violations ... -
A Multilevel Analysis of the Effect of Prompting Self-Regulation in Technology-Delivered Instruction
(2009-01-01)Two studies were conducted to examine the effect of prompting self-regulation, an intervention designed to improve learning from technology-delivered instruction. In Study 1, trainees who were prompted to self-regulate ... -
A New Alliance in New York State: A Progress Report on the Labor Movement’s Restructuring, Capacity Building, and Programmatic Work
(2006-11-30)The labor movement in New York State has undergone a dramatic restructuring that is part of a national AFL-CIO program called the New Alliance. The purpose of the New Alliance is to build the capacity of local labor movements ... -
A New Approach to Migrant Labor Rights Enforcement: The Crisis of Undocumented Worker Abuse and Mexican Consular Advocacy in the United States
(2015-01-01)This paper examines the genesis and evolution of consular efforts to enforce the workplace rights of immigrant workers in the United States. We draw on a survey of 52 Mexican consulates in the United States, in-depth ... -
A New Conceptualization of Union Commitment: Development and Test of and Integrated Theory
(1995-01-01)An introductory conceptual and empirical review stresses the need for a stable theoretical basis for union commitment research. The purpose of this paper is to develop a new conceptualization of union commitment based on ... -
A New Theory of Group Solidarity
(1994-01-01)This paper examines previous conceptualizations of group solidarity and related concepts in the sociological and social psychological literatures. After identifying ambiguities in previous usages, we define solidarity in ... -
A Philosophical Basis for Judicial Restraint
(2019-01-01)The purpose of this article is to establish a principled basis for restraint of judicial lawmaking. The principle is that all findings of fact, whether of legislative or adjudicative facts, must be based on evidence in the ... -
A Preliminary Report on Non-Faculty Bargaining at Colleges and Universities - 1993
(1992-11-01)[Excerpt] Although we will present more detailed data in subsequent sections, we would like to present a few key pieces of information here. Public sector campuses are substantially more likely to be unionized than private ... -
A Primer on Private Equity at Work: Management, Employment, and Sustainability
(2012-02-01)[Excerpt] Private equity, hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds and other private pools of capital form part of the growing shadow banking system in the United States; these new financial intermediaries provide an alternative ...
