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California Farmworkers’ Strikes of 1933
(1990-01-01)[Excerpt] The spring of 1933 ushered in a wave of labor unrest unparalleled in the history of California agriculture. Starting in April with the Santa Clara pea harvest, strikes erupted throughout the summer and fall as ... -
California Pea Pickers’ Strike of 1932
(1990-01-01)[Excerpt] Just before the start of the May 1932 harvest season, growers in the Half Moon Bay area of San Mateo, California, provoked a spontaneous strike among pea pickers when they reduced piece rates from seventy-five ... -
Can a Tax Credit for Employment Growth in 2009 and 2010 Restore Animal Spirits and Help Jump Start the Economy?
(2008-12-01)[Excerpt] In the last three months employment declined by 1.2 million jobs and the number of part time workers who want but cannot find full-time work increased by 1.5 million. We are in a downward spiral that John Thain ... -
Can Confidence Come Too Soon? Collective Efficacy, Conflict and Group Performance over Time
(2010-05-19)Groups with a strong sense of collective efficacy set more challenging goals, persist in the face of difficulty, and are ultimately more likely to succeed than groups who do not share this belief. Given the many advantages ... -
Can You Use it in a Sentence? Defining Talent Management
(2015-11-01)Key Findings The term talent management has escaped a standard definition, and nearly every article written on the topic conclude that the concept of talent management is lacking in terms of definition and theoretical ... -
Candidate Persistence and Personality Test Practice Effects: Implications for Staffing System Management
(2010-07-01)Candidates persist in selection settings for numerous reasons, prompting several concerns regarding staffing system management. Predictors of the propensity to retest and personality test practice effects were investigated ... -
Capital Mobility and Job Loss: Corporate Restructuring, Production Shifts, and Outsourcing
(2007-01-01)[Excerpt] This chapter examines the impact of corporate restructuring and global outsourcing on employment in the Commonwealth and the shifts in production from workplaces in Massachusetts to other countries. In particular ... -
Career's End: A Survey of Faculty Retirement Policies
(2001-07-01)There are almost as many ways to retire from the academy as there are types of schools. But, as a recent study shows, institutional planning can prevent unpleasant surprises. -
Causes and Consequences of Collective Turnover: A Meta-Analytic Review
(2013-01-01)Given growing interest in collective turnover (i.e., employee turnover at unit and organizational levels), the authors propose an organizing framework for its antecedents and consequences and test it using meta-analysis. ... -
CEO Pay-For-Performance Heterogeneity: Examples Using Quantile Regression
(2008-07-29)We provide some examples of how quantile regression can be used to investigate heterogeneity in pay–firm size and pay-performance relationships for U.S. CEOs. For example, do conditionally (predicted) high-wage managers ... -
Challenges and Policy Lessons for the Growth-Employment-Poverty Nexus in Developing Countries
(2012-01-01)Productivity growth and structural change are generally considered to be important determinants of economic growth. However recent research revealed that they do not necessarily lead to higher growth and employment rates. ... -
“Challenge” and “Hindrance” Related Stress Among U.S. Managers
(1998-06-01)This study proposes that stress associated with two kinds of job demands or work circumstances, “challenges” and “hindrances,” are distinct phenomena that are differentially related to work outcomes. Specific hypotheses ... -
Change and Transformation in Asian Industrial Relations
(2002-04-01)Authors argue that industrial relations systems change due to shifts in the constraints facing those systems, and that the most salient constraints facing IR systems in Asia have shifted from those of maintaining labor ... -
Changes in Employment and Working Conditions Among Technical and Professional Workers
(2002-01-01)Recent organizing drives and strike activity among technical and professional employees raise the question of whether the employment conditions of these workers are deteriorating more generally. To consider this question, ... -
Changes in Employment Security in Asia
(2001-02-01)Much attention has been focused on the decline of traditional employment structures in the advanced industrial countries. Lesser attention has focused on this issue in Asia. In this comparative essay, the authors examine ... -
Changes in Faculty Composition Within the State University of New York System: 1985-2001
(2003-08-13)[Excerpt] The last two decades of the twentieth century saw a significant growth in the share of faculty members in American colleges and universities that are part-time or are full-time without tenure-track status. Growing ... -
Changes in the Academic Labor Market for Economists
(2004-03-09)[Excerpt] American colleges and universities are increasingly substituting non-tenure track full-time and part-time faculty for full-time tenured and tenure track faculty. Moreover, institutions of public higher education, ... -
Changes in the Labor Market
(1989-01-01)[Excerpt] The service-oriented economy has an undeservedly bad reputation. The notion of a service-oriented economy somehow conjures up an impression of a nation of "hamburger flippers." That's not where the growth in ... -
Changing an Unfavorable Employer Reputation: The Roles of Recruitment Message-Type and Familiarity with Employer
(2015-01-01)An unfavorable employer reputation can impair an organization’s ability to recruit job seekers. The present research employed a four-week longitudinal experimental design to investigate whether recruitment messages can ... -
Changing an Unfavorable Employment Reputation: A Longitudinal Examination
(2008-11-01)Although a favorable employment reputation plays an important role in generating a large and qualified pool of job applicants for an organization (Rynes & Cable, 2003), little research has investigated whether organizations ...
