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Why Do Field Differentials In Average Faculty Salaries Vary Across Universities?
(2005-06-02)Average faculty salaries at American colleges and universities differ widely across fields at American colleges and universities and the magnitudes of these field differences in salaries have been growing over time. What ... -
Why Do School District Budget Referenda Fail?
(2003-07-15)[Excerpt] Public elementary and secondary education is financed in many states at least partially at the local level and school district budgets in many states are determined by voter referenda. To date, however, there ... -
Why High and Low Performers Leave and What They Find Elsewhere: Job Performance Effects on Employment Transitions
(2007-06-26)Little is known about how high and low performers differ in terms of why they leave their jobs, and no work examines whether pre-quit job performance matters for post-quit new-job outcomes. Working with a sample of ... -
Why High School Students Learn So Little And What Can Be Done About It
(1988-01-01)[Excerpt] The National Commission on Excellence in Education has stated, "Learning is the indispensable investment required for success in the information age we are entering." The high American standard of living has ... -
Why Not Unions to Combat Sweatshops?
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Why Revitalize? Labour’s Urgent Mission in a Contested Global Economy
(2004-01-01)What looked like carte blanche for corporate-led globalization just a few years ago is now increasingly contested. The brave new vision of market fundamentalism has been challenged on several fronts, from massive demonstrations ... -
Why Students Don't Study: How You Can Make Studying Pay Off For Them
(1989-07-07)American high school students devote much less time and energy to their studies than the students of other nations. The cause of the lack of motivation is the lack of rewards for studying hard and for taking rigorous ... -
Why the Apathy in American High Schools?
(1989-01-01)[Excerpt] Yes, it is a classic chicken versus egg problem. We assign teachers the responsibility for setting high standards but we do not give them any of the tools that might be effective for inducing student observance ... -
Why Universities Need Institutional Researchers More Than They Realize?
(2004-04-27)This paper discusses the benefits of universities maintaining and utilizing institutional researchers, citing specific examples of invaluable research conducted that proved instrumental in providing data and surveys for ... -
Why WARN? The Impact of Recent Plant-Closing and Layoff Prenotification Legislation in the United States
(1993-01-01)[Excerpt] WARN was passed only after a decade of strenuous debate. We can now look back and address a number of issues it raised. What benefits did its proponents think would arise from the notice legislation, and what ... -
Will Trustees Tame Tuition?
(2001-04-11)[Excerpt] In recent years, tuition has similarly continued to increase by more than inflation. However, during the 1980s real income growth stagnated in the United States. As a result, tuition as a share of family income ... -
With a Little Help from My Friends (and Strangers): Closeness as a Moderator of the Underestimation-of-Compliance Effect
(Elsevier, 2019-05)Those seeking help systematically underestimate the likelihood that strangers will help them (Bohns, 2016). However, it is not known whether this same error persists when requesting help from people with whom we interact ... -
Within State Transitions From 2-Year to 4-Year Public Institutions
(2002-02-02)[Excerpt] Within many large states there are multiple 2-year and 4-year institutions. In 1998-99, only 19 states had less than 15 public 2-year institutions. Of the 31 states with 15 or more public 2-year institutions, ... -
Women and Union Leadership in the UK and USA: First Findings From a Cross-National Research Project
(2010-05-01)This is a report prepared for Cornell Conference on Women and Union Leadership held at Cornell University, New York City on May 8th 2010 and for Queen Mary/SERTUC Workshop on Women and Union Leadership held at Congress ... -
Women's Pay in Australia, Great Britain and the United States: Commentary
(1989-01-01)[Excerpt] My reaction to this paper is mixed. On the one hand, it represents one of the few serious efforts I know of to place discussions about comparable worth in a comparative perspective and to bring evidence from other ... -
Work Groups and Teams in Organizations
(2001-01-01)[Excerpt] Our objective in this chapter is to provide an integrative perspective on work groups and teams in organizations, one that addresses primary foci of theory and research, highlights applied implications, and ... -
Work Groups and Teams in Organizations: Review Update
(2013-01-01)This review chapter examines the literature on work team effectiveness. To begin, we consider their nature, define them, and identify four critical conceptual issues—context, workflow, levels, and time—that serve as review ... -
Work Injuries and Wage Losses for Partially Disabled California Workers: Discussion
(1976-01-01)[Excerpt] Wayne Vroman's paper is a modest preliminary report, which is derived from an ongoing research project concerned with permanent partial disabilities and workers' compensation. The larger project will develop and ... -
Work Meaning Patterns in Early Career
(1993-11-17)Work meaning patterns combine dimensions such as work centrality, expressive versus economic work goals, entitlement versus obligation societal norms into a holistic picture of the over time evolution of the meaning of ... -
Work Organization, Technology, and Performance in Customer Service and Sales
(1999-07-01)The author analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of Total Quality Management and Self-Managed Teams, as compared to mass production approaches to service delivery, among customer service and sales workers in a large unionized ...
