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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 Brief Review of the Literature on Earnings Mobility in Developing Countries
(2008-02-20)[Excerpt] The literature on income and earnings mobility falls into three categories: 1. Macro mobility studies address the entire economy. They ask the question, how much income mobility and/or earnings mobility is there ... -
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 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 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 Field Study of Early Organizational Outcomes from the Introduction of a Skill Based Pay Program
(1994-10-01)Despite the documented increased use of skill or knowledge based pay programs in organizations, little evidence exists to demonstrate whether these plans achieve the results that are intended. This study, a quasi-experimental, ... -
A Guide to Multisector Labor Market Models
(2004-11-01)[Excerpt] This is a paper on labor markets. Why are labor markets important to economic development? Many individuals and institutions, including the World Bank and the regional development banks, seek “a world free of ... -
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 Labor Market Approach to the Crisis of Health Care Professionals in Africa
(2011-02-01)This paper adopts a labor market economics perspective to understanding the crisis of healthcare professionals in Africa. Five challenges resulting from this crisis are identified: a production challenge, an underutilization ... -
A Little Now for a Lot Later: A Look at a Texas Advanced Placement Incentive Program
(2007-01-01)I analyze a program implemented in Texas schools serving underprivileged populations that pays both students and teachers for passing grades on Advanced Placement (AP) examinations. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, ... -
A Multi-Level Process Model for Understanding Diversity Practice Effectiveness
(2017-07-01)Key Findings: The issue of workforce diversity has been at the forefront of organizational concerns for many years. Not surprisingly, this topic has generated reams of research aimed at shedding light not only on the ... -
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 Multilevel Analysis of the Effect of Prompting Self-Regulation in Technology-Delivered Instruction
(2008-11-01)We used a within-subjects design and multilevel modeling in two studies to examine the effect of prompting self-regulation, an intervention designed to improve learning from technology-delivered instruction. The results ... -
A Multilevel Analysis of the Effects of Technical Interruptions on Learning and Attrition From Web-Based Instruction
(2008-10-01)As training is increasingly integrated in the workplace and embedded in work technology, trainees are confronted by a variety of workplace and technological interruptions. This article presents a conceptual framework ... -
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 ...
