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Achievement, Test Scores and Relative Wages
(1989-12-01)[Excerpt] This article examines the causal connections between these two phenomena: changes in the academic achievement of high school graduates and changes in the payoff to college. Four specific questions are addressed. ... -
Achieving National Economic and Social Goals: The Counterproductive Role of Post-1965 Immigration Policy
(1995-09-01)[Excerpt] Immigration is a discretionary policy of every nation state. No citizen of any foreign nation has a right to enter any other country for the purpose of permanent settlement or for employment just because he or ... -
An Active Learning Model of Diversity Training
(Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies, 2021-05)United States companies spend an estimated $8 billion dollars annually on diversity training, which currently is a fixture in nearly all Fortune 500 companies, as well as a majority of mid-sized firms. Naturally, researchers ... -
Adaptive Guidance: Effects On Self-Regulated Learning In Technology-Based Training
(2006-12-06)Guidance provides trainees with the information necessary to make effective use of the learner control inherent in technology-based training, but also allows them to retain a sense of control over their learning (Bell & ... -
Agency Theory Implications for Strategic Human Resource Management: Effects of CEO Ownership, Administrative HRM, and Incentive Alignment on Firm Performance
(1996-11-01)Agency theory is used to expand the research in strategic human resource management (SHRM) by viewing the construct underlying SHRM as control over all employees. We develop hypotheses on the effects of CEO ownership, ... -
Aging, Job Satisfaction, and Job Performance
(1990-01-01)The national trend to earlier retirement is surprising in light of conventional wisdom holding that older workers are healthy, satisfied and productive employees -- sometimes even more so than their younger counterparts. ... -
All Turnover Is Not Created Equal: Gaining Insight Into How Employee Departures Affect Organizational Units
(2012-12-01)[Excerpt] Key Findings: Traditional turnover ratios–the number of employees leaving versus the total number in a unit—may not accurately describe how employee departures affect business unit performance. Traditional ... -
An Architectural Approach to Managing Knowledge Stocks and Flows: Implications for Reinventing the HR Function
(2005-08-01)Sustainable competitive advantage is increasingly dependent upon a firm’s ability to manage both its knowledge stocks and flows. We examine how different employees’ knowledge stocks are managed within a firm and how—through ... -
An Economic Theory of Academic Engagement Norms: The Struggle for Popularity and Normative Hegemony in Secondary Schools
(2007-09-01)[Excerpt] Why and how do groups create norms? Kenneth Arrow proposed that “norms of social behavior, including ethical and moral codes, ….are reactions of society to compensate for market failure”. This internalize the ... -
An Empirical Investigation of the Predictors of Executive Career Success
(1994-04-01)The present study examined the degree to which demographic, human capital,motivational, organizational, and industry/region variables predicted executive career success. Career success was assumed to comprise objective ... -
An Employment Systems Approach to Turnover: Human Resources Practices, Quits, Dismissals, and Performance
(2012-02-01)Key Findings • Organizations using high-involvement work practices have lower rates of quits, dismissals, and total turnover, which in turn leads to higher rates of customer satisfaction. • Long-term investments in ... -
An Inside or an Outside Job? How Organizations Use the Information and Attributes of Internal Versus External Job Candidates to Fill Specific Jobs
(2015-12-01)Key Findings: Firm-specific skills, or those skills acquired through working at a specific organization, are often necessary for succeeding at certain jobs; and internal employees possess higher levels of these skills ... -
Applicant Attraction Strategies: An Organizational Perspective
(1989-05-01)Developing labor shortages are expected to increase the importance of applicant attraction into the next century. Unfonunately, previous research has provided little in the way of unified theory or operational guidelines ... -
Applying for Entitlements: Employers and the Targeted Jobs Tax Credit
(1988-02-09)The Targeted Jobs Tax Credit is probably the most outstanding example of a generous entitlement program with very low participation rates. Only about 10 percent of eligible youth are claimed. The causes of the low participation ... -
Are Early Investments In Computer Skills Rewarded In The Labor Market?
(2006-10-01)The paper assesses the relationship between investments in computer skills by adolescents and earnings at age 26. The heaviest investors earned 9 to 16 percent more than otherwise equivalent NELS-88 classmates. The payoff ... -
Attitudes Towards Work And The Market Economy In Bulgaria
(1992-08-17)[Excerpt] As in the reports on Poland (Ruiz Quintanilla 1992a) and Hungary (Ruiz Quintanilla 1992b), this summary will center on how life has changed in Bulgaria as evaluated by the Bulgarian people. The domain of interest ... -
Attitudes Towards Work and the Market Economy in Hungary
(1992-05-16)[Excerpt] A common approach in describing countries in Eastern and Central Europe is to focus on similarities among them currently and in their past but to neglect differences. This approach utilizes broad categories as ... -
Attitudes Towards Work and the Market Economy in Poland
(1992-04-16)[Excerpt] The results of the June, 1989 elections demonstrated the willingness of a majority of the Polish people to initiate the change from a one-party regime to political pluralism. While the past has been rejected, ... -
Attitudes Towards Work and the Market Economy in the Czech and Slovak Republics
(1992-09-08)[Excerpt] This report is the final in a series of four reports whose main purpose is to present a preliminary overview of attitudes towards work and the market economy in four Eastern and Central European countries (actually ...
