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Virtual Leadership: Required Competencies for Effective Leaders
(2010-01-01)There are countless books, articles, and resources available which attempt to identify the competencies and qualities of effective leaders. Traditionally, leaders have been at the center of a community, be it work, church, ... -
Virtual Teams: Work/Life Challenges - Keeping Remote Employees Engaged
(2010-01-01)Remotely located employees are quickly becoming a norm in the modern workplace in response to evidence that telecommuters save on costs and produce more efficiently. There are many intangible benefits also felt with the ... -
Vocational and Academic Education in High School: Complements or Substitutes
(1988-08-24)[Excerpt] A number of blue ribbon-panels have called for increases in the number academic courses required for graduation from high school and for lengthening the school day and the school year. Most states have adopted ... -
Vocational Education and At-Risk Youth in the United States
(1995-08-01)[Excerpt] Educationally disadvantaged youth in the United States have great difficulty finding steady jobs providing real training and advancement opportunities. In October 1994 only 43 percent of the young people who had ... -
Vocational Education For At-Risk Youth: How Can It Be Made More Effective?
(1988-08-24)[Excerpt] Minority youth and non-minority youth from economically disadvantaged backgrounds have great difficulty finding steady jobs that provide real training and advancement opportunities. In October 1986, only 32 percent ... -
Voluntary Turnover and Alternative Job Opportunities
(1989-01-06)Models of turnover specify important roles for both general labor market conditions and perceptions. There is consistent support for the role of general labor market conditions, but evidence on labor market perceptions is ... -
Voluntary Turnover and Job Performance: Curvilinearity and the Moderating Influences of Salary Growth and Promotions
(1997-02-01)[Excerpt] The relationship between job performance and voluntary employee turnover was investigated for 5,143 exempt employees in a single firm. As hypothesized, support was found for E. F Jackofsky's (1984) curvilinear ... -
Voluntary Turnover and Job Performance: Curvilinearity and the Moderating Influences of Salary Growth, Promotions, and Labor Demand
(1995-08-01)In this study we investigated the relation between job performance and voluntary employee turnover for 5,143 exempt employees in a single firm in the petroleum industry. As hypothesized, we found support for Jackofsky's ... -
Voluntary Turnover, Job Performance, Salary Growth, and Labor Market Conditions
(1990-06-01)[Excerpt] The importance of employee turnover control depends on many factors, including the relative supply of replacements in either the internal or external labor market, the amount of training invested in the employee, ... -
Wall Street Likes its Women: An Examination of Women in the Top Management Teams of Initial Public Offerings
(1999-04-01)[Excerpt] As part of an overall research project exploring the determinants of initial public offering (IPO) firm success, I examine the effect of having women on the top management teams of IPO firms on the organizations’ ... -
What are the Effects of Work Restructuring on Employee Well-Being and Firm Performance? Evidence from Telecommunications Services
(1995-05-20)The purpose of this study was to assess whether there are benefits to employees and firms associated with new forms of work organization and human resource and industrial relations practices. I examine a series of interrelated ... -
What Is Strategic Competence and Does It Matter? Exposition of the Concept and a Research Agenda
(2006-10-01)Drawing on a range of theoretical and empirical insights from strategic management and the cognitive and organizational sciences, we argue that strategic competence constitutes the ability of organizations and the individuals ... -
What is the Practical Relevance of Dispositional Effects on Job Satisfaction?
(1990-12-01)A review of research on dispositional effects on job satisfaction reveals two potential practical implications. First, it has been suggested that personnel programs designed to increase satisfaction levels may not have ... -
What Should Be the Federal Role In Supporting And/Or Shaping Development Of State Accountability Systems For Secondary School Achievement?
(2002-06-01)In the 1960s U.S. participation rates in secondary education were the highest in the world. This is no longer true. According to the OECD (Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development) data…enrollment rates of 16 ... -
What We Know About Employer-Provided Training: A Review of Literature
(1996-07-01)While the importance of on-the-job training is recognized by everyone, it is a phenomenon that is very difficult to study. Most training is informal and hard to measure and its effects on productivity are even more difficult ... -
What's HR Got to do with it? A Look at its Effects on the Bottom Line in Service-Based Organizations
(2019-03-01)[Excerpt] For a long time it was assumed that service-based organizations could compete on the basis of differentiation or on the basis of low prices, but not both. Great customer service was thought to require customized ... -
What's Wrong With American Secondary Schools: Can State and Federal Governments Fix it?
(1990-11-01)[Excerpt] The poor performance of American students is sometimes blamed on the nation's "diversity". Many affluent parents apparently believe that their children are doing acceptably by international standards. This is not ... -
When Big Isn’t Better: Why Smaller International Initial Public Offering Firms Seem to Win
(1998-02-01)There is a considerable amount of research suggesting that “being international” is better. While that may be the case, the assumption remains tenuous at best, and research that considers organizational size provides results ... -
When do Losers Become Leavers? Rejection and Turnover in Internal Talent Markets
(2019-08-01)[Excerpt] Internal talent markets (ITMs) are making a comeback thanks to tight external labor markets and the well-documented shortcomings of the “fire and hire” approach to staffing. While specifics vary, ITMs share three ... -
When It Comes to Employee Engagement, One Size Does Not Fit All
(2013-04-01)Key Findings: Engagement is powerful but complicated Stop worrying about benchmarking and determine key employee engagement components for your organization based on your unique business strategy and employee roles ...
