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When it Comes to Top HR Leadership Success, It's a Matter of Both Timing and Tempo: A Look at the Effects of CEO Tenure and Style on the Bottom Line
(2019-02-01)[Excerpt] For decades, human resource strategists have relied on HR theorists and researchers to generate insights to help them hone their craft. For much of this time the focus has been on defining and refining an HR ... -
When Pay is Kept Secret, the Implications on Performance are Revealing
(2013-06-01)Key Findings Pay secrecy (in contrast to pay transparency) negatively affects the performance of individuals who are less tolerant to inequity; Pay secrecy negatively affects the perception of the link between performance ... -
When Stock Options Fail to Motivate: Attribution and Context Effects on Stock Price Expectancy
(2002-01-01)This study draws on attribution theory and literature from compensation and strategy to investigate executives’ perceptions about their influence over the firm’s stock price. We define stock price expectancy as the extent ... -
When We Don't See Eye to Eye: Discrepancies Between Supervisors and Subordinates in Absence Disciplinary Decisions
(1992-05-01)This study provided a within-subjects assessment of the factors associated with absence disciplinary decisions for both supervisors and subordinates. In addition, this study examined discrepancies in disciplinary decisions ... -
Which Resources Matter in Initial Public Offering Firms? A Longitudinal Comparison of Five Resources’ Contributions to Firm Performance
(1997-01-01)In order to better understand the relevant resources in the resource based view of the firm, this study examines which resources executives in initial public offering (IPO) firms think are important to their success two ... -
Who Participated in School-to-Work Programs in 1998? Technical Report
(2003-04-01)[Excerpt] This report is based on a survey of 7425 students attending high school during the 1998/99 academic year that asked about recent participation in school-to-work (STW) activities. The survey is the first wave of ... -
Who's Contented Now? Gainsharing and the Paradoxical Female Worker
(1996-11-01)The "paradox of the contented female worker" describes the phenomenon of women reporting higher work and life satisfaction levels than men, despite being objectively worse off than their male counterparts. Using models of ... -
Why Are Wage Profiles so Flat During the First Year on a Job?
(1989-10-01)This paper presents evidence that productivity net of general training costs rise 4 or 5 times more rapidly than wage rates during the first 2 years on a job. This occurs for three reasons. First, sorting, high job search ... -
Why California Needs a High School Exit Examination System: Enrollment + Motivation + Engagement => Learning
(2006-05-17)[Excerpt] The purpose of the educational enterprise is LEARNING. Engagement is essential to achieving this purpose. Students must come to school, pay attention, do homework, engage with the subject and construct their new ... -
Why Do Employees Keep Choosing the Expensive Health Care Plan? An Investigation of the Quality and Logic of Employee Health Care Plan Selections
(1995-08-01)In 1991, The Dannon Company provided 287 of its employees with a choice of healthcare plans. The new plan was less expensive and designed to fit employees' needs better. Contrary to managerial expectation, three-quarters ... -
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 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 ... -
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-Family Conflict Not Just a Women's Issue: Helping All Employees Find Work-Life Balance
(2010-04-01)KEY FINDINGS * If employees feel their family life interferes with their work, they tend to feel guilty. They're actually less likely to feel guilt when they feel work interferes with their family life, possibly ... -
Worker Participation in Diverse Settings: Does the Form Affect the Outcome, and if so, who Benefits?
(1995-05-31)[Excerpt] This paper utilizes extensive surveys of workers in three occupational groups (network craft workers, semi-skilled office workers, and semi-skilled machine operators) in two very different industries (telecommunications ... -
Workforce Preparedness
(1992-01-01)[Excerpt] Concern about slackening productivity growth and deteriorating competitiveness has resulted in a new public focus on the skills and education of frontline workers. The introduction of Lean Production and ... -
Workplace 2000: A Delphi-Study
(1992-02-01)[Excerpt] Prognosticate and one thing is certain: you are likely to be wrong. Then why speculate about Workplace 20001 Because Boulding is right; as the future unfolds, surprise is preferable to astonishment. Informed ... -
“You’re Nobody ‘til Somebody Loves You”: The Use of Job Search for Bargaining Leverage
(2002-01-01)The purpose of this research is to investigate a previously overlooked yet important objective for an employee engaging in job search – seeking alternative employment to obtain leverage against the current employer. We ...
