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This paper estimates the social-welfare change due to the application of additional fire prevention measures on Mediterranean forests. The discrete choice experiment is applied to elicit the social preferences regarding fire prevention measures in terms of their impact on fire behaviour...
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), namely flexi-time, telehomework, and part-time work, on employees' satisfaction with the fit between working time and private … results show that TLF arrangements, flexi-time in particular, are generally associated with sizeable increases in satisfaction … with working-time fit and overall job satisfaction. Somewhat surprisingly, the effects hardly differ between male and …
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flexibility is negatively associated with sickness absenteeism in general. Especially flexi-time, i.e. schedule flexibility which … flexibility in the form of part- time work does not appear to have a significant impact on absenteeism. …
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variety of flexible work arrangements, such as flexi-time and telehomework. This temporal and locational flexibility of work … the labour supply part-time workers. To the best of our knowledge it has not been tested empirically yet, however, whether … therefore analyse whether flexi-time and telehomework arrangements increase the number of actual, contracted and preferred …
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This paper examines the nature of virtual teams and their place in the networked economy. It presents a framework for categorising virtual teams and argues that fundamental changes have taken place in the business environment which force people and organisations to operate in 'two spaces'...
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The current survey was carried out to study the effect of physical space on students' academic achievement motive in Payam-e-Nour University, Qeshm International Branch. For this purpose, all students of Payam-e-Nour University, Qeshm International Branch were selected as the statistical...
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Proponents of organizational knowledge creation theory have long recognized the importance of “spaces” for knowledge creation within organizations and, recently, in the eco-system to which the organization belongs. We argue that while knowledge creation in virtual spaces, such as online...
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This paper provides an overview of developments in fertility, family policy models, and intensity of work-family tensions in the CEE region in the 1990s and 2000s. It hypothesises that the intensification of work-family incongruities in the 1990s might have been an important determinant of the...
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Why are organizational work-life initiatives endorsed in some countries such as the US or the UK, while they generate little interest in France and other non-Anglo-Saxon environments? In a qualitative theory-building approach, this paper assesses the gap in workplace practices adoption among the...
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We introduce motivation theory as a way of understanding the decision-making process in the work and family context. We use core concepts from motivation theory - extrinsic, intrinsic and prosocial motivation - and link them to motivational learning to build our framework. We then propose a...
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