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Investment under Uncertainty
Dixit, Avinash K.; Pindyck, Robert S. - Princeton University Press
How should firms decide whether and when to invest in new capital equipment, additions to their workforce, or the … theory of options in financial markets, which permits a much richer dynamic framework than was possible with the traditional … theory of investment. The authors present the new theory in a clear and systematic way, and consolidate, synthesize, and …
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Evidence-Based Well-Being/Positive Psychology Assessment and Intervention with Quality of Life Therapy and Coaching and the Quality of Life Inventory (QOLI)
Frisch, Michael - In: Social Indicators Research 114 (2013) 2, pp. 193-227
Quality of Life Therapy and Coaching (also known as Quality of Life Therapy) is a comprehensive, manualized, theory … steps in Quality of Life Therapy and Coaching are delineated in the context of an illustrative case and an underlying theory …
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Personality Traits and Professional Responsibility – Preliminary Model
Macik, Radoslaw; Macik, Dorota - ToKnowPress
Purpose: Purpose of this paper is analysis of connections between personality traits and effective functioning on different levels of professional responsibility. The main aim of this study was building a model which could explain in what way personality moderates coping with responsibility...
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IS IT PSYCHOLOGY ABOUT LINEAR OR DYNAMIC SYSTEMS?
BALAS-TIMAR, Dana - In: SEA - Practical Application of Science (2014) 4, pp. 189-196
Advances in Physics and Mathematics have proven that our complex world does not obey anymore the standard linear modelling systems rules. This paradigm seems to take over much of the scientific research in all sciences. Psychologists, no matter what their orientation is, are striving to create...
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Employee Behavior in Organizations. On the Current State of Research
Rosenstiel, Lutz von - In: management revue. Socio-economic Studies 22 (2011) 4, pp. 344-366
The article gives an overview about scientific research on individual behavior in organizations. A number of reasons are discussed why it is difficult to obtain a coherent body of knowledge about this topic, some of them meta-theoretical and methodological, others political, organizational and...
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Use of performance measurement and goal setting to improve construction managers' focus on health and safety
Cameron, Iain; Duff, Roy - In: Construction Management and Economics 25 (2007) 8, pp. 869-881
Previous attempts to use goal setting and feedback to improve safety behaviour on construction sites have focused on operatives, but recognized management commitment as essential for success. This research addressed two problems: validly and reliably measuring the safety performance of...
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Psychosocial Resources in Health Care Systems
Richter, Peter (contributor);  … - Rainer Hampp Verlag
Jobs and organizations are changing more and more rapidly. These changes go along with increasing demands, job insecurity, and feelings of stress and overload. Although all economic sectors are confronted with such drastic changes and negative consequences, this book shows that there are of a...
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Burnout, chronic fatigue, and prozac in the professions: The iron law of salaries
Haight, Alan Day - In: Review of Radical Political Economics 33 (2001) 2, pp. 189-202
In this model of contested exchange, ambitious salaried yuppies (in accounting, consulting, engineering, higher education, investment banking, law, management, marketing, medicine, or other professions) inevitably toil on the verge of depression, much as wage workers once toiled on the verge of...
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How the approval of rules influences motivation
Inauen, Emil - In: Evidence-based HRM: A Global Forum for Empirical Scholarship 2 (2014) 1, pp. 96-96
foundations are based upon self-determination theory (SDT), formalization and public service motivation. Findings – The paper …
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A critical review of safety initiatives using goal setting and feedback
Cameron, Iain; Duff, Roy - In: Construction Management and Economics 25 (2007) 5, pp. 495-508
setting); behaviourist (behaviour modification); and eclectic (social learning). Bandura's social learning theory usefully … integrates the divergent philosophies of Locke's goal setting and Luthan's behaviour modification. Social learning theory assumes …
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