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IT organizations are engaging and generating new forms of work such as software development. The new forms of work do not … culminate in a material or a physical product. Rather the new forms of work is processed through computers, headsets and phones …. Hence, this article presents the analysis of new forms of work emerging out of IT organizations. It addresses the question …
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The amount of work done in the economy has been subject to a lot of debate in Finland recently. Unemployment is … widely criticised. In the report we first describe how much work is done in Finland. Secondly, we recall the key messages of … Finnish circumstances, increasing the amount of work is useful and important, why the idea of work sharing is flawed, and why …
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OFFS scores and advance the literature on income polarization, we analyze their association with work hours and labor … incomes in the global North and South. Both covariates correlate with work hours in ways that are consistent with previous …
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We estimate a system of three behavioral equations for Brazilian children and teenagers (school absenteeism, health status and child labor). We relieved the assumption of independence of the disturbance terms of each equation. Moreover, if causality mechanisms between these three components...
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inequalities in work and employment. Her intellectual contributions are renowned for both their critical questioning of mainstream …
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information leads to the principal-agent problem (Ross, 1973) whereby managers cannot fully monitor the work effort levels of … work effort by adjusting the working conditions associated with the work environment (see for example Vroom, 1964; Igalens … & Roussel, 1999; Locke and Latham, 2004). The studies of work motivation generally acknowledge that work effort is the product …
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marriage disincentives of underemployment and lower wages when men work in more female intensive occupations. (3) Increased …
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Emotions in workplace settings and emotional intelligence are hot topics in management today. Leading business journals such as Fortune and Harvard Business Review have featured articles on emotional intelligence. But there is more to emotions in the workplace than just emotional intelligence....
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This study developed and tested a model of job uncertainty for survivors and victims of downsizing. Data were collected from three samples of employees in a public hospital, each representing three phases of the downsizing process: immediately before the announcement of the redeployment of...
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Work process knowledge (WPK) is a concept for systems-level knowledge of the workplace and has been shown to be most … comparative case studies of the work processes and knowledge within these six VAs, based on a social constructivist framework …. Although VA managers do not use the term ‘work process knowledge’, they nonetheless recognise the importance of having staff …
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