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The psychological impacts of long-term unemployment, sex differences and activity: a case study analysis

Muller, Juanita; Delahaye, Brian; Winocur, Sharon; … - 1996

There is renewed interest in the use of qualitative methods in the unemployment research arena to provide a richer understanding of the unemployment experience. This study is designed to investigate the effects of long-term unemployment on psychological well-being, sex differences and the...

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The impact of gender effects on consumers' perceptions of brand equity: A cross-cultural investigation.

Ye, Lei - 2008

Despite a long-standing tradition to view gender as a unitary theoretical construct, there is an increasing approbation afforded to gender identity as a multifarious construct. Over and above physiological characteristics, gender identity is a psychological and a social construct. More than...

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Contextualizing Personal Experience: The Role of Mass Media

Mutz, Diana C - 1994

This study considers competing theories concerning the role of mass media in hindering or facilitating the translation of personal experience into political preferences. Using national survey and media content data that allows evaluations of both media coverage and individual patterns of media...

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Notes on The Unit of Adoption in Diffusion Research

Katz, Elihu - 1962

In thinking about the diffusion of innovation, one tends to overlook the obvious fact that not all innovations are adopted by, or are intended to be adopted by, individuals. In the first place, different sorts of innovations may "require" different units of adoption- for example, "it takes two...

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Accounting Recognition, Moral Hazard, and Communication

Liang, Pierre Jinghong - 2000

communication by the agent (i.e., a self-report). In a simple setting with no communication, alternative labor market frictions lead … signals serve as a veracity check on the agent’s self-report. Finally, such communication sometimes makes delaying the …

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The Mystique of Central Bank Speak

Geraats, Petra M - 2005

but that it may be useful to create the perception of opacity. The optimal communication strategy for the central bank is …

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The Future of the Gender Wage Gap in the American Workforce

Merrick, Molly K. - 2010

This thesis aims to accomplish four goals. First, to establish the extent to which a gender wage gap exists in the American workforce and why it matters. Second, it seeks to explore the various factors that scholars have advanced as potential explanations for this gap with the aim of identifying...

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New Communication Technologies, Organizational Culture, and the Creation of Innovative Learning Environments

Scott, Denise - 1998

of new communication technologies as a means of sharing information and expanding capacity for innovation. The main … question for this research is: When new communication technologies are introduced into organizations, how do they work together … Dollar General Corporation. Results include an introduction to each company, a report on their implemented new communication …

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Burning down the House: Emotional Labor, Burnout and Real Estate Sales Professionals

Rawlins, Laura Cooley - 2008

of work and communication in the real estate sales profession and providing a rich framework for understanding the …

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The Effect of Microenvironmental Space on Communication and Job Satisfaction in an Office Environment: A Systematic Enquiry

Bulusu, Aparan - 1995

organization, completed a questionnaire investigating the impact of microenvironmental space on communication and job satisfaction …. Excessive interaction, distraction, and communication with colleagues resulted in decreased level of communication privacy and … job Satisfaction. In conclusion, the results of this study suggested two options for the decreased communication and job …

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