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Exercise in the workplace? Employee preferences

Waikar, Avinash M.; Bradshaw, Martha E. - In: International Journal of Manpower 16 (1995) 9, pp. 16-30

Discusses musculoskeletal stress as a result of sedentary work, which has been and still is a problem in workplaces. Simple, quick exercises may be a low‐cost solution to this problem. Provides an account of an investigation, the aim of which was to determine employees′ preference about and...

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Managing workforce diversity: macro and micro level HR implications of network analysis

Stephenson, Karen; Lewin, David - In: International Journal of Manpower 17 (1996) 4/5, pp. 168-196

Public policy which controls and seeks to correct employment discrimination is now in its fourth decade in the USA …

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Employment equity, affirmative action and managing diversity: assessing the differences

Agócs, Carol; Burr, Catherine - In: International Journal of Manpower 17 (1996) 4/5, pp. 30-45

Affirmative action in the USA, and employment equity in Canada, are policy frameworks that have developed through the …

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The perceived impact of team‐based management systems on organizational effectiveness

Elmuti, Dean - In: International Journal of Manpower 17 (1996) 8, pp. 4-17

of settings throughout the USA. Uses a validated instrument on organizational effectiveness to gather data. Presents …

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What motivates employees according to over 40 years of motivation surveys

Wiley, Carolyn - In: International Journal of Manpower 18 (1997) 3, pp. 263-280

Explores past and present attitudes of employees concerning work‐related motivational factors. Understanding the factors that employees consider motivating lends insight to the rewards to which they more positively respond. Compares the results of four motivation surveys conducted in 1946,...

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The occupational wage structure in local labour markets

Hyclak, Thomas; Ohn, Jonathan - In: International Journal of Manpower 18 (1997) 8, pp. 651-661

Examines changes in the responsiveness of occupational wages to occupational unemployment rate in Atlanta, Cleveland, Los Angeles and Philadelphia over the 1977‐1990 period. Finds evidence that the wage responsiveness to unemployment increased during the 1980s and that our model does a good...

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Language ability, US labor market experience and the earnings of immigrants

Bellante, Don; Kogut, Carl A. - In: International Journal of Manpower 19 (1998) 5, pp. 319-330

This study examines the effect of English language ability and time spent in the USA on the earnings of immigrants … each year spent in the USA. Relative earnings are positively and significantly affected by English language mastery, but … the affects of language mastery and years spent in the USA do not appear to significantly reinforce each other. …

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Assessing the perceptions of human resource managers toward nepotism

Abdalla, Hagen F.; Maghrabi, Ahmed S.; Raggad, Bel G. - In: International Journal of Manpower 19 (1998) 8, pp. 554-570

developed country (the USA) and one less‐developed country (Jordan) toward arguments supporting nepotism. It also identifies …

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Exploring “bullying” culture in the para‐military organisation

Archer, David - In: International Journal of Manpower 20 (1999) 1/2, pp. 94-105

the Fire Service, conducted using fire brigades of similar background from the UK, the USA and Eire. It discovered …

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Sleight of hand

Lafer, Gordon - In: International Journal of Manpower 20 (1999) 3/4, pp. 139-151

For the past 20 years, job training has been promoted as the US Federal Government’s primary labour market policy for improving the employment opportunities of low‐income Americans. This essay provides new findings from the US labour market and from training programme evaluations to suggest...

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