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Workers' well-being and job performance in the context of COVID-19: a sector-specific approach

Boulet, Maude; Parent-Lamarche, Annick - In: Evidence-based HRM: a Global Forum for Empirical Scholarship 11 (2022) 3, pp. 377-394

Purpose The main objective of this study is to scrutinize the relationship between workers' well-being and job performance across sectors during the first lockdown. The authors also aim to examine the indirect effects of satisfaction with work-life balance, reopening of schools after closure,...

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Job characteristics, work involvement, and job performance of public servants

Johari, Johanim; Yahya, Khulida Kirana - In: European Journal of Training and Development 40 (2016) 7, pp. 554-575

Purpose The primary purpose of this study is to assess the predicting role of job characteristics on job performance. Dimensions in the job characteristics construct are skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy and feedback. Further, work involvement is tested as a mediator in...

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Education of young sportspersons (LOT 1) : final report

Henry, Ian P. (contributor); Preece, Andy (contributor) - Institute of Sport and Leisure Policy <Loughborough> - 2004

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Revisiting the Complementarity between Educationand Training: The Role of Personality, Working Tasksand Firm Effects

Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

This paper addresses the question to which extent the complementarity between educationand training can be attributed … at work are strong predictors of training participation whilepersonality traits are not. Once working tasks and other job … related characteristics arecontrolled for, the skill gap in training participation drops considerably for off …

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FIRM PROVISION OF GENERAL TRAINING AND SPECIFICHUMAN CAPITAL ACQUISITION

Casas-Arce, Pablo - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2004

The existing literature on training is concerned with understanding the reasons whyfirms pay for the general skills of … willingnessof firms to pay for general training, and accounts for the pattern of training provisionempirically observed. It is …

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Twenty-First Century Professionalism:Raising Standards and Building Trust

Scott, Alexander - Chartered Insurance Institute - 2009

A starting point to any understanding of British professions in the twenty-first century is an appreciation of what it has meant to be a profession up to this point.This is no easy task. There is no single, generally accepted definition of ‘profession’ in the English language. The term has...

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Information and Communication Technologiesand Skill Upgrading:The Role of Internal vs. External Labour Markets

Behaghel, Luc; Caroli, Eve; Walkowiak, Emmanuelle - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

requirements. They may react either by training or hiring the newskills, or by a combination of both. We first show that ICT are … evidenceof external labour market strategies based on “excess turnover”. In contrast, French firmsheavily rely on training in …

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The Impact of Training on Productivity and Wages:Firm Level Evidence

Konings, Jozef; Vanormelingen, Stijn - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

This paper uses firm level panel data of firm provided training to estimate its impact onproductivity and wages. To … wage premium of training is estimated at 12%. Our results give support to recent theoriesthat explain work related training …

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Ag Bankers -- Today and Tomorrow

Jolly, Robert William; Gaul, Michael - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2009

addition respondents reported the desired training and experience and expected compensation of new hires. Bank executives … and communication were more important for new agricultural loan officers than formal training in agriculture or business …

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Training Background and Early Retirement

Montizaan, Raymond; Cörvers, Frank; Grip, Andries de - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

Several studies show that employees with firm-specific skills are more likely to be covered by employer-sponsored pension schemes than workers with general skills. Therefore it can be expected that workers with firm-specific skills retire earlier. This paper tests this prediction using US data...

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