The development of personality testing in the workplace has undergone three phases. The first generation of tests, such as Cattell’s 16 PF and the British test OPQ, was characterized by complex systems for the description of the personality. These systems were simplified in part by the...

Skönmålning är ett stort problem vid användning av personlighetstest av självrapporttyp. Det är ofta lätt att genomskåda vad olika testfrågor syftar till att mäta och vill man bluffa är det lätt att göra det. Trots det är denna typ av test vanliga och de tycks få en ökande...

In this literature review, we propose a synthesising view on what constitutes a value-creating corporate board. The review scopes ten academic journals in a 31 year period and is thematic/analytical rather than quantitative. Our judgement of profundity and quality of ideational content is the...

This paper analyzes optimal insurance against unemployment and disability in a private information economy with endogenous health and search effort. Individuals can reduce the probability of becoming disabled by exerting, so-called, prevention effort, which is costly in terms of utility. A...

In this paper we study the role of social insurance, namely old-age pensions, disability insurance and healthcare, in accounting for the differing labor supply patterns of older individuals across OECD countries. To this end, we develop a life cycle model of labor supply and health with...

Empirisk studie av ett prestationsbaserat bonussystem i SPP Livförsäkring AB <p> Denna studie visar att ett prestationsbaserat bonussystem i livförsäkringsbolaget SPP innebar ett förändrat beteende hos de anställda med ökat grupptänkande samt att prestationerna överträffade målen. <p>...</p></p>

Management consulting increasingly appears as a global endeavour as reflected in the increasing dominance of a few large, global management-consulting firms. However, features of the consulting service (e.g. its immaterial and interactional character) as well as aspects of management (e.g. its...

The existence and scale of formal memberships in a country or a region have often been used as an indicator of the country’s degree of civility or the civic and voluntary engagement in the population (Almond and Verba 1963; Curtis, Grabb and Baer 1992; Curtis Baer and Grabb 2001; Putnam 2000). At the same...

Using Swedish data, the study investigates whether an investment strategy based on publicly available financial statement information can generate abnormal investment returns. The strategy involves two steps. First, a financial statement based prediction model of changes in the book return on...

Riskuppfattning och relaterade attityder är av stor betydelse i samhället, både inom offentlig sektor och inom näringslivet. Människor har starka uppfattningar i riskfrågor och dessa uppfattningar innebär restriktioner på vilka tekniska framsteg som kan exploateras och vilka som måste...