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Employment Adjustments on the Internal and External Labour Market: An Empirical Study with Personnel Records of a German Company [PDF]

open access: yes
Firms are affected by the product demand. This leads to employment adjustments. In the literature we find only very few contributions investigating the issue whether internal adjustments are linked and which relationships exist with external adjustments.
Gerlach, Knut, Hübler, Olaf
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Block scheduling in practice: An optimal decomposition strategy for nonidentical operating rooms

open access: yesDecision Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract We develop and implement a Master Surgery Schedule for a real‐life hospital, assigning operating room (OR) time to surgical specialties over a multi‐week horizon. Through action research, we identify a critical operational challenge: the issue of split blocks. Split blocks allow two specialties to share an OR on the same day—one in the morning,
Vincent J. J. van Ham   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Segmentation and gender wage disparities in the early industrial workforce: Insights from Arkwright's Lumford Mill, 1786–1811

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the gender wage gap and wage setting in the early cotton spinning factories of the industrial revolution, with a specific focus on Richard Arkwright's Lumford Mill in Bakewell, Derbyshire. The research links workers from the mill's wage books with parish baptism records to estimate ages and construct age–wage profiles in ...
Alexander Tertzakian
wiley   +1 more source

No Slack in the System: Workforce Strain, Redistribution, and Recalibration in State and Local Government Public Health. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Public Health Manag Pract
Robins M   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Manager‐initiated unlearning: A study of intellectual property departments in Japanese firms

open access: yesEuropean Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Previous studies have emphasized that individuals play important roles in facilitating organizational unlearning; however, little is known about how leadership promotes organizational unlearning. From the perspective of routine dynamics, this study explores the effects of managers' behaviors on unlearning at the department level.
Makoto Matsuo
wiley   +1 more source

Racing Against a Career‐Fertility Countdown: The Prospective Motherhood Penalty and Gendered Ageism in China's Workplace

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the prospective motherhood penalty encountered by women white‐collar workers of childbearing age, regardless of their childbearing status, in China's non‐state‐owned enterprises. Drawing on 63 qualitative interviews with women employees, selected from a broader study of 85 participants, it explores how women subjectively ...
Rose Xueqing Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Tournaments and Unfair Treatment [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper introduces the negative feelings associated with the perception of being unfairly treated into a tournament model and examines the impact of these perceptions on workers’ efforts and their willingness to work overtime.
Sjögren Lindquist, Gabriella
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