Human Resource and Employment Practices in Telecommunications Services, 1980-1998 [PDF]
, 1999 [Excerpt] In the academic literature on manufacturing, much research and debate have focused on whether firms are adopting some form of “high-performance” or “high-involvement” work organization based on such practices as employee participation, teams ...
Batt, Rosemary, Keefe, Jeffrey
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Stuck Between Surplus and Shortage: Demand for Skills in the Russian Industry [PDF]
In order to remain competitive, firms need to keep the quantity and composition of jobs close to the optimal for their given output. Since the beginning of the transition period, Russian industrial firms have been widely reporting that the quantity and ...
A. Lukiyanova +2 more
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Downsizing: Personnel Reductions at the Swedish Tobacco Monopoly, 1915-1939
, 2008 Downsizing is a phenomenon that remarkably seldom has been the subject of historical inquiry. This study investigates how a state-owned enterprise, the Swedish Tobacco Monopoly, reduced its labour inputs because of changed consumer preferences and mechanization in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Downsizing and purchases of psychotropic drugs: A longitudinal study of stayers, changers and unemployed. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Blomqvist S +4 more
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The Employment Effects of Downsizing the U.S. Military [PDF]
This study focuses on the employment effects of military spending versus channeling some significant part of the military budget into alternative purposes. We begin by introducing the basic input-output modeling technique for considering issues such as ...
Heidi Garrett-Peltier, Robert Pollin
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Privatization and Increasing the Role of the Public as Current Trends in Security Provision [PDF]
At present and in the medium-term perspective, the security systems of most European countries are challenged by a number of social and economic trends: demographic change and the selective withdrawal of state authority from the security sphere.
Libor Stejskal, Oldrich Krulík
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Recruiting Older Workers: Realities and Needs of the Future Workforce [PDF]
, 2013 This chapter examines literature pertaining to the recruitment of older workers. It begins by addressing the question of relevance and why older worker recruitment matters.
Adams, Gary A., Rau, Barbara L.
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FM contract relationships: from mobilisation to sustainable partnership [PDF]
, 2010 Purpose / theory Outsourcing is a fundamental business model for the Facilities Management (FM) industry. To enable sustained mutual success the parties involved must seek to understand the unique, socially constructed, and often highly complex ...
Ellison, I., Owen, S.
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Hazards, Risk and the Press: A Comparative Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of Nuclear and Chemical Weapons Sites [PDF]
, 2000 The authors present a comparative analysis of newspaper coverage for four hazardous substance containment facilities located in different parts of the ...
Greenberg, Michael +2 more
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A Study on the Psychological Attributes of Survivors Who Experienced Downsizing in China. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 Lee BH, Cai L, Liu J, Chang YJ.
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