The Michigan Disability Prevention Study: Research Highlights [PDF]
This 3-year collaborative research project was designed to provide empirical evidence to substantiate the impact of various employer policies and practices on the prevention and management of workplace disability.
H. Allan Hunt, Rochelle V. Habeck
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Self-managed working time and firm performance: Microeconometric evidence [PDF]
, 2016 This paper empirically examines the impact of self-managed working time (SMWT) on firm per-formance using panel data from German establishments. As a policy for the decentralization of decision rights, SMWT provides employees with extensive control over ...
Beckmann, Michael
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Discarded: Exploring material stories and movements through participatory, public art interventions [PDF]
, 2019 Drawing on DeCerteau’s (1984) philosophy of tactics, which subvert dominant ways of being through creative appropriations of space and behavior, and New Materialist philosophies that offer vitality and agency to non-human objects (Barad, 2007; Bennett ...
Hegeman, Kira
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, 2012 Social incentives like employee awards are widespread in the corporate sector and may be important instruments for solving agency problems. To date, we have little understanding of their effect on behavior.
Cueni, Reto +2 more
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The training needs of industrial foremen : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Psychology at Massey University [PDF]
, 1985 This thesis reports the results of three interrelated studies relevant to the work and training of foremen. Training programmes for foremen which are based on traditional leadership research have not resulted in changes to objective performance ...
Hyde, Kenneth Francis
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Now wenches, listen, and let lovers lie: women's storytelling in Bloomfield and Clare [PDF]
, 2003 This essay involves two ‘borders’. The first is the border of gender, between male poet and female subject. The second is a cultural border, much criss-crossed in the early modern period, but still tricky for the nineteenth-century ‘labouring-class ...
Goodridge, J
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Analysis of Required Investigations of Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders in Spain [PDF]
, 2019 Musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) are the most common source of occupational health problems in Western countries. In Spain, musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) can be reported either as accidents or occupational diseases.
Carrillo-Castrillo, Jesús Antonio +3 more
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Work time demands, work time control and supervisor support in the Australian construction industry: an analysis of work-family interaction [PDF]
, 2012 Purpose - This research aims to explore the relationship between work time demands, work time control and supervisor support in the Australian construction ...
Francis, V, Lingard, H, Turner, M
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Can educational expansion improve income inequality in China? Evidences from the CHNS 1997 and 2006 data [PDF]
, 2010 Rapid education expansion and rising income inequality are two striking phenomena occurring in China during the transitional period. Using the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) data collected in 1997 and 2006, this paper studies how education ...
Ning, Guangjie
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Unemployment, Wage Push and the Labour Cost Competitiveness of Regions - The Case of Hungary, 1986-1996 [PDF]
The paper analyses regional relative wages using individual and firmlevel data from Hungary 1986-96. In regions hit hard by the transition shock labour costs fell substantially; the estimated elasticities of wages with respect to regional unemployment ...
Gabor Kertesi, Janos Kollo
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