Is It “Open Employment” When You Have to Pay Your Own Way to a Job Interview?

How to Schedule When You Have to Buy Your Energy

We consider a situation where jobs arrive over time at a data center, consisting of identical speed-scalable processors. For each job, the scheduler knows how much income is lost as a function of how long the job is delayed. The scheduler also knows the fixed cost of a unit of energy. The online scheduler determines which jobs to run on which processors, and at what speed to run the processors....

How to Pack Your Items When You Have to Buy Your Knapsack

In this paper we consider a generalization of the classical knapsack problem. While in the standard setting a fixed capacity may not be exceeded by the weight of the chosen items, we replace this hard constraint by a weight-dependent cost function. The objective is to maximize the total profit of the chosen items minus the cost induced by their total weight. We study two natural classes of cost...

Delegating Pricing Power to Customers: Pay What You Want or Name Your Own Price?∗

Pay What You Want (PWYW) and Name Your Own Price (NYOP) are customerdriven pricing mechanisms that give customers (some) pricing power. Both have been used in service industries with high fixed capacity costs in order to appeal to additional customers by reducing prices without setting a reference price. In this experimental study we compare the functioning and the performance of these two pric...

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Design Your Own Job Through Job Crafting

Job crafting can be viewed as changes that employees initiate in the level of job demands and job resources in order to make their own job more meaningful, engaging, and satisfying. As such, job crafting can be used to complement top-down approaches to improve jobs in order to overcome the inadequacies of job redesign approaches, to respond to the complexity of contemporary jobs, and to deal wi...