Worklife Expectancy via Competing Risks/Multiple Decrement Theory with an Application to Railroad Workers

Expectancy Value Theory: Motivating Healthcare Workers

Vroom’s expectancy theory provides a process of cognitive variables that reflects individual differences in work motivation. In this model, employees are rational people whose beliefs, perceptions, and probability estimates influence their behaviors. From a management perspective, the expectancy theory has some important implications for motivating employees in healthcare setting. It identifies...

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Markov Process Work-Life Expectancy Tables, the LPE Method for Measuring Worklife Expectancy, and Why the Gamboa-Gibson Worklife Expectancy Tables Are Without Merit

This paper has three parts. The first considers the various methods used by economic experts to measure worklife expectancy for purposes of determining damages for loss of earning capacity in personal injury cases or loss of financial support in wrongful death actions. Based on surveys of members of the National Association of Forensic Economics, the predominant method is use of Markov process ...

Reciprocal Negative Disclosures: An Application of Expectancy Violations Theory

Social support can dramatically improve an individual’s ability to confront and negotiate stressful life changes, and self-disclosure is one means through which individuals can create and maintain interpersonal relationships that can result in that much-needed social support (Cohen, Mermelstein, Kamarck, & Hoberman, 1985; Cohen & Wills, 1985; Cobb, 1976). However, during communication the relat...

Disability Insurance for Railroad Workers

T H E P R O M I N E N C E given i n recent months to pro posals for the establishment of a comprehensive system of d isabi l i ty insurance emphasizes the distinction i n t h a t respect between the Rai l road Retirement A c t and old ago and survivors insurance under the Social Security A c t . W h i l e bo th provide protection to workers who w i t h d r a w permanently from the labor m a r k...