Pre-employment personality testing has become widely used across a variety of work settings. A relatively new area where pre-employment is being implemented in the field community-based corrections (CBCs). One instrument CBCs for this purpose Critical Hire-Personality Assessment (CH-PA). Federal laws and hiring guidelines have been enacted that impact use assessments such as CH-PA. The Age Disc...

Non-Standard ‘Contingent’ Employment and Job Satisfaction: A Panel Data Analysis It is widely assumed that contingent forms of employment, such as fixed-term contracts, labour-hire and casual employment, are associated with low quality jobs. This hypothesis is tested using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, a nationally representative household pane...

This article examines how cultural matching relates to a job applicant’s likelihood of getting hired into an organization and identifies the components of cultural similarity that matter most for hiring success. Cultural compatibility at the hiring stage can forecast an individual’s post-hire productivity but is difficult to reliably measure in the selection process. As a consequence, cultural ...

OBJECTIVE To propose a microeconomic analysis of the duopoly competition between two for-hire services available in given territory.

Successful healthcare organizations have many ways to motivate and inspire their employees: Hire the right people. Communicate clearly and regularly to all employees. Encourage and support education and training. Reward and celebrate successes.

PURPOSE To measure overall retention of junior faculty and evaluate the effects of a junior faculty development program on the retention of junior faculty at one institution. METHOD Quantitative survival analysis techniques were used to characterize retention of all new assistant professors hired at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine for 18 years between July 19...

A case-control study of bladder cancer was conducted in five United States rubber and tyre companies to determine if there were high-risk jobs and work areas within the industry. The study included 220 male cases of bladder cancer, of whom 107 were identified from hospital record reviews and 113 from death certificates. Each case was matched individually with two industry controls by sex, race,...

BACKGROUND Previous studies of nickel workers have primarily noted significant early increases in lung and nasal cancers and for various types of accidents. AIMS To examine cancer incidence and mortality, concurrently, for a cohort of male nickel workers at a major nickel and copper producer in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. METHODS From January 1964 to December 2001, nominal roll and work histo...