We develop a dynamic equilibrium model of labor demand with adverse selection. Firms learn the quality of newly hired workers after a period of employment. Adverse selection makes it costly to hire new workers and to release productive workers. As a result, firms hoard labor and under-react to labor demand shocks. The adverse selection problem also creates a market for temporary workers. In equ...

OBJECTIVE To map the sub processes related to turnover of nursing staff and to investigate and measure the nursing turnover cost. METHOD This is a descriptive-exploratory study, classified as case study, conducted in a teaching hospital in the southeastern, Brazil, in the period from May to November 2013. The population was composed by the nursing staff, using Nursing Turnover Cost Calculatio...

The Everest climbing season that has just ended was marred by the worst accident in the mountain’s history. On 18 April 2014, 16 Nepalese sherpas died in an avalanche, and subsequent climbing expeditions were cancelled. 2 The deaths of men from poor communities, hired to perform dangerous tasks for the sake of mountain climbing, provoked controversy. I used data on deaths above base camps from ...

The global emergence of city bicycle hire schemes has recently received a lot of attention in the performance and modelling research community. A particularly important challenge is the accurate forecast of future bicycle migration trends, as these assist service providers to ensure availability of bicycles and parking spaces at docking stations, which is vital to match customer expectations. T...

Hiring for your practice is a big responsibility as well as a commitment of time and resources. To find and place the right person for an opening in your practice, consider all of the tools and methods available to you. Use the Internet to advertise the open position, do background and credit checks, and communicate with candidates clearly and securely. Coordinate your assessment of candidates ...

In a time of financial constraints, Harvard Medical School's Countway Library has found a way to acquire additional funding to expand its services while integrating librarians further into the medical school organization. This paper describes the contractual arrangement between the library and a medical school department and shows how a professional librarian can be integrated into the institut...

External IT consultants are specialists who bring in skills that may be lacking within a firm. However, a lack of firm specific knowledge, low legitimacy, and a host of other factors may limit the effectiveness of IT consultants. From a resource-based perspective, consultants can represent a rich source of short term, valuable capabilities. These capabilities, however, may be at odds with exiti...

Many studies have demonstrated the impact of interviewers’ characteristics on applicants’ reactions in terms of their impressions of the organization and their intentions to accept the job offer. However, previous research has generally neglected the effect of interviewers’ characteristics on applicants after they join the firm. The present study, which involved a sample of 200 employees from d...

131 Deborah K. Mayer, PhD, RN, AOCN®, is the editor of the Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing and an associate professor in the School of Nursing at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill; Suzanne M. Mahon, RN, DNSc, AOCN®, APNG, is a clinical professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and the School of Nursing at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, MO; and Beth Eaby, MSN, CRNP, ...

This paper is motivated by operating self service transport systems that flourish nowadays. In cities where such systems have been set up with bikes, trucks travel to maintain a suitable number of bikes per station. It is natural to study a version of the C-delivery TSP defined by Chalasani and Motwani in which, unlike their definition, C is part of the input: each vertex v of a graph G = (V,E)...