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continued) Also, the extent to which intrinsic vs. extrinsic factors contribute to work motivation was studied. A Valence-Instrumentality-Expectancy (YIE) model of motivation was employed. A questionnaire was administered to a cross-section of 207 naval personnel which comprised over 50 work groups. A rating form was given to the supervisor of each work group. It was found that internals more t...

0003-3472 2013 The Association for the Study of A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.01.004 The elaborate design of animal signals is challenging to explain. In 1991, Guilford and Dawkins published their iconic paper on ‘receiver psychology’ in Animal Behaviour (42, 1e14), and proposed that the ways in which animals detect, discriminate and learn about relevant stimuli in their environmen...

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IRAD BEN-GAL*, YALE T. HERER and TZVI RAZ Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel E-mail: [email protected] Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, 32000 Haifa, Israel E-mail: [email protected] Faculty of Management, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel E-mail: tzvira...

As the barriers to hemispheric trade and integration are lowered, it will be asked whether we will we hear the "giant sucking sound" of poorer nations luring U.S. and Canadian firms south to take advantage of low wages and lax environmental regulations? Or, will Latin American nations passively accept this problematical specialization in doing the world's cheap and dirty work? Mexico is the ide...

This bulletin is based on research conducted by A/Prof Vivienne Milligan and Dr Gethin Davison at the AHURI Research Centre— UNSW, Prof Kath Hulse at the AHURI Research Centre—Swinburne University of Technology and Prof Paul Flatau at the AHURI Research Centre—UWA. The research examined how leading Australian NFP housing organisations have developed their organisational capacities in response t...

K. Zhu1; Z. Lou2; J. Zhou3; N. Ballester4; N. Kong5; P. Parikh4 1Purdue University, Statistics, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA; 2Purdue University, Industrial Engineering, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA; 3Tsinghua University, Automation, Beijing, China; 4Wright State University, Biomedical, Industrial and Human Factors Engineering, Dayton, Ohio, USA; 5Purdue University, Biomedical Engineering, West...

This is a more important book than its small size and unPretentious appearance would suggest. Its author, assistant director ?f research in Industrial Psychology at Cambridge, has provided a sUrvey of the principles underlying the application of psychology to industry, and has distilled from a vast volume of experimental Xvork an account of the most important achievements. It is thus a most use...

— The Indian State of Kerala presents a paradox of development, with its remarkable social achievements and relative industrial backwardness. This paper describes Kerala’s industrial backwardness as due to a path-dependent process of industrialization. A policy decision in the 1930s—marked by a priority for investments in chemical-based industries and the identification of hydroelectricity as a...