CONTEXT The field of public health faces multiple challenges in its efforts to recruit and retain a robust workforce. Public health departments offer salaries that are lower than the private sector, and government bureaucracy can be a deterrent for those seeking to make a difference. OBJECTIVE The objective of this research was to explore the relationship between general employee satisfaction...

All three papers deal with important policy issues. Ruhm, whose analysis ranges the most widely, goes furthest in recommending policy activism. Podgursky and Swaim (P&S) are somewhat more re strained, but it is clear that they too favor special assistance for displaced workers. In our own paper we see advantage in workers being given notification of their impending redundancy in the specific co...

Many college students abandon their goal of completing a degree in science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) when confronted with challenging introductory-level science courses. In the U.S., this trend is more pronounced for underrepresented minority (URM) and first-generation (FG) students, and contributes to persisting racial and social-class achievement gaps in higher education. Previ...

Scott Schuh and Robert Triest have written a useful and interesting paper, collecting existing evidence on job flows and providing us with a few brand new facts to chew on. I wish to touch on some of the many good things in the paper, but it comes with the discussant’s job description that I must focus on the parts of the paper that I view as more problematic. Few economists would deny that an ...

Running parallel applications in a network of workstations (NOW) requires the use of a resource management system with batch queueing and load balancing functionalities to utilize idle workstations in the NOW and to avoid load imbalance in the network. A resource management system for parallel jobs requires special func-tionalities to schedule jobs to hosts and to support checkpointing and migr...

Evaluators’ fit assessments are not only influenced by applicants’ qualities, but also stereotypes, especially in recruitment for high-status jobs male-dominated fields. The unidimensional agentic stereotype of these work contexts signals job and organizational requirements (stereotypically male qualities such as achievement orientation), although the actual usually include communality female i...

introduction: prevention and control of cross infections for the personnel of dental offices and clinics are a critical issue in dental practice. in this study, a standardized questionnaire was developed to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of the oral health-care workers in tehran university dental school regarding the blood-transmitted diseases and its validity and reliability were ...

PURPOSE Building on the Conservation of Resources theory, this paper examined the unique and interactive associations of negative and positive work-to-family spillover (NWFS and PWFS, respectively) at the individual and organizational level with hotel managers' work exhaustion and satisfaction, beyond job demands and supervisors' leadership style. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH Guided by the lev...

In this study, I re-analyze data from a meta-analysis of research on the job characteristics model (Hackman & Oldham, 1980), using relative weights analysis (Johnson, 2001). This analytic technique is particularly well-suited for analyses in which one wants to most accurately determine the proportion of explained variance in a dependent variable among several independent variables, while avoidi...