Kathy Horadam was born in 1951 in Armidale, Australia. Her BSc and PhD degrees, both in pure mathematics, are from the Australian National University. The major part of Kathy’s career has been at RMIT University, where she has been a professor of mathematics since 1995. Even though Kathy has worked in academia for 30 years, she has also undertaken defence research, working for three years in th...

This study is about the earnings-replacement rate of the old-age benefit for the average worker in manufacturing who had average earnings throughout his career. It updates previously published data for earlier years and compares the replacement rate of the combined social security and private pension benefits for selected countries, in an attempt to show what a more complete benefit package mig...

Career development theories imply that various factors might influence students' career choices. The study examined the existent influencing choice among business administration students of Pokhara University. A quantitative paradigm guided study. purposive sample 303 undergraduate and postgraduate participated in data was collected using Choice Scale (CCS), which looked at four components choi...

Tell us a bit about your professional interests. I started my career working in telecommunications for about 10 years, then joined Toyota 13 years ago. My early time at Toyota was focused on wireless communications—including PHY, media access control, and security and privacy. For the past seven or eight years, I’ve worked on broader topics, trying to answer the question, “What should Toyota do...

We examine security analysts’career concerns by relating their earnings forecasts to job separations. Relatively accurate forecasters are more likely to experience favorable career outcomes like moving up to a high-status brokerage house. Controlling for accuracy, analysts who are optimistic relative to the consensus are more likely to experience favorable job separations. For analysts who cove...

BACKGROUND Links between the demanding nature of studies in the health sciences, students' personality traits and psychological distress have been well-established. While considerable amount of work has been done in medicine, evidence from the dental education arena is sparse and data from Latin America are lacking. The authors conducted a large-scale investigation of psychological distress amo...

Turnover is a major concern of human resource (HR) managers working with information systems (IS) personnel. Aspects of career incentives, as perceived by the IS employees, are important in their decisions to leave or stay with the organization. We utilize a framework of various job anchors to examine how a sample of IS personnel regard incentives provided by employers and the importance of the...