A major challenge of mobile information technology use in time-critical work settings is to balance the temporal impact on the work practice caused by the technology. This paper presents results from an investigation of the tension between information technology use and temporal aspects in the timecritical work of emergency response. This paper contributes to previous research on the inter-rela...

We document gender and race sorting of candidates into various jobs at the point of initial application to a company. At this step of the hiring process, the firm has implemented a policy whereby organizational screeners’ discretion has been eliminated such that there is no opportunity for contact between hiring agents and applicants. Thus, the job choices studied here offer unique insight as t...

Many Twin Cities schools are segregated. Segregated schools harm children, communities, and the metropolitan region. Segregated schools intensify the region’s segregated residential patterns, concentrating poverty and magnifying its harms. This isolates the most disadvantaged children from educational and economic opportunity. To help integrate schools, and ensure equal access to opportunity, a...

Large-scale scientific computing is playing an ever-increasing role in critical decision-making and dynamic, event-driven systems. While some computation can simply wait in a job queue until resources become available, key decisions concerning life-threatening situations must be made quickly. A computation to predict the flow of airborne contaminants from a ruptured railcar must guide evacuatio...

Since job crafting behaviour is of profound importance for the retention older workers, we examined how organizations can stimulate among workers with opportunity-enhancing Human Resource (HR) practices. We introduced three behaviours: accommodative, utilization, and developmental crafting. hypothesized that HR practices increase psychological empowerment therefore their behaviour. conducted a ...

this research was administered with the purpose of studying the moderating role of female gender schemas in relations between feminine role models, job ladder and networking opportunity with procedural justice in promotion of women teachers in yazd, kerman and esfahan city. on the basis of the research aims, 280 women teachers were selected from above mentioned cities (from esfahan 100 women te...

Background. This research aimed at identifying the consequences of strategic entrepreneurship in sports business. Objectives. The objective of the research is to identify the consequences of deployment of strategic entrepreneurship in sports business. Method. A qualitative research approach was employed. Data collection was done through interview as well as research background. The population...

this paper investigates the factors affecting the organizational commitment of the khorasan razavi’s gas company’s staff in the central office of mashhad. the method of research was survey and the data was collected using a standard questionnaire. the population was consisted of 200 personnel and the sample included 66 individuals from the company’s staff which were selected though stratified s...

A national sample of PhD-trained scientists completed training, accepted subsequent employment in academic and nonacademic positions, and were queried about their previous graduate training and current employment. Respondents indicated factors contributing to their employment decision (e.g., working conditions, salary, job security). The data indicate the relative importance of deciding factors...

in recent years despite the rise in the number of women who have graduated from universities women’s participation in the labor market has not been increased proportionally. the present study tries to examine the employment status of women graduates of higher education as well as of social and demographic factors affecting it. in this study, secondary analysis of data from 2% sample of census 1...