The recent survey paper “A Survey on Scheduling Problems with Setup Times and Costs” 1 , classifies batch scheduling problems into those with batching and nonbatching considerations, with sequence-independent and sequence-dependent setup times, and according to the machine environment and the objective function. The survey contains approximately 300 references, a clear indication of the importa...

This study analyzed the relation and discrimination between five forms of job satisfaction (stabilized, progressive and resigned satisfaction; constructive and fixated dissatisfaction) regarding health, work-related determinants of health and demographic variables. Job satisfaction was assessed with a forced-choice survey item in 10 Swiss companies (768 employees). Significant differences betwe...

Job Preferences as Revealed by Employee Initiated Job Changes Many previous studies try to discover job preferences by directly asking individuals. Since it is not sure, whether answers to these surveys are relevant for actual behaviour, this empirical examination offers a new approach based on representative German data. Employees who quit their job and find a new one, compare the two jobs wit...

The main purpose of this paper is to assess the influence of mediating variables in the process of perceived work-family conflict onto job satisfaction. The study in question was conducted on the sample of 533 working people, 126 of whom stated that they had a significant problem with balancing work and family life (high WFC) and 269 of whom stated that this problem did not concern them (low WF...

The exponential growth of Internet allowed the development of a market of online job search sites. This work aims at presenting the E-Gen system (Automatic Job Offer Processing system for Human Resources). E-Gen will implement several complex tasks: an analysis and categorization of jobs offers which are unstructured text documents (e-mails of job offers possibly with an attached document), an ...

In a constantly changing job market, Information Technology (IT) practitioners must keep their skills up-to-date. Educational institutions with Informational Technology curricula must also keep current in course offerings and programs of study. One way to maintain relevance is to examine and identify what IT skills and competencies are in demand. Job positions, indicating current expertise need...

This paper identifies the causal impact of a retrenchment of pension rights on the job motivation of negatively reciprocal workers. The paper complements the evidence from lab experiments that highlight the behavioral relevance of reciprocity in stylized labor markets. We use unique matched survey and administrative data that include individual measures of reciprocity. Our data set covers male ...

Nursing shortage is one of the major problems that face the nursing leaders in Saudi Arabia. This article will focus on the role of financial incentive as a strategy to motivate and enhance nurses’ job satisfaction and alleviate nursing shortage among Saudi nurses. Incentives are important as they motivate, attract and retain nurses in the era of shortage. It is important to form a desirable in...

We assemble two reference point based concepts of utility in our empirical study: the own status quo and social comparisons. We explore the relative relevance of these concepts for total compensation as well as for different parts of the compensation package of managers. Making use of a unique panel data set of managers of the German chemical sector, we find that social comparisons of compensat...