Using a longitudinal dataset which followed 2195 individuals employed in 3379 separate job placements over a four-year period, this paper explores movement between the employment supports, [Transitional (TE), Supported (SE), and Independent Employment (IE)], offered by clubhouses. Sixty-four percent of employed members held only one job (N=1395) and 36% held multiple jobs during the study (N=79...

The authors examined the relation between the availability of 2 popular types of flexible work arrangements (i.e., flextime and compressed workweek) and work-to-family enrichment and, in turn, the relation between work-to-family enrichment and (a) job satisfaction and (b) turnover intentions. In a sample of 220 employed working adults, hierarchical regression analyses showed that work-to-family...

The concept covers a wide range of health criteria; in general, this gives rise to a classification involving the following categories: job-related ill-health; job-related discomfort (physical and mental); mental well-being; social well-being; professional and skills development. To illustrate how all these dimensions are related to health, we can position them on the bipolar continuum that has...

Prior research on cycle time management has emphasized the types of processes that organizations should employ to eliminate non-value-adding activities. Unfortunately, many of these approaches assume a willing and flexible workforce that is prepared to adapt readily to such changes. Consider an organization faced with an entrenched unionized workforce, governed by a stringent set of regulations...

This paper uses a probe-based sampling approach to study the behavioural properties of Web server scheduling strategies, such as Processor Sharing (PS) and Shortest Remaining Processing Time (SRPT). The approach is general purpose, in that it can be used to estimate the mean and variance of the job response time, for arbitrary arrival processes, scheduling policies, and service time distributio...

SUMMARY In the empirical analysis of unemployment durations and job durations, it is generally assumed that the stochastic processes underlying labour market behaviour and the behaviour concerning participation in a panel survey are independent. However, there are reasons to believe that the probability of dropping out of the panel is related to the rate at which a (different) job is found. If ...

This paper proposes two models for predicting the completion time of jobs in a service Grid. The single service model predicts the completion time of a job in a Grid that provides only one type of service. The multiple services model predicts the completion time of a job that runs in a Grid which offers multiple types of services. We have developed two algorithms that use the predictive models ...

Although studies have described work processes among employed African American women, few have examined the influence of these processes on job outcomes. This study examined relationships between African American women's exposure to a range of occupational stressors, including two types of racial bias--institutional discrimination and interpersonal prejudice--and their evaluations of job qualit...

The presence of adequate levels of social support has been demonstrated to reduce the adverse consequences of occupational stress outcomes. The difficulties in demonstrating the indirect effects of workplace support, however, have been acknowledged. One explanation for these difficulties is the inadequate definitions of the exact type of social support being measured. This investigation evaluat...

In this paper, scheduling problems in Flexible Manufacturing Cells (FMC) are studied. The scheduling objective is to minimize the makespan. We used a genetic algorithm (GA) for solving the optimization scheduling problem. We have developed one FMC with industrial characteristics with the objective of studying scheduling problems in these types of manufacturing systems (single machine scheduling...