[Excerpt] The early phase of recruitment is essential to staffing success: larger applicant pools permit managers to be more selective when making job offers and increase the overall utility of selection systems (Murphy, 1986). Despite the importance of this early stage of recruitment, little is known about how early recruitment practices affect potential applicants’ intentions and decisions to...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to analyzing the role of motivation factors in Herzberg’s theory on teacher’s job satisfaction. Methods: The population of this study consisted of elementary school teachers in Talesh city (N=850), that 265 of them selected as the sample by using the systematic random sampling. The data collection tool was questionnaire that it's  face and content validi...

In this paper, we present a path-dependence model for " fast-track " Japanese bureaucrats, especially focusing on its incentive mechanism. Without a performance based pay scheme, the path dependent model can give an incentive to work hard and win " good " promotion to a worker, by linking the rank of his final job to the prize. In particular, the basic path dependent model with equal prize spre...

This paper examines the role of informal job search methods on the labour market outcomes of displaced workers. Informal job search methods could alleviate short-term labour market difficulties of displaced workers by providing information on job opportunities, allowing them to signal their productivity and may mitigate wage losses through better post-displacement job matching. However if displ...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to analyzing the role of motivation factors in Herzberg’s theory on teacher’s job satisfaction. Methods: The population of this study consisted of elementary school teachers in Talesh city (N=850), that 265 of them selected as the sample by using the systematic random sampling. The data collection tool was questionnaire that it's  face and content validi...

The job satisfaction of academics is related to a number of variables of complex function such as demographic characters, the work itself, pay, work responsibilities, variety of tasks, promotional opportunities, relationship with co-workers and others. Academics may be simultaneously satisfied with some facets of the job and dissatisfied with others. This paper aims at determining the influenti...