This study examines (1) whether there are employment grade and gender differences in job dissatisfaction and (2) whether work, family, and personality characteristics explain grade and gender differences in job dissatisfaction. The participants were 3,812 civil servants, aged 20-65, working at a local government in Japan. In both males and females, low control, low social support, work-to-famil...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to assess whether workplace bullying mediates between job strain, evaluated by the job demand-control model, and symptoms of depression and sleep disturbance. METHODS The subjects in this cross-sectional study were recruited from all the workers (N=2,634) at 50 organizations in Japan. Due to missing data, the numbers of subjects included in the analyses...

This paper uses new data on job creation and job destruction to find evidence of a link between the jobless recoveries of the last two recessions and the recent decline in aggregate volatility known as the Great Moderation. I find that the last two recessions are characterized by jobless recoveries that came about through contrasting margins of employment adjustment—a relatively slow decline in...

The efficiency of recent enumerative methods for the job-shop problem crucially depends on immediate selections of disjunctive constraints leading to adjustment of heads and tails. This paper presents new investigations concerning this powerful tool. More efficient algorithms are proposed, and global operations are introduced. We also describe a new lower bound and a new branching scheme which ...

This chapter presents a middle-term new load adjustment approach by overlapping for a set of jobs in a job-shop context, guaranteeing the existence of a limited capacity schedule without scheduling under the assumption of pre-emptive tasks. The proposed approach is based on the exploitation of the tasks scheduling time segments overlapping and on the distribution of the job’s margins between ta...

This is the second of two papers investigating the adjustment process in a designated group of expatriates, (teachers), who have severed ties with their home country and employer. In the first paper we examined the effect of self-efficacy and flexibility within this adjustment process, revealing the significance of self-efficacy but failing to show a pronounced relationship between flexibility ...