The 2014 Indian general election marked a single party – the Bharatiya Janata Party, winning a majority of seats in Lok Sabha, the first time since the 1984 election. The Congress, the other main national party, suffered its worst ever defeat. This election was termed by some as a 'critical election' signalling the advent of a new phase of a ‘BJP dominated’ party system in India. In this paper,...

Abstract The aim of the study was to investigate effect voluntary employer changes on self-reported work ability among older workers in Germany and whether a honeymoon-hangover (HHE) exists here. In research job satisfaction, three typical periods around change characterize HHE: deterioration old (deterioration), an initial increase new (honeymoon) subsequent decline over time (hangover). Wheth...

Does Mental Productivity Decline with Age? Evidence from Chess Players We use data on international chess tournaments to study the relationship between age and mental productivity in a brain-intensive profession. We show that less talented players tend to leave the game in the earliest phases of their career. When the effects of age on productivity vary with unobserved ability, commonly used fi...

The 2014 Indian general election marked a single party – the Bharatiya Janata Party, winning a majority of seats in Lok Sabha, the first time since the 1984 election. The Congress, the other main national party, suffered its worst ever defeat. This election was termed by some as a 'critical election' signalling the advent of a new phase of a ‘BJP dominated’ party system in India. In this paper,...

The 2014 Indian general election marked a single party – the Bharatiya Janata Party, winning a majority of seats in Lok Sabha, the first time since the 1984 election. The Congress, the other main national party, suffered its worst ever defeat. This election was termed by some as a 'critical election' signalling the advent of a new phase of a ‘BJP dominated’ party system in India. In this paper,...

To be clear on this subject, it has to be stressed that the financial difficulties of the public institutions and health insurance funds ought not to be the reason for deviating from the achieved high health standards. A deterioration in health care leads to more sick-leaves, increased health-related early retirements and impaired performance on the job, which in turn is not only a humanitarian...

Job processing times change over time in real-life production and manufacturing systems due to various factors including machine or worker learning, deterioration, system upgrades technological shocks. For step-improving times, job are reduced by a certain rate if they start process at, after, common critical date, which has wide applicability real-world settings, such as data gathering network...

Handling Editor: Stephanie Castro In this study, we develop and examine a model of leaders' impression management during organizational decline by elaborating on the roles of publicity, image concerns, and incentive compensation. We propose that the publicity of decline is an important antecedent of leaders' impression management during decline. We also examine how leaders' image concerns media...

this paper investigates the problem of just-in-time permutation flow shop scheduling with limited buffers and linear job deterioration in an uncertain environment. the fuzzy set theory is applied to describe this situation. a novel mixed-integer nonlinear program is presented to minimize the weighted sum of fuzzy earliness and tardiness penalties. due to the computational complexities, the prop...