Leadership during a crisis that involves the physical safety and emotional or financial wellbeing of those being led offers an intense environment that may not allow for on-the-job training. One of the challenges faced by crisis leaders is to communicate effectively the courses of action needed to allow for a reduction of harm to individuals and the ultimate restoration of the group, organisati...

Labor market policies succeed or fail at least in part depending on how well they reflect or account for behavioral responses. Insights from behavioral economics, which allow for realistic deviations from standard economic assumptions about behavior, have consequences for the design and functioning of labor market policies. We review key implications of behavioral economics related to procrasti...

he challenge of providing health care services to homeless individuals is an issue every community faces, particularly since the needs for housing, food, job training and other basic necessities cross medical, behavioral and social-services lines. Tucson’s homeless population tops 4,000 people on any given day, representing one-fifth of Arizona’s homeless. These are single men and women, teenag...

This book buys into the current trend of structuring every and any target-oriented interpersonal interaction in education, ongoing education and on-the-job training along competency boundaries. More than anything else, key competency has become a slogan that dominates every program and renders colorless any conventional educational approaches, which are oriented on knowledge, ability and ethos....

This keynote address begins with a discussion of the difference between words and action, directed specifically to the practitioner's task of meeting the communication needs of children and youth with severe disabilities. Brief overviews of current perspectives and practices are provided, considering such areas as how communicative acts are defined and understood and the need for inclusionary e...

Professional sports teams are investing substantial resources inmonitoring the training load (TL) in their players in an attempt to achieve favorable training outcomes such as increases in performance and a reduction in negative outcomes such as injury. This investment is likely to increase as organizations explore the most recent developments in wearable technology that allow a wide variety of...

CONTEXT The community research fellows training (CRFT) program is a community-based participatory research (CBPR) initiative for the St. Louis area. This 15-week program, based on a Master in Public Health curriculum, was implemented by the Division of Public Health Sciences at Washington University School of Medicine and the Siteman Cancer Center. OBJECTIVES We measure the knowledge gained b...

Imperfect Information, On-the-Job Training, and the Employer Size-Wage Puzzle: Theory and Evidence This paper develops a two-period labor market model with imperfect information and on-thejob training, and uses data from National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Cohorts (NLSY79) to test its predictions. We find that training does not explain the positive relationship between employer size and ...

Beneficiaries in the DI program may experience a recovery termination. What factors affect their reentitlement to DI benefits? Data from the New Beneficiary Followup was used to model return to the DI program. Those former beneficiaries who had vocational or job training and paid work after the recovery termination showed a lesser tendency to return to the DI program. Younger individuals and th...

extensively around the world for the preservice and inservice training of medical and allied health students and professionals. In several instances, such professionals have demonstrated improved knowledge scores and performance in the workplace upon completing distance education programs, but overall, there are few evaluation studies of education programs, distance or otherwise, that use rigor...