Fair Share is the standard scheduling algorithm used for political resource control on large, multi-user UNIX systems. Promising equity, Fair Share has instead delivered frustration to its Los Alamos UNICOS users, who perceive misallocations of interactive response within a system of unreasonable complexity. This paper reviews the design of the Kay/Lauder Fair Share system, as well as its Cray ...

Some job tasks do not lend themselves to formal on-the-job assessment because they do not occur with sufficient regularity to permit the standardized measurement required in validational research. The preparation of incident reports by police and security officers is such a job task. The production of accurate, literate incident reports is important because these reports are often required in l...

A procedure for using Guilford's structure of the intellect as the theoretical basis for a task analysis model is presented. It is reasoned that such a model would furnish a bridge between task analysis and test selection, and also a bridge between test selection and test validation. Such a mechanism might answer some of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (HOC) criticisms of psychologi...

From the Works Progress Administration of the New Deal to the Job Corps of the Great Society era, employment programs have been advanced to fight poverty and social disorder. In today’s context of stubborn unemployment and neoliberal policy change, supported work programs are once more on the policy agenda. This article asks whether work reduces crime and drug use among heavy substance users. A...

A sunny of perceptions of I.S. computer personnel managers, analysts, progr ammer/analysts and application programmers was conducted in Japan, using the JDSDP II, a modification of the job diagnostic survey inrrrument. Data were collected on 15 job variables, related to four motivation aspects: job components, satisfaction levels, need for growth/achievement and goal participation/feedback. The...

BACKGROUND Information on job strain exposure among Malaysian workers in multinational companies is limited. AIMS To investigate the prevalence and factors associated with high job strain among office workers of a multinational company in Malaysia. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted in November 2007 among 470 eligible workers. Respondents self-administered the Job Content Questio...

In this work, we present slot selection algorithms for job batch scheduling in distributed computing with non-dedicated resources. Jobs are parallel applications and these applications are independent. Existing approaches towards resource co-allocation and parallel job scheduling in economic models of distributed computing are based on search of time-slots in resource occupancy schedules. The s...

Three studies tested whether the opportunity to endorse Barack Obama made individuals subsequently more likely to favor Whites over Blacks. In Study 1, participants were more willing to describe a job as better suited for Whites than for Blacks after expressing support for Obama. Study 2 replicated this effect and ruled out alternative explanations: participants favored Whites for the job after...

Brutto: My first job in the lubricants industry was in 1980 working with the Penreco division of Pennzoil Products Co. I formulated industrial and automotive greases and managed the environmental and safety compliance activities for our production facility. It was a challenging, multifaceted job that was also very rewarding. I also attended my first STLE Chicago Section meeting that same year, ...

In this paper, we present slot selection algorithms in economic models for independent job batch scheduling in distributed computing with non-dedicated resources. Existing approaches towards resource co-allocation and multiprocessor job scheduling in economic models of distributed computing are based on search of time-slots in resource occupancy schedules. The sought time-slots must match requi...