Politico-Economic Causes of Labor Regulation in the United States: Rent Seeking, Alliances, Raising Rivals’ Costs (Even Lowering One’s Own?), and Interjurisdictional Competition This paper offers an eclectic survey of the political economy of labor regulation in the United States at federal and state levels along the dimensions of occupational health and safety, unjust dismissal, right-to-work,...

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In this study we investigate some aspects of top management pay in China’s listed firms. While China has embraced many capitalist practices it still retains some vestiges of socialism and this has an impact on the way business executives are rewarded. In particular, the Chinese government wants to maintain social harmony and it believes that differences in pay between managers and workers shoul...

In order to cope with the frequent unpredictable changes that may occur in manufacturing systems, and to optimize given performance criteria, the assignment of workers can be decided online in a dynamic manner, whenever the worker is released. Several studies, in the ergonomics literature, have shown that individuals' performances decrease because of their fatigue in work. In manufacturing cont...

Worker assignment is critical for developing a flexible and human-centered seru production system (SPS). Most studies in the literature focus on worker with objective of maximizing efficiency, which causes an inescapable consequence that workers high proficiency levels experience overwork compared lower levels. From perspective workload equity, we investigate problem SPS, where heterogeneity di...

Although most previous studies on cell formation have involved the assignment of parts and machines to cells, in recent years workers has also been considered taken into account human factor. An important step for successful implementation a Cellular Manufacturing System is decide appropriate groups parts, machines, then assign them cells. Consideration skills processing enhanced performance. I...

Drawing upon the “happy-productive worker” hypothesis and Job Demands-Resources model, we examine whether expatriates’ well-being mediates association between interaction adjustment job satisfaction; this indirect effect is moderated by perceived accomplishment of organizational goals for assignment. Based on responses from 148 assigned expatriates confirmed expected influence mediation goals. ...