background: health worker motivation has the potential to have a large impact on health system performance, and this depends on some factors. the purpose of this study was to determine the factors affecting this motivation. methods: from winter 2013 to spring 2014, 1046 employees and physicians (439 males and 607 females) with a mean age of 36 and 37.2 years in men and women, respectively were ...

This paper analyses how demographic changes of the labour force affect demand. Do firms adjust their hiring behaviour to an ageing society? Combining data at firm level and administrative district level, we analyse firms. Our findings suggest that with workforce hire relatively more older workers. Since willingness workers also increases share unemployed, propensity employ people does generally...

Pre-employment personality testing has become widely used across a variety of work settings. A relatively new area where pre-employment is being implemented in the field community-based corrections (CBCs). One instrument CBCs for this purpose Critical Hire-Personality Assessment (CH-PA). Federal laws and hiring guidelines have been enacted that impact use assessments such as CH-PA. The Age Disc...

Non-Standard ‘Contingent’ Employment and Job Satisfaction: A Panel Data Analysis It is widely assumed that contingent forms of employment, such as fixed-term contracts, labour-hire and casual employment, are associated with low quality jobs. This hypothesis is tested using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, a nationally representative household pane...

This article examines how cultural matching relates to a job applicant’s likelihood of getting hired into an organization and identifies the components of cultural similarity that matter most for hiring success. Cultural compatibility at the hiring stage can forecast an individual’s post-hire productivity but is difficult to reliably measure in the selection process. As a consequence, cultural ...

OBJECTIVE To propose a microeconomic analysis of the duopoly competition between two for-hire services available in given territory.