Generally, human resources play an important role in manufacturing systems as they can affect the work environment. One of the most important factors affecting the human resources is being an interactional interest among the workers in the workshops. If the workers in a manufacturing cell have the highest surface of the interactional interest level, it causes a significant raise in coordination...

In a recent editorial in this journal,' Tony Hope argues that no-fault compensation for injury to participants of research is the job of parliament, and that participation in research should proceed on a primarily altruistic basis. Dr Hope fails to distinguish between commercial and non-commercial research. Many participants of clinical trials are being commercially exploited by pharmaceutical ...

In this laboratory experiment we study the use of strategic ignorance to delegate real authority within a firm. A worker can gather information on investment projects, while a manager makes the implementation decision. The manager can monitor the worker. This allows her to exploit any information gathered by the worker, but also reduces the worker’s incentives to gather information in the first...

In this laboratory experiment we study the use of strategic ignorance to delegate real authority within a firm. A worker can gather information on investment projects, while a manager makes the implementation decision. The manager can monitor the worker. This allows her to better exploit the information gathered by the worker, but also reduces the worker's incentives to gather information in th...

abstract background: workplace exposures as in clinical work can cause disorders. some organ systems are at risk. this work may be a risk factor for early symptoms of menopause. the objective of this study was to compare the early symptoms of menopause between hospital personnel who work in clinical and office settings. materials and methods: this was a historical cohort study conducted on clin...

We consider Internet-based Master-Worker computations, like SETI@home, where a master process sends tasks, across the Internet, to worker processes; workers execute and report back some result. However, these workers are not trustworthy and it might be at their best interest to report incorrect results. In such master-worker computations, the behavior and the best interest of the workers might ...

We consider Internet-based Master-Worker task computations, like SETI@home, where a master process sends tasks, across the Internet, to worker processes; workers execute, and report back some result. However, these workers are not trustworthy and it might be at their best interest to report incorrect results. In such master-worker computations, the behavior and the best interest of the workers ...

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...