PURPOSE Although nursing homes (NHs) are criticized for offering poor quality continence care, little is known about the organizational processes that underlie this care. This study investigated the influence of organizational culture on continence care practices in two NHs. DESIGN AND METHODS This ethnographic study explored continence care from the perspectives of NH stakeholders, including...

Suppose someone applies for a system administrator job, or, better yet, an open slot on your computer security team. The applicant is eminently qualified for the position, having wizard-like skills on the exact operating systems deployed throughout your organization. You need his skills, big time. However, the candidate poses a bit of a problem. This otherwise-stellar applicant has a bit of a s...

When you look at library job advertisements you often come across the boilerplate requirement: " awareness of latest trends in academic librarianship. " We want to hire knowledgeable librarians who are up-to-date on issues, best practices, and the major challenges of our field. In the course of an interview, candidates will likely display their currency about academic librarian-ship by answerin...

In the more than 30 years following the all-volunteer force (AVF), the proportion of women serving in the military has increased from 1.8 percent just before the AVF to 14.2 percent in 2008. The majority of women do not stay in the military for a 20-year or longer career; like men, most women only serve a few years before transitioning to the civilian workforce. Although the fraction of the mil...

When a firm hires a skilled employee from a prominent competitor, an indirect affiliation between the two firms is created. Recent organizational research indicates that such affiliations may influence the hiring firm’s prices, both substantively and symbolically (e.g., Joel M. Podolny 2001). Substantively, product quality may be enhanced by the human capital the new employee transfers from the...

Faculty evaluations are a routine part of academic life, and theoretically serve to ensure fair hiring, promotion, reward practices. In the search for efficiency, many universities placing increased emphasis on quantitative measures that flawed which incorporate bias toward team science multi-authored work. The long-term consequences certain types research scholarship in LIS discussed, leadersh...

This paper develops a Walrasian general equilibrium model based on transaction cost and specialization to investigate the emergence and evolution of the role of management services in a competitive market with the general concern of corporate governance. It explains the reason why along the commercialization and modernization of human society, there is substantial increment of professional mana...

Using a social identity theory approach, we theorized that recruiters might be particularly biased against skilled immigrant applicants. We refer to this phenomenon as a skill paradox, according to which immigrants are more likely to be targets of employment discrimination the more skilled they are. Furthermore, building on the common ingroup identity model, we proposed that this paradox can be...

Findings are presented from a survey of employers conducted to assess the impact of immigration and employer practices upon the chances of Blacks finding employment in Los Angeles. The highest ranking person involved in the hiring process at each of 44 restaurants, 46 printers, 41 hotels, and 39 furniture manufacturers was interviewed. The hiring of new employees drawn from the network of cur...