People differ in their diurnal (time-of-day) preferences—some are morning-types and others are evening-types. These differences are explored in a unique experiment design in which subjects are randomly assigned to produce paper airplanes at either 8:00 a.m. or 10:00 p.m. Our results show that evening-types, at their more optimal time-of-day (10:00 p.m.), produce planes that fly statistically si...

The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) was penned 5 years ago to articulate best practices for how we communicate and judge our scientific contributions. In particular, it adamantly declared that Journal Impact Factor (JIF) should never be used as a surrogate measure of the quality of individual research contributions, or for hiring, promotion, or funding decisions. Since t...

BACKGROUND: Companies are increasingly moving toward the use of web-based hiring practices. Unfortunately, job applicants with disabilities may encounter barriers to accessing and submitting online job applications. Recent research reveals that nearly half of job seekers with disabilities who applied for a job online found the experience to be difficult or impossible. OBJECTIVE: This article pr...

Because of the near-universal …nding that minorities fare poorly on standardized tests, the use of such tests for employment screening is thought to pose an equity-e¢ ciency trade-o¤: improved selection comes at a cost of screening out more minority applicants. This paper investigates the consequences of standardized testing for minority employment and productivity. We analyze the experience of...

One opportunity to realize the diversity goals of academic health centers comes at the time of hiring new faculty. To improve the effectiveness of search committees in increasing the gender diversity of faculty hires, the authors created and implemented a training workshop for faculty search committees designed to improve the hiring process and increase the diversity of faculty hires at the Uni...

> DDI’s own research on HR practices indicates enormous room for improvement in the application of hiring, leadership development, and succession management initiatives. For example, in one study, more than 50 percent of the survey respondents rated their organization’s succession management system 5 or lower on a 10-point effectiveness scale (10 = highly effective). And in another study, only ...

Macro-level studies show that ICT has considerable economic effects through the expansion of ICT-related production of goods and services as well as via capital deepening. In the U.S., these effects are primarily driven by the use of ICT (Jorgenson, 2001; Oliner and Sichel, 2000), whereas in Finland they are primarily driven by the provision of ICT (Jalava, 2002; Jalava and Pohjola, 2002). Fric...

As the growing human resource (HR) shortage continues to affect healthcare organizations, new approaches are explored to shift traditionally reactive hiring practices into proactive gear. To help quantitative forecasting data drive recruitment planning, six Ontario healthcare organizations and one academic partner teamed up to investigate the applicability of an Excel-based forecasting tool, th...

Surviving in the increasingly competitive software business requires more than hiring smart, knowledgeable engineers and buying the latest development tools. You also need to use effective software development processes, so those smart engineers can systematically use the best technical and managerial practices to successfully complete their projects. More organizations are looking at software ...