Interviewing and Hiring Practices in Brazilian Academia: Proposals Towards Improvement

Hiring Practices, Employment Protection and Temporary Jobs

This paper examines the effects of a two-tier reform of the Employment Protection Legislation that increases flexibility at the margin by allowing firms to hire workers on temporary positions and investigates under which conditions temporary jobs are stepping stones to permanent employment. The analysis has far focused on the role of temporary jobs in employers adjustment to economic shocks and...

Information Communication Technology : Practices for Academia

The digital revolution driving societal change is as significant as the invention of the printing press or the Industrial Revolution. Since the introduction of the transistor and the integrated circuit, people have not just been doing things differently; they have been doing vastly different things. The development of a healthy educational system which meets the objectives effectively poses man...

The gap between education preferences and hiring practices.

Nurses’ Attitudes Towards Spiritual Care and Spiritual Care Practices

Background: Spirituality is an important dimension of human existence with a crucial role in health promotion. This study aimed to investigate nurses’ attitudes towards spiritual care and its practice. Methods: It was a descriptive cross-sectional study. The relevant data were collected by Nursing Spiritual Care Perspective Scale (NSCPS). In this study, 166 nurses working in hospitals affiliat...

Learning by Hiring: The Effects of Scientists' Inbound Mobility on Research Performance in Academia

This study investigates the effects of scientists’ inbound mobility on the research performance of incumbent scientists in an academic setting. The theoretical framework integrates insights from learning theory and social comparison theory to suggest two main mechanisms behind these effects, localized learning and social comparison. The authors propose several hypotheses about the conditions th...