Work Organization and Gender

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Gender, work schedules and work/family regulation.

The Gender and Work Technical Committee (TC) of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA) is responsible for this issue of the journal WORK. Since many of the authors come from the scholarly tradition of ergonomic analysis of work activity, we should explain that, in this context, the word “regulation” refers to the attempts made byworkers andworkers’ groups to manage job requirements and ...

Person-Organization and Person-Job Fit Perceptions of New IT Employees: Work Outcomes and Gender Differences

Pay 1) Salary level 2) The opportunity to become financially wealthy 3) The amount of pay 4) A good salary 5) Receiving enough pay to live well 6) Opportunities to receive more than my normal pay for good work 7) An opportunity to earn a high income 8) Periodic wage raises 9) Have pay increases that keep up with the cost of living 10) Opportunities to earn more than my regular paycheck Promotio...

Gender, Ethnic Identity and Work

Gender, Ethnic Identity and Work The European Union’s strategy to raise employment is confronted with very low work participation among many minority ethnic groups, in particular among immigrants. This study examines the potential of immigrants’ identification with the home and host country ethnicity to explain that deficit. It introduces a two-dimensional understanding of ethnic identity, as a...

Work organization and preferences dynamics

We present a model with intergenerational transmission of preferences providing a joint explanation of preference evolution and of work organization changes in a society. We focus on preference for autonomy dened as individual' s degree of initiative and valuation of self direction. We show that the economy has two steady states with dierent levels of workers autonomy and of coercion degree in ...