A career in surgery in the United Kingdom demands a commitment to a long journey of assessment. The assessment methods used must ensure that the appropriate candidates are selected into a programme of study or a job and must guarantee public safety by regulating the progression of surgical trainees and the certification of trained surgeons. This review attempts to analyse the psychometric prope...

Abstract Employment agencies aim to match individuals appropriate jobs. There are public and private employment agencies, which co-exist in many countries. Selection effects may be relevant the sense that potentially engage ‘cream-skimming’ by prioritizing highly qualified workers. The resulting job quality is also important from an individual, a firm, society perspective. We examine selection ...

Purpose: Considering the importance of job motivation in educational jobs, the present study was conducted with the aim of construction and investigation the psychometric properties of teachers' job motivation questionnaire. Methodology: The present study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was descriptive from type of correlation. The study population was ele...

Job-shop manufacturing environment requires planning of schedules for the systems of low-volume having numerous variations. For a job-shop scheduling, ‘k’ number of operations and ‘n’ number of jobs on ‘m’ number of machines processed through an assured objective function to be minimized (makespan). This paper presents a capable genetic algorithm for the job-shop scheduling problems among opera...

This paper applies propensity score methods in order to investigate whether British female workers’ higher level of job satisfaction simply re‡ects a correlation due to the presence of systematic di¤erences in personal and job characteristics by gender or to a sample selection problem. The conclusion is that it does not, since it is found that there is a signi...cant positive e¤ect of being fem...

Internet Job Search and Unemployment Durations After decades of stability, the technologies used by workers to locate new jobs began to change rapidly with the diffusion of internet access in the late 1990’s. Which types of persons incorporated the internet into their job search strategy, and did searching for work on line help these workers find new jobs faster? We address these questions usin...

[Excerpt] The early phase of recruitment is essential to staffing success: larger applicant pools permit managers to be more selective when making job offers and increase the overall utility of selection systems (Murphy, 1986). Despite the importance of this early stage of recruitment, little is known about how early recruitment practices affect potential applicants’ intentions and decisions to...

The purpose of the present research was to identify personality constructs to be assessed in the selection of officers in the Turkish Armed Forces using a personality-oriented job analysis approach. Personality-oriented job analytic interviews were conducted both with currently employed and former officers @I = 78). Content-analysis of the interviews led to the identification of a list of attri...

Intel’s SpeedStep and AMD’s PowerNOW technologies allow the Windows XP operating system to dynamically change the speed of the processor to prolong battery life. In this setting, the operating system must not only have a job selection policy to determine which job to run, but also a speed scaling policy to determine the speed at which the job will be run. We give an online speed scaling algorit...

Considering the standard particle swarm optimization (PSO) has the shortcomings of low convergence precision in job shop scheduling problems, the job shop scheduling solution is presented based on improved particle swarm optimization (A-PSO). In this paper, the basic theory of A-PSO is described. Also, the coding and the selection of parameters as well as the decoding of A-PSO are studied. It u...