Service organizations often struggle with the challenge of providing services to their clients in a cost-effective manner. This problem is particularly acute among health services organizations such as nursing homes. Research has shown that the cost and quality of services is negatively affected by low job satisfaction and high turnover among service workers. Resolving this problem requires a b...

We investigate the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) over templates with a group structure, and algorithms solving CSP that are equivariant, i.e. invariant under a natural group action induced by a template. Our main result is a method of proving the implication: if CSP over a coset template T is solvable by an equivariant algorithm then T is 2-Helly (or equivalently, has a majority polymor...

Information system organizations frequently offer complex IT applications and services to its users. These organizations would want the users of these systems to imbue positive “intentions to use” toward the systems. According to the literature, the construct “intention to use” is influenced by the “perceived satisfaction” derived by the particular user when using or consuming a particular prod...

A problem most organizations face is how to retain skilled employees. As technology has gone from common to prevalent over the past twenty years, retaining skilled information technology (IT) professionals has become more difficult. Therefore, this study focused on examining job satisfaction of IT professionals in the D.C. area, paying particular attention to two of the most important factors o...

Random constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) have been widely studied both in AI and complexity theory. Empirically and theoretically, many random CSPs have been shown to exhibit a phase transition. As the ratio of constraints to variables passes certain thresholds, they transition from being almost certainly satisfiable to unsatisfiable. The exact location of this threshold has been thorough...

This study empirically examines the differentiating impact of challenge-hindrance stressors on turnover intention through job satisfaction in IT industry of Pakistan. Moreover, perceived job alternatives were tested as a moderator in the relationship between job satisfaction and turnover intention. Primary data was collected from 186 randomly selected IT professionals, working in projectbased I...

Nowadays, paying attention to the environmental needs and desires of consumersand trying to satisfy them by designing marketing activities in an environmentallyfriendly way, is the best way to increase their satisfaction and finally, gaincompetitive advantage. Prior research has paid much attention to the consumerbehavior and marketing activities of corporate organizations, but none has studied...