people always notice to other’s ideas and judgments about themselves. personnel also use different tactics of impression management in different situations, to reach their purposes in organization. one of the personnel's purposes is the improvement of the organization performance. performance measurement of an organization is the process of quantifying the efficiency and effectiveness of i...

forest nurseries in north are the main sources of seedlings production for forest organization and urban green spaces. for more produce and less cost should be done good management of the production operations.study included data from 16 nursery seedling production in the north. in this study land (an area of seedling land) and personnel (workers and employees) as an input and the number of see...

INTRODUCTION Job stress has become one of the main factors in reducing efficiency and the loss of human resources that may cause physical and psychological adverse effects in employees. Hospital personnel are facing different stressful events, such as birth, pain and death, in a single day. Hence, identifying the job stress rates and related factors may be effective in offering proper strategie...

This paper contributes to the scarce body of research on employee turnover in multinational corporations’ foreign subsidiaries and addresses some key issues related to dealing with turnover of local staff. Based on a literature review, I conceptualize locals’ perceived career prospects and their organizational identification as key variables mediating the relationship between international staf...

This paper combines on-the-job search and human capital theory to study the coexistence of …rm-funded general training and frequent job turnovers. Although ex ante identical, …rms di¤er in their training decisions. The model generates correlations between various …rm characteristics that are consistent with the data. Wage dispersion exists among ex ante identical workers because workers of the ...

This paper empirically investigates three hypotheses of biased officiating by National Basketball Association (NBA) referees. Using a sample of 28,388 quarter-level observations from six seasons, we find that NBA referees make calls that favor home teams, teams losing during games, and teams losing in playoff series. All of these biases are likely to be profitable to the league. We identify the...

The causes of seat change in midterm elections have been debated for decades. Some political scientists believe seat change is caused by heightened national conditions; others argue seat change is a result of conditions within districts. Political scientists agree however that candidate quality affects election outcomes. In general, the party that recruits the highest quality candidates and run...

The Tongan suffix -‘i has been variously analyzed as a transitivizer, a passive suffix, a perfective suffix, and a modifier of verbal semantics. It has a variety of effects on the valency and aspect of the verb to which it is affixed. The One Form/One Meaning Principle (Johns 1992) suggests that these various effects should be linked together. I show that the apparently divergent functions of -...

This article, based on data from the Retirement History Study, examines coverage by an employee pension plan on the longest job and the extent to which covered workers received an employee pension upon retirement and the size of their benefits. It also examines the joint receipt of employee pension and OASDI benefits and the size of the combined benefits. Each of these pension variables is anal...