Employee empowerment has long been associated with organizational outcomes such as innovation, greater effectiveness, and better performance. Non-academic professional employees in higher education are responsible for the important day-to-day operations of a university; therefore, organizational strategies such as employee empowerment that encourage initiatives and innovative behaviors among th...

We use a simple theoretical framework and a randomized manipulation of access to information on peers' wages to provide new evidence on the effects of relative pay on individual job satisfaction and job search intentions. A randomly chosen subset of employees of the University of California (UC) was informed about a new website listing the pay of University employees. All employees were then su...

a high quality of work life (qwl) is essential for organizations to continue to attract and retain employees. qwl is a comprehensive program designated to improve employee satisfaction. this research aimed to provide insights into the positive and negative attitudes of tehran university of medical sciences (tums) hospitals’ employees from their quality of life. a cross- sectional, descriptive a...

OBJECTIVE To study whether formal education and occupational class are associated with incidence of rheumatoid arthritis overall and with the incidence of the two major subgroups of rheumatoid arthritis-seropositive (RF+) and seronegative (RF-) disease. METHODS 930 cases and 1126 controls participated in a population based case-control study using incident cases of rheumatoid arthritis, carri...

This chapter examines the empirical effect of Human Resource Management (HRM) practices on employees’ knowledge-sharing behaviour in Pakistan. A research model is developed for this chapter and hypotheses are formulated. The research sample is comprised of 390 respondents from 19 Knowledge Intensive Firms (KIFs) in Pakistan. The authors have employed Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) technique...

During the last decade with the rapid increase in indoor wireless communications, location-aware services have received a great deal of attention for commercial, public-safety, and a military application, the greatest challenge associated with indoor positioning methods is moving object data and identification. Mobility tracking and localization are multifaceted problems, which have been studie...

We propose a model in which employees differ in both skills and ethics. Employees receive a private, nonverifiable signal about the quality of their project, and decide whether or not to undertake it. Skilled employees lead more projects to success than unskilled ones. Ethical employees internalize the overall costs and benefits of a project whereas strategic employees make their decision based...

Canadian Union of Public Employees-CUPE Local 1334 [1] CUPE Local 1334 is the sole and exclusive bargaining agent for all trades, services and maintenance employees of the University of Guelph, employed or normally performing a major part of their work at its campus at Guelph. CUPE Local 1334 Unit 1 is the sole and exclusive bargaining agent for all interims employed in the Library at the Unive...