Abstract Informed by social resources theory, we provide an explanation for how political skill enables employees' access to resources, notably expressive network and developmental feedback granted supervisors, thereby enhancing their potential career growth. Employees can further leverage the attained maximize chances growth exercising ingratiation toward supervisors. Data from 399 independent...

Policies to Create and Destroy Human Capital in Europe Trends in skill bias and greater turbulence in modern labor markets put wages and employment prospects of unskilled workers under pressure. Weak incentives to utilize and maintain skills over the life-cycle become manifest with the ageing of the population. Reinvention of human capital policies is required to avoid increasing welfare state ...

Small businesses often face a variety of problems related to their size. A frequent cause of bankruptcy is undercapitalization. This is often a result of poor planning rather than economic conditions. It is a common rule of thumb that the entrepreneur should have access to a sum of money at least equal to the projected revenue for the first year of business in addition to his anticipated expens...

Nowadays, it is quite agreed that organizations gain limited advantages in adopting e-learning platforms that only provide educational contents. An advantageous e-learning platform should have instead the capability to help enrich, share and circulate organization knowledge, thus contributing to making the organization dynamic and flexible. In this paper MASEL, a Multi-Agent System for E-Learni...

OBJECTIVE To locate the 5 main factors related to the scarcity of medical research. METHODS The study was conducted at the Prasat Neurological Institute, Bangkok, Thailand, from December 1 to 15, 2006, and comprised medical staff of the institution. A questionnaire was developed that explored demographic data, evaluation of the 5 domains related to--knowledge, attitude, motivation, resources,...

Objective. Debate over the causes of wage inequality have raised suggestions that, rather than discrimination, skill differences may be the reason for racial wage disparities. The purpose of this research is to examine what impact on-the-job skill differences have on wage inequality. Method. I regress the log wage onto race and a measure of skill. The Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality Employ...