OBJECTIVE Modern postgraduate medical training requires both accurate and reliable selection procedures. An essential first step is to conduct detailed job analysis studies. This paper reports data on a series of job analyses to develop a competency model for three secondary care specialties (anaesthesia, obstetrics and gynaecology, and paediatrics). METHODS Three independent job analysis stu...

A clonal selection based memetic algorithm is proposed for solving job shop scheduling problems in this paper. In the proposed algorithm, the clonal selection and the local search mechanism are designed to enhance exploration and exploitation. In the clonal selection mechanism, clonal selection, hypermutation and receptor edit theories are presented to construct an evolutionary searching mechan...

the present research studies how material and non-material factors could attract people to work in public and private sectors. the study focuses on the effect of financial incentives on better performance in the workplace, as well as the importance of wages, job security, authority, and job satisfaction in both the public and the private sectors. research subjects are all public and private sec...

Conventional scheduling technology, which tries to optimise performance metrics such as utilisation and makespan, works well in environments where there is a high degree of stability, and hence certainty. However, in uncertain situations, schedules that try to achieve optimality have trouble achieving this target. An often used technique to circumvent the issues with uncertainty that optimal po...

Notwithstanding the risky, unconventional, and demanding nature of Special Operations Forces (SOF) missions, the assessment and selection of SOF candidates should be governed by the same principles that prevail in the selection of candidates in other sophisticated organizations. This chapter applies western industrial psychology guidelines and procedures to SOF by providing a general overview o...

lutely lacks feed back to candidates interested in a teaching job thereby resulting usually into deliberate selection and non selection of undeserved and meritorious candidates, respectively. The selection procedure also allows many candidates to try various pushes and pulls (both financially and politically) to get entry into lecturership. Until this phenomenon is totally replaced by ethical s...

Job Turnover, Wage Rates, and Marital Stability: How Are They Related? This study examines the interplay between job stability, wage rates, and marital instability. We use a Dynamic Selection Control model in which young men make sequential choices about work and family. Our empirical estimates derived from the model account for selfselection, simultaneity and unobserved heterogeneity. The resu...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine how employee well-being, psychosocial factors at work, leadership and perceived occupational health services predict entering rehabilitation as modelled in the Job Well-being Pyramid. METHODS A random population of 967 civil servants participated in a survey on psychosocial factors and health at work in 2000 in Finland. A total of 147 employees...

Monitoring Job Offer Decisions, Punishments, Exit to Work, and Job Quality Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search requirements are violated. We analyze the effect of sanctions on the ensuing job quality, notably on wage rates and hours worked, and we examine how often a sanction leads to a lower occupational level. The data c...