In an effort to keep information systems (IS) curriculum current with emerging technologies, this research reports the result of a survey of marketplace demand for database, data warehousing and business intelligence skills. Sample job and skills data were obtained from Dice.com’s online postings for jobs that required a bachelor’s degree in IS or equivalent qualifications. Cluster analysis rev...

The adverse labor market effects of the Great Recession have intensified interest in policy efforts to spur job creation. The two most direct job creation policies are subsidies that go to workers and hiring credits that go to employers. Evidence indicates that worker subsidies are generally more effective at creating jobs. However, the unique circumstances of recovery from the Great Recession,...

The European DataGrid (EDG)[17] project aims to provide a platform to satisfy the ever-growing demand of high computation and storage requirements across scientific disciplines. Its resource broker is the gateway to a managed set of compute elements for handling the job submission and accounting. In this paper, we present an infrastructure layering on top of the resource brokers for load-balanc...

This paper considers how the demand for non-material aspects of jobs evolves over changing wealth levels and how firms may want to react. We first consider the importance of non-material job aspects in general before turning to two specific human resource practices: flexible working hour arrangements and employer pension provision. In order to estimate the effect of wealth on job preferences wi...

In a constantly changing job market, Information Technology (IT) practitioners must keep their skills up-to-date. Educational institutions with Informational Technology curricula must also keep current in course offerings and programs of study. One way to maintain relevance is to examine and identify what IT skills and competencies are in demand. Job positions, indicating current expertise need...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether resilience has a protective effect in difficult work environments. METHODS A survey of 2063 individuals measured individual resilience, stress, burnout, sleep problems, likelihood of depression, job satisfaction, intent to quit, absences, and productivity. It also measured work characteristics: job demands, job influence, and social support. Multivariate and logis...

wanted to change their work. The mean score of MFI and job demand of our sample were 50.6 (SD: 12.5) and 36.1 (SD: 4.1), respectively. Multivariate logistic regression analysis (Table 1) showed that salarydissatisfaction significantly increased the incidence of depressive symptoms with adjusted odds ratio (OR) 1.9 (1.1–3.6). Meanwhile, physical fatigue, mental fatigue, and high job demand were ...

Background Little is known about the role of low physical activity at work (sedentary work or low physical job demand) in the increasing prevalence of obesity of US workers. Methods This cross-sectional and secondary data analysis included 1,001 male and 1,018 female workers (age range: 32–69) from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS) II study (2004–2006). Sed...

During the past ten years the number of unaccompanied asylum-seeking refugee children has dramatically increased in Sweden. Some of them are permitted to stay in the receiving country, but some are forced back to their country of origin. Social workers and police officers are involved in these forced repatriations, and such complex situations may cause stressful working conditions. This study a...