This paper describes an approach for improving job search by generation and visualization of networks of companies and professions. Both networks are produced from job offers, which always contain information regarding the required profession and the company interested in an employee. The network reflects discovered relations between professions and companies by analyzing common professions of ...

Using survey data collected from senior corporate executives around the world I analyze how detection of bribery impacts firm competitiveness. The data suggest that the most significant impact is on employee morale, followed by business relations and reputation, and then regulatory relations. I find that who initiated the bribery act, how it was detected, and how the firm responded after detect...

Using a representative sample of 3,381 American workers, this study investigates relationships among work/life policies, informal support, and employee Patricia V. Roehling is Associate Professor at Hope College and a faculty affiliate of the Cornell Employment and Family Careers Institute. Her address is Psychology Department, Hope College, Holland, MI 49423; e-mail: roehling hope.edu. She has...

We used data from the British 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey* to examine key unanswered questions about the impact of gender similarity on employee satisfaction and commitment at work. The sample consisted of 13,891 men and 14,324 women from over 1700 workplaces across Britain. The effects of gender similarity were asymmetrical for men and women. They varied also depending on the leve...

Integrating and expanding upon the person-environment fit (PE fit) and the self-determination theory literatures, the authors hypothesized and tested a model in which the satisfaction of the psychological needs for autonomy, relatedness, and competence partially mediated the relations between different types of perceived PE fit (i.e., person-organization fit, person-group fit, and job demands-a...

Performance Appraisal is most traditional but widely used method of measuring employee performance on the job, his relative abilities and skills to enable him to take up higher job responsibilities The organizations today are putting increased accentuate on performance appraisal practices to improve employee performance on the one hand and use it as a motivational tool on the other. It is one o...

This study investigates the employee-employer relationship, focusing specifically on trust. The trust building relationship is investigated by exploring the current perspective on trust, the elements of trust and the role of a five-factor model on personality (conscientiousness, agreeableness, emotional stability, resourcefulness and extraversion) and managerial practices (credibility, group ma...