observations it was believed that this would be true for electric utility employees. However, deregulation of the electric market is bringing the long era of guaranteed prosperity of electric utilities to a close. The electric utility where this study was completed envisions transforming to a competitive learning organization. Currently its culture is primarily static in nature. And, the entitl...

Job shop scheduling problems occurs in automobile industry, aerospace industry, printing industry, and chemical industry. Job shop scheduling problems are real world and complex. The present work assesses the effect of change in setup times levels on make span, maximum flow time and maximum tardiness measures. The model of the job shop is developed in PROMODEL simulation software. Three levels ...

The various industries such as automobile industry, aerospace industry, printing industry, and chemical industry operate on job shop system. Job shop scheduling problems are complex and real world. The present work assesses the effect of change in shop utilizations levels on total setups and mean setup time measures. The simulation model of the job shop is developed for investigation purpose. T...

Racial Harassment, Job Satisfaction and Intentions to Remain in the Military Our results indicate that two-thirds of active-duty military personnel report experiencing offensive racial behaviors in the previous 12 months, while approximately one in ten report threatening racial incidents or career-related discrimination. Racial harassment significantly increases job dissatisfaction irrespective...

BACKGROUND Job satisfaction among physicians may be of importance to their individual careers and their work with patients. We lack prospective studies on whether a change in a doctor's job position influences their job satisfaction over a five-year period if we control for other workload factors. METHODS A longitudinal national cohort of all physicians who graduated in Norway in 1993 and 199...

This paper analyzes the role of structural change and routinization hypothesis as concurrent explanations for job polarization in Italy over a fifteen-year period: 2004-2019. We observe that, even though pattern Italian employment is characterized by pronounced contraction most routine-intensive sector economy – i.e. manufacturing disappearance routine more generalized phenomenon that affecting...

Abstract This paper addresses, both theoretically and empirically, the sectoral patterns of job creation destruction in order to distinguish alternative effects embodied vs disembodied technological change operating into a two-sector economy. Disembodied turns out positively affect employment dynamics “upstream” sectors, while expansionary investment does so “downstream” industries. However, th...

We investigate the effect of employer job security guarantees on employee perceptions of job security. Using linked employer-employee data from the 1998 British Workplace Employee Relations Survey, we find job security guarantees reduce employee perceptions of job insecurity. This finding is robust to endogenous selection of job security guarantees by employers engaging in organisational change...