In Organizations productivity is a vital issue. There are many factors that determine productivity of an organization. Nowadays Employee turnover is one of those which are considered to be one of the difficult issues in business. The effect of intension to leave has received huge attention from top management(senior executives), human resource professionals and other industrial psychologists ha...

This paper examines the role of informal job search methods on the labour market outcomes of displaced workers. Informal job search methods could alleviate short-term labour market difficulties of displaced workers by providing information on job opportunities, allowing them to signal their productivity and may mitigate wage losses through better post-displacement job matching. However if displ...

production planning is performed through diverse methods according to the type of the system it is structured upon. one of the most important steps before production planning is to determine which system best fits the firm, and how the facilities should be designed. both job-shop and group-technology systems have their own cons and pros, each of which is suitable to a specific kind of factory. ...

a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: D83 J64 R14 R23 Keywords: City structure On-the-job search Unemployment Efficiency Relocation path Career path This study develops an on-the-job search model involving spatial structure. In this model, workers are either employed and commute frequently to a central business district (CBD) or unemployed and commute less frequently to the CBD in search of...

This paper analyzes the job-to-job transitions of workers in the United States. I propose a new method of correcting the time-aggregation bias. The bias-corrected series from 1996 to 2011 reveals a procyclical pattern of job-to-job transition and a large decline since the beginning of the 2000s. I construct a model of on-the-job search and explore the implications of this phenomenon. The calibr...

This paper proposes job auctions as a theory of wage determination in models of labor markets with search frictions. Workers apply for jobs by bidding in auctions, and firms reward the job to the applicant who offers it the most profit. In equilibrium, more productive applicants always outbid less productive ones, but the threat of competition holds down the former’s wage demand. The equilibriu...

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Background & Aims of the Study: Job stress has negative effects on various organizational, motivational, and social factors. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of organizational intelligence, workplace-life skills, and employee empowerment training on promoting organizational productivity and socialization among the employees with job stress in Persian Gulf Star Oil Co., Bandar A...