Background: Multisource feedback (MSF) is increasingly being used as one of the components in revalidation and recertification processes to guide physicians’ continuing professional development. Data provided by coworkers (e.g., nurses, pharmacists, technicians) are recognized as integral for assessing a physician’s communication, teamwork and interprofessional abilities. The purpose of this st...

Purpose: This study had three aims. Firstly, to examine the validity of the workaholism triad as compared to the workaholism dyad. Secondly, to test the relationship between workaholism and work-family conflict. Thirdly, to explore the three-way relationships between worker type, WFC and supervisor support and flexible work schedules. Methodology: Participants consisted of 169 workers employed ...

While economists have long considered increased international trade as a net welfare-improving endeavor, public opposition to further trade liberalization has grown in recent years. Critics cite domestic job loss due to firm relocation or plant closure as an expected consequence of liberalization. In this study I investigate the hypothesized relationship between rising import competition and do...

This paper develops an integer mathematical programming model to design the cellular manufacturing systems under data envelopment analysis. Since workers have an important role in doing jobs on machines, assignment of workers to cells becomes a crucial factor for fully utilization of cellular manufacturing systems (CMS). The aim of the proposed is to minimize backorder costs and intercellul...

What are the benefits of end-user development (EUD) to the average worker? This paper provides one quantitative answer to this question by using historical data to analyze the relationship between worker earnings and two forms of EUD. The analysis indicates that American workers who used both spreadsheets/databases, and who also each did programming, earned on the order of 10% more than peers w...

The paper contributes to the literature on the post-communist political economy of protest, and specifically to the question how governments handle public discontent with the outcomes of transition. The paper argues that the current economic crisis disrupts a key element of the post-Soviet political economy, workplace welfare. In the pre-crisis past, workplace welfare was found to contain worke...

It is increasingly recognized that labour markets are pervasively imperfectly competitive, that there are rents to the employment relationship for both worker and employer. This chapter considers why it is sensible to think of labour markets as imperfectly competitive, reviews estimates on the size of rents, theories of and evidence on the distribution of rents between worker and employer, and ...

We present a very simple, free tool for parallelizing calculations under Matlab in multicore and cluster environments. After the installation it does not use any compilers, MEX files, disk files, etc. It is compatible with the old Paralize package, but allows the involved cores/machines to do other jobs when a worker core/machine is not busy.

The shortage of health workers in many low-income countries poses a threat to the quality of health services. When the number of patients per health worker grows sufficiently high, there will be insufficient time to diagnose and treat all patients adequately. This paper tests the hypothesis that high caseload reduces the level of effort per patient in the diagnostic process. We observed 159 cli...