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Job characteristic theory

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Job turnover, expectations, and the Phillips Curve

Charles Cosme Henri Dennery

Job turnover makes a wage Phillips Curve less forward-looking, with a smaller coefficient for inflation expectations. Workers discount future wage income with a low discount factor if there is a strong flow of job turnover; this implies that future inflati ...

2019

R&D Team Diversity and Performance in Hypercompetitive Environment

Marc Gruber, Annamaria Conti

Research summary: This article examines the effects of an R&D team's composition on its performance outcomes in hypercompetition. The fundamental feature of firms in hypercompetitive settings is that they are constantly challenged to improve their competit ...

2017

Compression testing spherical particles for strength: Theory of the meridian crack test and implementation for microscopic fused quartz

Andreas Mortensen, Goran Zagar, Raphaël Charvet, Cyril Dénéréaz, Václav Pejchal

We show that uniaxial compression testing of spherical particles can give unambiguous access to their tensile strength as governed by surface flaws if one uses pairs of elasto-plastic platens, tailoring their hardness in order to control the relative area ...

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Training on the Job: Behavioral Analysis of Job Interviews in Hospitality

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Jean-Marc Odobez, Laurent Son Nguyen, Skanda Muralidhar, Denise Frauendorfer

First impressions play a critical role in the hospitality industry and have been shown to be closely linked to the behavior of the person being judged. In this work, we implemented a behavioral training framework for hospitality students with the goal of i ...

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Computational Analysis Of Behavior In Employment Interviews And Video Resumes

Laurent Son Nguyen

Used in nearly every organization, employment interviews are a ubiquitous process where job applicants are evaluated by an employer for an open position. Consisting of an interpersonal interaction between at least one interviewer and a job applicant, they ...

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