The performance of individual stockbrokers differs. This paper aims at explaining these differences, or at least at making some sense of them. In a study of fourteen stockbrokers, the high performing brokers described their working life in a systematically different way, compared to the low...

Emotional intelligence was hypothesized to be a factor in successful life adjustment, among them the successful achievement of a well-balanced life with little interference between work and family and leisure. Data from a sample of 153 respondents who were roughly representative of the...

This is a study of perceived threats to society, with a special interest in new and future threats. An extensive questionnaire was mailed to 250 respondents, 61 percent responded. The respondents came from all strata of society but with a bias in favor of those with a high level of education....

This is a study in which emotional intelligence (EI) as well as several other personality dimensions were studied in a real, high-stakes, selection situation, N=190. Forty-one trait oriented personality scales were measured and factor analyzed. A factor pattern with four secondary factors was...

Management consulting increasingly appears as a global endeavour as reflected in the increasing dominance of a few large, global management-consulting firms. However, features of the consulting service (e.g. its immaterial and interactional character) as well as aspects of management (e.g. its...

A relatively new organisational form, of particular interest for how careers are organised and conceptualised, in the current labour market, is the so-called outplacement program. Outplacement programs are a form of compensation package offered to employees that are being laid off as a part of...

This study examines the communication pattern between social workers and care leavers in a virtual setting. These groups are socially excluded and psychologically distant from each other. The role of the media in generating stereotypes that mitigate communication is examined. Internet is chosen...

The forecasting of operating lease expense in valuation models like the discounted dividends model is more complex than the forecasting of non-lease cash operating expense. The reason is that lease expense depends on past real growth and inflation, due to the long lives of the leased assets,...

This paper examines the effects of customer familiarity (i.e. the number of previous consumption-related experiences) on a) expectations prior to the consumption of a service, b) performance perceptions after the consumption, and c) satisfaction after the consumption. Data collected in a...