Search Results - subject:"white collar work"

Servants of liquidation : the clerical staff at the First Debt Office in Sweden, c. 1719-1730

Winton, Patrik - In: Business history 66 (2024) 4, pp. 884-904

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An employee who was not there : a study of job boredom in white-collar work

Harju, Lotta K.; Hakanen, Jari J. - In: Personnel review : a professional journal reporting new … 45 (2016) 2, pp. 374-391

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An employee who was not there: a study of job boredom in white-collar work

Harju, Lotta K.; Hakanen, Jari J. - In: Personnel Review 45 (2016) 2, pp. 374-391

industries, studies investigating the experience and its emergence in white-collar work are scarce. Thereby the purpose of this … paper is to contextualize job boredom by exploring the experience and its preconditions in white-collar work. Design … organizations to recognize that there are different types and various preconditions of job boredom in white-collar work, as it may …

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Operations Systems with Discretionary Task Completion

Hopp, Wallace J.; Iravani, Seyed M. R.; Yuen, Gigi Y. - In: Management Science 53 (2007) 1, pp. 61-77

Most performance evaluation models in the operations management literature implicitly assume that tasks possess standardized completion criteria. However, in many systems, particularly service and professional work, judgment is frequently required to determine how much time to allocate to a...

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