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According to set-point theories of subjective well-being, people react to events but then return to baseline levels of happiness and satisfaction over time. We tested this idea by examining reaction and adaptation to unemployment in a 15-year longitudinal study of more than 24,000 individuals...
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-02, Section: B, page: 0633.
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In two experiments, we show that the beliefs women have about the controllability of their weight (i.e., weight locus of control) influences their responses to advertisements featuring a larger-sized female model or a slim female model. Further, we examine self-referencing as a mechanism for...
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) measurement: (1) Do HR practices impact business results? (2) How can HR practices add value to business performance? (3) What HR … measures can drive business performance? Using Eastman Kodak as a case study, this article identifies three paths through which … HR practices contribute to business performance: (1) by building organizational capabilities; (2) by improving employee …
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Current business conditions mandate greater competitive advantage from HR agendas and processes. To add greater … value either reactively or proactively. In its strategically reactive mode, HR assumes the existence of a business strategy … and adds value by linking HR practices to the business strategy and by managing change. In its strategically proactive …
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Like any value-creating staff function, HR departments should operate as a business within a business. Others have … organization structure of the business and (2) because diversified/allied business models prevail, it is important to lay out the …
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Moneyball (Lewis, 2003), a New York Times bestseller, is a book about baseball. When read through a broader lens, however, Moneyball is also a book about innovation, resistance to change, competitive advantage, achieving excellence, and, of most relevance here, human resource management. While...
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In China, where many multinational companies face a constant shortage of talent and high employee turnover, the Portman Ritz-Carlton Hotel has been able to attract, develop, and retain high-quality talent to deliver excellent customer service and ensure profitable growth. Under the leadership of...
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knowledge about the fundamental driving forces of business. Business leaders and employees increasingly assume that HR … professionals must be fully versant about external business realities that directly or indirectly influence how to apply that … knowledge. We examine four of the most central categories of external business knowledge: advancements in technology, the causes …
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, entrepreneurship, education, psychology, and sociology. Consequently, ITG approaches innovation problems more accurately by … simultaneously investigating the customer, market, and business itself. Innovation Transformation Guidebook should be used as an … interactive platform with a small business team. ITG cards are grouped three categories: Inform, Expand, and Deliver. The flash …
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