In a Public Employment Service reform implemented in 2013, sixty Finnish municipalities experienced an involuntary employment office closure. The Government's objective was to replace traditional face-to-face employment counselling with modern online counselling and simultaneously generate...

Background: Home visiting programs constitute an important policy to support vulnerable families with young children. They mainly aim to improve infant-parent relationships, however evidence on their effectiveness based on observational measures is relatively scarce. The present study provides...

In a Public Employment Service reform implemented in 2013, sixty Finnish municipalities experienced an involuntary employment office closure. The Government's objective was to replace traditional face-to-face employment counselling with modern online counselling and simultaneously generate...

Background: Home visiting programs constitute an important policy to support vulnerable families with young children. They mainly aim to improve infant-parent relationships, however evidence on their effectiveness based on observational measures is relatively scarce. The present study provides...

Background: Home visiting programs constitute an important policy to support vulnerable families with young children. They mainly aim to improve infant-parent relationships, however evidence on their effectiveness based on observational measures is relatively scarce. The present study provides...

Main Trends in Counselling -- The Mirocounselling Model by Ivey -- Egan’s Model of Problem-Management -- Solution-Focused Counselling -- The integrative Model of Ertelt and Schulz: Information structural Methodology (ISM) -- Competence-Oriented Vocational and Career Counselling. .

Definition und Grundlagen des Phänomens -- Forschungsergebnisse und Wirkmechanismen -- Priming, u. a. durch Umgebung, Sprache, Bewegung, Gerüche, Kleidung, Texturen -- Primes in der Beratung, Verhandlung und Mediation -- Priming - Experimente.

"The book is a collection of studies on military entrepreneurship, treating the subject with emphasis on metacognition, entrepreneurship that engages memory-monitoring and self-regulation, and meta-reasoning including knowledge about when and how to use particular strategies for learning or for...

The subject of this article are the East Asian objects in the collection of Philipp Fürchtegott Reemtsma (1893-1959), a leading tobacco and cigarette manufacturer based in Hamburg. In 1968, to mark the tenth anniversary of Philipp F. Reemtsma’s death, his widow, Gertrud Reemtsma, produced a...

This paper examines the evolution of drug use in Colombia over the past years. Our analysis, based on surveys from the Dirección Nacional de Estupefacientes, shows that drug consumption grew substantially between 1996 and 2013. The growth occurred for both genders, all ages, socioeconomic...

Front-line loan officers of microfinance institutions are important in acquiring information on potential borrowers and selecting them in accordance with the microfinance institution's mission. This study uses a unique data set on loan officers and their loan portfolios from China's largest...

Paying for performance provides financial rewards to medical care providers for improvements in performance measured by specific utilization and quality of care indicators. In 2006, Rwanda began a paying for performance scheme to improve health services delivery, including HIV/AIDS services....

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Chapter 1 Career Development and Counseling: An Introduction -- Why Do People Work? -- Grappling with Personal Agency: Does It Make Sense to Speak of Work Choice? -- What Is A Career? What Is Career Development? -- What...

"The book is a collection of studies on military entrepreneurship, treating the subject with emphasis on metacognition, entrepreneurship that engages memory-monitoring and self-regulation, and meta-reasoning including knowledge about when and how to use particular strategies for learning or for...

"Career Development and Counseling focuses selectively on the theories that are empirically supported and useful in practice rather than an encyclopedic survey of every theory, regardless of relevance. The goal of the book is the promotion of scientifically-informed career practices from an...

A decision maker repeatedly asks an adviser for advice. The adviser is either competent or incompetent and his preferences are not perfectly aligned with the decision maker's preferences. Over time the decision maker learns about the adviser's type and fires him if he is likely to be...

We conduct a series of field experiments to evaluate the quality of advice provided by life insurance agents in India. Agents overwhelmingly recommend unsuitable, strictly dominated products, which provide high commissions to the agent. Agents cater to the beliefs of uninformed consumers, even...

Front-line loan officers of microfinance institutions are important in acquiring information on potential borrowers and selecting them in accordance with the microfinance institution's mission. This study uses a unique data set on loan officers and their loan portfolios from China's largest...

A decision maker asks an adviser repeatedly for advice. The adviser is either competent or incompetent and his preferences are not perfectly aligned with the decision maker's preferences. Over time the decision maker learns about the adviser's type and fires him if he is likely to be...

Betriebliche Weiterbildung ist vor dem Hintergrund lebenslangen Lernens wichtig für alle Beschäftigten. Für eine arbeitnehmergerechte Weiterbildung muss der Betriebsrat an Prozessen beteiligt werden. Damit Betriebsratsmitglieder im System betrieblicher Weiterbildung motiviert und sachkundig...

Menschen zu beraten ist eine komplexe Aufgabe, welche eine hohe Professionalität erfordert. Doch Beratung ist auch ein Handwerk, das sich lernen und einüben lässt. Das Werk von Bernd-Joachim Ertelt und William E. Schulz eignet sich als Nachschlagebuch in der Berater*innenausbildung und...

Showrooming, the phenomenon of consumers visiting a brick-and-mortar (B&M) store to learn about products but then buying online to obtain lower prices, is attracting increased attention both in business practice and in academic literature. It is considered a major threat to the B&M retailers,...