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Revisiting Sex-Role Stereotyping in the Job Selection Dyad: An Empirical Study Comparing Sex-Role Biases in Selection Decisions Across Two Different Generations
No full textConsiderable attention has been devoted to differences in employment experiences between men and women since the passage of Title VII almost 60 years ago. This study analyzes survey data collected 20 years ago (N=231) against recent survey data collected in the same manner (N=365) to determine if perceptions regarding job selection decisions have changed over the last 20 years. An important contribution of this study is in its methodology. It assesses raw data collected 20 years ago against recent data in a hierarchal regression model to determine if there are differences in the effect size of gender role biases between the two generations. Results suggest that gender biases in the job selection dyad are beginning to disappear for the younger generation of workers
The Impact of a Policy Change Requiring Embedded Video Lectures in Online Microeconomics Courses
No full textThis paper aims to study whether a pilot policy change requiring asynchronous video lectures (embedded recorded lectures) improves student performance in undergraduate online microeconomics courses. The researchers used time series regression analysis to determine whether there was a statistically significant difference before and after the intervention of recorded lectures in undergraduate microeconomic courses. Research results indicate that recorded lectures do not significantly improve student outcomes in undergraduate online microeconomics courses. The research results have implications that extend beyond the current study
A History of Labor Relations: Know the Past, Understand the Present, Develop the Future
No full textLabor unions continue to be a major concern for both management and the employee workforce. Nationally, a union represented less than 11% of American workers in 2020. (www.bls.gov/cps) This research presents a brief history of labor unions, which includes the early struggles of the labor movement efforts of the 1800’s; the advent of modern unions and the strategies by key union leaders of the time for success; the key legislative efforts and the significance of the federal government’s attempt to balance power between management and unions. This research further addresses recent labor relations’ activities including the highly publicized legal cases involving Janus V. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and the status of the ongoing battle between Amazon and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). Finally, the status of the desired balance of power between labor and management is addressed with discussion of the current “Great Resignation” phenomenon and its’ many challenges including an effective Employee Value Propositions (EPV) which addresses current and future employee trends such as “Boomerang employees” and “Quiet quitting”. The case will provide guidance to both parties in labor relations concerning the question: What is the current and future positions of the pendulum regarding the relationship between labor and management
The Mishandling of Meta
Get PDFOn October 28, 2021, Facebook, Inc., the largest social media conglomerate in the world, announced that it was rebranding itself to Meta, Inc. This report explores and analyzes both stakeholder and business media reactions to the announcement, as well as Meta’s response to the reactions
Evaluation of a Modified REDON Fit Test Protocol for Half-Mask Respirators
Get PDFThe purpose of this study was to investigate whether a modified REDON method is as effective and accurate compared to the reference method when measuring respirator fit for elastomeric half-mask respirators using the Quantifit® CNP instrument
Federal Fashion: Uniform Modification, Self-Expression, and the Union Infantry Officer of the American Civil War
Get PDFThe military uniforms of the American Civil War, particularly on the Union side, varied tremendously through time and location. There were an endless number of combinationsmyriad boots and hats, coats and jackets, insignias, and trousers. That was true for officers, especially commissioned officers, who exercised the greatest aesthetic freedom. Scattered works have broached the topic of officer uniforms, especially those of Confederate officers, though their Union counterparts have gone under the microscope also. Invariably, these works include non-regulation uniforms, either compiled by officers from separate pieces or handmade by one of the hundreds of tailors working across the nation. However, few historians have questioned how and why custom uniforms became so popular among officers during the war. Past scholars have approached the topic of uniforms and clothing from a statistical or practical perspective, focusing on the manufacturing and distribution of uniforms. Other histories portray the soldiers garb in wholly pragmatic terms that is, uniforms and equipment served a particular purpose, and their use fulfilled that purpose. Yet, a Union officers clothing historically represented much more. Using recent developments in fashion and textile history, plus principles of group sociology and conventional historical inquiry, this work explores how American industrial progress and a nostalgic longing for the past clashed in the 1860s. This tumultuous period of change and violence led to military officers, as representatives of the state, embracing components of both old and new, using their distinct and subjective clothing choices as an assertion of political individuality
Human Exploitation: An Analysis of Vulnerability
Get PDFThis study explores the relationship that the vulnerability that a population experiences has to their susceptibility to exp loitation. This presentation presents preliminary analysis within Africa because it presents with the highest trends of human trafficking in comparisons to other regions. These trends were then measured against three subsets of the study’s total vulnerability measure which is defined generally as limited access to healthcare, education, wealth, and political power
A Pratical Approach to Understanding Music Theory
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