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Job of Edessa's Book of Treasures
No full textJob of Edessa, who flourished in the early ninth century, is known to have translated some of Galen’s works and also to have authored many of his own compositions, but only one major work survives: his Book of Treasures. The editor of this volume, Mingana, rightly subtitles it an Encyclopedia, for Job covers all manner of scientific topics here, from the basic (elements, matter, generation and corruption) to more tangible subjects (anatomy and physiology, zoology, meteorology and astronomy, metals and geology), and even spiritual questions (angels, the resurrection and future life). Mingana gives the Syriac text together with an English translation, which has a detailed table of contents. The volume is prefaced with a long introduction in which Mingana covers what is known about Job’s life and works and the sources and contents of the Book of Treasures. Every reader interested in the legacy of Aristotelian science and in the intellectual, and especially the scientific, climate of the middle east around the ninth century will want to study this volume.Translated into English from a Syriac version
Real Wage Cyclicality of Job Stayers, within-Company Job Movers, and Between-Company Job Movers
No full textUsing the British New Earnings Survey Panel Data for 1975–2001, the authors estimate the wage cyclicality (the degree to which wage levels rise and fall with economic upturns and downturns) of three groups: job stayers, within-company job movers, and between-company job movers. Wages of internal movers, they find, were slightly more procyclical, and wages of external movers considerably more procyclical, than those of stayers. The greater cyclicality of movers’ wages is particularly apparent for private sector workers and persons not covered by collective agreements. Nevertheless, because job stayers comprised about 90% of all observations in this large sample of British workers, the procyclicality of their wages was the predominant determinant of the overall procyclical pattern found across all groups. Thus, the analysis does not support the implication of some rigid wage models that employers use job title changes to adjust wages to the business cycle
Find your next, better job! : a job search workbook
No full textRev. 3/2017.Welcome -- First impressions -- OhioMeansJobs.com -- Resumes -- Job applications -- Interviewing -- Veterans -- Quick reference -- Notes
Worry in managers: An inventory of job-related worries and correlates with job involvement and self-reliance
No full textThis report describes the development of the Worry Inventory for Managers (WIM), a 24-item measure of job-related worries in managers. After item selection by expert ratings, a sample of 138 managers rated each item for the intensity of worry, the extent to which they worry about it during work, and the extent to which they worry about it after work. In addition, measures of pathological worrying, job involvement, and self-reliance were administered. Factor analysis of the WIM revealed two facets of job-related worry, namely worry about (1) Organizational Processes and (2) Work Overload, of which the latter predominated after work. Job-related and pathological worry showed distinct patterns of correlation with the three factors of self-reliance, that is Counterdependence, Overdependence, and Secure Relationships. The potentially detrimental effects of worry both during work (e.g., performance decrements) and after work (e.g., recreation failure) are briefly discussed
L-R: (seated) William Carson Job, Robert Brown Job; (standing) Thomas Bulley Job (the second), Samuel Ernest Job in a Job Brothers & Co. Ltd. Office.
No full textThe four sons of Thomas Raffles Job and Agnes Beater Brown who were active in Job Brothers & Co. between 1886 and 1952.This collection consists of photographs taken from two Job family albums, reflecting their business ventures, family activities and historical events
Understanding the Outcomes of Older Job Losers
No full textWe use an unusually rich Canadian survey to examine how post-job-loss behaviour and outcomes vary with age of the job loser. We find that older job losers experience greater post-displacement joblessness, and are less likely to return quickly to satisfactory employment. We show that this apparent age effect is not a job tenure effect or wealth effect. We also find that older job losers, compared to mid-career job losers, are as likely to report searching for work, but that they search less intensely (reporting fewer hours of search, and lower out of pocket expenditures on search). They are also less likely to retrain, less likely to undertake a geographic move, and less likely to switch occupations. Thus, the data suggest older job losers are less likely to make career investments after job loss. This may be a rational response to a shorter time horizon, or to more limited labour market opportunities.job loss, job search, older workers
Thomas Warren Job, William Carson Job and a young man.
No full textThis collection consists of photographs taken from two Job family albums, reflecting their business ventures, family activities and historical events
Job rotation as a learning mechanism.
No full textThis article analyzes the costs and benefits of job rotation as a mechanism with which the firm can learn about the employees' productivities and the profitability of different jobs or activities. I compare job rotation to an assignment policy where employees specialize in one job along their career. The gains from adopting a job rotation policy are larger when there is more prior uncertainty about employees and activities. I argue that this firm learning theory fits the existing evidence on rotation better than alternative explanations based on employee motivation and employee learning.
A human-centric approach to IIoT integration in workers’ job designs
No full textThe term Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) describes manufacturing systems where smart devices are connected under a unique network. When workers are still required in the operations, the presence of IIoT complements their work, often modifying their traditional job characteristics. With the term job characteristics, we refer to a set of
design attributes that describe the activities that workers perform daily in an organizational context (e.g. job autonomy, job complexity, feedback from job, task
variety). Moreover, a change in the job characteristics would affect humans’ working life in turn. In this regard, it needs to be considered that the job characteristics’ outcome would not depend only on the choice of the technology itself, but also on the extent to how IIoT is deployed. A context where human-centered practices (HCPs) are habitually applied, for instance, may eventually lead to integrate the same technologies differently.
Accordingly, this research aims at measuring the impact of IIoT on job characteristics and the moderating role of human-centered practices on this relationship. To address the research questions, this study leverage a database of 104 workers, divided per 18 production line. Findings prove that IIoT positively influences job autonomy and
feedback from the job, and negatively influences job complexity. Moreover, where HCPs are applied, we measured a higher perception of job autonomy, feedback from job
and task variety while a lower perception of job complexity
Changes in Job Stability and Job Security: A Collective Effort to Untangle, Reconcile, and Interpret the Evidence
No full textI synthesize and summarize a set of recent papers on changes in the employment relationship. The authors of these papers present the most up-to-date and accurate assessment of their evidence on changes in job stability and job security, and attempt to reconcile their evidence with the findings of other research, including the other papers discussed herein. Some of papers also begin to explore explanations of changes in the employment relationship. The evidence suggests that the 1990's witnessed some changes in the employment relationship consistent with weakened bonds between workers and firms. But the magnitudes of these changes indicate that while these bonds may have weakened, they have not been broken. Furthermore, the changes that occurred in the 1990's have not persisted very long. It is therefore premature to infer long-term trends towards declines in long-term employment relationships, and even more so to infer anything like the disappearance of long-term, secure jobs. The papers examining sources of changes in job stability and job security in the 1990's point to some potential explanations, including relative wage movements, growth in alternative employment relationships, and downsizing. However, with the possible exception of the first of these, this list does not encompass fundamental' or exogenous changes impacting the employment relationship, but rather to some extent suggests how various changes in the employment relationship may reinforce each other. Understanding the structural changes underlying empirical observations on changes in job stability and job security is likely to be a fruitful frontier for future research on the employment relationship.
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