Employees engage in job crafting when they actively create what their job is physically, socially, and psychologically. Job crafting has been shown to be a means for effectively improving emotional well-being in organizations. ...

Hosts John Wedman and Elliott McClelland interview Dr. Judy Hale, from Hale Associates, on the topic of her chapter, outsourcing. Outsourcing is a strategy for optimizing resources. This chapter discusses the pros and cons ...

This chapter presents some of the issues and considerations for effective succession planning and management (SPM) interventions. It explores the uncertain nature of succession itself and research and practice-based evidence ...

Job aids are dead! Job Aids are dead! Long live performance aids! Now for all of you who have used or still use job aids, please don't burn this chapter. While the title may be provocative, I postulate that the term job ...

What doesn't get measured, doesn't get effectively managed. In performance improvement, a professional typically conducts measurement in the context of a needs assessment, causal analysis, monitoring, formative evaluation, ...

Understanding how to support people working on teams has become a matter of urgency for many organizations. Globalization has created information, communication, and technological challenges and opportunities that require ...

Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) accounts for up to 70 percent of health disruptions and $500 million in associated medical costs and production losses, thus receiving considerable attention from cattle health personnel ...

The automotive industry is already showing signs of moving beyond a century long dependence on petroleum. The tens of billions of dollars in the electric vehicle (EV) consumer market are a powerful demonstration of this ...

Technical limitations in simultaneous microscopic visualization of RNA, DNA, and proteins of HIV have curtailed progress in this field. To address this need we have developed a microscopy approach, multiplex immunofluorescent ...

Some cultural goods, like clothes and films, are consumed socially and are thus characterized by the same consumption network externalities as languages. At the same time, producers of new cultural goods in any one country ...

The purpose or this study is to determine whether there are relationships between the problems of elementary trumpet students and the mouthpieces used. The problems to be studied are problems of tone, range, flexibility, ...

The television series 13 Reasons Why, released in March 2017, was followed by a wave of controversy over how it portrayed the suicide of its protagonist. Some critics thought that the show handled the suicide exceptionally ...

The goal of my dissertation was to assess how terrestrial salamanders respond to two common forest management practices -- prescribed fire and timber harvest. Previous studies have reported that timber harvest adversely ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Recent work of the last 15 years has sought to revaluate what are often thought of as consistent business cycle facts, and one of these in particular ...

Hypertension is a global pandemic which can cause significant complications if left untreated. The silent symptom characteristics associated with hypertension create the urgency for disease management. The purpose of ...

Text taken from Chapter 1 of this thesis: The Court of Star Chamber is no exception to the rule that most of the interesting and important developments of the English Constitution have evolved from the one great institution, ...

Yersinia pestis is the etiological agent of the disease known as plague. The pathology of this disease is characterized by organ failure due to necrosis and hyperinflammation towards the end of the disease. However, Y. ...