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Miki Lane interview
(2009)
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 ...
Michelle French interview
(2008)
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. ...
Hillary Leigh interview
(2008)
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 ...
Judy Hale interview
(2008)
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 ...
Scott Schaffer interview
(2008)
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 ...
Ingrid Guerra-Lopez interview
(2008)
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, ...
Neckties in the Tropics: A Model of International Trade and Cultural Diversity
(Department of Economics, 2005)
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 ...
Investigating a countercyclical price level with procyclical inflation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[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 ...
Cell mechanics studied using atomic force microscopy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Cholesterol plays an indispensable role in regulating the properties of the cell membrane. In particular, lipid rafts, specific membrane domains, which are thought to be required for a number of cell functions, such as ...