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Furloughs: Hard Choices in Tight Times
The term furlough used to refer to a leave of absence given to military personnel to recoup from the dangers and anxieties of a war zone. The term is gaining new currency in a time when the ups and downs of the economy may make the workplace feel like a kind of war zone. Furlough is now being used to describe an unpaid hiatus from work. Read more
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Low-Wage Workers in the Coming Economy
Join the web conference: “Low-Wage Workers in the Coming Economy."
Featured speakers will include:
- Stacy Blake-Beard, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Simmons School of Management
- Ellen Ernst Kossek, University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University's Graduate School of Labor & Industrial Relations
- Introductory remarks from Barbara Dyer and Mark Popovich, President and CEO and Senior Program Officer respectively at the Hitachi Foundation, a major funder of efforts to improve labor market outcomes for low-wage workers.
The web conference will be moderated by Maureen Scully, Assistant Professor of Management at UMASS Boston’s College of Management. The conference is free of charge and will be held on Friday, November 20, at noon Eastern time.
To RSVP, please contact Chad Ayotte at chad.ayotte@aspeninst.org.
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Conflict Management Resources
In cooperation with the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM), the Negotiations Research Network (NEG) is pleased to announce the 2009 IACM Meetings Abstracting eJournal. This abstracting journal is available to all users at no charge and contains abstracts of the meetings papers with links to the full text within the SSRN eLibrary.
You can browse all IACM 2009 Meeting abstracts in the SSRN database by clicking here. There are currently 63 such papers in the system. For more information about the conference click here.
You can subscribe at no cost to the IACM 2009 Meeting abstracting journal here.
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An Empirical Study of Other-Oriented and Rational Self-Interest Leadership Approaches
Other orientation is defined as “the extent to which individuals are concerned with the welfare of others” (Meglino & Korsgaard, 2007, p. 59). Other-oriented leaders focus their attention on organizational objectives coupled with a human resource emphasis, whereas rational self-interested leaders concern themselves with organizational objectives coupled with self-emphasis.
Review the entire article here.
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