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Techniques of job crafting: an exploratory study on management consultants
(2016)
The job crafting perspective considers the ways in which employees proactively alter their
tasks, relationships and perceptions at work in order to achieve a personalized fit to their
work environment. Studies confirm ...
Winning the ‘trust’ of the employees, ethically or strategically?
(Inderscience, 2016)
Research on corporate social responsibility (CSR) has indicated that
even though CSR activities are found to be positively influencing employees’
trust, there is lack of clarity regarding the underlying mechanisms of ...
Problem of plenty: managing employee surplus
(IGI Global, 2016)
The article deals with understanding the phenomena of employee rationalisation in firms especially
the ones operating in dynamic environments. In this paper the authors do an extensive review of
literature to understand ...
SB-robust estimation of mean direction for some new circular distributions
(Springer, 2016)
The most often used distribution for modelling directional data has been the
circular normal (CN) (a.k.a. von-Mises) distribution. Recently Kato and Jones (K–J)
introduced a family of distribution which includes the CN ...
Employee interpretations of change: exploring the other side of the resistance story
(2016)
This study examines change resistance in Indian organizations
by departing from change-agent
perspective, and focusing on the
employee interpretation o f
change. Change ‘resistors ’ were
identified based on inputs ...
Stochastic Lotka-Volterra equations: a model of lagged diffusion of technology in an interconnected world
(Elsevier, 2016)
We present a model of technological evolution due to interaction between multiple countries and the resultant effects on the corresponding macro variables. The world consists of a set of economies where some countries are ...
"Hits" emerge through self-organized coordination in collective response of free agents
(American Physical Society, 2016)
Individuals in free societies frequently exhibit striking coordination when making independent decisions en masse. Examples include the regular appearance of hit products or memes with substantially higher popularity ...
Absence of economic and social constants
(Springer, 2016)
In this article, we discuss the possibility of economics as a
discipline emulating the success of hard sciences. In our view, a fundamental obstacle arises from the fact that economics does not have
(m)any stable and ...
Cross-correlation patterns in social opinion formation with sequential data
(Elsevier B.V., 2016)
Recent research on large-scale internet data suggests existence of patterns in the collective behavior of billions of people even though each of them may pursue own activities. In this paper, we interpret online rating ...
Self-organization in a distributed coordination game through heuristic rules
(Springer, 2016)
In this paper, we consider a distributed coordination game played by a large number of agents
with finite information sets, which characterizes emergence of a single dominant attribute out of a large
number of competitors. ...