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Employee Referrals: A Competitive Advantage or Operational Inefficiency
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Author
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Reeves, Samantha
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Management
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Description
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Effective and efficient recruiting is required for firms as they seek to maintain a competitive advantage in the race to hire top talent. At the time of this study, United States unemployment rates had reached historical lows of less than 4% as of...
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Engine Oil Analysis on the North Carolina Department of Transportation Fleet
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Author
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Beal, Cody
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Management
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Description
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Preventative maintenance is a key component in maintaining fleet quality. Engine oil provides thermal management, wear protection, and corrosion resistance functions that optimize engine performance and life. Engine oil quality degrades through th...
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Evaluating Organizational Readiness to Implement Change Within the Workplace
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Author
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Kasana, Dipin
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Management
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Description
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Organizational change is an initiative to transition from a current state to a desired future state, where the initiatives can be either planned or unplanned, based on motivational factors. This study evaluates the impact of organizational charact...
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Exploratory And Confirmatory Analyses Of A Hospital Employee Satisfaction Survey
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Author
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Redden, Kenneth
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Date Created
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2009
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Subjects--Topical
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Management
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Description
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This study explored the factor structure of a 22-item survey developed to measure employee satisfaction in a healthcare setting. The purpose was to determine if a homegrown survey possessed factors known to measure employee satisfaction. First an ...
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Gender and Leadership: A Second Order Meta-Analytic Review
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Author
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Santos, Kristen
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Industrial management, Sex role, Management
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Description
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Given the importance of understanding how gender bias impacts the advancement of women into upper leadership, this second-order meta-analysis attempts to explore and summarize previous developments in the gender and leadership literature in order ...
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Improvement or Peril: The Paradox of Professionalizing Innovation-Driven Portfolio Firms
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Author
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Medaugh, Melissa
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Entrepreneurship, Management, Psychology
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Description
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To understand why some innovation-driven portfolio firms benefit more from venture capital (VC) funding than others, I explore the salient phenomenon of founder CEO exit. Integrating institutional logics and psychological contracts theories, I pro...
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Integrating Electric Vehicles into Integrated Resource Planning
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Author
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Ravi, Abhijith
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Engineering, Management
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Description
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Electric Vehicles (EVs) stand at the forefront of decarbonization initiatives in the United States. State, federal, and utility incentives play a pivotal role in establishing the necessary charging infrastructure to support EVs. In North Carolina,...
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Title
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Intersectional Status Beliefs Transfer in Employee Referral Processes
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Author
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Sargent, Amanda
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Management, Social psychology, Organizational behavior
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Description
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Using employee referral programs is generally considered a best practice for organizations seeking top quality talent. However, research on whether or not these programs result in positive outcomes equally for all applicants is mixed. To date, mos...
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Maximizing the performance and job-related behaviors of contract and permanent IT workers
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Author
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Pai, Tanusree
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Date Created
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2010
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Subjects--Topical
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Management, Information technology, Animal behavior
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Description
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As the use of contracting for Information Technology (IT) services steadily increases, IT managers are challenged with reconciling the need for flexibility achieved through the use of contract workers, with the need to understand the factors that ...