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To stay or to go: voluntary survivor turnover following an organizational downsizing
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2002-09)
This paper examines the relationship between survivor reactions to a downsizing and retention subsequent to a downsizing. We hypothesize that survivors who experience the downsizing as distributively, procedurally, and ...
Work–family conflicts of women in the Air Force: their influence on mental health and functioning
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1999-11)
This paper examined the effects of work and family stressors and conflicts on Air Force women's mental health and functioning. We analyzed data from a 1993 survey of representative stratified samples of 525 Air Force women ...
The impact of breastfeeding patterns on regional differences in infant mortality in Germany, 1910
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1988-05)
This paper examines the impact of breastfeeding practices on the large regional differences in infant mortality in Germany around 1910. Breastfeeding is strongly negatively associated with infant mortality and remains so ...
The contours and consequences of compassion at work
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2008-02)
This paper describes two studies that explore core questions about compassion at work. Findings from a pilot survey indicate that compassion occurs with relative frequency among a wide variety of individuals, suggesting a ...
An impression management perspective on job design: The case of corporate directors
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2010-02)
In this essay I introduce a sociopolitical perspective on job design. In particular, I suggest how job design may be the subject of impression management, and illustrate this idea in the context of a specific corporate ...
Crafting scholarly life: Strategies for creating meaning in academic careers
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2011-08)
Job crafting, which occurs when individuals proactively make changes to their jobs, can be a useful tool for academics seeking more meaningful careers. We suggest changes to the cognitive, task, and relational aspects of ...
Female labour force participation, fertility and public policy in Sweden
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1992-09)
This paper analyzes the role of public policy for Sweden's combination of high female labour force participation and high levels of fertility in the late 1980s and early 1990s. We present the central elements in the tax ...
The Study of Medical Institutions
(SAGE Periodicals Press, 1993)
During more than three decades of scholarship on American medicine, Eliot Freidson has both contributed to and advocated a distinctive variety of medical sociology: one that applies structural perspectives to medical ...
Cross-cultural development of an abridged job insecurity measure
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2008-04)
Using four samples from the United States and China, we developed two theoretically based abridged job insecurity (JI) scales to address researcher concerns with the length of the original 57-item scale. These two scales ...