Sökning: "competitive ability"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 197 avhandlingar innehållade orden competitive ability.

  1. 1. Utilizing research in the practice of personnel selection : General mental ability, personality, and job performance

    Författare :Sofia Sjöberg; Magnus Sverke; Katharina Näswall; Marise Born; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Personnel selection; job performance; correction for range restriction; general mental ability; personality; clinical and mechanical data collection; clinical and mechanical data combination; utility; preference for hiring approach; Psychology; psykologi;

    Sammanfattning : Identifying and hiring the highest performers is essential for organizations to remain competitive. Research has provided effective guidelines for this but important aspects of these evidence-based processes have yet to gain acceptance among practitioners. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Phenotypic plasticity and local adaptation in tadpoles

    Författare :Björn Lardner; Biologiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; salinity tolerance; trade-off; life-history; tail depth; inducible defence; antipredator strategies; tadpoles; anurans; amphibians; Phenotypic plasticity; local adaptation; competitive ability; allozymes.; Animal ecology; Djurekologi;

    Sammanfattning : Amphibian larvae are plastic in many traits. Can plasticity buffer population divergence, so that local adaptation is more common in non-plastic traits? I argue that this may be the case for adaptive plastic responses. LÄS MER

  4. 3. The long-term injured competitive athlete : A study of psychosocial risk factors

    Författare :Urban Johnson; Institutionen för psykologi; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; age; Adaptation; competitive athlete; coping; gender; long-term injury; mood; multiply-injured; non-returning; prediction; personality; psychosocial risk factors; sport; Applied and experimental psychology; sport; Tillämpad och experimentell psykologi;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis includes five separate studies concerned mainly with psychosocial aspects of the problems that athletes afflicted with long-term sport injuries face. The first study deals with relationships between personality variables, coping strategies and mood-levels, both in athletes participating in competitive sports and in a non-athlete reference groups. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Critical Operations Capabilities for Competitive Manufacturing : A High-Cost Environment Perspective

    Författare :Cinzia Sansone; Kerstin Johansen; Carin Rösiö; Dmitrij Slepniov; Jönköping University; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; capabilities; priorities; high-cost environment; operations strategy;

    Sammanfattning : Manufacturing companies operating in a high-cost environment are facing many challenges attempting to achieve a competitive advantage. These challenges have encouraged manufacturing companies to relocate their manufacturing operations from a high-cost to low-cost environment, creating issues for the western social welfare. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Allies Yet Rivals : Input Joint Ventures and Their Competitive Effects

    Författare :Mikael Nordberg; Lars Hultkrantz; Mats Bergman; Tommaso Valletti; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Economics; joint venture; input; infrastructure; quality; oligopoly; Nationalekonomi; nationalekonomi; Economics;

    Sammanfattning : Essay I explores the competitive effects of input joint ventures, more precisely the connection between horizontal product differentiation and competition. Four quantity-setting downstream firms jointly and symmetrically own two upstream firms in pairs. LÄS MER