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Psychological contract development: An integration of existing knowledge to form a temporal model
The psychological contract has received substantial theoretical attention over the past two decades as a popular framework within which to examine contemporary employment relationships. Previous research mostly examines breach and violation of the psychological contract and its impact on employee organization outcomes. Few studies have employed longitudinal, prospective research designs to investigate the psychological contract and as a result, psychological contract content and formation are incompletely understood. It is argued that employment relationships may be better proactively managed with greater understanding of formation and changes in the psychological contract. We examine existing psychological contract literature to identify five key factors proposed to contribute to the formation of psychological contracts. We extend the current research by integrating these factors for the first time into a temporal model of psychological contract development
Land use planning : an application of multilevel and multicriteria linear programming models : draft
Time without time: a stochastic clock model
We study a classical reparametrization-invariant system, in which ``time'' is
not a priori defined. It consists of a nonrelativistic particle moving in five
dimensions, two of which are compactified to form a torus. There, assuming a
suitable potential, the internal motion is ergodic or more strongly irregular.
We consider quasi-local observables which measure the system's ``change'' in a
coarse-grained way. Based on this, we construct a statistical timelike
parameter, particularly with the help of maximum entropy method and Fisher-Rao
information metric. The emergent reparametrization-invariant ``time'' does not
run smoothly but is simply related to the proper time on the average. For
sufficiently low energy, the external motion is then described by a unitary
quantum mechanical evolution in accordance with the Schr\"odinger equation.Comment: 18 pages; LaTeX. 4 (.ps) plus 2 (.gif) figure file
Reduced planning efforts:Identification of rural potentials in selected key regions of Ratnapura
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