Millennials in the Workplace: A Communication Perspective on Millennials’ Organizational Relationships and Performance

Stereotypes about Millennials, born between 1979 and 1994, depict them as self-centered, unmotivated, disrespectful, and disloyal, contributing to widespread concern about how communication with Millennials will affect organizations and how they will develop relationships with other organizational members. We review these purported characteristics, as well as Millennials’ more positive qualities—they work well in teams, are motivated to have an impact on their organizations, favor open and frequent communication with their supervisors, and are at ease with communication technologies. We discuss Millennials’ communicated values and expectations and their potential effect on coworkers, as well as how workplace interaction may change Millennials

Herding, momentum and investor over-reaction

Noise in prices, Measuring speculation, Herding not due to information, Momentum trading, Investor over-reaction, D83, D84, G12, G14,

Day-of-the-week effects in the pre-holiday returns of the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index

This study investigates the day-of-the-week effects in the pre-holiday returns of the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index. The period investigated is 1930-1999. The analysis is based on within-day contrasts and between-day contrasts. There are three major findings. First, the results are consistent with prior research in that there is a strong pre-holiday effect up to 1987, but the pre-holiday effect is greatly diminished after 1987. Second, contrary to that frequently observed in the literature for typical days, there is no evidence of a weekend effect in pre-holiday returns. Third, a Labor Day effect is observed in the pre-1987 era. The return on the day before Labor Day is significantly greater than the return before other holidays that fall on a Monday. However, this effect is not observed after 1987. A number of other findings are discussed.

1 FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT, INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE 1

Paper to be presented at the meeting of the British Association