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in author satisfaction.
Not exact matches
In this edited excerpt, the
authors discuss a few benefits that may not cost much but have a big impact on employee
satisfaction.
Jackson is the lead
author of a new study to be published
in Psychological Science that tracked nearly 5,000 married Australians for five years and measured how a spouse's personality impacted whether their partner received a promotion, earned a higher salary or experienced higher levels of job
satisfaction.
While it is not directly related to replacement rates per se, the
authors use pairs of cross sectional data from the GSS and from Statistics Canada's 1992 Family Expenditure Surveys and the 1998 Survey of Household Spending to illustrate that both real family income and real family consumption adjusted for household size tend to be hump - shaped with respect to age and peak
in the 50s, while general
satisfaction with life tends to stay relatively constant through different ages.
For the
authors in this volume, as it was for Tocqueville and Nietzsche before them, a homogeneously democratic epoch would be one permeated by narcissistic self -
satisfaction and moral degradation.
Now do these
authors, after having succeeded
in establishing to their own
satisfaction that the works of genius are fruits of disease, consistently proceed thereupon to impugn the value of the fruits?
As the
author Christopher Derrick put it
in his book This Strange Divine Sea: «Here, we are still alienated and
in exile but are on our way home; we can not yet see the
satisfaction of our deepest longings, but we do know where to look; we are still sinners, but we can get our innocence back; we are still going to suffer, but not pointlessly or absurdly; we are still going to «die», but not
in the old sense, not permanently.
Alfie Kohn, researcher and
author of Punished by Rewards, says that kids can come to depend on praise and external validation instead of finding
satisfaction in doing the right thing simply because it's the right thing to do.
While the
authors postulate that this marital
satisfaction stems from dads being forced to pitch
in more frequently, there are likely other factors at play here, says Dave Greenfield, psychologist and founder of the Healing Center, LLC
in West Hartford, Conn..
The
authors reported that the singles
in their convenience sample reporter less sexual
satisfaction than the coupled people.
Samantha Ettus, a work / life expert based
in Los Angeles and
author of The Pie Life: A Guilt - Free Recipe for Success and
Satisfaction, recommends doing a self - worth check if you're questioning whether you're being taken for granted.
The study
authors provided data from multiples for infant morbidity (jaundice, infant feeding difficulty, weight loss, dehydration, illness not related to jaundice / feeding, ER visit, and hospitalisation) at two weeks after discharge, and two months after discharge, and measures ofmaternal
satisfaction (amount of information on feeding your baby, clarity of information on feeding your baby, amount of help with feeding your baby, and total
satisfaction with care), assessed
in hospital, two weeks after discharge, and two months after discharge.
Seeking to quantify and validate the concerns of their colleagues, the study's
authors looked at the link between opioids administered
in the emergency room and patient
satisfaction scores more rigorously.
The
authors examine how macroeconomic indicators, such as GDP and consumer welfare, influence the way
in which consumers use their past service experiences (e.g.,
satisfaction on their last flight) to influence their next purchase decision.
A study out of University of Toronto that came out
in November found that the key to sexual
satisfaction in committed relationships had less to do with expecting it to just happen and more to do with admitting it takes time and effort — like a garden that needs to be «watered and nurtured,» as study
author Jessica Maxwell explains it.
As a clinical psychologist and
author of three books, including When Good Enough is Never Enough: Escaping the Perfection Trap, Dr Hendlin defines a perfectionist as «someone who thinks anything short of perfection
in performance is unacceptable, whereas the person who strives for excellence is able to derive personal
satisfaction and pride from a good - enough performance.»
The
authors reference a study
in the Netherlands where the transport rate from home to hospital is over twice that
in the U.S. (and where Chervenak et al. took greatliberties
in interpreting the results on patient
satisfaction) and a U.K. study where the costs of home and hospital birth are virtually equivalent.
Author Peter Shaffer recalls his doubts and
satisfactions in adapting his play to film.
However, this difference diminished over the course of the study, leading the
authors to suggest that
satisfaction with schools
in the two sectors is unlikely to differ
in the long run.
From Daniel H. Pink, the
author of the groundbreaking bestseller, A Whole New Mind, comes his next big idea book: a paradigm - changing examination of what truly motivates us and how to harness that knowledge to find greater
satisfaction in our lives and our work.
«The apparently dramatic drop
in «job
satisfaction» since 2009 could be an artifact of the change
in wording, yet the
authors of the report make no allowance for that possibility» says Blumenthal.
Enterprise users put iSpring Suite and Articulate Storyline — the only two
authoring tools
in the list —
in 3rd place with a
satisfaction rating of 9.39 out of ten.
Self - publishing, when done right by informed
authors can produce excellent results and lucrative opportunities — and if you're not a traditional publisher, success can arguably be defined
in terms of artistic
satisfaction.
«If the
Author refuses to amend or delete passages
in the Work to Dymocks reasonable
satisfaction then the
Author must, at the request of Dymocks, repay all monies paid by Dymocks.
That feeling of
satisfaction is what drives a lot of
authors, especially self - published
authors, many of whom are
in it for the creative effort more than the likelihood of fame and fortune.
As business people -
in our day jobs (well before I got sick & hit by a truck I did) and those who are
authors think about cost, efficiency, and customer
satisfaction.
Not only is there a great deal of
satisfaction in the find, it also enables both the
author and the publisher to prosper by the act.
The book industry has certainly been overwhelmed since the beginning of 2014 with information gleaned from
author surveys on their
satisfaction with publishing,
in all of its forms.
As an
author, I must find
satisfaction in touching the few, rather than the masses.
Indie
authors with enough computer skills are finding a lot of
satisfaction in developing their own enhanced e-books and self - publishing them.
I prefer reading short stories on my Kindle and epics
in paper (the Kindle just doesn't give me that same
satisfaction of cracking the spine every 30 pages or so...), and I feel like Kindle readers especially are very interested
in trying out indie
authors and short stories.
I've seen opinions
in recent months that Big 6 publishing is the new vanity publishing, because those
authors still pursuing it are only doing it for the
satisfaction of having a major press pick them up and to see that publisher's logo on the spines of their books.
And this is what brings me the most
satisfaction and pride
in the work that I do of actually seeing
authors evolve into thriving business people.
He's right: it's been interesting to see how easily we can focus on
author frustration and overlook the fact that reader
satisfaction — consumers — drives Amazonian decisions, even the new per - page payout
in ebook subscription and borrowing.
To clarify, unit / total revenue is not a linear relationship
in terms of
author satisfaction.
Author Solutions firms (AuthorHouse, iUniverse, Trafford, and Xlibris) were at the bottom of
Author Satisfaction, ranking as the worst 4
in two categories and 3 of the worst 4
in one category.
We've got thousands of
authors who are supplementing their monthly income with self - publishing and many, many more writers who don't sell well but they're still gaining enormous
satisfaction from their self - publishing journey because, as writers know, there's a joy
in writing that can't be measured by your commercial success.
But what really blew me away about this panel, and why I applauded mightily at the end and thanked the analysts for putting the data together, was this: The artificially small and tilted selection of traditionally published
authors did not fare much better than all of self - published
authors in either income or
satisfaction.
I, the customer am being scr * w * d. I get little
satisfaction from this post showing that
Authors are
in the same boat.
That said (over and over again),
authors and publishers are always asking me to «sell» my book promotion services by answering, to their
satisfaction, the question of how many books they might expect to sell if they invest X, Y, or Z
in a book promotion campaign.
Accurance has been named # 1
in a client
satisfaction survey involving 700 self - published
authors in North America for two years
in a row.
Perhaps, an ideal
author of the 22nd century requires that he / she provide POD service for customers
in 10 seconds with
satisfaction guaranteed, produce a daily series to fulfill reader's subscription plans, convert manuscripts into the multitude of formats to suit individual needs on various devices, produce minutely video feeds of daily greetings of your fans, or possibly write books that rambunctiously earns 5 - star reviews
in 5 minutes by anonymous fans.
Self - published bestselling
author Hugh Howey has data - mined a mass of ebook sales information to come up with some game - changing findings that show self - published titles dominating traditional publishers
in sales,
author earnings and reader
satisfaction.
«Results showed that girls reported more disclosure, companionship, and conflict with their pet than did boys, while dog owners reported greater
satisfaction and companionship with their pet than did owners of other pets,» the
authors wrote
in the study.
And what the
authors did
in the First Order Draft was use their lack of
satisfaction with this proposed mechanism for how solar activity might be affecting climate as a rationale for ignoring the mountain of evidence that SOME such mechanism is at work.
The 2011 Macleans
authors noted with some
satisfaction that nobody would nowadays express the indignation that greeted similar reductive accounts of education a decade ago, not apparently aware of the role Macleans and its consumer - style surveys have played
in that reduction.
In this video, Legal Week editor Georgina Stanley talks to legal writer Dominic Carman, the
author of Legal Week «s Best Employers Report, which assesses associate
satisfaction with their law firms and benchmarks firms» performance against their competitors.
Jeffrey is also the creator and
author of the Major, Lindsey & Africa Partner Compensation Surveys, the most comprehensive efforts ever undertaken to identify ranges of partner compensation and the criteria law firms use
in determining partner compensation, and the co-
author of the 2014 Major, Lindsey & Africa Lateral Partner
Satisfaction Survey.
These incentives could be
in the form of a copy of the CD that a band is making or a signed version of an
author's new book, and most importantly the
satisfaction of knowing you helped fund a project you believe
in.