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Vanishing Without A Trace: Measuring Job Applicant Ghosting Attitudes Across The Stages Of Job Pursuit, Christine Davis May 2023

Vanishing Without A Trace: Measuring Job Applicant Ghosting Attitudes Across The Stages Of Job Pursuit, Christine Davis

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Ghosting, a phenomenon regularly referred to as ‘no call, no show’ by hiring managers (Cutter, Weber, & Smith, 2022), has become a common trend among job applicants during recruitment (Whitacre, 2019). Job applicant ghosting is defined as an “extreme form of applicant withdrawal in which applicants…completely cease all communication” (Karl, Peluchette, & Neely, 2021: 49) and fail to appear for scheduled appointments, such as interviews, screening activities, or the first day of work. Employers are spending unfruitful time making unanswered or unreturned phone calls, scheduling interviews for individuals that disappear (Driscoll, 2021; Gurchiek, 2019; Express Employment Professionals, 2019a), and offering …


The Role Of Leadership In Adoption Of Waste-To-Energy (Wte) In Nigeria, Jahan Moghadam Apr 2017

The Role Of Leadership In Adoption Of Waste-To-Energy (Wte) In Nigeria, Jahan Moghadam

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The use of Renewable Energy (RE) has considerably increased in the last several years. Innovative forms of sustainable alternative energy production, such as solar and wind, have now become recognized energy sources. Following suit, this paper has reviewed Waste-to-Energy (WtE), an innovative and evolving form of RE, and its possible adoption in Nigeria to address both the energy crisis and the pollution problem. The theoretical framework of this paper utilizes the genesis of Fishbein and Ajzen’s (1975) theory of reasoned action (TRA), expanding on renewable energy studies using TRA such as Bang, Ellinger, Hadimarcou, and Traichal (2000) Mishra, Akman, & …