In the paper we aim to describe the project developing the Migrating Desktop infrastructure for the mobile users in a simple way. We also focus on the development testbed, which is prepared for the testing purposes of the runtime environment. This functionality refers to the work environment of the users, which change their location very often. The mobility term refers to the users, which use t...

Employee performance (EP) is one of the supporting factors in improving quality tertiary institutions to support services academic community. The phenomena this study are employee dissatisfaction triggered by inadequate non-physical work environment policies, unclear opportunities for career development, and low levels motivation which affect effectiveness. To what extend (NP), WM on EPer inter...

BACKGROUND Much recent work extending the field of job characteristics to include positive aspects of work makes the implicit assumption that the absence of negative work characteristics is equivalent to the presence of positive work characteristics. AIMS To consider the effect sizes seen at different ends of job characteristic dimensions and to compare the impact of the presence and absence ...

D espite profound changes in modern working life occupational health research has maintained a rather narrow view of its topic, dealing almost exclusively with physical, chemical, or otherwise material conditions. 2 In view of a substantial body of scientific evidence of adverse effects on health produced by a stressful psychosocial work environment this restriction is no longer justified. 4 Th...

A case-referent study of 345 prostate cancer cases and 1,346 referents was carried out in the Netherlands to investigate the relationship between work environment and prostate cancer risk. Cases were selected from the Cancer Registry of the Comprehensive Cancer Centre IKO. Referents (men diagnosed with benign prostate hyperplasia) were recruited with assistance of the pathology laboratories in ...

This special issue of Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations presents articles based on original research on fundamental changes to work and work arrangements that undermine workers’ health and safety, exacerbate health inequalities and pose major challenges to those who want to resist a 'race to the bottom' in working conditions and imagine and promote regulatory reforms to better prot...

This study investigates the relationship between self-reported health scores with work environment and various components of a women faculty score at a Research 1 University in the Midwest USA. The study examines the differences between male and female faculty responses in the various components making up the women faculty score and also gender differences in self-reported health scores and wor...

This paper seeks to show that virtual worlds provide a useful addition to the use of computer mediated learning tools. We discuss the underlying educational context and link this to the properties of virtual worlds and, in particular, that of Second Life. We report on the progress of a project for developing group work which seeks to link affordances in the environment to learning outcomes and ...