Working Conditions in Victorian Stourbridge

Enhancing working conditions

Introduction Research in the manufacturing and retail sectors has demonstrated a link between human resource management (HRM) practices and productivity. Researchers have demonstrated that organizations that promote practices that encourage workers' abilities, motivation and opportunities achieve better outcomes. Within the health sector similar links have been proposed and used to explain vari...

Working conditions and social inequalities in health.

Worker Absenteeism and Working Conditions

In this paper absence behavior in relation to working environment is studied. A theoretical model is built in order to separate the e¤ects on voluntary absence and absence related to ill health where health e¤ects are assumed to be tied to working conditions. The model also gives a testable hypothesis of compensating wage di¤erentials. A panel of quarterly ...rm level data from 1990-1998 is uti...

Working Conditions as Quality in Design Projects

The scope of this paper is to discuss the implications of treating concerns for working environment as quality aspects in design processes. The study has been conducted as a research project into concepts as Integrated Product Development (IPD) and Design for Quality (DfQ) combined with a case-study of a Danish electronics manufacturer. The study shows that adopting an extended view of quality ...

Working conditions of occupational therapists in Jordan.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the working conditions and factors related to job satisfaction among Jordanian occupational therapists. A self-administered survey consisting of several questions about the participants' jobs was developed for this study. The inclusion criteria included occupational therapists who worked in the field of occupational therapy (OT) in Jordan and who had...