This study seeks to find the factors associated with social workers' turnover intention and show us how to manage turnovers by looking for some rules affecting turnover intentions. Our investigation surveying 331 social workers reveals that social workers' turnover intentions are affected by organizational commitment, job satisfaction, and burnout. Our pattern analyses using fuzzy ID3 show that...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the association between job stress and job performance among surgeons, although physicians' well-being could be regarded as an important quality indicator. This paper examines associations between psychosocial job stress and perceived health care quality among German clinicians in surgery. METHODS Survey data of 1,311 surgeons from 489 hospitals were analysed....

This paper examines the hypothesis that greater job status makes a person healthier. It begins by successfully replicating the well-known cross-section association between health and job seniority. Then, however, it turns to longitudinal patterns. Worryingly for the hypothesis, the data -on a large sample of randomly selected British workers through time -suggest that people who start with good...

BACKGROUND Globally, mental health promotion related to psychological distress in the workplace has become a great concern, and a focus of much research attention. However, a sense of contribution to society and sense of bonding with the workplace have not been examined in relation to psychological distress. Thus, the purpose of this study is to examine whether these two factors are associated ...

The evaluation of science uses a variety of bibliometric indicators mostly based on citations despite not having an unequivocal relationship between citations and scientific quality. These indicators however, encompass more than an indication of visibility, relevance and impact of the articles and may represent in a researcher’s career prestige, job opportunities, career promotion, awards, rese...

Improving Nurse Retention in the British National Health Service: The Impact of Job Satisfaction on Intentions to Quit In recent years the National Health Service (NHS) in Britain has experienced an acute shortage of qualified nurses. This has placed issues of recruitment and retention in the profession high on the political agenda. In this paper we investigate the determinants of job satisfact...

This paper examines the hypothesis that greater job status makes a person healthier. It begins by successfully replicating the well-known cross-section association between health and job seniority. Then, however, it turns to longitudinal patterns. Worryingly for the hypothesis, the data-on a large sample of randomly selected British workers through time-suggest that people who start with good h...

In England, policy developments in the field of mental health are stimulating interest in employment for mental health service users as a means of mental health promotion. To date, research that might assist in increasing employment rates amongst this group has focused largely on the question of which service users are most likely to benefit from vocational interventions and, more recently, on ...

job satisfaction of nurses working in hospitals in zahedan purgaz a , nastiezaie n , hezare mogadam m received: 15 april, 2010 accepted: 27july, 2010 abstract background & aims: one of the most important elements of any organization especially health organizations is human resources. job satisfaction leads to being interested or disinterested. the present study aimed to determine the job satisf...