The relevance of emotional intelligence and organizational commitment is tested among 142 employees of small and medium enterprise (SME) in private sector in Iran. The results indicate that there is a significant relationship between emotional intelligence as an overall construct and organizational commitment. Strong and positive influence of self management and social awareness as two competen...

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of a workplace leisure physical activity program on healthcare expenditures for type 2 diabetes and hypertension treatment. MATERIAL AND METHODS We assessed a workplace program's potential to reduce costs by multiplying the annual healthcare costs of patients with type 2 diabetes and hypertension by the population attributable risk fraction of non-recommended ph...

The disparate impact theory of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 enables employees and job applicants to challenge employment practices that, although neutral on their face, have a disproportionate, adverse effect on the basis of race, sex, or national origin. It permits challenges to a wide variety of employment practices—including standardized tests, diploma requirements, height and w...

Many researchers have explored how neoliberal restructuring of the workplace has reduced the standard of living and increased workplace stress among private sector employees. However, few have focused on how neoliberal restructuring of public policy has had similar effects on the public sector workforce. Using original case study research, the authors examine how two iconic pieces of neoliberal...

it is dawn clear that empowered employees in public sector perform a critical role in their organizational service quality. by the same token, currently competitive advantages stem from employees’ high self-confidence and their commitment toward the goals rather than application of high technologies. this study summarizes twenty influencing factors on employees empowerment including information...

We measure the earnings and welfare losses experienced by displaced employees of the Ecuadorian Central Bank (BCE), and link these losses to individual characteristics such as age, gender, education, seniority and wage in the public sector. Data are from a survey of BCE employees we ran fifteen to eighteen months after separation, including subjective evaluations of well-being in addition to in...

Today, organizations are investing a lot in their IT infrastructure and reengineering their business processes by digitizing firms. If organizational employees will not optimum utilize its IT infrastructure, the productivity gain reduced enormously. In Uttarakhand e-procurement system implemented by public sector under e-governance integrated mission mode projects. So, there is need to find the...

Boundary spanning activities are a major component of information systems (IS) professionals’ job tasks. To date, little research in the IS field has explored the influence of these activities on individual level outcomes and none within the public sector context. This study explores the influence of boundary spanning on state IS employees perceptions of their workload, work exhaustion and turn...

Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed? Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap between the Public and the Private Sector * High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well-being. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in particular job security, in workers’ well-being by exploiting sector-specific ins...