the purpose of the study was to determine the relationship between stressmanagement and workforce productivity of amol industrial park located inmazandaran province. the total population size in the research was 250 from topmanagers, middle managers and supervisors responsible in the before-mentionedindustrial park and the sample size was determined through morgan samplepopulation volume table ...

This paper examines supervisors’ use of performance measures to update initial beliefs about employee ability over time. Using archival performance and job assignment data, we examine the weighting for promotion decisions of assessments made before employees begin working, and objective performance data collected over time. We find strong evidence that employers’ initial assessments about emplo...

The safety climate of an agricultural workplace may be affected by several things, including the level of trust that workers have in their work group supervisor and organizational management. Safety climate has been used by previous safety researchers as a measure of worker perceptions of the relative importance of safety as compared with other operational goals. Trust has been linked to severa...

The importance of leadership for effective safety management has been the focus of research attention in industry for a number of years, especially in energy and manufacturing sectors. In contrast, very little research into leadership and safety has been carried out in medical settings. A selective review of the industrial safety literature for leadership research with possible application in h...

The gender gap in earnings and rewards remains persistent across many professional and managerial work contexts. In these settings, where there are few objective criteria for performance and organizational mechanisms are weak, we propose that political values reflecting stable beliefs about social inequality and justice, can serve as a powerful influence on whether supervisors reduce or enhance...

BACKGROUND Like any other health worker, community health workers (CHWs) need to be supported to ensure that they are able to contribute effectively to health programmes. Management challenges, similar to those of managing any other health worker, relate to improving attraction, retention and performance. METHODS Exploratory case studies of CHW programmes in the Democratic Republic of Congo, ...

background and purpose: nosocomial infections, especially those occurring in intensive care units (icus), are one of the major health problems in every community. nosocomial infections are associated with increased mortality rate and high treatment costs. effective control of these infections essentially depends on the knowledge of healthcare providers regarding the detection and eradication of...