Employer commitment is a key factor in an effective safety program, yet limited research has focused on the safety priorities of retail store managers. To address this, the U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health recruited 4 experienced ergonomists, who met and interviewed 9 retailers in different parts of the eastern USA. The reports from the 9 interviews were used to docume...

Previous evidence regarding the outcomes of sexual harassment in the workplace has come mainly from self-selected samples or analogue studies or those using inadequate measures. The sexual harassment experiences, coping responses, and job-related and psychological outcomes of 447 female private-sector employees and 300 female university employees were examined. Discriminant function analyses in...

There have been few epidemiological studies on recurrent sickness absence due to depression after returning to work (RTW). The objective of this study was to investigate the prognosis of workers who are RTW with depression in a Japanese company. This study employed a descriptive epidemiology study design. Subjects of this study were 540 employees who worked full-time and were registered in the ...

In the Virtual Organisation, relationships among employees, managers, customers and suppliers are created and terminated on an irregular schedule. This constant turnover jeopardises the organisation’s most valuable asset, its knowledge. Without prudent management, the knowledge created through these relationships will be lost. Effective knowledge management enables organisations to protect them...

PURPOSE We investigated whether (1) current employment status (regular full-time, regular part-time and marginal employment) is associated with depressive symptoms and (2) whether these associations are mediated by current working conditions and previous employment history. METHODS Two cohorts of German employees aged 46 and 52 years were selected from administrative data of the German Federa...

OBJECTIVE On 1 January 2007, Denmark went through a major reorganization, where most of its 275 municipalities and 14 counties merged into larger units. Our study aimed to examine the development of depressive symptoms and incident depression among employees affected by this organizational change. METHODS A total of 685 civil servants employed in the administration of 5 municipalities and 2 c...

Only few studies so far have examined recovery from work during workday breaks. In this intervention study, based on the effort-recovery model and the conservation of resources theory, we examined how to enhance recovery during lunch breaks. More specifically, we examined the within-person effects of lunchtime park walks and relaxation exercises on employees' levels of concentration, strain, an...

The Dvorak keyboard has been claimed to be greatly superior to the standard typewriter keyboard. However, none of the earlier research on the relative merits of the two keyboards provided unconfounded measures, ones permitting attribution of the results solely to the differences between the keyboards. The present research supplied, for the first time, direct measures of speed on the two keyboar...