I ndia is an important frontier for economic growth, investments, and development. The service sector, like the manufacturing industry, in India is booming. Following the trend of their western counterparts, service organizations in India are implementing enterprise-level information and communication technologies (ICTs) to support service processes. In this paper, we used socio-technical syste...

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Objectives: This study investigated physical, psychological and social job characteristics as potential risk factors for complaints of the arms, neck and shoulders (CANS) and mediating effects of muscular tension and need for recovery. Methods: Data were collected among 105 computer workers using questionnaires and electromyography (EMG), and were analyzed with linear regression analyses. Resul...

Job matching has been defined as an assessment of individual characteristics in relation to job requirements. The purpose of this study was to assess the inter-rater reliability of a job matching assessment instrument designed for young adults with disabilities. Participants included 21 young adults with intellectual disabilities. Post-high school teachers and job coaches served as raters. The ...

We examine whether the job characteristics of physical demands and environmental conditions affect individual's health. Five-year cumulative measures of these job characteristics are used to reflect findings in the biological and physiological literature that indicate that cumulative exposure to hazards and stresses harms health. To create our analytic sample, we merge job characteristics from ...

OBJECTIVES This study employs a sample population of older workers to estimate an empirical model of leisure exercise activity. Alternative theories relating work and leisure attitudes relevant for understanding the exercise behavior of older workers are tested empirically. METHODS Responses of 6,433 full-time older workers (51 to 61 years old) from the 1992 Health and Retirement Study (HRS)...

BACKGROUND Workplace demographics are changing in many European countries with a higher proportion of older workers in employment. Research has shown that there is an association between job strain and cardiovascular disease, but this relationship is unclear for the older worker. AIMS To investigate the association between job strain and a coronary event comparing younger and older male worke...

This paper quanti es the importance of non-wage job characteristics to workers by estimating a structural on-the-job search model. The model generalizes the standard search framework by allowing workers to search for jobs based on both wages and job-speci c non-wage utility ows. Within the structure of the search model, data on accepted wages and wage changes at job transitions identify the imp...

The core job dimensions from 57 jobs in Hong Kong measured by job incumbents' self-reports on the Job Diagnostic Survey (JDS) and supervisory ratings on the Job Rating Form (JRF) together with job incumbent work satisfaction measured on the Job Descriptive Index (JDI) provided the data base for this research. The convergent and discriminant validities of the JDS and the JRF were examined by usi...