BACKGROUND The WorkWell initiative of Thurston County, Washington, established by Steps to a Healthier Washington in Thurston County (Thurston County Steps), focuses on recognizing and supporting local employers who make a commitment to address workforce health issues by implementing programs within their organizations to help adults reach Healthy People 2010 objectives. This article reports on...

Managing knowledge is considered an essential resource for both public and private sector organizations. Effective transfer of knowledge (KT) among the employees could give a better platform in public entities to serve its clients in a more innovative and efficient way. In the context of Southeast Asia, studies on KT in public offices in Brunei compared to that in Singapore and Malaysia is rela...

PURPOSE The past few years have been the most threatening period for the Telecom sector of Pakistan in retaining their employees. This research has been conducted to study the impact of career development opportunities, supervisor support, working environment, rewards and work-life policies on employee retention in Telecom sector of Pakistan.

Job satisfaction and employee empowerment has always been interesting domains for researchers. Employee empowerment helps organizations to get employees more motivated towards their work and reap the benefit of their performance and satisfaction towards the organization. This study finds the significant positive impact of psychological empowerment on job satisfaction of employees in banking sec...

considering the importance of the agriculture sector in iran, this study investigated factors affecting economic growth and development of the agriculture sector in iran over the period of 1967-2009 for short term and long term, using ardl model. the results showed that the ratios of public investment expenditure to the gdp for short-term and long term have positive impacts on the economic grow...

journal of law, medicine & ethics Introduction State health departments are at the core of the United States (U.S.) public health infrastructure. Surveillance to monitor trends in disease and injury; the development, coordination, and delivery of services; and public education are some of the core functions health department employees oversee every day. As such, agencies and their employees are...

During the last decade, employee retention has become a most critical issue for all private sector organisations as a result of the shortage of skilled labor, economic growth and employee turnover. Retention of employees is an important function of the Human Resource Management. Employees are the assets of any organization. The organizations have to strive to retain the talents of the employees...