The goal of this master’s thesis is to understand key motivators and activities supporting high levels of national Electronic Health Record (EHR) usage by healthcare professionals in Estonia and relate them to findings from Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) research. This thesis aims at contributing both, to better understanding of Estonian EHR implementation case, and TAM application in nation...

Motivated by a set of converging empirical findings and theoretical suggestions pertaining to the construct ownership, we survey literature from multiple disciplines present an extensive account linking inception foundational naïve theory ownership principles governing sense (body) ownership. The first part examines emergence non-conceptual in terms minimal self body schema—a dynamic mental mod...

The prevalent and negative impact of knowledge hiding behaviour among employees has called the attention of both practitioners and researchers to begin investigations on its causes, and other factors that influence it on both the targets and perpetrators. Some of the possible suggested antecedents of knowledge hiding studied include trust, job characteristic, organisational culture, and workpla...

How do organizations build an internal capability or processes to implement a service excellence strategy and thereby create sustained competitive advantage? Drawing on integrated extended self psychology of ownership framework as well Bowen Ostroff’s human resource (HR) system strength perspective, this study examines linking perceived service-oriented high-performance work systems (HPWS) over...

AIMS (1) To measure the prevalence of burnout, psychological morbidity, job satisfaction, job stress, and consideration of alternate work among multidisciplinary hospital based child and youth protection (CYP) professionals; (2) to understand the relations between these variables; and (3) to understand the reasons for leaving among former programme members. METHODS Mailed survey of current an...

BACKGROUND Although job satisfaction is among the most widely researched topics, relatively little research has been done on this issue as it relates to early childhood educators. This study was designed to contribute significantly to the deficient body of knowledge about working conditions and job satisfaction of day care teachers, in particular with regard to differences in job satisfaction d...