background: evidence shows that job stress potentially has adverse effect on individuals’ health and organizational productivity. it has, therefore, become an important issue in the occupational health context. the aims of this study were to investigate job stress dimensions among nurses of shiraz university of medical sciences (sums) hospitals and comparing the results with the findings of the...

Technical project lead Greg Koenig says TRECC 's approach to secure cluster computing on demand is a matter of managing workflow. "If a lower-priority job is consuming resources when a higher-priority job comes along, the scheduler must have enough information to determine whether it can fulfill the higher priority job's requirements, such as a deadline, with the remaining available resources,"...

background: the job content questionnaire (m-jcq) is an established self-reported instrument used across the world to measure the work dimensions based on the karasek's demand-control-support model. objective: to evaluate the psychometrics properties of the malay version of m-jcq among nurses in malaysia. methods: this cross-sectional study was carried out on nurses working in 4 public hospital...

INTRODUCTION Karasek's demand-control model has been used to investigate association between job strain and health outcomes. However, different instruments and definitions have been utilized to assess the exposure 'high strain at work', which makes difficult the comparison of results across studies. OBJECTIVE To describe the measurement instruments and the definitions adopted for the exposure...

In occupational health interventions, there is a debate as to whether standardized or tailored measures should be used to identify which aspects of the psychosocial work environment should be targeted in order to improve employees' well-being. Using the Job Demands-Resources model, the main aim of the present study is to demonstrate how a mixed methods approach to conducting screening enables t...

Job strain has become a major concern because of its potential impacts on worker well-being and performance. This cross-sectional study aimed to assess the prevalence of, and examine factors associated with, job strain among workers in a rubber-glove factory, in a central province of Thailand. A total of 200 workers aged 18–55 yr, who had worked at the factory for at least 6 months, completed t...

BACKGROUND Turnover intentions refer to employees' intent to leave the organization and, within call centers, it can be influenced by factors such as relational variables or the perception of the quality of working life, which can be affected by emotional dissonance. This specific job demand to express emotions not felt is peculiar in call centers, and can influence job satisfaction and turnove...

OBJECTIVES to determine the psychosocial factors of work related to harm caused in the physical domain of the quality of life of nursing professionals working in a public emergency department. METHOD cross-sectional, descriptive study addressing 189 nursing professionals. The Job Stress Scale and the short version of an instrument from the World Health Organization to assess quality of life w...

In this work we use the paradigm of multiagent systems to solve the Job Shop problem. Job Shop problem is a particular problem of scheduling in which we try to find an schedule that optimize a objective and is subject to certain constraints. We propose a combinatorial auction mechanism to coordinate agents. The “items” to be sold are the time slots that we divide the time horizon into. In tasks...

BACKGROUND Occupational stress is an undesired factor causing discomfort for healthcare workers. Stressors in work can lead to dissatisfaction and in turn, this may affect patient care adversely. The aim of this study was to evaluate the occupational stress among residents and faculty physicians of various medical specialties working night shifts. METHODS Residents and faculty physicians work...