A critical omission in the coworker influence literature is how a coworker influences a closely related (focal) employee’s job performance behaviors and whether this influence is contingent on that coworker’s own behaviors. By integrating social information processing and social cognitive theories with social exchange and role theories, we hypothesize that there are, at least, three distinct ty...

We present a new formulation of the tour scheduling problem with assignment costs that are a function of employee capabilities. The objective also incorporates a quadratic term to encourage compact shifts and equal interday shift lengths for each employee. The problem is solved using a tabu-like probabilistic local search algorithm. The algorithm is applied in two phases with employee conflicts...

As the field of employee branding has begun to unfold, more and more executives have become interested in how this process can help them achieve a competitive advantage for their organizations. This article explains how employee branding works and how it can be utilized to position the organization in the minds of customers, employees, and other stakeholders. A contextual analysis of its use as...

introduction: nurses’ intention to leave job is problematic for health system and the quality of work life is one of the important factors affecting on this intention. the present study aimed at show the relationship between nurses’ quality of work life and their intention to leave the job. methods: this study was an analytical cross-sectional study. . it was conducted based on a sample of 480 ...

The purpose of the study was to identify the sociodemographic variables and social value correlates and predictors of employer-employee relationship problems in a random sample of 860 Brunei public and private sector workers of both genders. A quantitative field survey design was used and data were analyzed by correlation and logistic regression. The rationale and justification for using this a...

Previous studies have found out the positive relationship between customer participation and employee service innovation behavior. In the era of the experience economy, moreover, customer participation is an effective method to solve the lag problem of employee service innovation. Using questionnaire data collected between April and July 2016 from 20 service enterprises in Fuzhou, Xiamen, and Q...

The extant operations management literature has extensively investigated the associations among quality, customer satisfaction, and firm profitability. However, the influence of employee attributes on these performance dimensions has rarely been examined. In this study we investigate the impact of employee satisfaction on operational performance in highcontact service industries. Based on an em...

Pension Plan Characteristics and Framing Effects in Employee Savings Behavior In this paper we document the importance of framing effects in the retirement savings decisions of college professors. Pensions in many post-secondary institutions are funded by a combination of an employer contribution and a mandatory employee contribution. Employees can also make tax-deferred contributions to a supp...

In this study, first we examined the effect of workplace romance on employee job performance, and the mediatory role of psychological wellbeing in the relationship between workplace romance and employee performance. Then we tested the moderating effects of gender and workplace romance type - lateral or hierarchical - on the indirect effect of workplace romance on employee performance. Based on ...

considerable attention has been given to the identification of key forms of reward and its linkage to employee engagement. for this purpose following study aims to uncover the influence of extrinsic and intrinsic rewards on employee engagement in the public sector of uganda. a sample of 184 public sector employees was randomly selected and taken from gulu district. a quantitative approach based...