a survey on attitude of health workers of west azerbaijan health centers based on herzberg's motivation-hygiene theory 2006 a barati , f hosseini , s akbari received: 16 july, 2009 accepted: 25 oct, 2009 abstract background & aims: one of the main and important elements of every organization is to care for human source. staff satisfaction and motivation are of high significance in organiza...

The use of virtual agents in social coaching has increased rapidly in the last decade. In order to train the user in different situations than can occur in real life, the virtual agent should be able to express different social attitudes. In this paper, we propose a model of social attitudes that enables a virtual agent to reason on the appropriate social attitude to express during the interact...

introduction: today, breast cancer is one of the most common causes of mortality and morbidty and also the leading health concern of the world. methods: this research was a descriptive study entitled knowledge, attitude and practice regarding prevention of breast cancer in working women of chaloos city. the sample size of study included 612 women working in governmental centers. the instrument ...

This study examines the relationships between joint work commitments, job satisfaction, and job performance of lawyers employed by private law firms in Israel. Based on Morrow’s (1993) concept of five universal forms of commitment, their interrelationship was tested with respect to the commitment model of Randall and Cote (1991), which appeared to show in previous studies (Cohen, 1999, 2000) a ...

BACKGROUND Globally, prolonged and obstructed labor contributed to 8% of maternal deaths which can be reduced by proper utilization of partograph during labor. METHODS An Institution based cross-sectional study was conducted in June, 2013 on 403 obstetric care providers. A pre-tested and structured questionnaire was used to collect data. Data was entered to EpiInfo version 3.5.1 statistical p...

introduction: job satisfaction considered as an important factor in increasing productivity, workers belonging and attachment to the work environment and improving the quantity and quality of work.the aim of this study was to determine job satisfaction levels in medical record staff. methods: it was a descriptive analytic study. due to the limited number of medical records staff in health educa...

Recent research has suggested that when people resist persuasion they can perceive this resistance and, under specifiable conditions, become more certain of their initial attitudes (e.g., Z. L. Tormala & R. E. Petty, 2002). Within the same metacognitive framework, the present research provides evidence for the opposite phenomenon--that is, when people resist persuasion, they sometimes become le...

MOVING ENGAGEMENT RESEARCH TO A HIGHER LEVEL: THE IMPACT OFUNIT-LEVEL ENGAGEMENT ON BUSINESS METRIC OUTCOMESbyTARA K. McCLUREAugust 2013Advisor: Dr. Boris BaltesMajor: Psychology (Industrial-Organizational)Degree: Doctor of PhilosophyAlthough engagement has been slow to take hold within the academicliterature, it has quickly become a hot topic within the ...