Veterinarians of the Department of Animal Husbandry play a major role in carrying out various developmental activities in this sector. However, increased demands of the job have resulted in the veterinarian being in a position where he has to play more than one role which could have repercussions for job performance and job stress. Thus a study was undertaken to understand the perception of vet...

Employees who are engaged in their work are fully connected with their work roles. They are bursting with energy, dedicated to their work, and immersed in their work activities. This article presents an overview of the concept of work engagement. I discuss the antecedents and consequences of engagement. The review shows that job and personal resources are the main predictors of engagement. Thes...

This paper focuses on a knowledge – based decision system for human resource management within public administrations, with the aim of improving the service quality. In particular, the construction of decision rules for a generic public administration considers a Skill Gap Analysis among real and ideal workers competence profiles. The procedure foresees the following steps: an analysis of organ...

This study contributes to our understanding of which factors predict raters’ policies for combining performance components into an overall job performance rating. We used a work-roles framework to examine the effects of rater source and team-based culture. The sample consisted of 612 individuals in three job categories (317 nurses, 168 personnel recruiters and 127 sales representatives). Respon...

Employee commitment is an indispensible cog in an organization's growth and motivation influences talent to drive this growth. Employees exhibit certain behaviors by going beyond the normal call of duty. These behaviors are called Organizational Citizenship Behaviors (OCB) and they contribute significantly to an organization's growth. Job characteristics like Skill Variety, Task Identity, Task ...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to assess whether workplace bullying mediates between job strain, evaluated by the job demand-control model, and symptoms of depression and sleep disturbance. METHODS The subjects in this cross-sectional study were recruited from all the workers (N=2,634) at 50 organizations in Japan. Due to missing data, the numbers of subjects included in the analyses...

This study assessed the relationship of age, poor perception of working condition, poor safety environment, poor management and supervision, risk-taking behavior, emotional instability, negative job involvement, job dissatisfaction, job stress, and poor safety performance of workers to occupational injuries. This case-control study was conducted on 202 male coal miners with at least one occupat...

This study examines the mediating roles of supportive supervisor communication (SSC) and role ambiguity in the relationships between leader-member exchange (LMX) and employee job attitudes, turnover intentions, and performance. Specifically, role ambiguity and SSC were expected to mediate the positive LMXemployee affective commitment relationship, and the positive relationships between LMX and ...

Aquaporin-4 (AQP4) is one of the most abundant molecules in the brain and is particularly prevalent in astrocytic membranes at the blood-brain and brain-liquor interfaces. While AQP4 has been implicated in a number of pathophysiological processes, its role in brain physiology has remained elusive. Only recently has evidence accumulated to suggest that AQP4 is involved in such diverse functions ...