OBJECTIVES To identify supervisory factors related to job satisfaction among certified nursing assistants (CNAs). Although this topic has been studied at the facility and state levels, it has not previously been addressed in a nationally representative sample. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis of data from the 2004 National Nursing Assistant Survey, conducted by the National Center for Health S...

Work-related stress can lead to substantial health problems and thereby result in immense costs for establishments. Therefore, the question as to what extent establishments contribute to their employees’ stress levels is of great importance for firm performance. We investigate the relationship between personnel policies and work-related stress by considering a series of personnel policies that ...

Data and measurement problems have complicated the debate over trends in job instability in the United States. In this paper we compare two cohorts of young white men from the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS), construct a rigorous measure of job change, and confirm earlier findings of a significant increase in job instability in recent years. Further validation of this increase is found when...

Motivating employees to contribute knowledge has been a daunting challenge in knowledge management. This study examines how job design influences employees' knowledge contribution to electronic repositories. Based on Warr's Vitamin Model, we posit that the job autonomy, skill variety, task feedback, task identity, and task significance aspects of job design influence employees' knowledge contri...

Using the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper investigates the determinants of training participation in Germany, distinguishing between self-initiated and employerinitiated training. Self-initiated training is considered as being a decision within households rather than purely individual. Therefore, in addition to standard training determinants, information on one’s own and partner’s time ...

The core job dimensions from 57 jobs in Hong Kong measured by job incumbents' self-reports on the Job Diagnostic Survey (JDS) and supervisory ratings on the Job Rating Form (JRF) together with job incumbent work satisfaction measured on the Job Descriptive Index (JDI) provided the data base for this research. The convergent and discriminant validities of the JDS and the JRF were examined by usi...

BACKGROUND The Job Demand Control Support model (JDCS) is one of the most widely used theoretical models relating job characteristics to health and wellbeing. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to assess the predictive power of the JDCS model for determining job satisfaction and fatigue in uniformed Swedish police. An additional aim was to determine if predictive power of the model would be improved ...

the aim of this study was to assess the relationship between personality extraversion-introversion with job satisfaction in disabled employees. this  was a descriptive-analytical study of correlation type. the target population included all of the disabled employed in the offices of aligudarz county who were 100 people, which were selected by census method, and all of them completed the questio...

background: the success of any organization depends on  the efforts and job satisfaction of its employees. the aim of this study was to determine the factors affecting job satisfaction among the staff of teaching hospitals in hamadan, iran. methods: this was a descriptive cross-sectional study on 350 staff members of 5 teaching hospitals in hamadan. subjects were selected by stratified random s...