OBJECTIVE Contribution to the discussion of the role of participation/consent of employees in working hours regulation. METHODS Exploratory analysis of conflicts between preferences of employees and ergonomic recommendations in shift scheduling by analysing a large number of participative shift scheduling projects. RESULTS The analysis showed that very often the pursuit of higher income pla...

People management in public administration receives influence from various sources. However, the historical models of coexist these institutions, causing them to carry patrimonial, bureaucratic, and managerial characteristics that have conflicting concepts are not empirically harmonious. Furthermore, rigidity legislation, combined with cultural aspects service, make it challenging modernize pra...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the mediating role career adaptability (CA) in relationship between supervisor support (SS) and satisfaction (CS). Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from 193 full-time employees working private health-care institutions Ankara, Turkey. participants asked respond a self-reported survey. Structural equation modeling was used hypothesize...

Companies are increasingly adopting social software to support collaboration and networking. Although increasing their employees’ connectedness is a major driver for organizations to deploy enterprise social software (ESS), the social connectedness concept itself is still not sufficiently defined and conceptualized. The study therefore provides a richer perspective on social connectedness’s rol...

This paper develops a conceptual framework to explain employees’ technology usage within organizations. Much of the prior information systems literature has assumed an underlying relationship between “facilitating conditions” for information technology (IT) adoption (e.g., user training, technical support, resource availability) and employees’ technology use. Although these facilitating conditi...

The topics of leadership and culture have attracted substantial interest from both academics and practitioners. This study examines the effects of leadership styles and national culture on affective commitment in samples of the restaurant employees in US. The findings support the primary assumption of this study: restaurant employees’ affective commitment is related to the leadership styles of ...

Many companies currently strive to support their employees' work-life balance through appropriate measures in order to improve employees' loyalty towards the company and to recruit new employees. In this context, flexibility in the area of working times is a measure that can influence employees' private lives immensely. This is why the individualisation of working time arrangements has been acc...

Due to the rise of social media, many companies have started to implement enterprise social networks (ESNs). Compared to existing systems supporting communication and collaboration in organisations, ESNs can foster employees’ productivity and innovativeness by making previously invisible communication among employees visible. However, this visibility can prevent employees from disclosing inform...