OBJECTIVES To describe indicators of job dissatisfaction among amputee employees and to compare job satisfaction and health experience of working amputee employees with that of control subjects. DESIGN A cross-sectional study, mailed questionnaire. SETTING Patients were recruited by the orthopedic workshops of the Netherlands. PARTICIPANTS One hundred forty-four patients who had an acquir...

An Employee Value Proposition (EVP) is the one of a kind arrangement of benefits an employee gets consequently for the skills, capabilities and experience they convey to an organization. An EVP is about characterizing the substance of your organization and how it is special and what it remains for. Employer brand is a mind boggling and particular mix of promises, opportunities and experience of...

The proper management of the human resources of an organization is one of the most important activities that must be undertaken by the organization in order to successfully function in a competitive market. It is necessary to carry out comprehensive processes aimed at obtaining the deepest possible knowledge of the employees, their professional potential, ambitions and development capabilities....

Small software firms are vulnerable to environmental uncertainty. While agile methods and other technologies offer suggestions to address this challenge, we know little about how these firms combine project and firm level capabilities to effectively respond to changes in their environment. On this backdrop, we examine data from a small Danish software firm, TeachTech Inc., through the lens of H...

Purpose – This paper seeks to explore the processes and channels through which valuable knowledge from outside the firm reaches those employees who can exploit that knowledge for innovative purposes. It seeks to identify the specific talents exhibited by the key individuals involved in facilitating these important knowledge flows. It also aims to detail the interventions which management can ad...

A number of themes weave through any consideration of the American workforce. Demographic imperatives and our own experience underscore the aging of workers and the heterogeneity of that segment of the working population . As occupational therapists, we treat those older adults whose working roles have been adversely impacted by physical, emotional and/ or social losses, or who have retired. We...

This study analyzes the viability of using employees’ smartphones following the BYOD paradigm as a valid tool to enable firms to control effective presence (primarily of remote labor force). We propose a model for a Mobile Presence Control Information System with which to demonstrate experimentally the viability of unifying three elements that have only been examined individually in previous st...

Exposure to environmental stressors exert debilitating effects on the health of employees. Workforce in Egypt does not receive -in most casessuitable preventive measures to face such a problem. Moreover, they lack the awareness of early signs and symptoms of stress. The aim of the present work was to investigate the interrelationship between work stress in terms of physiological and psychologic...