We describe the natural history of 13 musculoskeletal conditions requiring hospitalization and identify demographic, behavioral, psychosocial, occupational, and clinical characteristics most strongly associated with disability discharge from the Army. Subjects included 15,268 active-duty personnel hospitalized for a common musculoskeletal condition between the years 1989-1996 who were retrospec...

The study examined the relationships between work experience and (a) safety perceptions, (b) job satisfaction, (c) compliance with safety management policies and (d) accident frequency. Participants were Ghanaian industrial workers (N = 320). They were divided into 2 cohorts: experienced and inexperienced workers. Workplace safety perceptions were assessed with Hayes et al.'s 50-item work safet...

The emotional intelligence profiles, gender differences, and adaptive success of 380 Dutch nurses caring for people with mental retardation and accompanying severe behavior problems are reported. Data were collected with the Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory, Utrecht-Coping List, Utrecht-Burnout Scale, MMPI-2, and GAMA. Absence due to illness and job change were measured across a 2-year perio...

A common problem in production environments is the need to estimate the remaining time in system for work-inprogress jobs. Simulation can be used to obtain the estimates. However, when the future path of a job is uncertain (due to stochastic events such as rework), using simulation to estimate the remaining cycle time of a job at step k can be imprecise; traditional confidence intervals on the ...

This article meta-analytically summarizes the literature on training motivation, its antecedents, and its relationships with training outcomes such as declarative knowledge, skill acquisition, and transfer. Significant predictors of training motivation and outcomes included individual characteristics (e.g., locus of control, conscientiousness, anxiety, age, cognitive ability, self-efficacy, val...

BACKGROUND Human power is the back bone for the provision of quality health care for the population. High level of professional satisfaction among health workers earns high dividends such as higher worker force retention and patients satisfaction. There is limited amount of literature in the areas related to factors affecting job satisfaction and retention. The objective of this study was to de...

This study aims to examine and analyze the role of job satisfaction in mediating effect stress on employee performance. The research was conducted permanent employees Tk Hospital. III 04.06.03 Dr. Soetarto Yogyakarta. 150 respondents were used as sample. mediation will be tested by comparing direct performance with including an independent variable. Testing using Regression analysis. results sh...

The study investigated work stress and gender determinants of job satisfaction among early childhood educators in Cross River State, Nigeria. adopted a correlational research design with sample size 362 respondents. instrument for data collection was questionnaire developed by the researchers. Mean Pearson Product Moment Correlation Analysis used to answer questions, while Linear regression tes...

Job burnout is a crucial cause of the decline in product (work) quality and operating efficiency, which may lead to increased costs, reduced revenues, economic performance business enterprises. Based on systematic review extant literature, this paper examines several conceptual issues job (i.e., connotation, classification, consequences), explores its influencing factors possible intervention m...