Faculty of Business Administration, Laval University, Quebec, Canada G1V 0A6. Corresponding Author: Mouna Knani ________________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract Recent changes in employment conditions due to globalization, innovation, and economic crisis have made many employees vulnerable to job burnout. The literature shows that innovation can ...

Why Are the Returns to Education Higher for Entrepreneurs than for Employees? We compare the returns to education (RTE) for entrepreneurs and employees, based on 19 waves of the NLSY database. By using instrumental variable techniques (IV) and taking account of selectivity, we find that the RTE are significantly higher for entrepreneurs than for employees (18.3 percent and 9.9 percent, respecti...

 This paper aims to determine whether the working environment that bank employees perceive is related to their affective responses and their perception about the service quality that is provided at their bank. More specifically, the study extends and links previous works by researching into the relationships between the organizational obstacles perceived, the employees’ psychological cl...

employee commitment is the terminology used to describe whether employees have a strong belief and accepts organizational goals and values. the thesis of this study is founded on the conviction that an organization cannot be expected to perform effectively and efficiently when its employees are not committed. there are many measurable support that employee commitment is a critical factor that d...

today, the work-family conflict is a challenge to nurses and nursing. in this regard, the ghaem hospital's 448 nurses making random sample of 100 individuals were studied. to analysis collected data, partial least squares (pls) and haland procedures were employed.the results were significant and positive relationship between the variables of a conflict between people intention to leave, and wor...

Changes to the U.S. health care system are here. As we think about how individuals will pay for health care--while actively employed and while retired--our experiences with 401(k) plans provide some valuable lessons. In order to support employees in this new health care world--a challenge arguably more daunting than the 401(k) challenge we faced 20 years ago--some very different types of suppor...

Confirmatory factor analysis of data (from 5 samples, n = 484 full-time employed management students; n = 550 public administrators; n = 214 university administrators; n = 250 bank managers and employees in Bangladesh; and n = 578 managers and employees) on the 28 items of the Rahim Organizational Conflict Inventory-II were performed with LISREL 7. The results provided support for the convergen...

In recent years, people have widely adopted mobile computing devices in their lives. In this paper, we define mobile decision support systems (mDSS) as decision support systems built on mobile computing platforms. Several factors influencing an individual employee’s usage of mDSS are examined. We propose a model shows how perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, job mobility, and amount of ...

aim and background: psychological climate perceptions have received considerable attention in the organizational literature and have been used to predict a variety of important individual and organizational outcomes such as job satisfaction, burnout, job involvement, organizational citizenship behavior, psychological empowerment, job control and job performance. the aim of this study was to inv...

The overall aim of this thesis was to explore the relationship between managerial leadership on the one hand and stress, health, and other health related outcomes among employees on the other. This was done in five studies, three using a cross-sectional and two a prospective design. In all studies the employees rated their managers with a selfadministered questionnaire. The health outcomes were...