This study explored job satisfaction, work-related stress, consequences of stress, and coping strategies among Norwegian teachers. The study is based on qualitative interviews with 30 working teachers and four retired teachers. The respondents reported high job satisfaction but also severe stress and exhaustion. Teachers of different ages or at different stages in their careers reported the sam...

In this paper we deal with the problem of identifying a valid way to characterize heterogeneity in the analysis of customer satisfaction observing the phenomenon through a new perspective. In the literature, the variability of a Customer Satisfaction index is measured by the standard deviation or the coefficient of variation. In this way, heterogeneity among customers may be masked. To overcome...

Constraint programming is an approach for solving (mostly combinatorial) problems by stating constraints over the problem variables. In some problems, there is no solution satisfying all the constraints or the problem formulation must deal with uncertainty, vagueness, or imprecision. In such a case the standard constraint satisfaction techniques dealing with hard constraints cannot be used dire...

The relationship between work and leisure, with regard to various aspects of work and its meaning, was examined in two groups of people: leisure-oriented and work-oriented. Leisure-to-work spillover characterized the relations between leisure orientation and the following variables: absolute work centrality, interpersonal contacts, intrinsic orientation, obligation norm, and weekly work hours. ...

Constraints formalize the dependencies in a physical world in terms of a logical relation among several unknowns. Constraint satisfaction methods allow efficient navigation of large search spaces to find an optimal solution that satisfies given constraints. This paper explores the application of constraint satisfaction methods to personalize generic information content with respect to a user-mo...

influence of supervisor trait mindfulness on employee well-being and performance. Abstract This research examines the influence of leaders' mindfulness on employee well-being and performance. We hypothesized that supervisors' trait mindfulness is positively associated with different facets of employee well-being, such as job satisfaction and need satisfaction, and different dimensions of employ...

Despite previous studies on job satisfaction and its antecedents, few studies have explored the interrelationships between role conflict, work-family conflict and job satisfaction. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of role conflict on job satisfaction, with work-family conflict as a potential mediator. Data were gathered from 159 Malaysian single mother employees, aged 45 and...

Creativity Research Journal 137 ABSTRACT: This article examines physical and social predictors of perceived support for creativity in the workplace and their effects on important personal and organizational outcomes. Recent conceptualizations of creativity suggest that the physical environment plays a key role in facilitating the development of creative processes and products, yet prior studies...

Constraint satisfaction networks contain nodes that receive weighted evidence from external sources and/or other nodes. A relaxation process allows the activation of nodes to affect neighboring nodes, which in turn can affect their neighbors, allowing information to travel through a network. When doing discrete updates (as in a software implementation of a relaxation network), a goal net or goa...

An important aspect of human cognition is the sequential integration of observations while striving for a consistent mental representation. Recent research consistently stresses the importance of fast automatic processes for integrating information available at a certain point in time. However, it is not clear, how such processes allow for maintaining a consistent and up to date mental represen...