background: today, the growth of major industries depends on their appropriate interaction with small and medium enterprises (smes). in iran, smes have 49 or fewer employees. the present study was an attempt to present an overall view of the condition of professional health and safety in such industries in order to gain information regarding activities related to occupational health and safety....

BACKGROUND Workplace stress is a complex phenomenon that may often be dynamic and evolving over time. Traditional linear modeling does not allow representation of recursive feedback loops among the implicated factors. The objective of this study was to develop a multidimensional system dynamics model (SDM) of workplace stress among nursing aides and conduct simulations to illustrate how changes...

Disease management is becoming increasingly important in workplace health promotion given the aging workforce, rising chronic disease prevalence, and needs to maintain a productive and competitive American workforce. Despite the widespread availability of the Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (CDSMP), and its known health-related benefits, program adoption remains low in workplace setting...

South African higher education (HE) cannot be compared to any other country’s HE systems due the unique political landscape and structural narrative that it has undergone. Subsequent reorganisation of HEIs in 2004, a number complexities arose. These included accessibility across race alignment global pedagogic benchmarks. With changing landscape, transformations within education, socio economic...

Using matched employer-employee level data drawn from the 2004 UK Workplace and Employee Relations Survey, we explore the determinants of a measure of worker commitment and loyalty (CLI) and whether CLI influences workplace performance. Our empirical findings suggest that the employee's industry-occupation specific relative wage is an important factor influencing employee attitudes towards the ...

Workplace accidents are an important economic phenomenon. Yet, the pro-cyclical fluctuations in workplace accidents are not well understood. They could be related to fluctuations in effort and working hours, but workplace accidents may also be affected by reporting behavior. Our paper uses unique data on workplace accidents from an Austrian matched worker-firm dataset to study in detail how eco...

The idea of “Production-Oriented Approach” (POA) is to solve the disadvantage “separation learning and application”. This paper analyzes how do each process puts forward specific teaching strategies in vocational Chinese teaching. It includes workplace case analysis, dilemma demand orientation, disciplinary integration, student immersion participation. New technology can make more diverse. use ...