Job satisfaction for women workers is traditionally researched from the job-gender model in which sex roles generate the research framework. Women employed in the labor market are viewed as responding primarily to the confines of sex roles, as opposed to the structural rewards and constraints of the labor market itself. We reexamined earlier studies that found no effect of the labor market on j...

Our study profiles a varying process of the relationship between delay of gratification (DG) and job performance over time and examines the moderating role of perceived organisational justice in the DG-job performance relationship. Employees’ ability to delay gratification was measured during their job interviews (Time 1). When they had worked for 3 months (Time 2), their job performance was ra...

This study tested a model of the relationship between core self-evaluations, intrinsic job characteristics, and job satisfaction. Core self-evaluations was assumed to be a broad personality concept manifested in 4 specific traits: self-esteem, generalized self-efficacy, locus of control, and low neuroticism. The model hypothesized that both subjective (perceived) job characteristics and job com...

The execution of data intensive Grid applications raises several questions regarding job scheduling, data migration, and replication. This paper presents new scheduling algorithms using more sophisticated job behaviour descriptions that allow estimating job completion times more precisely thus improving scheduling decisions. Three approaches of providing input to the decision procedure are disc...

Using data from the Workplace Industrial Relations Surveys of 1980, 1984, and 1990, the authors investigate processes of job creation and job destruction in Britain. They find that rates of employment growth, job creation, and job destruction were higher at the end of the 1980s than at the beginning. Bothjob creation and job destruction were extremely concentrated: about 50% of each was account...

We investigated the association between occupational exposure to extremely low-frequency magnetic fields (MFs) and the risk of glioma and meningioma. Occupational exposure to MF was assessed for 489 glioma cases, 197 meningioma cases, and 799 controls enrolled in a hospital-based case-control study. Lifetime occupational history questionnaires were administered to all subjects; for 24% of jobs,...

BACKGROUND Nurses and midwives are the key providers of nursing and midwifery services; in many countries, they form the major category of frontline workers who provide both preventive and curative services in the community. When the skills and experience of nursing and midwifery personnel are maximized, they can contribute significantly to positive health outcomes. We conducted a survey among ...

The purpose of this paper is to investigates the extent that impact job satisfaction on organizational citizenship behaviour mediated by commitment in public sector banks. In past decades developed a significant concept field management and psychology established an inordinate transaction consideration literature. Job essential aspect employee performance success. Employees who are satisfied wi...

A model is developed on the effects of work-family conflict on employees’ emotional exhaustion, job satisfaction and job performance based on the role theory and the conservation of resources theory as well as related studies. The model proposes that the consequences of work-family conflict can be traced through four different paths and the relationships between work-family conflict and the out...

$3,000 to $5,000 A YEAR By CHARLES SULLIVAN WASHINGTON—A movement to cut the work week for Federal employees to five and a half days is gaining momentum here. Evidence is piling up to show these interesting facts: v * 1, Chronic fatigue is resulting from the long week. 2. Excessive sick leave is being used, and for just being "worn out". 3. The six-day week is forcing government girls to quit a...