The study is aimed at assessing the role of perceived gender equity and locus of control in employee well-being at the workplace and ascertaining if work engagement mediates between perceived gender equity, locus of control, and employee well-being (measured through optimism, general satisfaction with life and work, and executive burnout). Adopting a personal survey method data was collected fr...

BACKGROUND It is common that physicians go to work while sick and therefore it is important to understand the reasons behind. Previous research has shown that women and men differ in health and health related behavior. In this study, we examine gender differences among general practitioners who work while sick. METHODS General practitioners (GP's) working in outpatient care in a Swedish city ...

This paper is an empirical study of the market for managers, more speci…cally the e¤ects of agency, human capital, and preferences on their promotion, tenure, turnover and compensation. From a large longitudinal data set compiled from observations on executives and their publicly listed …rms, we construct a career hierarchy and report on its main features. Our summary results motivate a dynamic...

The association between e-commerce barriers and gender has not been explored in-depth, even though it has implications for the adoption of this technology. This paper aims to add insight into how male and female SME owners/managers perceive different ecommerce barriers. The findings of a survey of 207 SMEs in Australia are presented, and show that females perceive technical issues to be a more ...

Occupational Self Efficacy (OSE) reflects the conviction of a person’s ability to fulfill his job related behavior at a perfectly acceptable level to the employer. Transformational leadership improves followers’ commitment by influencing their needs, values, and self-esteem. Employees also develop a dyadic relationship with their immediate superiors. Study was conducted amongst one hundred and ...

Purpose – The overall purpose of this research is to further the understanding of how future marketing managers in Egypt and the UK perceive creativity barriers. The paper also examines the construct validity of the barriers to creativity scale in an Arab non-Western context. Design/methodology/approach – A sample of 125 respondents was used to achieve the research purpose. Respondents complete...

Email has been a vital communication medium for many years now. It provides speedy and efficient communication of information that can be easily and quickly created, edited, stored, discarded, organized, appended, and forwarded. Its “technical neutrality” has minimized possible communication distortions caused by differences in occupational, ethnic or gender features and expanded connections be...