Work performance is one of the most important dependent variables in Work and Organizational Psychology. The main objective of this paper was to explore the relationships between citizenship performance and task performance measures obtained from different appraisers and their consistency through a seldom-used methodology, intraclass correlation coefficients. Participants were 135 public employ...

To investigate perceptual and neural correlates of future self-appraisals as a function of temporal distance, event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded while participants (11 women, eight men) made judgments about the applicability of trait adjectives to their near future selves (i.e., one month from now) and their distant future selves (i.e., three years from now). Behavioral results indic...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to examine the health risk-related excess costs of time away from work, medical claims, pharmacy claims, and total costs with and without considering the prevalence of health risks. METHODS A total of 2082 of 4266 employees of a Midwest utility participated in a health risk appraisal (HRA). Individuals were classified by their HRA participation status...

STUDY SELECTION AND ASSESSMENT Articles or dissertations were selected if they were qualitative reports, addressed turning points or a process of change in health behaviour over time, and were grounded in or supported by observational or verbatim qualitative data. 2 reviewers independently coded study findings in categories of main concept, pre-change influences, turning point, and steps in the...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the pattern, motivation and facilities for choosing journal club topics by residents in two medical institutions in India. METHOD A self-appraisal questionnaire was used to compare motivation for choice of topics, availability of infrastructure, sites and type of articles accessed and formal training in computer based literature search in two medical institutions- a post...

Abstract Customary confidence regions do not truly reflect in the majority of our geodetic applications one can have one’s produced estimators. As it is common practice daily data analyses to combine methods parameter estimation and hypothesis testing before final estimator produced, their combined uncertainty that has be taken into account when constructing regions. Ignoring impact on will pro...

The study identified types of Performance Appraisal (PA) systems in use Nigerian public sector, investigated effectiveness PA the sector and examined factors affecting sector. Purposive sampling technique was used selecting top, middle lower levels staff from various administrative departments within selected Ministries, Departments Agencies (MDAs). result annual review, general performance app...

OBJECTIVE There is no consensus on how to optimally assess the accuracy of continuous glucose sensors. We examined the continuous glucose-error grid analysis (CG-EGA) and compared it with classical accuracy assessment methods, using data from a previously reported study comparing two different continuous glucose sensors in type 1 diabetic patients. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Drift, delay, me...

The study is aimed at investigating the use of Performance appraisal (PA) in some manufacturing enterprises and private banks in Bangladesh. Some hypotheses were developed on individual and job based determinants of PA usage. Based on the data set on individual employees, these hypotheses were tested in order to explore the impact of PA on pay and career prospects. The result indicates that PA ...

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