OBJECTIVE To better understand the combined influence of employee engagement, health behavior, and physical health on job performance and absenteeism. METHODS Analyses were based on 20,114 employees who completed the Healthways Well-Being Assessment from 2008 to 2010. Employees represented three geographically dispersed companies in the United States. RESULTS Employee engagement, health beh...

A critical omission in the coworker influence literature is how a coworker influences a closely related (focal) employee’s job performance behaviors and whether this influence is contingent on that coworker’s own behaviors. By integrating social information processing and social cognitive theories with social exchange and role theories, we hypothesize that there are, at least, three distinct ty...

Objective: This paper describes a behavior change intervention that encourages active commuting using electrically assisted bikes (e-bikes) for health promotion in the workplace. This paper presents the preliminary findings of the intervention's impact on improving employee well-being and organizational behavior, as an indicator of potential business success. Method: Employees of a UK-based org...

A fter years of focusing on explaining and predicting positive employee attitudes (e.g., job satisfaction, employee commitment) and behaviors (e.g., employee citizenship, work performance), organizational behavior researchers have increasingly turned their attention to understanding what drives Although researchers have used a variety of terms to describe such employee behavior (e.g., deviance,...

This paper presents a formal framework for human behavior modeling, analysis and validation. It proposes a competencies model for representing the position profile of an employee/candidate and it uses the Hierarchical Decision Process Petri nets (HDPPN) for simulating the behavior of an employee/candidate in a given business process. The competencies model consists of a definition model, an eva...

Envy is a universal emotion and often is considered to be socially undesirable. This emotion has been relatively ignored in organizational behavior research. In this study, we focus on the impact of leader member exchange on envy. We also investigate moderating effects of perceived co-worker similarity and equity sensitivity in the relationship between leader member exchange and envy. Building ...

Based on the social networks at a Chinese state-owned enterprise, the authors examine the factors that are correlated with employee performance. They delineate two types of performance: task and contextual. The factors in their study are the characteristics of the four social networks (Job Advisory, Work Discussion, Friendship, and Email Networks) and the individual attributes (knowledge sharin...

BACKGROUND Increasing the engagement of employees in the treatment process of patients may benefit a hospital and employee productivity and may result in better patient care and satisfaction with medical services. Given this, the first step in improving the quality of patient care is better availability of doctors for patients in a hospital ward. METHODS The research for this paper was conduc...