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BACKGROUND HIV is a major public health problem in the world, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. It often leads to loss of productive labour and disruption of existing social support system which results in deterioration of population health. This poses a great challenge to infected people in meeting their essential goods and services. This paper examines health and social support services provi...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to survey human resources personnel about how their northeastern Ontario workplaces assist employees with cancer. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING This cross-sectional study was conducted from December 2007 to April 2008. Surveys were sent to 255 workplaces in northeastern Ontario with 25 or more employees, and 101 workplaces responded (39.6% response rate)....

background: nowadays job stress is one of the most important health problems that health and safety professionals are facing with. much of previous studies have focused on interventions such as stress management and, they have ignored the role of psychosocial factors in occurrence of job stress. this study investigated the mediator role of supervisor support on the association between work stre...

like humans, organizations may be healthy or sick. among the psychological disorders in organizations, organizational paranoia may arise from employees’ negative attitudes. employees’ sense of justice or injustice and also their perception of organizational support can motivate formation of positive or negative attitude that in turn affects the level of organization’s cynicism and sickness. the...

Although research has examined work-family issues and organizational support for employees’ family responsibilities, few studies have explored the work-life issues of single employees without children. The current study examines single employees’ perceptions of how their organizations support their work-life balance in comparison to employees with families. A multi-dimensional scale is develope...

the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between organizational support and customer orientation in employees of golestan sport and youth offices. the population consisted of employees of golestan sport and youth offices (n=203) in 2014. sample size was determined by cochran table and stratified random sampling method (n=132). finally, 125 questionnaires were returned. to colle...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to measure the level of quality of work life (QWL) among hospital employees in Iran. Additionally, it aimed to identify the factors that are critical to employees' QWL. It also aimed to test a theoretical model of the relationship between employees' QWL and their intention to leave the organization. METHODS A survey study was conducted based on a sampl...