Background: Only few authors have analyzed the impact of workplace conflicts and the resulting stress on the risk of developing cardiovascular disorders. The goal of this study was to analyze the association between workplace conflicts and cardiovascular disorders in patients treated by German general practitioners. Methods: Patients with an initial documentation of a workplace conflict experie...

Purpose: Although both the job and its broader context are likely to drive motivation, little is known about the specific workplace characteristics that are important for motivation. We present the Workplace Characteristics Model, which describes the workplace characteristics that can foster motivation, and the corresponding multilevel Workplace Design Questionnaire. Design/methodology/approach...

The use of Internet in workplace has brought about concerns for companies. Previous researches focused on the effect of electronic control on employee productivity and job satisfaction. This paper uses the Theory of Planned Behavior and Deterrence Theory to understand the factors that could affect the workplace Internet use behavior intention. The results will provide insightful suggestions for...

Workplace spirituality is a growing concern for an increasing number of organizations, employees, and job seekers. In today’s tumultuous business landscape a growing number of people are looking to the workplace to fulfill their spiritual needs, while organizations are finding positive work outcomes associated with a workplace that augments workers spiritual fulfillment. There is to date, howev...

the present study is considering the effect of spirituality in the workplace on organizational efficiency of the bank 's tourism . spirituality in the workplace is a significant component of the work , a feeling of solidarity and harmony with the values ​​of the organization. the study is descriptive . the population of this research is all the employees of tourism bank . the instrument wa...

BACKGROUND Monitoring disparities in secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure is important for tailoring smoke-free policies to the needs of different groups. We examined disparity and trends in SHS exposure among both nonsmokers and smokers at Japanese workplaces between 2002 and 2012. METHODS A total of 32,940 employees in nationally representative, population-based, repeated cross-sectional surveys...

This paper will discuss the benefits of sharing data between discrete event process simulation and ergonomic workplace assessment using software developed by Deneb Robotics Inc. A modeling exercise has been developed to illustrate the integration of ergonomic and discrete event process modeling. This paper will provide an overview of ergonomic and process modeling, a summary of features and fun...

Against the background of increasing attention in teacher professional development programs for situating teacher learning in the workplace, an overview is given of what is known in general and educational workplace learning literature on the characterics and conditions of the workplace. Although workplace learning potentially has several advantages, the six workplace factors identitied for lea...

Empirical evidence shows that in recessions the rate of workplace accidents goes down. This paper presents a theory and an empirical investigation to explain this phenomenon. The theory is based on the idea that reporting an accident affects the reputation of a worker and raises the probability that he is fired. If the unemployment rate is high, a worker faces a big loss when fired and fewer wo...

UNLABELLED Traditional efforts to deal with the enormous problem of workplace safety have proved insufficient, as they have tended to neglect the broader sociotechnical environment that surrounds workers. Here, we advocate a sociotechnical systems approach that describes the complex multi-level system factors that contribute to workplace safety. From the literature on sociotechnical systems, co...