STUDY OBJECTIVE To examine gender differences in minor morbidity among men and women working in similar circumstances, and to test whether the relation between reported working conditions and health is similar for men and women. DESIGN Multivariate analysis of data collected from a postal questionnaire distributed to full time employees in white collar jobs within a single organisation. SET...

the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between quality of life, anxiety and job satisfaction in women employees in ray zone in tehran welfare organization. in this research, participants were asked to answer which of the variables of quality of life and job satisfaction is a strong predictor for anxiety. the population of the study consisted of all female employees in tehran ...

BACKGROUND Positive attitudes towards prisoners are important in securing the effectiveness of various correctional rehabilitation programs and the successful reintegration of prisoners after release. We wanted to investigate the attitudes towards prisoners among prison inmates, prison employees and college students. METHODS The Attitudes Toward Prisoners scale was completed by 298 inmates in...

Many companies currently strive to support their employees' work-life balance through appropriate measures in order to improve employees' loyalty towards the company and to recruit new employees. In this context, flexibility in the area of working times is a measure that can influence employees' private lives immensely. This is why the individualisation of working time arrangements has been acc...

BACKGROUND Common mental disorders (CMD) are prevalent in working populations and have adverse consequences for employee well-being and work ability, even leading to early retirement. Several studies report associations between psychosocial working conditions and CMD. However, there is a lack of longitudinal research within a broad framework of psychosocial working conditions and improvement in...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To examine whether the effects of work stress on sickness absence vary by the level of control the employees have over their working times. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. A survey of job strain, effort-reward imbalance, and control over daily working hours and days off was carried out in 2000-01. The survey responses were linked with registered data on the number of medicall...

nowadays both part-time as well as regular employees are working in many organizations of bangladesh. though many studies have been conducted to know the motivation status of regular employees but no study is found that addressed motivations status of both regular and part-time employees of bangladesh. thus, this study is conducted on 300 regular and part-time employees of bangladesh to know th...

Previous evidence regarding the outcomes of sexual harassment in the workplace has come mainly from self-selected samples or analogue studies or those using inadequate measures. The sexual harassment experiences, coping responses, and job-related and psychological outcomes of 447 female private-sector employees and 300 female university employees were examined. Discriminant function analyses in...