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)....

The conflict over whether or not performance appraisal and merit pay systems are effective continues to be a challenging topic for employers and employees in both privateand public-sector organizations. Public-sector organizations are under increasing political pressure to do more with less, much like their private-sector counterparts. Public-sector organizations are also under pressure to get ...

BACKGROUND The economy is being lifted by the new concept of robotics, but we cannot be sure of all the possible benefits. At this early stage, it therefore becomes important to find out the possible benefits/limitations associated with robotics, so that the positives can be capitalized, established, and developed further for the employment and motivation of employees in the health care sector,...

This study intended to assess the utilization of information technology services by employees in public sector through taking Geita District Council, Tanzania as a case study. The study aimed at examining the utilization of IT services as a tool to generate efficiency of work in order to find out IT services utilized by employees in the organization; it also investigates the role of IT sectors ...

In this article I analyse the changing contours of public sector employment relations in Germany during and after the financial and debt crisis. In order to understand what is distinctive in German experience and what is similar with that elsewhere, I provide a comparative perspective of selected EU member states, especially Austria. First, I describe in some detail the impact of various auster...

The aim of this study is to explore the differences in job-related stress, if any, between public and private sector employees, based on ten role stressors. It also examines the role of demographic variables on the stress levels of both public and private sector groups. Our methodology entails a survey of 182 public and 120 private sector employees in Uttar Pradesh, India, whose responses are m...

In France, in the private sector as in the public sector, performance-based management tends to become a norm. Performance-based management is supposed to improve service quality, productivity and efficiency, transparency of allotted means and achieved results, and to better focus the activity of employees and of the whole organization. This text reports a study conducted for the French Ministr...

Economic theory predicts that employer-provided retiree health insurance (RHI) benefits have a crowd-out effect on household wealth accumulation, not dissimilar to the effects reported elsewhere for employer pensions, Social Security, and Medicare. Nevertheless, we are unaware of any similar research on the impacts of retiree health insurance per se. Accordingly, the present paper utilizes a un...

the purpose of this study is to study the role of environmental determinants in entrepreneurship in the public sector. this is an applied and descriptive-correlation study. the statistical population is tehran municipality's employees and clients. a sample of 220 municipal employees and a sample of 200 citizens were selected to evaluate the role of environmental factors in entrepreneurship...

Introduction HRM-issues are getting increasingly attention within Public Administration. This is not surprising as 'human resources' are of decisive importance for the performance and the quality of services rendered by public organizations. Probably this is even more important compared to private organizations. Public organizations themselves are devoting a lot of time and effort to the manage...