AIM To reveal nursing home employees' views on dying and death among older people they cared for. BACKGROUND Palliative care stakeholders recently included more groups in their definition of palliative care; older people constitute one such group. Consequently, palliative care systems, which will serve a large, aging cohort, will require new skills. The first stage in skills acquisition is to...

The present study was to describe the input/process and evaluate the effectiveness of Taiwanese Workplace Health Promotion Initiatives based on employees' perspectives. This study employed a cross-sectional design by a structured questionnaire that was completed by 842 employees in 30 workplaces that participated in the Taiwan Workplace Health Promotion (WHP) Initiatives which supported by Mini...

Background & Aims of the Study: Job stress has negative effects on various organizational, motivational, and social factors. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of organizational intelligence, workplace-life skills, and employee empowerment training on promoting organizational productivity and socialization among the employees with job stress in Persian Gulf Star Oil Co., Bandar A...

This study examines whether, as competition for readers and viewers increases among news producers, media organizations are focusing on hiring individuals whose talents most reflect the specific communication strengths and style of a particular medium, or whether news executives still seek more traditional journalistic skills in applicants. The study also examined differences in the types of ap...

We explore whether the tendency for smaller firms to have fewer hierarchical layers explains the well‐documented inverse correlation between firm size and the rate at which employees become business owners. Our analysis is based on a Swedish matched employer‐employee dataset. Conditional on firm size, employees in firms with more layers are less likely to enter entrepreneurship, to become self‐...

In this competitive environment, organizations in service sector and industrial sector are trying their best to win the loyalty of their customers by providing the superior quality services and innovative products to remain competitive in the market. The objective of this study is to focus on the concept that organizational well structured HRM policies and top management commitment for quality ...

In a global knowledge-based economy, the performance of business organizations depends on ensuring that all categories of employees possess current and up-to-date knowledge and skills. Therefore, businesses must analyze their training needs in greater depth and update workers’ skills much more rapidly than in the past, while attempting to reduce training costs to remain competitive in this chan...

This study examines the impact of employee perceptions of training on organizational commitment, and the latter‟s relationship with turnover intentions. Structured equation modelling is conducted on survey data from 437 Chinese employees of five multinational enterprises operating in the Chinese service sector. The results of the survey are consistent with social exchange theory. They highlight...

Security breaches are prevalent in organizations and many of the breaches are attributed to human errors. As a result, the organizations need to increase their employees’ security awareness and their capabilities to engage in safe cybersecurity behaviors. Many different psychological and social factors affect employees’ cybersecurity behaviors. An important research question to explore is to wh...

The software project scheduling problem considers the assignment of employees to project tasks with the aim of minimizing the project cost and delivering the project on time. Recent research takes into account that each employee is proficient in some development tasks only, which requiere specific skills. However, this cannot be totally applied in the Mexican context due to software companies d...