BACKGROUND Job satisfaction is important to staff management of township health centers (THCs), as it is associated with organizational performance, quality of care and employee retention. The purpose of this study was to measure job satisfaction level of THC employees in poor rural China and to identify relevant features in order to provide policy advice on human resource development of health...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The main purpose of this study was to test whether the impact of job control on stroke mortality is independent of socioeconomic factors. METHODS This was a register-based cohort study of nearly 3.5 million working people (25 to 64 years of age in the 1990 Swedish Census) with a 5-year follow-up for stroke mortality. Job control was aggregated to the data from a seconda...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of two perspectives of well-being, hedonism and eudaimonism, on job attitudes and extra-role behaviors. Theoretically, hedonism equates well-being with the experience of pleasure, whereas eudaimonism is the experience of personal growth, purpose and social significance. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected from 528 admin...

The study was designed primarily to compare the work outcomes of job satisfaction and job involvement of South African nurses with those of members of 13 other professional groups in South Africa and with American nurses where data was available. Secondary aims included identifying areas where job satisfaction was particularly low and demonstrating the relative independence of the job involveme...

Job challenges the theological milieu of retributive justice prevalent in NearEastern society by daring to ask the veritable question: can people deserve? This article examines the theories of desert, agency, and righteousness embedded within the Job manuscript. Bracketing the question of theodicy, this study utilizes contemporary philosophical, theological and exegetical considerations to exam...

The use of IT has considerable potential to impact the healthcare industry. Recent applications such as electronic medication administration systems (EMAS) are expected to improve medication safety and delivery. However, the impact of such systems on users’ job performance is unclear and under-researched. This study develops a model to understand the individual impact of healthcare IS such as E...

We propose a risk-benefit model for studying jobseekers’ behavioral intentions to apply for a job in the context of social networking sites (SNSs). Our model integrates classic technology adoption/utilization theories with salient factors such as privacy concerns that have increased in significance with the growing use of SNSs as a recruitment source. We hypothesize that jobseekers’ outcome exp...

To explore the association of job strain with CHD and metabolic syndrome in municipal workers. A cross-sectional study was completed of 450 male workers. Coronary heart disease was defined as: physician diagnosed ischemic heart disease; and/or, ischemic findings in the ECG. Metabolic syndrome was defined according to the criterion set by the National Cholesterol Education Panel. The demand-cont...