Robert Tobias Centre for Continuing Education,, University of Canterbury Introduction The primary purpose of this paper is to provide an historical perspective on the learning and education of people in their middle years and older people of the 3rd Age. Although chronological age may be a significant factor influencing people’s lives and learning experiences and perspectives and providing a ma...

background: safety culture and attitude form an integral part of organizations' cultures and their improved levels are influential in the prevention of occupational accidents and injuries. the present study was conducted to assess the safety culture and attitude of workers in the mining industry in iran. materials and methods: the present cross-sectional study was conducted on 172 workers ...

The employee engagement has emerged as a pivotal business driver for organizational success. High level of engagement in domestic and global firms is supposed to have multiple enriching effects on an organization. Studies have highlighted the importance of both organizational and individual factors in ensuring highly engaged employees. The present paper explores the individual differs across fo...

The study examined the relationships between work experience and (a) safety perceptions, (b) job satisfaction, (c) compliance with safety management policies and (d) accident frequency. Participants were Ghanaian industrial workers (N = 320). They were divided into 2 cohorts: experienced and inexperienced workers. Workplace safety perceptions were assessed with Hayes et al.'s 50-item work safet...

Followed 78 adult workers for 1 week with the experience sampling method. (This method randomly samples self-reports throughout the day.) The main question was whether the quality of experience was more influenced by whether a person was at work or at leisure or more influenced by whether a person was in flow (i.e., in a condition of high challenges and skills). Results showed that all the vari...

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