BACKGROUND Demand for rehabilitation services is expected to increase due to factors such as an aging population, workforce pressures, rise in chronic and complex multi-system disorders, advances in technology, and changes in interprofessional health service delivery models. However, health human resource (HHR) strategies for Canadian rehabilitation professionals are lagging behind other profes...

Although previous studies have indicated an association between alexithymia and burnout, they have not controlled for well-established organizational factors, depression, and coping mechanisms that could confound the relationship. This study investigated the association between alexithymia and occupational burnout. One hundred eighty-three nursing students were assessed up to 3 months before gr...

A longitudinal study predicted changes in burnout or engagement a year later by identifying 2 types of early indicators at the initial assessment. Organizational employees (N = 466) completed measures of burnout and 6 areas of worklife at 2 times with a 1-year interval. Those people who showed an inconsistent pattern at Time 1 were more likely to change over the year than were those who did not...

In order to enhance people’s employability and enterprises’ competitiveness, educational policy in Europe focuses heavily on lifelong learning (Grek et al., 2009; Rauner, 2008). This is a reaction to the circumstances of modern worklife in Western industries, which is often characterized as knowledge-based or knowledge-intensive work (Cort, 2009). A crucial component for occupational success on...

This study was conducted with 1097 employees (866 females, 217 males, 14 did not indicate gender) in a regional Health Service District who completed the Queensland Public Agency Staff Survey in 2002. Nurses' results on measures of organizational climate and psychological outcomes were compared with those of other employees in the Health Service District. Nurses reported less favourable outcome...

The OBSERVER design pattern is one of the most widely used patterns from the original GoF book [1]. With the proliferation of mobile devices in worklife and information systems serving data to such devices is paramount to maintaining data integrity in a work process. The idiosyncracies of mobile devices have placed new requirements on the mechanisms for updating resource limited clients with an...