OBJECTIVE Socioeconomic differences in sickness absence (SA) are well established among older employees but poorly understood among the young. Our aim was to examine 12-year trends in educational differences in SA among young female and male employees, and to assess the magnitude of the differences. DESIGN We examined annual SA spells. The data were obtained from the employer's registers and ...

Asthma accounts for an estimated 3 million workdays lost each year in the United States in addition to reduced worker productivity. Although asthma disease management programs are relatively common in managed care organizations, they have generally not been offered at the workplace. Seventy-six employees participated in a five-session worksite-based asthma education program. A total of 47 of 76...

The purpose of this study was to survey the effect of organizational communication system on the conflict in physical education offices of Isfahan province. The research methodology of this research was a descriptive study. All employees working in physical education offices of Isfahan province were included in the sample for this study (N= 236). Researcher made questionnaire and demographic qu...

background: exposure to job stress causes deleterious effects on physical and mental health of employees and productivity of organizations. objective: to study work-related stressors among employees of prisons of ilam, western iran. methods: in a cross-sectional study conducted from july to october 2013, 177 employees of ilam prisons and security-corrective measures organization were enrolled i...

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples’ occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that education affects peoples’ decisions to become an entrepreneur negatively. We show furthermore that entrepreneurs ...

Section 404(c) regulation sets forth the conditions that plan fiduciaries must meet to be relieved of liability for the consequences of employees' control over their accounts. After reviewing applicable laws and regulations, the author concludes that employers desiring to provide employees with education and/or advice services through a third party should be able to do so while still obtaining ...

Institutes of higher education face a number of distinct challenges when onboarding new employees. After all, a single college or university can hire thousands of new employees each year, across multiple departments, campuses, and even countries. When considering the different types of positions, including professors, administrative professionals, and maintenance personnel, as well as full-time...

this research is about analysis of relation between trust and organizational commitment of personnel. statistic social in this research is the personnel of social welfare organization of qom state and education organization of qom state and statical sample is consist of 35 employees from social welfare organization and 54 employees from education organization of qom state. in analysis of organi...

Employees Who Become Self-Employed: Do Labour Income and Wages Have an Impact? This paper analyzes the self-employment decision among Swedish-born male employees. The main objective of the paper is to investigate the impact of the relation between the actual and the predicted income on the probability to become self-employed. The predicted income is calculated from a standard income regression ...