BACKGROUND Our annual analysis of the epidemiology of occupational diseases is intended to indicate morbidity categories characterized by the highest risk of developing pathologies associated with working conditions and to assay variations in the frequency of those pathologies, depending on occupational exposure, medical factors, social and economic circumstances, legal regulations, and ongoing...

Researchers have discovered inconsistent relationships between prosocial motives and citizenship behaviors. We draw on impression management theory to propose that impression management motives strengthen the association between prosocial motives and affiliative citizenship by encouraging employees to express citizenship in ways that both "do good" and "look good." We report 2 studies that exam...

We use linked employer-employee data to investigate the job satisfaction effect of union membership in Britain. We depart from previous studies by developing a model that simultaneously controls for the determinants of individual membership status and for the selection of employees into occupations according to union coverage. We find that a negative association between membership and satisfact...

Summary Pro‐customer rule breaking refers to employees' of organizational rules with the primary intention helping customers or providing better customer service. In spite its prosocial nature, it is unclear whether and how pro‐customer also benefits employees who engage in this behavior. Drawing on self‐determination theory, we examine well‐being voice at work as outcomes breaking. Across a si...

In this paper we describe our solutions to the problems faced in building the fully featured auto-attendant application that currently provides telephone access to approximately 50,000 Microsoft employees. The paper focuses on issues that the application developer can address directly. Some of the problems tackled in building the grammar include the handling of homonyms, several people with the...

Purpose – Meetings are ubiquitous in organizational life and are a great source of frustration and annoyance to many employees in the workplace, in part due to counterproductive meeting behaviors (CMBs). CMBs include engaging in irrelevant discussion, complaining about other attendees, arriving to the meeting late, and other similar, disruptive behaviors. Consistent with conservation of resourc...

Employee engagement is a positive, fulfilling, work-related state of mind characterized by vigor, dedication, and absorption. Using Kahn’s theory of engagement, we look at an organizational context where employee engagement may be promoted—the workgroup meeting. Two timeseparated Internet-based surveys were used to query a sample of working adults (N = 319). The findings provide support that th...

Abstract Background and Purpose: Implicit voice theories are the beliefs that related to employee silence. This study aims examine implicit (don’t embarrass boss in public, negative career consequences of voice) as predictors defensive silence constructive voice. Methodology: is a cross-sectional an analytical study. The sample this consisted 494 participants working healthcare sector (n = 277)...

The association between swimming pool characteristics and activities of employees and respiratory symptoms in employees was studied. Trichloramine levels were measured to evaluate relationships with pool characteristics and to estimate long-term exposure levels. Questionnaires were available from 624 pool workers and 38 swimming facilities. Chloramine levels were measured by area sampling over ...

The purpose of this study was to delve into the underlying mechanism and contextual boundary condition U-shaped relationship between job control voice at episode level within framework conservation resources theory. Adopting a two-wave experience sampling method, collected 265 matched cases nested in 53 Chinese employees for 5 consecutive days. By hierarchical linear regression, effect on repli...