PROBLEM CONSIDERED Most family physicians in Wisconsin are employed by large health care organizations. Because of its impact on physician recruitment, retention, commitment to the organization, and patient care, the quality of physician work life is an important problem. METHODS A survey was designed based on a literature review and augmented by focus group data. It was sent to all 1482 memb...

Not all NP-complete problems share the same practical hardness with respect to exact computation. Whereas some NP-complete problems are amenable to efficient computational methods, others are yet to show any such sign. It becomes a major challenge to develop a theoretical framework that is more fine-grained than the theory of NP-completeness, and that can explain the distinction between the exa...

The component structure of a 14-item scale measuring different aspects of job satisfaction was investigated, and its stability among different types of organizations. The participants were 2066 workers from 220 organizations in the Italian social service sector. The job satisfaction items were measured at an ordinal scaling level and analyzed by Categorical Principal Components analysis (CATPCA...

This article presents the results of a research study that laid out important considerations for organizations to improve their patient satisfaction scores. It addresses a dimension of patient satisfaction that appears to garner little attention in healthcare contexts: emotional support. Though the literature strongly suggests that emotional support is correlated to overall patient satisfaction...

during the recent years the problem of job satisfaction has been the focus of management attention in most organizations. besides, managers have sought different ways to solve such problems by increasing wages and salaries, establishing a reward system and reorganization. among the new approaches, based on behavioral science, the redesign of jobs seems to have been the solution. the guestion is...

introduction: currently, volunteer forces are among the main members of the healthcare service body, particularly in the treatment sector, and play a key role in healthcare and treatment services. since efficient human resources are the greatest and most important assets of all organizations, the organization constantly works to train, retain, and get maximum benefit of these valuable assets. t...

the effect of marital counseling on marital satisfaction of parents of mental retarded children     jenaabadi h [1] *     received: 15 mar , 2012 accepted: 14 jun , 2012    abstract   background & aims: parents of mental retarded children have many problems in maintenance, training and education of their children. these problems have negative impact on parent’s mental health and marital satisfa...

We examine the careers of expatriates in an inter-governmental organization (IGO) who undertake a mix hardship and non-hardship assignments. Considering individual, organizational, broader environmental domains, using conservation resources theory, we what contributes to such expatriates’ career satisfaction. Based on survey data, find that satisfaction is influenced by views how their assignme...