What are the different perceptions on safety climate (SC) by workers and managers/supervisors engaged in construction industry of developing countries? Reconciling these two differing views is pivotal for mitigating avoiding both injured fatal accidents industry, especially those countries where conditions poor unpredictable, measures inadequate most cases. To answer this research question, col...

PURPOSE To examine the case management and disaster recovery needs of individuals with disabilities following Hurricane Katrina. The case managers and supervisors in this study provided case management to individuals with disabilities as part of the largest coordinated disaster case management program in U.S. history, the Katrina Aid Today consortium. This study provides an account of the disas...

Performance pay, at least as usually understand, is no good idea for non-executive directors. They have to supervise and control or in some situations even to fire and replace the executive managers. This means that their performance as supervisors is totally different from the performance of the supervised executive managers and even the company at large. Moreover, they are mostly interested i...

This field study examines whether and how supervisors’ subjective adjustments to objective performance measures are influenced by their prior subjective evaluations of employees. Evaluations were determined entirely subjectively in the sample internal audit organization in 2005. In 2006, the organization introduced a pay-for-performance incentive plan that established four objective measures of...

introduction: the healthcare sector is one of the areas affected by information technology (it). due to the importance of it in hospitals and factors affecting its use, the present study was conducted to investigate the human factors affecting the use of it among managers of university hospitals in shiraz, iran. methods: this applied and analytic study was conducted in 2014 in 7 university hosp...

Sex Differences in Managerial Style: From Individual Leadership to Organisational Labour Relationships This paper deals with sex differences in managerial behaviour, by testing the extent to which such differences match those expected from gender stereotypes. Unlike previous research on the topic, always based on opinions about individual managers, this investigation uses firm-level evidence fr...

This paper reports what appears to be the first longitudinal test of the famous ‘Whitehall’ hypothesis that greater job status makes a person healthier. With one exception, the theory is not supported. First, we show that managers and supervisors are healthier before being promoted. Second, promotees exhibit almost no discernible health improvement after their promotion. Third, those who become...

one of the increasingly important organizational considerations involves occupational health and staff safety. hence, it is crucial for the managers to identify the key organizational factors contributing to reduce work-related accidents. this study was conducted on 340 workers, employees, experts, supervisors, directors, and managers. the data evaluation involved a questionnaire while the anal...