This Meta analysis summarizes the results of existing studies on employee perception of appraisals’ fairness and justice, leading to employees’ satisfaction with the appraisal system and the appraisal ratings, under different cultural context. The study reveals that an appraisal system having an appropriate appeal procedure, dual purpose and employees’ participation in its design generally has ...

THE PURPOSE OF THIS RESEARCH WAS TO DETERMINE BARRIERS THAT PREVENT PARTICIPATION IN AN EMPLOYEE WELLNESS PROGRAM, WELLNESS WEDNESDAYS: "Eat & Meet" About Healthy Living, conducted at East Carolina University (ECU) in Greenville, North Carolina. All ECU ARAMARK employees (n = 481) over the age of 18 were eligible to participate in the wellness program. Weekly 30 minute classes, taught by a Regi...

safety performance is the overall performance of the organization safety management system in the operational system of safety. in the present study, the components of safety performance included visible management leadership, employee participation, training, inspection, implementation tools, and maintenance. the objectives of this study were to assess safety performance, and to analyze differ...

Using longitudinal data of IT professionals’ activities in the SAP Community Network, and the career histories of these professionals, obtained from LinkedIn, we investigate the relationship between an individual’s participation in Internet-enabled open knowledge communities and a major event of her career development: job-hopping. We measure individual participation in open knowledge communiti...

This article leverages existing data on wellness programs to explore patterns of wellness program availability, employers' use of incentives, and program participation and utilization among employees. Researchers used two sets of data for this project: The first included data from the 2012 RAND Employer Survey, which used a nationally representative sample of U.S. employers that had detailed in...

In this paper, we develop a model of the engaged organization, which shows how human capital can interact with social and green capital to influence organizational outcomes, particularly labor productivity. We argue that engaged organizations, that facilitate knowledge sharing and learning, employee motivation and commitment to the organization, can demonstrate increased labor productivity. We ...

This article examines the role of trade unions in the health service at workplace level under the Labour government’s modernisation agenda, and focuses on the shifting balance between forms of direct and indirect participation drawing on case studies of three acute hospital trusts. There has been a strong growth in forms of direct communication within the case study trusts and some increase in ...

We conducted a survey of 1,184 women 35 years of age or older who were employees of a company in Los Angeles County, California, to determine why some women participated in a worksite mammography screening program whereas others did not. Of the 111 who accepted a mammogram, 90 responded to the survey; of the 1,073 who declined mammography, 620 responded. The women were predominantly white, were...