There's no question that employers can no longer ignore mental health issues. Compassion and support for employees aside, it is simply good business to protect the mental health and productivity of employees. This article describes existing challenges surrounding employees with mental disorders: the link between mental disorders, disability and an employee's ability to return to work; best prac...

This research aims to identify the relationship between Job Satisfaction, Psychological Well-being and Perceived Organizational Support amongst prison officials. 190 employees working in state facilities and privately-run prisons were evaluated using theS10/12 Job Satisfaction Form 1, the Psychological Well-being Scale 2 and the Scale of Perceived Organizational Support 3. Main results depict a...

Successful healthcare organizations have many ways to motivate and inspire their employees: Hire the right people. Communicate clearly and regularly to all employees. Encourage and support education and training. Reward and celebrate successes.

Non-IT organizations increasingly rely on IT to achieve both operational excellence and strategic competitiveness. IT employees play pivotal roles in helping non-IT organizations realize the potential of IT. Yet, the turnover culture within the IT profession has posed challenges to organizations. How to effectively manage and retain IT human capital has become a critical issue. The current stud...

This research was conducted to examine the mediating effect of perceived social support between perceived stress and job satisfaction among employees. A conveniently selected sample of 280 employees provided the information on Perceived Social Support Scale, Perceived Stress Scale, and Job Satisfaction Survey. Employing Regression analyses, findings revealed the significant negative effect of p...

Workplace learning is an important means of employees’ continuous learning and professional development. E-learning is being recognized as an important supportive practice for learning at work. Current research on the success factors of e-learning in the workplace has emphasized on employees’ characteristics, technological attributes, and training design elements, with little attention to workp...

Why do employees who experience abusive supervision retaliate against the organization? We apply organizational support theory to propose that employees hold the organization partly responsible for abusive supervision. Depending on the extent to which employees identify the supervisor with the organization (i.e., supervisor's organizational embodiment), we expected abusive supervision to be ass...

The construction industry is a demanding work environment where employees' work-family conflict is particularly prominent. This conflict has a significant impact on job and family satisfaction and performance of employees. In order to analyze the dynamic evolution of construction industry employee's work-family conflict between work and family domains, this paper constructs a bi-directional dyn...

Employees’ non-malicious counterproductive computer security behaviors (CCSB) at work could put organizations’ information-related assets at risk, if unchecked. Using concepts from the social cognitive and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) theoretical frameworks, this study examined the effects of observational learning/modeling, social support, and OCB (i.e., helping behaviors and civi...