Background. Nowadays, employees' use of social networks at the workplace is increasing, which creates opportunities and challenges. Objectives. The current study aimed at investigating the negative consequences of the use of social networks at the workplace from the viewpoint of the employees of the sports and youth departments. Methods. The current descriptive survey was conducted on Golesta...

The aim of this study is to elaborate a tool, the “Naples-Questionnaire of Work Distress” (nQ-WD), in order to evaluate the conditions of discomfort perceived in the working field. It tries to differentiate the dysfunctional phenomena more tied to the anomalies of the interpersonal relationships (bullying at workplace) from the phenomena more clearly related to organizational dysfunctions. The ...

The nervous system is vulnerable to the effects of certain chemicals and physical conditions found in the work environment. The activities of an occupational neurologist focus on the evaluation of patients with neurological disorders caused by occupational or environmental conditions. When one is making a differential diagnosis in patients with neurological disorders, the possibility of toxic e...

In Sweden 13% of the general adult population (16-84 years), with or without hearing aids (HAs), report that they have difficulties following a conversation when more than two people are involved. This means that more than one million people in Sweden (9 500 000 inhabitants in total) report subjective hearing difficulties. Observations further indicate that that people with hearing impairment (...

Despite growing academic and practical concerns about IT-transformed workplaces, little research empirically investigates these concerns. This paper adopts a unique approach to address these concerns by evaluating the appropriateness of traditional drivers of career salience in high IT working environments. Building on established measures of role stress, participation in decision making, job i...

Advancements in communication technologies change the way we interact with each other significantly, making distance less of an issue for keeping in touch and collaborating with others. However, they can also take away social elements such as the feeling of closeness in an interaction, making it important to examine the effects that these technologies (the virtual workplace, smart phones and ub...

In this paper we fuse HRM and KM perspectives in order to explore the detrimental impact of age discrimination or “ageism” prevalent in UK organizations on the development of social capital, considered to be so vital for improved organizational performance in knowledge-based economies. We discuss the potential impact of new age discrimination legislation in the UK in overcoming ageism, highligh...