Prospective research on psychosocial effects on employees' health associated with organizational mergers has been scarce. The first aim of this study was to explore the subjective health effects (exhaustion and functional incapacity) of an organizational merger among employees who had experienced a change in their own job position differently (improved, unaltered, and declined). Secondly, the e...

PURPOSE The purpose of this work was to examine how structural factors, residents' needs for physical and psychosocial assistance, and the work stressors experienced by employees are related to the quality of life of elderly residents in long-term care. DESIGN AND METHODS Cross-sectional survey data were collected from 1,194 employees and 1,079 relatives of residents in 107 residential-home u...

Many SMEs are implementing lean production in collaboration with a business support agency in order to improve their competitiveness. This research investigated whether improvement initiatives had the intended effect in some companies. A questionnaire was answered by employees in 26 SMEs. The result indicated experienced effect concerning leadership, communication and employee commitment, areas...

conclusions lack of supervisor support can result in psychological distress leading to symptoms experienced by the employees. results the results showed that there was a significant internal correlation between supervisor support with physical symptoms and psychological distress (p < 0.05). regression analysis indicated that supervisor support significantly reduced the effect of psychological d...

Absenteeism associated with accumulated job demands is a ubiquitous problem. We build on prior research on the benefits of counteracting job demands with resources by focusing on a still untapped resource for buffering job demands-that of strengths use. We test the idea that employees who are actively encouraged to utilize their personal strengths on the job are better positioned to cope with j...

Hairdressers are known commonly to suffer work-related skin problems. To explore the steps taken by employers and employees to prevent or control such problems, we visited 12 randomly selected high street hairdressing establishments in North Wiltshire and interviewed the proprietors and 43 of the employees by means of structured questionnaires. Relatively few of the establishments had taken any...

The role of worry, regret, and perceived risk in preventive health decisions was explored in a longitudinal questionnaire study on influenza vaccination among 428 university employees. The study yielded 3 main findings. First, ratings of anticipated worry and regret were stronger predictors of vaccination than perceived risk and mediated the effect of risk on vaccination. Second, the anticipate...

Ideal working hours are 8 a day or 40 week but the On Call work system exceeds this requirement. One of jobs that do is service in hospitals. Employees on call tend to arrive late due various factors including fatigue. This study aims determine effect Work System Fatigue Tanah Grogot Hospital Employees. used Quasi-Experimental Design with one-way simple randomized design. The results showed the...