Core self-evaluations (CSE) might account for relative gains in job resources across time, especially in situations when these individual differences affect behavior that is relevant for development of job resources. This longitudinal study tests CSE as an individual resource that predicts relative gain in job resources and job satisfaction among job beginners who change or stay with their empl...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have found a relationship between job-related stress and depressive symptoms in different occupational groups, and that personality may modify the risk of developing depressive symptoms. We aimed to examine the association of personality and other individual and work conditions with depressive symptoms. SUBJECTS AND METHOD A sample of 498 teachers answered a questi...

Need for this paper arises for studying and analyzing the system of training need identification and actual training programme that are conducted for the teachers of higher professional education. We all must be aware that the world surrounding us is changing at a very fast pace which makes it necessary for us to keep our self updated with it.. Need for training arises not because we start losi...

This research investigates how changes in job scope resulting from the implementation of technology influence key job outcomes in the workplace. Based on a 12-month field study of 2,794 employees in a telecommunications firm, we found that the changes between preand post-technology implementation perceptions of job scope brought about by new information technology implementation have a complex,...

The job shop problem is an important part of scheduling in the manufacturing industry. A new intelligent algorithm named Shuffled Complex Evolution (SCE) algorithm is proposed in this paper with the aim of getting the minimized makespan. The sequence mapping mechanism is used to change the variables in the continuous domain to discrete variables in the combinational optimization problem; the se...

Transnational family literature has established that parent-child separations affect negatively on the emotional well-being of migrant parents. Less attention has been paid to other effects separation can have on these parents' lives. Building on insights from transnational family studies and organizational psychology, this article explores the potential link between transnational family life a...

health of organization’s employees is dependent on psychosocial factors such as job stress, considerably. job stress is related to the low quality of life, job burnout, increasing the risk of accidents and work–related injuries and cause job change and early retirement of employees. this study aimed to evaluate employees’ job stress in an industry as well as to assess its relationship by person...

BACKGROUND Increasing demands on general practice to manage chronic disease may warrant organisational change at the practice level. Staff's readiness for organisational change can act as a facilitator or barrier to implementing interventions aimed at organisational change. OBJECTIVES To explore general practice staff readiness for organisational change and its association with staff and prac...

Using the 1957-2004 data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, we explore the effect of job authority in 1993 (at age 54) on the change in depressive symptoms between 1993 and 2004 (age 65) among white men and women. Within-gender comparisons indicate that women with job authority (defined as control over others' work) exhibit more depressive symptoms than women without job authority, whereas ...