BACKGROUND Recent evidence shows that workers in white collar roles consume more alcohol than other groups within the workforce, yet little is known about their views of drinking. METHODS Focus groups were conducted in five workplaces to examine the views of white collar workers regarding the effect of alcohol use on personal and professional lives, drinking patterns and perceived norms. Anal...

In a study of 2387 employed women who had worked for more than three months of their pregnancy the data were extracted from a survey carried out on a national sample of births in France in 1981. Manual, service and shop workers had a higher preterm delivery rate than professional, administrative, or clerical workers. Assembly line work was associated with a higher preterm delivery rate even whe...

The history of professionally quali®ed accountants and their regulatory processes command considerable attention in the academic accounting literature. In contrast, ``non-quali®ed'', clerical employees have been virtually excluded from serious accounting research. This paper aims to overcome this serious de®ciency in the academic literature. The framework used in the paper to analyse the work p...

OBJECTIVES The boom in computer use and concurrent high rates in musculoskeletal complaints and carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) among users have led to a controversy about a possible link. Most studies have used cross-sectional designs and shown no association. The present study used longitudinal data from two large complementary cohorts to evaluate a possible relationship between CTS and the perf...

by Joseph Bondar* Effective December 1989, Social Security beneficiaries received a 4.7 percent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in their benefit payments. This increase, which was reflected in the checks issued on January 3, 1990, was the highest since the June 1982 increase of 7.4 percent. The January benefit checks to 39.2 million Social Security beneficiaries totaled $934 million more than ...

Drawing on human capital theory, our study examines the relationship between international work experience and individuals' career success in terms of promotions subjective financial success. We propose that these relationships are mediated by external employability hypothesise a moderating role national-level economic freedom. Using data from 19,421 respondents, residing 30 countries working d...

This article describes a program of research designed to yield a conceptually grounded, psychometrically sound instrument for assessing the incidence and prevalence of sexual harassment in the workplace. Following the specification of a theoretical framework that is consistent with both legal guidelines and psychological research, we review the development and evaluation of a three-dimensional ...