Job involvement was considered very important in the previous literature for increasing the performance of the employees. It is hypothesized that involved employees exert considerable efforts for achieving the goals and objectives of the organization. These kinds of employees are highly productive and produce better results as compare to the employees who are not involved with their job. These ...

This large-scale study analyses the influence of co-ordination and trust problems on employees’ access to weekly home-based teleworking from a combined perspective of transaction-cost theory and new economic-sociology. Access is more likely when additional co-ordination and control problems are smaller. Indicators of the so-called ‘telework-risk’ are ‘time sovereignty’, ‘job autonomy’, ‘job int...

Low-carbon logistics meets the requirements of a low-carbon economy and is the most effective operating model for logistic development to achieve sustainability by coping with severe energy consumption and global warming. Low-carbon logistics aims to reduce carbon intensity rather than simply reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions. Human resources are an important part of the great comp...

introduction: organ donation is one of the surviving procedures which can increase the life expectancy of end-stage patients. inappropriate beliefs and attitude of individuals to organ donation, their poor knowledge, and the socio-economic level are one of the most important barriers for organ donation. therefore, here knowledge and attitude levels among relatives of trauma patients regarding o...

construction is one of the most hazardous workplaces in all around the world. awareness about workers’ attitude towards safety could be helpful in anticipating the workers' behavior. the aims of this study were to determine both the tunneling workers' safety attitude and the relationship between workers' attitude towards safety and occupational accidents. in this cross-sectional study performed...

Employees’ attitude towards his/her job differs across organization’s sector. The present study aimed to find out the differences in employee’s attitude in public and private sector. For this purpose, managers’ reward power and coercive power were taken as independent variables and their impact on employees’ job satisfaction (dependent variable) was examined in both sectors. Sample of 130 respo...

Job satisfaction is positive and pleasant attitude of an employee for his job. Job satisfaction is the feelings of effective responses of individual towards his job. Definition of Job satisfaction is different for different teachers. Teacher possesses powerful influence in the formation of student’s character for future citizen. If teachers are not satisfied then it may lead to absenteeism. The...

Because unemployment negatively affects people's well-being, it is of crucial importance that unemployed individuals move back to work. The process of getting reemployed, however, is difficult and complex. Therefore, many unemployed job seekers are assisted by employment counselors. The present study focuses on motivating and hindering factors in the reemployment process, examining the added va...

This paper examines financial professionals’ overconfidence in their forecasting performance. We are the first to compare individual financial professionals’ self-ratings with their true forecasting performance. Data spans several years at monthly frequency. The forecasters in our sample do not provide feasible self-ratings compared to their true performance but show overconfidence on average. ...