This study examines the extent to which employee judgments about distributive and procedural justice predict job satisfaction, intent to stay and evaluation of supervision in Hong Kong. Distributive and procedural justice each plays a role in determining work outcomes of Hong Kong employees. However, some effects of these justice variables differ from results of previous studies in the United S...

Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce, Productivity and Profits: Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises This empirical paper documents the relationship between composition of a firm’s workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germ...

BACKGROUND Occupational class differences in body mass index (BMI) have been systematically reported in developed countries, but the studies have mainly focused on white populations consuming a Westernized diet. We compared occupational class differences in BMI and BMI change in Japan and Finland. METHODS The baseline surveys were conducted during 1998-1999 among Japanese (n = 4080) and durin...

The current paper examines antecedents and consequences of perceiving conflict between gender and work identities in male-dominated professions. In a study among 657 employees working in 85 teams in the police force, we investigated the effect of being different from team members in terms of gender on employees' perception that their team members see their gender identity as conflicting with th...

BACKGROUND The metabolic syndrome is a clustering of metabolic abnormalities and has been associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome among employees in Northeast China. METHODS Totally, 33,149 employees who received health screening in the International Health Promotion Center in ...

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between quality of life, anxiety and job satisfaction in women employees in Ray zone in Tehran welfare organization. In this research, participants were asked to answer which of the variables of quality of life and job satisfaction is a strong predictor for anxiety. The population of the study consisted of all female employees in Tehran ...

We conducted a survey of 1,184 women 35 years of age or older who were employees of a company in Los Angeles County, California, to determine why some women participated in a worksite mammography screening program whereas others did not. Of the 111 who accepted a mammogram, 90 responded to the survey; of the 1,073 who declined mammography, 620 responded. The women were predominantly white, were...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To investigate the impact of employees' worktime control on health, taking into account other aspects of job control. DESIGN Analysis of questionnaire data in 1997 and register data on sickness absence during 1996-1998. SETTING Eight towns in Finland. PARTICIPANTS 6442 municipal employees (1490 men and 4952 women) representing the staff of the towns studied. Follow up was ...

This study assessed the working and family life characteristics, and the degree of domestic and work strain of female workers with different employment statuses and weekly working hours who are rearing children. Participants were the mothers of preschoolers in a large Japanese city. We classified the women into three groups according to the hours they worked and their employment conditions. The...

OBJECTIVES Young adults entering employment are a key group in extending work careers, but there is a lack of research on trends in work ability among young employees. Prolonged sickness absence (SA) constitutes a risk for permanent work disability. We examined 12-year trends in SA spells among young female and male municipal employees. METHODS The data were obtained from the employers' regis...