Purpose – The aim of this paper was to investigate the role of perceived organizational support (POS) for employee risk-taking through its association with greater trust among supervisors and subordinates that the organization will take into account the individual’s intent to be helpful in the case of failure (failure-related trust). Design/methodology/approach – Data were obtained from 346 emp...

Background: Application of technology for education accounts for an important aspect of expansion of the information technology in the present century. Objectives: This study aims to examine the degree of readiness of the faculty member of Zanjan University of Medical Sciences for e-Teaching. Methods: This descriptive-cross-sectional study focused on the degree of readiness of 70 faculty memb...

Background: Job performance is one of the most fundamental concepts in organizations, based on which, the responsibilities and success of each individual in the organization are formed.  The main objective of the current study was to investigate the mediating role of perceived organizational support in the relationship between sense of coherence (SOC) and professional ethics, and the job perfor...

This study examined associations between work-stress, perceived organizational support, supervisor support, staff health (i.e., psychological stress, anxiety, depression, fatigue), and work outcomes (i.e., turnover intentions, organizational commitment, job satisfaction). A heterogeneous sample of 201 office staff recruited via email and snowball sampling completed a short anonymous online surv...

Increasing use of online social network sites by organizations and their growing tendencies to establish an intraorganizational social network necessitates academic attention as to how these social networks can affect organizational outcomes. To fill this gap by a margin, this paper will theorize and propose ways in which corporate social networks are able to affect the perceived organizational...