PURPOSE Most research on the work conditions and family responsibilities associated with work-family conflict and other measures of mental health uses the individual employee as the unit of analysis. We argue that work conditions are both individual psychosocial assessments and objective characteristics of the proximal work environment, necessitating multilevel analyses of both individual- and ...

OBJECTIVES This study of Japanese dual-earner couples examined the impact of family and job demands on one's own and one's partner's fatigue as well as gender differences in these effects. METHODS A total of 2,502 parents (1,251 couples) were surveyed using a self-administered questionnaire. A crossover model was tested using structural equation modeling. RESULTS The results of structural e...

AIMS To investigate the mediating effect of work-to-family conflict on the relationship between job satisfaction and turnover intention among licensed nurses in long-term care settings. BACKGROUND The considerable research on turnover in long-term care has primarily focused on the impact of job satisfaction on turnover intention. Given the well-documented high turnover rate in nursing home st...

in recent years, performance gap between private and public sector has affected researchers of public administration to pay attention to the concept of public service motivation. present research has been accomplished aiming at improving public service motivation among employees of public sector and is intended to identify effective factors on public service motivation. for this reason, 196 peo...

We consider the problem of scheduling heterogeneous batch processor under the conditions non-identical job sizes, dynamic job arrivals and incompatible job families. The problem studied in this paper is motivated by heat-treatment operations in the pre-casting stage of steel casting manufacturing. We proposed a few heuristic algorithms with maximizing the average utilization of batch processors...

Despite previous studies on job satisfaction and its antecedents, few studies have explored the interrelationships between role conflict, work-family conflict and job satisfaction. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of role conflict on job satisfaction, with work-family conflict as a potential mediator. Data were gathered from 159 Malaysian single mother employees, aged 45 and...

Psychological detachment from work, an off-job experience of "switching off" mentally, seems to be crucial for promoting employee's well-being. Previous studies on predictors of psychological detachment mainly focused on job-related factors, and only a few studies focused on family-related and personal factors. This study focuses not only on job-related factors (job demands, job control, workpl...

the primary aim of current study research was to investigate the relationship of work-family conflict with perceived organizational support, job stress and self-mastery in expatriate personnel in distriction of gaz transition operation station . 75 people was selected by stratified random sampling. 66 questionnaire were filled out and were returned to the researchers.(return rate=82%). the resu...

Two countable lters on ! are incompatible if they have no common innnite pseudo-intersection. Letting a(P f) denote the minimal size of a maximal uncountable family of pairwise incompatible countable lters on !, we prove the consistency of t < a(P f).