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In this paper, we give a narrative account of the building and sustaining of a multi-organization practice-based research community (IndustryConnect). We begin with an examination of the motivations and theoretical foundations for the initiative, which brings together researchers and practitioners to investigate the design of the digital workplace and the use of enterprise collaboration systems...

Medical errors became a common topic of conversation with the release of the Institute of Medicine's "To Err Is Human" in November of 1999. This release reported that as many as 98,000 people die each year from inpatient medical errors. Putting this into perspective, deaths from medical errors surpassed deaths from breast cancer, motor vehicle accidents, and AIDS. Furthermore, medication errors...

Safety is a priority at Elon University. All of us work to provide a safe, healthy environment for students, but it is equally important that we keep Elon University safe as a workplace. Safety is an individual responsibility. If each one of us is careful in his or her actions and changes those conditions that might be unsafe, most accidents will be prevented. The keys to a fine safety record a...

This study examined the relationship between workplace ostracism, psychological capital, job performance, job stress and turnover intention. With two waves survey (N= 229 paired responses) of full time employee working in different organizations of Pakistan, present research examined the relationship of workplace ostracism with job outcomes (job performance, job stress and turnover intention) b...

The study of workplace spirituality is a relatively new area in the field of organizational theory. Although interest in the topic has grown significantly over the last 10 years, many of the traditional research methods are not well suited to study workplace spirituality at the organizational level. We propose that sensemaking offers a useful heuristic for understanding the process of instituti...

We study the effect of firing threats in a virtual workplace that reproduces features of existing organizations. We show that organizations in which bosses can fire up to one third of their workforce produce twice as much as organizations for which firing is not possible. Firing threats sharply decrease on-the-job leisure. Nevertheless, organizations endowed with firing threats underperformed t...

The main idea of this research is to understand and evaluate the working conditions subjected to the rolling stockers of the Islamic republic of Iran railway to reduce the accidents and expenses in order to increase the productivity of the Iranian railway Industry. The problems due to productivity, job satisfaction and work safety have direct relation with the working design. A well-designed wo...