the need to develop the required human resources in the tourism industry has become imperative as a consequence of rapidly changing technology and dynamic changes in the international tourism market. and in this regard the role and commitment of the top management towards developing the human resources cannot be undermined. a study has been conducted to assess the perception of the top manageme...

In a test for learned helplessness, hippocampectomized rats, cortical controls and unoperated controls were given shock-escape training after being subjected to a series of noncontingent shocks. During these preshock treat!llents, the ~ame amount of gross body activity was elicited in all three groups. Compared to rats that dId not receIve the preshock treatments, all the preshocked animals per...

conclusions knowledge, attitude and performance of the communication skills of health staff are improper and it would lead to not using the communication skills to establish perfect communication with patients, so it seems that it is necessary to make the training courses during the service for health staff about communication skills and observing on performing the acquired skills. patients and...

Adequate training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and use of an automated external defibrillator (AED) is an important component of a workplace safety training program. Barriers to traditional in-classroom CPR-AED training programs include time away from work to complete training, logistics, learner discomfort over being in a classroom setting, and instructors who include information irr...

BACKGROUND Exposure to job stress causes deleterious effects on physical and mental health of employees and productivity of organizations. OBJECTIVE To study work-related stressors among employees of prisons of Ilam, western Iran. METHODS In a cross-sectional study conducted from July to October 2013, 177 employees of Ilam prisons and security-corrective measures organization were enrolled ...

The concept of learned helplessness is the idea that people learn to give up on themselves after experiencing failure or disappointment. These individuals develop the mentality that change is not possible and the emotion of powerless overcomes them. Many patients seen in the healthcare settings today display this type of attitude or demeanor. Assessing and treating are key notions to dealing wi...

This paper presents research that assessed the Information Security Awareness (ISA) of employees of an Australian bank and compared these results with an identical survey of the Australian general workforce. The objective of this study was to establish a form of construct validity, specifically known-groups validity, of the Human Aspects of Information Security Questionnaire (HAIS-Q). For the p...

BACKGROUND The associations between socioeconomic status (SES), physical and psychosocial workload and health are well documented. According to The Cognitive Activation Theory of Stress (CATS), learned response outcome expectancies (coping, helplessness, and hopelessness) are also important contributors to health. This is in part as independent factors for health, but coping may also function a...