Successful healthcare organizations have many ways to motivate and inspire their employees: Hire the right people. Communicate clearly and regularly to all employees. Encourage and support education and training. Reward and celebrate successes.

PURPOSE To measure overall retention of junior faculty and evaluate the effects of a junior faculty development program on the retention of junior faculty at one institution. METHOD Quantitative survival analysis techniques were used to characterize retention of all new assistant professors hired at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine for 18 years between July 19...

A case-control study of bladder cancer was conducted in five United States rubber and tyre companies to determine if there were high-risk jobs and work areas within the industry. The study included 220 male cases of bladder cancer, of whom 107 were identified from hospital record reviews and 113 from death certificates. Each case was matched individually with two industry controls by sex, race,...

BACKGROUND Previous studies of nickel workers have primarily noted significant early increases in lung and nasal cancers and for various types of accidents. AIMS To examine cancer incidence and mortality, concurrently, for a cohort of male nickel workers at a major nickel and copper producer in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. METHODS From January 1964 to December 2001, nominal roll and work histo...

Gender segregation of jobs plays a central role in current research on gender and labor markets, and understanding the mechanisms driving the gender segregation has become a key focus of study. While the literature on gender segregation of jobs often invoke gender sorting mechanisms that operate pre-hire, the data that are used to empirically examine these processes are almost always collected ...

OBJECTIVES Sickness absence in workplaces may reflect working conditions. It may also reflect a "healthy hire effect," i.e., that workplaces recruit individuals with experience of sickness absence differently. The purpose of the study was to determine if a history of sickness absence among recruits is associated with the average level of sickness absence in workplaces. MATERIAL AND METHODS In...

Employers' negative attitudes and fears have long been a barrier to the employment of individuals with disabilities Accordingly, attitude literature on the employment of people with disabilities has focused almost exclusively on employers However, due to their influence over business practices, the successful employment of people with disabilities is also contingent on the views of the consumer...