OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine the efficacy of a multimodal hand hygiene intervention program in reducing health care insurance claims for hygiene preventable infections (eg, cold and influenza), absenteeism, and subjective impact on employees. METHODS A 13.5-month prospective, randomized cluster controlled trial was executed with alcohol-based hand sanitizer in strategic wo...

To investigate the link between the impostor phenomenon (IP), career self-management (CSM) factors, and work-relevant outcomes, we looked at the IP's impact on career optimism, career adaptability, and knowledge of the job market, as well as on employee- and organizationally-relevant outcomes. We analyzed data from 238 working professionals (57% female) using parallel multiple mediation analyse...

Title: AN ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE PERSPECTIVE ON ROLE EMERGENCE AND ROLE ENACTMENT Sophia V. Marinova, Doctor of Philosophy, 2005 Directed By: Professor Paul E. Tesluk, Department of Management and Organization Organizational culture has received ample attention both in the popular and scholarly press as an important factor predicting organizational effectiveness by inducing employees to behave ...

We present a hidden Markov model for collaborative filtering of implicit ratings when the ratings have been generated by a set of changing user preferences. Most of the works in the collaborative filtering and recommender systems literature have been developed under the assumption that user preference is a static pattern. However, we show by analyzing a dataset on employees’ blog reading behavi...

This paper deals with the question of how intranets impact on employee perception and behavior. The study uses a five year longitudinal study following the evolution of an intranet in a UK bank to analyze how it changed the relationships between employees and between managers and employees. The discussion integrates two different research domains, the intranet literature and the organizational ...

This study examined the relationships between employee perceptions of organizational justice and trust and employee antisocial organizational behavior and communication. Participants from organizations representing two geographic regions were surveyed regarding their most recent performance appraisal. Results indicated that perceptions of justice and trust negatively predicted indirect interper...

Are prices procyclical? For many economists, they clearly are. As Lucas (1976, 104) put it, “The fact that nominal prices and wages tend to rise more rapidly at the peak of the business cycle than they do in the trough has been well recognized from the time when the cycle was first perceived as a distinct phenomenon.” More recently, however, other researchers have challenged the prevailing view...

Employee empowerment and organizational citizenship behavior have very important roles in the process of accomplishment and continuous development of organizational performance. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to determine the relationship between these two variables in employees of Qom province pedagogical organization. Ninety nine statistical samples were selected from the populatio...

Social exchange (P. Blau, 1964) and the norm of reciprocity (A. W. Gouldner, 1960) have been used to explain the relationship of perceived organizational support and leader-member exchange with employee attitudes and behavior. Recent empirical research suggests that individuals engage in different reciprocation efforts depending on the exchange partner (e.g., B. L. McNeely & B. M. Meglino, 1994...