OBJECTIVE To better understand the combined influence of employee engagement, health behavior, and physical health on job performance and absenteeism. METHODS Analyses were based on 20,114 employees who completed the Healthways Well-Being Assessment from 2008 to 2010. Employees represented three geographically dispersed companies in the United States. RESULTS Employee engagement, health beh...

BACKGROUND Job stress is one of the important issues in the health sector and its high effect on workers' productivity. Managerial skills can help organizations to improve employees' effectiveness and reduce job stress. The present study investigated the relationship between employees' job stress and managers' professional skills. METHODS This cross-sectional and correlation study was conduct...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether job crafting and work enjoyment could explain the well-established relationship between self-efficacy and job performance. The authors hypothesized that employees would be most likely to engage in proactive job crafting behaviors on the days when they feel most self-efficacious. Daily job crafting, in turn, was expected to relate to dail...

This paper investigates the role of personality and system-related advice networks in influencing employee job performance in the context of enterprise system implementations. A field study of 87 employees in a large multinational telecommunications firm provided evidence that the big five personality traits influence centrality and density in the advice networks related to the newly-implemente...

We propose a model of job passion that links two types of passion, harmonious and obsessive passion, to employees’ work performance, via the mediating mechanism of cognitive engagement (comprising attention and absorption). Results from a survey conducted with 509 employees from an insurance firm indicate that employees with harmonious passion performed better at work, and that this relationshi...

The objective of this study was to investigate the impact of job design on employees’ performance in the school of Kalmunai Zone in Sri Lanka and which factors of job design highly influence on employees’ performance in the organizations. To analyze this condition, one hypothesis was formulated using deductive approach. The study was conducted by using a random sample of five school in Kalmunai...

today, the human resources are the assets of any organization and their unique role in the development of the organization, whether indoor or outdoor environment and competition is evident. on the other hand, if an organization fails to satisfy its human resources, in this case it would be doomed to stay away from progress and development. in this context, organizations using hrm tools can keep...

personality-job fit is an important issue in human resources management literature and human resources planning. however, the issue has attracted less attention by itself in iranian organizations. people have been employed in organizational jobs based on skill, experience, or education by no attention to their personality. current study tries to study the effect of personality-job on employee’s...

Using 1996 surveyed data of 1,023 employees in Shenzhen, China, this study estimated the effects of three forms of human capital on employee salary, namely formal education, on-the-job training provided by employers, and adult education pursued by employees. Using a hierarchical linear model, the analysis estimated employee monthly salary growth over a maximum of six years due to (a) such tempo...