The recent focus on diversity in themanagement literature takes on special urgency in the context of human services organizations. Human services organizations have traditionally served a wide array of communities with a high representation of diverse, disadvantaged, and oppressed groups. This diversity has not typically been mirrored in the workforce of those organizations. A recent study of a...

Organisms' lifespans are modulated by both genetic and environmental factors. The lifespan of eusocial insects is determined by features of the division of labor, which itself is influenced by social regulatory mechanisms. In the honey bee, Apis mellifera, the presence of brood and of old workers carrying out foraging tasks are important social drivers of ageing, but the influence of young adul...

The aim of this article is, through a review of literature methodology, to debate, discuss and form discourses on how social work achieves women empowerment paradigms in a few countries of the developing part of the world. Findings indicate that social work enjoys some policy global support from social work global bodies such as International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW), International A...

Workers’ compensation is the oldest social insurance program in the United States. The first law was passed in 1908 to provide cash and medical benefits for workrelated disability and death. This program now consists of 50 independent State operations and several Federal programs. The experience under workers’ compensation is of considerable importance to the Social Security Administration beca...

The construction industry has been recognized, for many years, as among those having a high likelihood of accidents, injuries and occupational illnesses. Such risks of construction workers can lead to low productivity and social problems. As a result, construction workers' well-being should be highly addressed to improve construction workers' efficiency and productivity. Meanwhile, the social s...

background: social desirability may affect different aspects of people’s quality of life. one of the impressive dimensions of quality of life is mental health. the prevalence of minor psychiatric disorders (mpd) among health care workers is higher than other health workers. this article aims at evaluating the relationship between social desirability and mpd among nurses in southern iran. method...

Social class standardisation has been proposed as a method for separating the effects of occupation and "social" or "lifestyle" factors in epidemiological studies, by comparing workers in a particular occupation with other workers in the same social class. The validity of this method rests upon two assumptions: (1) that social factors have the same effect in all occupational groups in the same ...

After a large-scale natural disaster, demand for social welfare services increases, and the mental health of local social welfare workers becomes a matter of great concern because of their dual role as support providers and disaster survivors. We examined whether work-related social stressors, including criticism by community people and poor workplace communication, were associated with increas...