BACKGROUND Mental health disorders and depression are pervasive and costly problems for workplaces. The aim of this study was to examine the general health and depression in temporary employees and the effect of educational intervention on general health and depression in temporary employees in Isfahan steel company. METHODS A quasi-experimental design was used to examine the effect of interv...

Information security has adapted to the modern collaborative organisational nature, and abandoned “command-andcontrol” approaches of the past. But when it comes to managing employee’s information security behaviour, many organisations still use policies proscribing behaviour and sanctioning non-compliance. Whilst many organisations are aware that this “comply or die” approach does not work for ...

This paper describes a meta-design approach to the development of online services for citizens of a government agency. The goal is to transfer the development of government-tocitizen services from professional software developers to administrative employees, without forcing employees to acquire any programming skills. The approach encompasses two main phases. The first phase analyzes the differ...

The objectives of this paper are five-folds, namely (a) to investigate the awareness of management and employees about restructuring exercise, (b) to analyze whether the organizational restructuring has any impact on the employees’ performance and motivation at the Company, (c) to identify whether employees’ attitude will influence their motivation and job performance towards organizational res...

This study seeks to provide a more comprehensive understanding of how leaders with coaching skills can affect an individual’s turnover intention through the mediating role happiness. The sample includes 271 individuals from diverse organizations. Based on survey, employees assessed their leaders’ and reported own happiness intention. findings demonstrate that have negative impact employees’ pos...

The software development industry spends more than half of its budget on maintenance related activities. Software testing provides a means to reduce errors, cut maintenance and overall software costs. Given the importance of software testing it is surprising that there is very little emphasis on formal software testing education. This suggests that most software testers are then either self-tau...