The present study was conducted on the sample of 50 workers employed in open cast mines of BCCL, Dhanbad (INDIA). The ultimate aim of the present study was to assess the stressstate and its effect on task performance, job involvement and job satisfaction of workers employed in stress arousing job situations i.e., open cast mines. The following variables were used in the present study: (1) Predi...

We perform a trace-driven analysis of the Intel Distributed Computing Platform (IDCP), an Internet-scale data center based distributed computing platform developed by Intel Corporation for massively parallel chip simulations within the company. IDCP has been operational for many years, and currently is deployed “live” on tens of thousands of machines that are globally distributed at various dat...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to explore the relationships between job demands, job resourses, personal resourses and job satisfaction and to assess the usefulness of the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model in the explanation of these phenomena. MATERIALS AND METHODS The research was based on a sample of 500 social workers. The "Psychosocial Factors" and "Job satisfaction" questionnaire...

Narcissism has been studied in relation to leadership and productivity in the workplace. However, few studies have been conducted on how narcissism influences work attitudes. The first goal of this study is to measure the association between narcissism and the five factor model (FFM) of personality in an organizational sample. The second goal is to measure the influence of narcissism on job sat...

AIM The aim of this study was to examine the influence of empowering work conditions and workplace incivility on nurses' experiences of burnout and important nurse retention factors identified in the literature. BACKGROUND A major cause of turnover among nurses is related to unsatisfying workplaces. Recently, there have been numerous anecdotal reports of uncivil behaviour in health care setti...

The authors examined the relation between the availability of 2 popular types of flexible work arrangements (i.e., flextime and compressed workweek) and work-to-family enrichment and, in turn, the relation between work-to-family enrichment and (a) job satisfaction and (b) turnover intentions. In a sample of 220 employed working adults, hierarchical regression analyses showed that work-to-family...

OBJECTIVES Stressors in nursing put high demands on cognitive control and, therefore, may increase the risk of cognitive failures that put patients at risk. Task-related stressors were expected to be positively associated with cognitive failure at work and job control was expected to be negatively associated with cognitive failure at work. METHODS Ninety-six registered nurses from 11 Swiss ho...

This article explores the relationship between the job characteristics underlying the Goldthorpe model of social class (work monitoring difficulty and human asset specificity) and those underlying theories of technological change (routine and analytical tasks) highlighted as key drivers for growing inequality. Analysis of the 2012 British Skills and Employment Survey demonstrate monitoring diff...

AIM This study examines how trust and monetary reward influence nurses' job satisfaction and strengthen organisational commitment. BACKGROUND Hospitals with high nurse retention rates typically have fewer medical errors and better quality care for patients. Therefore, health care administrators should provide a trustworthy workplace and a satisfactory reward system to retain experienced and s...