Following a group of 2,973 Australian unemployed job seekers over time, we confirm predictions from Self-Determination Theory, Conservation Resources Theory and Scarcity that the presence financial hardship during search adversely affects quality subsequently effectiveness (measured one year later). We show importance in labor market research controlling for range confounding factors including ...

the purpose of this research, was to determine the impact of contextual variable of change on commitment to change in related to process of privatization through emotional envolvment. in this regard, randomize stratified sampling was selected and 104 managers and specialists of khorasan province regional electric company participated in the study. to collect data was used a questionnaire with 9...

Since the election of a Coalition Government in Australia in 1996, new immigrants have had to face tougher selection criteria and increased financial pressure. Most studies so far have ignored the issue of the quality of the jobs obtained by new immigrants to Australia and whether the policy change has contributed to improve or worsen job quality among immigrants. More specifically, do stronger...

OBJECTIVE We examined the predictive validity of a job-specific functional capacity evaluation (FCE) in relation to the return to work of patients with a distal radius fracture. METHOD Return-to-work recommendations for 194 participants with a distal radius fracture were based on FCE performance. Three months after the evaluation, participants were contacted to ascertain their employment stat...

This review begins by contrasting the importance ascribed to the study of occupational requirements observed in the early twentieth-century beginnings of industrial-organizational psychology with the diminishing numbers of job analysis articles appearing in top journals in recent times. To highlight the many pending questions associated with the job-analytic needs of today's organizations that ...

This longitudinal study examined whether employees can impact their own well-being by crafting their job demands and resources. Based on the job demands-resources model, we hypothesized that employee job crafting would have an impact on work engagement, job satisfaction, and burnout through changes in job demands and job resources. Data was collected in a chemical plant at three time points wit...

In the previous article of this series we considered the need for career planning when making a job change in order to be successful in the current competitive climate. This article aims to assist you with the next stage and will examine job selection, the informal visit and the application form.

Health of organization’s employees is dependent on psychosocial factors such as job stress, considerably. Job stress is related to the low quality of life, job burnout, increasing the risk of accidents and work–related injuries and cause job change and early retirement of employees. This study aimed to evaluate employees’ job stress in an industry as well as to assess its relationship by person...