Employing profits data of Japanese companies in 2002 and 2003, we confirm that Pareto’s law and the Pareto index are derived from the law of detailed balance and Gibrat’s law. The last two laws are observed beyond the region where Pareto’s law holds. By classifying companies into job categories, we find that companies in a small scale job category have more possibilities of growing than those i...

objectives: the present research aims to prepare an iranian police job satisfaction inventory (ipjsi) by using confirmative factor analysis as well as to evaluate the validity and reliability of it. method: a group consisting of 2933 iranian police employees chosen by stratified random sampling method from a number of police departments throughout the country completed the ipjs inventories. val...

To investigate the impact of overtime work, sleep duration, and perceived job characteristics on physical and mental status, a cross-sectional study was conducted on 377 workers (average age; 28 years old) in an information-technology (IT) company, engaged in consultation, system integration solution, and data management relevant to IT system. The psychophysical outcomes of overtime work were a...

The high turnover of nurses has become a universal issue. The manner in which nurses view their organization's ethical climate has direct bearing on their job satisfaction. There is little empirical evidence confirming a relationship between different sorts of ethical climate within organizations and job satisfaction in Iran. The aim of this study was to determine the correlation between nurses...

background: the type of body fat distribution has an important role for identifying risk of diseases. one of the simple anthropometric indexes for estimating type of body fat distribution is waist circumference index. this study is aimed to determine the type of body fat distribution in postmenopausal women and its related factors. methods: this is a cross sectional descriptive analytical study...