background: studies have shown that nurses are under considerable job stress, which can lead to health disorders and failure in duties. stressors of nursing have been studied in some of quantitative studies; however, a few investigators have studied the nurses’ life experiences in this regard. the current qualitative research aimed to understand the nurses’ experiences and perceptions of job-re...

BACKGROUND Although the smoking rate in the United States is declining because of an increase of smoke-free laws, among blue-collar workers it remains higher than that among many other occupational groups. OBJECTIVES We evaluated the factors influencing workplace secondhand smoke (SHS) exposures in the U.S. unionized trucking industry. METHODS From 2003 through 2005, we measured workplace S...

1 Research and theory in the fields of organizational behavior and human resource management have been focused for decades by the view that jobs are the basic building blocks of complex organizations. The idea that individuals have a job which involves specific accountabilities, responsibilities, and activities is well-established and fundamental to much of the research in organizational behavi...

A career in dental academics offers ample rewards and challenges. To promote successful careers in dental education, prospective and new dental faculty should possess a realistic view of the dental school work environment, akin to the informed consent so valuable to patients and doctors. Self-assessment of personal strengths and weaknesses provides helpful information in matching faculty applic...

BACKGROUND Primary care staffing decisions are often made unsystematically, potentially leading to increased costs, dissatisfaction, turnover, and reduced quality of care. This article aims to (1) catalogue the domain of primary care tasks, (2) explore the complexity associated with these tasks, and (3) examine how tasks performed by different job titles differ in function and complexity, using...

After 9/11, new security duties were instituted at many U.S. air carriers and existing safety and security duties received increased emphasis. Concurrently, in-flight services were changed and in many cases, cabin crews were reduced. This article examines the post-9/11 conflict between passenger service and the timely performance of safety and security duties at 1 major U.S. air carrier. In-fli...

Article history: Received 3 March 2009 Received in revised form 14 July 2009 Accepted 3 September 2009 Available online 14 October 2009 Tariffs and anti-dumping duties are two important tools used to protect industries from foreign competition and to generate revenue. While the two tools have been studied extensively in separate contexts, little is known about their comparative effects. This pa...

Humans are a very important resource for the running of wheels government organizations. Without human element that is essentially planning, implementation and supervision organizations, course, goals have been set will not be achieved. In order to standards ability, quality, quality reliability in carrying out work tasks accordance with education, expertise rank or class level possessed by eac...