Job strain has become a major concern because of its potential impacts on worker well-being and performance. This cross-sectional study aimed to assess the prevalence of, and examine factors associated with, job strain among workers in a rubber-glove factory, in a central province of Thailand. A total of 200 workers aged 18–55 yr, who had worked at the factory for at least 6 months, completed t...

OBJECTIVES In recent decades, work ability index (WAI) has been a common practical tool to measure individuals' work ability in many European, Asian and South American countries. However, there is no study concerning work ability in Iran. The aim of this study was to determine the work ability index in an Iranian petrochemical job setting and to examine its relationship with psychosocial factor...

Using a social exchange framework, we examined the relationship of work status (in)congruency with organization-specific and job-specific aspects of perceived employer commitment and with nurses’ commitment to their organization, to their job, and to their profession. The participants were 1,230 female nurses employed in community health agencies in Canada. Part-time nurses preferring full-time...

This paper examines how Japanese wives react to their husbands’ involuntary job loss and tests the existence of complementarity of a wife’s labor supply to her husband’s. Utilizing panel data on Japanese households from 1993 to 2004, we found that wives’ labor supply is stimulated when husbands suffer involuntary job loss. The detailed statistics show that not only do working wives raise their ...

Part I discusses the Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ), designed to measure scales assessing psychological demands, decision latitude, social support, physical demands, and job insecurity. Part II describes the reliability of the JCQ scales in a cross-national context using 10,288 men and 6,313 women from 6 studies conducted in 4 countries. Substantial similarity in means, standard deviations, an...

The Covid 19 pandemic has hit Indonesia since March 2020, in early 2021 a new variant appeared called the Omicron variant, with very fast spread rate. deployment of Variant led to an increase Job Insecurity. This study aims determine effect job insecurity on organizational commitment and its implications for performance during Pandemic. 100 (one hundred) employees Hotel Patra Jasa became respon...

Pandemi Covid­19 telah memberikan dampak terhadap guru musik dimana terjadi penurunan jumlah murid yang menyebabkan merasakan job insecurity, peneliti melihat bahwa memiliki resiliensi dapat membantu untuk mengatasi insecurity. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mengetahui dan menganalisis pengaruh insecurity di Pulau Jawa saat pandemi Covid­19. Teknik pengambilan sampel digunakan yaitu non probabili...