Defensive decision making occurs when the decision-maker does not choose option that is in best interest of an organization or client but instead chooses a less effective lower risk alternative protects him her case something goes wrong. Such decisions are widespread across occupations and sectors cause substantive damage to organizations. In first step, we developed scale measure defensive tes...

Abstract. This research analyses the influence of Islamic religiosity and work ethics on job satisfaction employees in Financial Institutions Gorontalo Indonesia. Using a questionnaire method, this had 137 as samples spreading 14 financial institutions Province. used multiple linear regression approach. Based data analysis, result showed that simultaneously variables affected employee’s satisfa...

Emotional labour involves management of one's emotions to match the demands of their roles. This emotion display involves just expression (surface-level emotional labour) or experience in addition to expression (deep-level emotional labour) of the desired emotions. Emotional labour is required in the effective, efficient and successful healthcare service delivery. Burnout associated with emotio...

Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is involved in the survival, development, and synaptic plasticity of neurons. BDNF is believed to be associated with the pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders. Several studies have suggested the relevance of DNA methylation in its promoter region with depression. Here, we report different methylation statuses in groups with different depressive scores...

The importance of teachers and the roles they play in the educative process are central to basic education, particularly in third world countries, there may be close substitutes for teacher-roles in the form of teaching machines with programmed instruction (Balogun 1988) but in third world countries such as Nigeria, teachers undoubtedly remain the managers of knowledge. Therefore, teacher educa...

Selection between competing responses and stimulus-response association strength is thought to affect performance during verb generation. However, the specific contribution of these two processes remains unclear. Here we used fMRI to investigate the role of selection and association within frontal and BG circuits that are known to be involved in verb production. Subjects were asked to generate ...

This paper presents a study that determined the relationship of job characteristics and job satisfaction and turnover intentions and examined the contribution of demographic variables, job characteristics and job satisfaction on turnover intentions. The sample consisted of 292 IT staff in Telecom Malaysia (TM). The results hypothesized that job satisfaction and job characteristic factors are ne...