OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to examine the health risk-related excess costs of time away from work, medical claims, pharmacy claims, and total costs with and without considering the prevalence of health risks. METHODS A total of 2082 of 4266 employees of a Midwest utility participated in a health risk appraisal (HRA). Individuals were classified by their HRA participation status...

Except for the influential graduates, the content of the development core of universities needs to improve the scientific allocation of teacher resources, and the most relevant content to human resource of teacher is the salary incentive system. While the system related to performance appraisal system is the performance assessment system, so the sound and perfect performance appraisal system of...

A human subject experiment was conducted to investigate caffeine’s effect on appraisal and performance of a mental serial subtraction task. Serial subtraction performance data was collected from three treatment groups: placebo, 200 mg caffeine, and 400 mg caffeine. Data were analyzed by average across treatment group and by challenge and threat task appraisal conditions. A cognitive model of th...

Abstract Regarding organizational justice, performance appraisal (PA) systems are among the most crucial mechanisms shaping employee work experience. Nonetheless, research has mostly neglected to explain relationship between characteristics of PA systems, employees' perceptions and engagement in public sector. Based on a combination observational experimental data from 11 sector organizations I...

Previous studies have shown that performance ratings are intentionally modified by the appraisers having different motives especially political and the politics in performance appraisal have different impacts on the job outcomes of the employees. The current study explains the impacts of performance appraisal politics on job satisfaction, turnover intention and loyalty to supervisor (i.e. appra...

Extensive research among adults supports the biopsychosocial (BPS) model of challenge and threat, which describes relationships among stress appraisals, physiological stress reactivity, and performance; however, no previous studies have examined these relationships in adolescents. Perceptions of stressors as well as physiological reactivity to stress increase during adolescence, highlighting th...

Performance Appraisal is the systematic assessment of performance of employees to understand the abilities for further development. According to sixth pay commission the approach adopted for evaluation of teaching staff performance focuses on areas like Teaching, Learning, Extension, Research, Publication etc. which are actually fuzzy concepts that can be captured in fuzzy terms. In the propose...

Companies that seek to gain competitive advantage through employees must be able to manage the behaviour and results of all employees. One of the most important parts of performance management, if not the most important one, is performance appraisal. Attribute-based performance methods are the most popular ones used in performance appraisal because of their ease of use. However, these methods u...