Overwhelmed by the complexity of the FMS Deadlock Avoidance problem, current research has, for the most part, ignored the aspects (and beneets) related to exible (dynamic) job routing. Extending current structural control policies, based on static job routing, to accommodate routing exibility is nontrivial, primarily due to the fact that the possible routing options for a single job can grow ex...

Objectives There is growing international policy interest in disability employment, yet there has been little investigation of job quality among people working with disability. This study uses Australian national data to compare the psychosocial job quality of people working with versus without disability. Methods We used 10 annual waves of data from a large representative Australian panel su...

This longitudinal research examined the directions of the relationships between job burnout and secondary traumatic stress (STS) among human services workers. In particular, using cross-lagged panel design, we investigated whether job burnout predicts STS at 6-month follow up or whether the level of STS symptoms explains job burnout at 6-month follow-up. Participants in Study 1 were behavioral ...

OBJECTIVE The present study examined the buffering effect of social support in the workplace on job strain and depressive symptoms by conducting a cross-sectional survey using a self-report. METHODS The subjects were 712 employees (male, over 40 yr old) who worked at a precision machine factory. The questionnaire determined the subjects, ages, types of occupation, scores of depressive symptom...

BACKGROUND In the past decade, the changing labor market seems to have rejected the traditional standards employment and has begun to support a variety of non-standard forms of work in their place. The purpose of our study was to compare the degree of job stress, sources of job stress, and association of high job stress with health among permanent and fixed-term workers. METHODS Our study sub...

Abstract Introduction: The aim of the study was to describe teachers’ views on professional development activities, frequency participation such activities and effectiveness these (PD) activities. What’s more, it aimed analyse relationship between PD that teachers participated their job satisfaction (JS). Methods: sample comprised 357 teachers. In order seek answers research questions, correlat...

OBJECTIVES The mediating effect of work-to-family conflict (WFC) on the associations between eight types of job stressors (measured based on the job demands-control, effort-reward imbalance and organisational justice models) and psychological distress in employees was examined. DESIGN This study employed a prospective design. SETTING An occupational cohort study in Japan (Japanese Study of ...