The high percentage of international students currently enrolled in many graduate engineering programs in North America presents an additional pedagogical challenge for faculty. Many professors find that they are spending an inordinate amount of their time doing something that is not explicitly stated in their job descriptions—correcting the writing of their international students. This paper d...

She's reinvented herself as an independent pharmacy consultant -a pharmacist who counsels patients for a fee. The job description is so new that Smith is one of only a few in the Washington area and perhaps 500 or so nationwide. That's the number in a database compiled by the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP), a 35-year-old professional group for pharmacists in senior care, of m...

The relation between ergonomic principles and quality management initiatives, both, in the private and public sector, has received increasing attention in the recent years. Customer orientation among employees is not only an important quality principle, but also an essential prerequisite for customer satisfaction, especially in service organizations. In this context, the objective of introducin...

BACKGROUND Few studies have examined the relationship between perceived responsibilities by workers and job characteristics and experiences of stress. OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between job stress and work responsibilities and job characteristics. METHODS We analyzed data from 2737 adults who were labor force participants in the province of Alberta, Canada. A logistic regression ...

Many job redesign interventions are based on a multiple mediator-multiple outcome model in which the job redesign intervention indirectly influences a broad range of employee outcomes by changing multiple job characteristics. As this model remains untested, the aim of this study is to test a multiple mediator-multiple outcome model of job redesign. Multilevel analysis of data from a quasi-exper...

A postal questionnaire survey of 10 022 staff nurses in 32 hospitals in England was undertaken to explore the relationship between interdisciplinary teamwork and nurse autonomy on patient and nurse outcomes and nurse assessed quality of care. The key variables of nursing autonomy, control over resources, relationship with doctors, emotional exhaustion, and decision making were found to correlat...

PURPOSE The purposes of this study are to examine differences in job satisfaction among professional groups including nurses, allied hospital professionals, social workers, and elementary school teachers, and to identify specific characteristics of job satisfaction of nurses. METHODS The study design was a cross-sectional exploratory study using secondary data analysis with the 2009 Graduates...

CONTEXT State health agencies play a critical role in protecting and promoting the health and well-being of the people they serve. To be effective, they must maintain a highly skilled, diverse workforce of sufficient size and with proper training. OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to examine demographics, job and workplace environment characteristics, job satisfaction, and reasons for init...

BACKGROUND It is important to learn how employers in European countries can prevent nursing staff from changing occupation or taking early retirement in order to counteract expected nursing shortages. However, to date research on nursing staff's ability to remain working until retirement age has been limited. The purpose of this study was to gain insight into the associations between different ...

INTRODUCTION The lack of rural nursing studies makes it impossible to know whether rural and urban nurses perceive personal and organizational factors of job satisfaction similarly. Few reports of rural nurse job satisfaction are available. Since the unprecedented shortage of qualified rural nurses requires a greater understanding of what factors are important to retention, studies are needed. ...