Employee portals are collaborative information systems that are utilized by many companies to improve information exchange, communication, and employee collaboration, as well as to better support their business processes. Although some studies investigate single aspects of portal success, the critical success factors of how employee portals help their users become more productive have to date n...

The present study examines antecedents and consequences of two aspects of mindfulness in a work setting: employee awareness and employee absent-mindedness. Using two samples, the study found these two aspects of mindfulness to be beneficially associated with employee well-being, as measured by emotional exhaustion, job satisfaction, and psychological need satisfaction, and with job performance,...

John Remmers, MD, University of Calgary, Calgary Canada Conflict of interest: Zephyr Sleep Technologies employee and share holder Shouresh Charkhandeh, DDS, The Snore Center, Calgary Canada Conflict of interest: Zephyr Sleep Technologies share holder Joshua Grosse, MMath, Zephyr Sleep Technologies, Calgary Canada Conflict of interest: Zephyr Sleep Technologies employee and share holder Zbigniew...

This research explores the cause variables, which affect employee involvement via diverse orientations. That is to say, it studies the relationship and effect of individual characteristic of personality traits, organizational climate of perspective of Chinese society relationship orientation, and internal marketing upon employee involvement. The population is based upon five companies from the ...

1. Manager enters their assessment of employee’s performance in the form. o Section I rates each performance standard and adds comments as appropriate. o Section II (Optional) – rates and enters comments for each performance goal. o Section III – rates the employee’s overall performance. Enter comments/assessment of their overall performance. 2. Manager sends the performance appraisal with thei...

Conflict of interest statement. Kelong Han is an employee of Genentech and holds stock in F. Hoffmann – La Roche. Melanie Ren was an employee of Genentech at the time the manuscript was written. Wolfgang Wick has acted as a consultant for F. Hoffmann–La Roche, Eli Lilly (uncompensated), and MSD and has received research support from Apogenix, Boehringer Ingelheim, Eli Lilly, and MSD. Lauren Abr...

Previous research suggested that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is positively related to organization’s attractiveness to potential employees. This paper tries to explore the effective dimensions of CSR on employee engagement and the mediating factors that lay between the two constructs. The author proposes that CSR has a direct impact on employee engagement, and that perceived organizat...

Enterprises are confronted with frequent changes in their business environment which require quick responses. Thereby, highly skilled and flexible employees play a major role since they are able to respond promptly. To enhance competencies and flexibility, the concept of employee empowerment has been proposed. In this respect, the workforce is given an increased level of autonomy and offered su...

The issue of sustainability is a vital long-term goal for organizations and as such has formed the basis of much academic research over the last two decades. Organizational sustainability is defined as the ability for an organization to accomplish a range of economic, environmental, and human performance objectives. As one of the most studied topics in organizational science, employee engagemen...

The knowledge management system (KMS) has attracted significant attention from researchers and practitioners as a facilitator of better employee performance. However, although companies have implemented KMS, empirical research findings offer inconsistent correlation between employee performance and KMS usage. Thus, the purpose of this study is to determine the antecedent factors influencing the...