The impact of changes in health practices on medical claims costs between 1985-1987 and 1988-1990 was examined among 796 employees. Employees completed a health risk appraisal in 1985 and 1988 and were categorized into health risk levels. High-cost status and high-risk status were significantly associated at both times. The percentage of employees with high-risk status decreased from 31.8% to 2...

OBJECTIVE Contribution to the discussion of the role of participation/consent of employees in working hours regulation. METHODS Exploratory analysis of conflicts between preferences of employees and ergonomic recommendations in shift scheduling by analysing a large number of participative shift scheduling projects. RESULTS The analysis showed that very often the pursuit of higher income pla...

This study examines the relationship between the human resource management practices implemented by the organization and employees’ motivated intention to stay and work effectively for the organization. Human resource management practices deployed in study are training and Development, development of teams, performance appraisal, internal communication system, employment security, person-organi...

Methods The study included 4 out of 5 Slovenian major hospitals selected from the hospital list; 1 hospital refused to participate. The employees of these hospitals represent 30% of all employees in nursing in Slovenian hospitals and the 509 employees included in the study represent 6%. One structured survey questionnaire was administered to the leaders and the other to employees, both consisti...

Most experts agree that a learning organization whose employees have a clear vision of the importance of service quality and are motivated to provide that quality will achieve superior service quality. We develop a theoretical framework and conduct a cross-sectional empirical study to investigate the inter-relationships among these constructs. The results indicate that higher levels of both emp...

To determine the effect of survey-based, health plan report cards on employees as they selected their 1995 health plan, the authors surveyed two groups of Minnesota State employees, one of which received the report card and one that did not. Both groups were surveyed before and after their enrollment. The authors looked for report card effects on relative changes in the employees' knowledge of ...

Advances in information and communication technology have enabled contemporary organizations to become increasingly dispersed. Knowledge sharing among highly dispersed employees has been widely regarded as an organizational challenge that, if not dealt with properly, would affect the organization’s competitive advantage. Based on the practice perspective of knowledge, this study aims to explore...

Employees’ poor compliance with information security policies is a perennial problem. Current information security analysis methods do not allow information security managers to capture the rationalities behind employees’ compliance and non-compliance. To address this shortcoming, this design science research paper suggests: (a) a Value-Based Compliance analysis method and (b) a set of design p...

Original scientific paper A new approach for measuring the performance of employees in construction companies is presented. Two different methods are proposed. For employees directly engaged on a project, performance is measured by using different Key Performance Indicators on four different organisation levels. For employees not directly engaged on a project, performance is measured by using R...

It is a critical issue for the continuity of an organization to efficiently evaluate the performance of its employees. The evaluation process has to guarantee a sufficient level of objectivity and a limited level of subjectivity in order to answer the employees’ expectancies. In this study, a multi-criteria approach to this problem has been proposed since the employees’ performance depends on v...