We present a novel social media dataset and employ an automated computational linguistics technique to infer employees’ perceptions of corporate culture. In particular, we provide an empirical test of ‘goal-setting theory’ which states that the extent to which employees perceive their roles to be challenging directly impacts their job satisfaction and firm performance. Our findings are consiste...

The disclosures section was incomplete in the original published version. The complete section is provided below: Disclosures. D. J. Biedenbach and R. E. Badal are employees of International Health Management Associates, Inc., Schaumburg and claim no conflict of interest. R. S. Kozlov and A. D. Roman contributed to the study design, collection and analysis of data and received honoraria for thi...

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of a workplace leisure physical activity program on healthcare expenditures for type 2 diabetes and hypertension treatment. MATERIAL AND METHODS We assessed a workplace program's potential to reduce costs by multiplying the annual healthcare costs of patients with type 2 diabetes and hypertension by the population attributable risk fraction of non-recommended ph...

Article history: Received 3 December 2010 Available online 4 March 2011 The present study investigates the relationship between the emotional labor strategies surface acting and deep acting and organizational outcomes, specifically, employees' overall job performance and turnover. Call center employees from two large financial service organizations completed an online survey about their use of ...

Using personnel records from a single large German firm in the financial industry, this paper provides detailed evidence on the effect of age and the supervisor’s gender on gender differences in workplace training, holding constant various workplace characteristics. We implement an age-specific decomposition of the incidence and the duration of training into three terms: an age-specific coeffic...

From the last decade of the twentieth century, professional football has become a transnational global business in which financial profits are as important as sports successes (1). Being a full occupational category, professional football relies on a diversity of stakeholders including among others players, clubs, (inter)national governing bodies, sponsors and sport ministries (1). Despite the ...

We conducted a 12-month-long experiment in a financial services company to study how the availability of treadmill workstations affects employees' physical activity and work performance. We enlisted sedentary volunteers, half of whom received treadmill workstations during the first two months of the study and the rest in the seventh month of the study. Participants could operate the treadmills ...

In the event of a serious pandemic influenza outbreak, businesses must play a key role in protecting employees' health and safety. With regard to pandemic influenza mitigation recommendations requiring social distancing, we examined whether some US employees would disproportionately fail to comply because of job insecurity and financial problems associated with missing work. We used the 2006 Ha...

Multivariate statistical analysis is utilized to explore the association between firm strategies, contributions made by venture capitalists and incentives for owners and employees and three exporting variables in a stratified random sample of 147 management buyouts and buyins. Firms focusing upon a diversified product/ service range and/or advertising were significantly more likely to be export...

Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) requires that companies subject to the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 include in their annual reports a report of management on the company's internal control over fmancial reporting. This must contain management's assessment and a statement of the effectiveness of the controls. Almost no guidance, however, has been provided on how to eva...