Although the significance of curiosity in motivating and directing learning has received substantial scholarly support, little information exists about curiosity's importance in adult learning. The purpose of this study was to investigate curiosity's possible relevance in an adult learning context, the workplace. Specifically, this study was an examination of adult curiosity's relationship to s...

Building on prior research (Meyer, Foster, & Anderson, 2006), the present study examined the utility of three approaches to validate the Performance Improvement Characteristics (PIC; Hogan & Rybicki, 1998). The PIC is a job analysis instrument used to assess personal characteristics important to successful job performance. Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI; Hogan & Hogan, 1995) data in seven arc...

The present study was designed to gain knowledge of the relationship between employees' perceived opportunities to craft, their actual job crafting behavior and, in line with JD-R theory, subsequently their work engagement and performance. Although scholars have suggested that employees' perceived opportunities to craft their job may predict their actual job crafting behavior, which may have co...

The main objective of this study is to explore the teachers' satisfaction and their implications on job performance in schools. This based a qualitative phenomenological research design focused perspectives satisfaction. Secondary data analysis used analyzed qualitatively with critical review. In educational sector, teachers are individuals, who deliver an effective contribution imparting knowl...

This study examines the importance of job characteristics on absence and on-the-job performance in a large group of employees with diagnosed depressive and anxiety disorders. In a sample of 1522 employees (1129 persons with and 393 persons without psychopathology) participating in Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA, n=2981) we examined associations between job characteristics an...

In performance evaluation literature, although the combination of some variables such as age, gender, experience, observation time, and interpersonal affect has been widely considered in determining employee performance, no investigation has indicated the influence of workplace conditions on job performance. This study reports the effects of job characteristics (physical efforts and job grade),...