There is a need to fill the gap between adopting change in organizational culture and employees' readiness adopt cultural differences. The present research investigates effect of on learning tendencies workforce. study adopted cross-sectional design. Whereas self-administered questionnaire was employed collect data from 100 Sharjah transportation authority employees. hierarchical model based fo...

Introduction: human resource plays a very important role in the success or failure of a company. The weakness in conclusion of criteria of model EFQM (Employee's criteria and results) using FAHP method (Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process) will be discussed here as Iranian organizations are usually weak in their results field. Method: the present study is an applied research. Procedure of doing ...

Research design, approach and method: The study was based on a census-based sample (n = 2429) of employees in an information, communication and technology (ICT) sector company (N = 23 134) where the TIS-6 was used as one of the criterion variables. The leavers (those who left the company) in this sample were compared with the stayers (those who remained in the employ of the company) in this sam...

The aim of this research was to revise Rotter’s (1966) internal–external locus of control (LOC) scale, and especially to examine the feasibility of its use in Chinese organizations. The present study had 306 full-time employees and results showed that our Chinese revision of Rotter’s Locus of Control Scale retained a single-factor structure. The scale had acceptable reliability, good criterion-...

This study explores the validity of the five-factor model of personality (FFM) in occupational settings in Greece, examining its relationship to employees’ overall job performance, job satisfaction, organizational citizenship behaviour, and generic work competencies. Two hundred and twenty-seven employees from various Greek SMEs participated in the study completing a personality and a job satis...

In many organizations, it is desirable to distribute workload as equally as possible among a group of employees or machines. This paper proposes a performance measure, that we call the Normalized Sum of Square for Workload Deviations (NSSWD), and studies the problem of how to schedule a set of n jobs on m parallel identical processors in order to minimize the NSSWD. The NSSWD criterion is relev...

BACKGROUND We estimated the effect of remote BCG vaccination on tuberculin reactivity and the booster effect among hospital employees. METHODS Cross-sectional survey at a university hospital. All personnel employed during a 24-month period were included in the study. Employees were administered 2-step tuberculin testing, and BCG vaccination scars were verified. RESULTS Of 665 hospital emplo...

BACKGROUND With the advent of workplace health and wellbeing programs designed to address prolonged occupational sitting, tools to measure behaviour change within this environment should derive from empirical evidence. In this study we measured aspects of validity and reliability for the Occupational Sitting and Physical Activity Questionnaire that asks employees to recount the percentage of wo...

The problem to be studied: Employee education is not the only criterion. Preparation for a specific job also important. A lot of resources are spent on training new employees, so it important keep existing ones. There relatively high unemployment rate in Latvia. At same time, many employers looking employees. aim research: mark main causes staff turnover and develop proposals their reduction. T...

The present investigation studied the lab-to-field generalizability of Fishbein's attitude-behavior model and examined the relative efficacy of the Fishbein model and traditional job attitude measures as predictors of absenteeism and turnover. Predictor data were collected from 108 nursing home employees immediately preceding the two-month time period of interest. Criterion data were obtained a...