The study of workplace spirituality is a relatively new area in the field of organizational theory. Although interest in the topic has grown significantly over the last 10 years, many of the traditional research methods are not well suited to study workplace spirituality at the organizational level. We propose that sensemaking offers a useful heuristic for understanding the process of instituti...

We study the effect of firing threats in a virtual workplace that reproduces features of existing organizations. We show that organizations in which bosses can fire up to one third of their workforce produce twice as much as organizations for which firing is not possible. Firing threats sharply decrease on-the-job leisure. Nevertheless, organizations endowed with firing threats underperformed t...

introduction this study was conducted to evaluate the radiographers’ awareness of radiation protection principles in the radiology centers of the hospitals of bandar abbas, iran. materials and methods this analytical cross-sectional study was conducted on 50 radiographers of three hospitals affiliated with hormozgan university of medical sciences in 2015. the data were collected using a two-par...

This article aims to investigate and analyze the perceived English language needs of engineers who want to develop their job position through English Language in their workplaces such as public relations, technical and operational, engineering support of production, planning and development, financial, general accounting, and legal affairs. In today’s competitive world, the economy needs more p...

GSE is an established eld, and nearly all practitioners and academics agree that graduating students must have experience in it. A report from the 20th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education reviewed the GSE education literature, exposed the challenges to teaching GSE, and provided a framework for meeting these challenges in a university setting.2 To stimul...

The aim of this paper is to develop a self-actualizing spirituality model. It examines the place of selfactualization in the experience of workplace spirituality of Sri Lankan business leaders. The primary method of data collection was in-depth and face-to-face interviews with 13 Sri Lankan business leaders. Within the qualitative tradition and case study method, grounded theory and data triang...

The digital workplace is widely acknowledged as an important organizational asset for optimizing knowledge worker productivity. While there is no particular research stream on the digital workplace, scholars have conducted intensive research on related topics. This study aims to summarize the practical implications of the current academic body of knowledge on the digital workplace. For this pur...

Recently, many organizations have attempted to build hypermedia systems to expand their working areas into Internet-based virtual workplaces. Thus, it is important to manage corporate hypermedia documents effectively. Metadata plays a critical role for managing these documents. This paper identifies metadata roles and components to build a metadata schema. Furthermore, a meta-information system...

This year, more than one million U.S. workers will be kicked, pushed, punched, threatened, or otherwise victimized in the workplace. According to the Bureau of Justice, 1.7 million U.S. employees suffer nonfatal workplace assaults annually.1 A 2006 study of U.S. workers found that 41.4% of workers were psychologically victimized at least once in the past year, and 13% reported that they were vi...