Th is study investigates the eff ects of challenge and hindrance stressors and exhaustion on frontline hotel employees’ turnover intentions and whether hope, as a personal resource, can moderate the deleterious eff ects of these antecedents on turnover intentions. Data were collected from a sample of 183 full-time frontline employees working in 5-star and 4-star hotels in Northern Cyprus. To en...

AIMS To study supervisory behaviour as a predictive factor for return to work of employees absent due to mental health problems; and to explore the association between conditional factors and supervisory behaviour. METHODS Eighty five supervisors of employees were interviewed by telephone. Questionnaires providing information on person related factors, depressive symptoms, and sickness absenc...

This study assessed the working and family life characteristics, and the degree of domestic and work strain of female workers with different employment statuses and weekly working hours who are rearing children. Participants were the mothers of preschoolers in a large Japanese city. We classified the women into three groups according to the hours they worked and their employment conditions. The...

Work intensification is a popular management strategy to increase productivity, but at the possible expense of employee mental stress. This study examines associations between ratings of work intensification and psychological distress, and the level of agreement between compared employee-rated and manager-rated work intensification. Multi-source survey data were collected from 3,064 employees a...

This paper analyzes the effects of environmental elements on the psychological characteristics and performance of employees in manufacturing systems using structural equation modeling. Increasing the comprehension of these effects may help optimize manufacturing systems regarding their employees' psychological characteristics and performance from a macroergonomic perspective. As the method, a n...

Targeting occupational health and safety interventions to different groups of employees and sectors is important. The aim of this study was to explore the environment-intervention fit of a Danish psychosocial work environment intervention program for the residential and home care sector. Focus group interviews with employees and interviews with mangers were conducted at 12 selected workplaces a...

OBJECTIVES Young adults entering employment are a key group in extending work careers, but there is a lack of research on trends in work ability among young employees. Prolonged sickness absence (SA) constitutes a risk for permanent work disability. We examined 12-year trends in SA spells among young female and male municipal employees. METHODS The data were obtained from the employers' regis...

BACKGROUND A healthy lifestyle is a valuable source to reduce the prevalence of health problems, and promoteehealth. OBJECTIVES The current study aimed to evaluate the lifestyle and obesity status of Hamadan public employees and their status based on the trans-theoretical model (TTM). PATIENTS AND METHODS This analytical cross-sectional study was performed in 2014 on 1200 public employees i...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relationship between antidepressant medication adherence and short-term disability (STD) in an employed population. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective observational cohort study of 2112 employees with a new episode of treatment with an antidepressant medication (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or serotonin norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors). METHODS Both Health Pl...

Emotional intelligence (EI) means knowing one's feelings and others, determining emotions and feelings controlling them and sympathizing with other people. The importance of EI is out of question especially among organisation managers and principals. For professional successes are a lot factors. So this paper deals with reviewing the relationship EI, organisational commitment (OC) and employees...