Abstract Introduction: Since prescribing is a new subject in the nursing profession, it is necessary to assess nurses' attitudes to and readiness for this new responsibility. Objective: This study aimed to investigate nurses' attitudes to and readiness for nurse prescribing in teaching hospitals of Tabriz City, Iran. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional analytical study was conducted...

q uality of working life (qowl) is the attitudes of employees towards their job, especially their work outcomes including job satisfaction, mental health, and safety which directly influence organizational outcomes. therefore, the aim of the present study was to evaluate train drivers' qowl and determine its influencing factors. in this descriptive-analytical and cross-sectional study, qowl was...

After differentiating attitudes from emotions, the present work investigates prosodic manifestations and perceptual attributes of Mandarin utterances conveying various attitudes. A speech corpus was designed to incorporate five classes of attitudes: friendly/hostile, polite/rude, serious/joking, praising/blaming, and confident/uncertain. Perceptual experiment reveals two different patterns betw...

Recent work has implicated negative attitudes toward blacks in support for toughened criminal-justice measures. This suggests that the issue of crime may be implicitly “racialized,” despite a lack of overt racial content. The present study examines the hypothesis that education may weaken the relationship between negative racial perceptions and crimerelated policy attitudes. In contrast to trad...

Suicide-preventive training has shown to influence attitudes. This study aimed at investigating what impact other factors than knowledge might have on attitudes towards work with suicidal patients and suicide prevention. In 2007, 500 health-care staff working in a psychiatric clinic in Stockholm received a questionnaire with items concerning work with suicidal patients to which 358 (71.6%) resp...

When modelling an employee competency, several facets of this theoretical construct could be identified. One of them is grounded in the employee’s attitudes to work and organization, namely in her/his job involvement, organizational commitment, responsibility etc. The paper deals with results of a survey comparing work and organizational attitudes of four groups of subjects. The groups differed...

This study examined the influence of the social impact of organisational restructuring on employee workplace attitudes. A sample of 725 employees drawn through stratified random sampling technique from four (4) manufacturing organisations which had been involved in an intensive restructuring process participated in the study. Questionnaire was the major instrument employed for data collection. ...