PURPOSE This study investigates management awareness of employee musculoskeletal pain and conditions that shape managers' handling of employees with pain. METHODS We used a mixed methods design including data from a questionnaire survey and focus group sessions. All employees and managers from seven nursing homes were invited to participate in the questionnaire survey and 327 employees (81%) ...

PURPOSE The study was done to identify turnover intention in new nurses according to characteristics of the nurses and other factors affecting turnover and to provide data to set up a strategy to reduce the turnover. METHODS Data were collected from 1,077 new nurses who had less than 12 months employment experience and worked in one of 188 hospitals. Eight research instruments were used. Data...

AIM The aim of the present study was to examine the relationship between structural empowerment and patient safety culture among staff level Registered Nurses (RNs) within adult critical care units (ACCU). BACKGROUND There is literature to support the value of RNs' structurally empowered work environments and emerging literature towards patient safety culture; the link between empowerment and...

Background In modern society, the scale of the service industry is continuously expanding, and the number of service workers is increasing. Correspondingly, physical and mental problems related to emotional labor are becoming a major social problem. In this study, we investigated the relationship between emotional labor, workplace violence, and depressive symptoms in female bank employees, whic...

Abstract This study analyzes how an unsupportive organizational work-family culture experienced by one employed parent at work can cross over to their partner and reduce the latter’s satisfaction with balance (WFBS). Workplace cultures that are structured around “ideal worker” norm have enormous often detrimental impacts on parents’ abilities manage family roles. Drawing crossover theory, we ar...

Good security cannot be achieved through technical means alone and a solid understanding of the issues and how to protect one’s self is required from users. Whilst many initiatives, programs and strategies have been proposed to improve the level of information security awareness, most have been directed at organizations. Given people’s use of technology is primarily focused between the workplac...

In England, policy developments in the field of mental health are stimulating interest in employment for mental health service users as a means of mental health promotion. To date, research that might assist in increasing employment rates amongst this group has focused largely on the question of which service users are most likely to benefit from vocational interventions and, more recently, on ...

Research on faculty development has focused primarily on individual participants and has produced relatively little generalizable knowledge that can guide faculty development programs. In this article, the authors examine how current research on faculty development in medical education can be enriched by research in related fields such as teacher education, quality improvement, continuing medic...

BACKGROUND Although ageing workers face specific health and safety concerns, conflicting evidence exists regarding the effects of age on workplace injury rates and workers' compensation claims. AIMS To examine injury and workers' compensation claim rates by age and injury type in an aluminium smelter over a 9-year period. METHODS Routinely collected data for workplace injuries and workers' ...