According to the growing trend of IT-based systems, implementation of computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) in Iran’s power industry can dramatically help in optimized management of maintenance activities, and thereby, reducing equipment failures, increasing reliability, increasing product stability and, above all, increasing efficiency and productivity of the employees of this indu...

This study aims to measure the resistance to change in Jeddah Municipality (JM) using a survey. Supported by the literature review on the resistance to change in governmental institutions, this study will be concerned with the development of the Central Correspondences Department (CCD) at JM. The outcomes of this study are expected to be: Define the amount of acceptance or rejection, to the dev...

Nowadays the organizations or industry are running in extremely competitive environment. Employees are very important part of the organizations. The success or failure of any organization or industry depends on employee’s performance. In order to improve the working efficiency in the organization it is very important to measure the employee’s performance. The employees are demanding benefits ac...

Variable pay creates a link between pay and performance but may also help firms in attracting more productive employees. Our experiment investigates the impact of performance pay on both incentives and sorting and analyzes the influence of repeated interactions between firms and employees on these effects. We show that (i) the opportunity to switch from a fixed wage to variable pay scheme incre...

background: since anxiety, depression and job satisfaction are considered elements related to mental health, the main objective of the present study is to survey the prison staff on the said elements. methods: the population of the study was all of the officially employed staff of the prison. (104 prisons) 80.7% of the persons who filled the questionnaires up were among the disciplinary force s...

BACKGROUND Alcohol or drug use and associated hangover may reduce workplace safety and productivity and also cause sickness absence. The aims of this study were to examine (i) the use of alcohol and drugs, and (ii) reduced efficiency at work and absence due to such use among employees. METHODS Forty-four companies were invited; half of them agreed to participate. Employees filled in a questio...

This study assessed employee perceptions of service quality in the Namibian hotel industry using the SERVQUAL approach. The data for the study were collected from 77 employees drawn from two large hotels in Windhoek who were surveyed using a questionnaire covering five service quality dimensions of empathy, reliability, responsiveness, assurance and tangibles. Data were analyzed using gap score...