In this paper we propose a transformation tactic that provides general tabulation of functional algorithms. This tabulation tactic can be applied to dependency graphs in which variable size cuts can be defined. The tactic can be considered a generalization of the tupling tactic proposed by other authors. Tables are dynamically created and their sizes determined at execution time. The tactic is ...

PURPOSE In a 2011 survey sponsored by the American Nurses Association (ANA), nurses identified the acute and chronic effects of stress and overwork as one of their two top safety and health concerns. DESIGN/METHODS A review of the literature was conducted to investigate the impact that job stress has on the health and safety of nursing professionals and the role that working conditions and jo...

BACKGROUND Seeking and utilisation of HIV prevention, treatment, care, and support services for people living with HIV is often hampered by HIV-related stigma. The study aimed to explore the perceptions and experiences regarding treatment, care, and support amongst people living with HIV in Viet Nam, where the HIV epidemic is concentrated among injecting drug users, sex workers, and men who hav...

Studies investigating both work- and individual-related antecedents of workplace bullying are scarce. In reply, this study investigated the interaction between workload, job insecurity, role conflict, and role ambiguity (i.e., work-related antecedents), and problem- and emotion-focused coping strategies (i.e., individual-related antecedents) in association with exposure to workplace bullying. P...

The purpose of this paper is to study some properties of outranking relations based on a concordance-discordance principle. We show that, whenever the structure of the set of alternatives is sufficiently rich, imposing "nice" transitivity properties on such outranking relations always leads to a somewhat unappealing distribution of "power" among the various attributes. These results directly ap...

We present the results of a study on the role of context in the mental representation that operators have of their task realization. This work is part of the ANR TACTIC project, which aims at proposing a migration of a simulator’s interface from PC (”click-simulation”) to tactile devices (”finger-simulation”).

Cross-cultural impression management (IM) has not been considered much, which is remarkable given the fast rate at which the labor market is becoming multicultural. This study investigated whether ethnic minorities and majorities differed in their preference for IM-tactics and how this affected ethnic minorities' interview outcomes. A preliminary study (focus groups/survey) showed that ethnic m...

Psychological detachment from work, an off-job experience of "switching off" mentally, seems to be crucial for promoting employee's well-being. Previous studies on predictors of psychological detachment mainly focused on job-related factors, and only a few studies focused on family-related and personal factors. This study focuses not only on job-related factors (job demands, job control, workpl...

Purpose The current paper aims to analyse the antecedents of leader–member exchange relationships (LMX) by specifically focusing on influence supervisor’s feedback delivery tactic. Design/methodology/approach This study uses qualitative research methods with primary interviews as main data source. Primary 40 managers from top supermarkets in Nigeria, South Africa and UK were undertaken. Finding...