With more organizations looking for employees who take the initiative and respond creatively to the challenges of the job, empowerment becomes important at both individual and organizational levels. Empowered employees are generally more satisfied with their work, committed and effective at work. According to Kanter's structural empowerment, this study examines the role of access to opportunity...

Social interruptions are frequent occurrences that often have distressing consequences for employees, yet little research has gauged their effect on individuals. Participants were exposed to 2 social interruptions as they engaged in a computer task with an accepted performance goal. Participants who were able to anticipate social interruptions performed significantly better than did those who c...

Job satisfaction and organisational effectiveness among health information administration professionals were analysed in relation to selected background, work environment and organisational characteristics. The data comprised a 15% (n = 171) random sample of health information administration professionals in Kuwait, of whom 91.2% (n = 156) responded. It was found that remuneration compatible wi...

Globally, a large fraction of workers are hired through job references. An extensive literature, both in sociology and in economics, has documented the impor­ tance of social connections as a means of job search. For example, 30-60% of jobs in the United States are found through referrals. In Kolkata, India we find that 45% of our sample has found a job for a friend. A large and grow­ ing empir...

the public sector affairs are done by employees and in order to do their duties as well as possible, these entities have to select and employ among applicants. but, because of right to take part in the government and the right to equal access to public services, their power is not unlimited. hence, they have to do this in respect of some norms to ensure the citizens’ rights. the legal aspects o...

New instruments iire described for the measurement of both job-related and non-job int-nta! health. These cover two axes of affective well-being, based upon dimensions of pleasure and arousal, and aLso reported competence, aspiration and negative job carry-over. Baseline data are presented from a sample of I6S6 job-holders, and earlier uses ot the well-being scales are summarized. The instrumen...

Nowadays, production systems seek to integrate production and maintenance activities. An effective maintenance plan can improve maintenance stability and system performance. Machines that stop for repairing operation impose a high cost on the system. On the other hand, there are always some intangible situations during a production process in which repairing activities can be carried out. If th...