Article: Principals have considerable influence on shaping the role of school counselors with whom they work (Amatea & Clark, 2005; Dollarhide, Smith, & Lemberger, 2007; Ponec & Brock, 2000). Researchers used leadermember exchange theory (Graen & Uhl-Bien, 1995) to examine the relevance of principal-school counselor relationships to school counselors' role definition, job satisfaction, and turn...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To examine if Jordanian nurses' job stressors are different in various practice areas in hospitals, particularly in stressful or non-stressful clinical areas of work. BACKGROUND Nursing is a stressful profession. Nurses' job stressors have been studied in Jordan, but none compared job stressors in different clinical areas. There is a need to identify nurses' job stressors ...

This study explores power relationships and contextual relevance as predictors of the relationship between specific diversity measures and industrial relations climate. Diversity measures of gender, unions, job functions, and education were taken within 105 work units of a telecommunications organization in Australia. Findings indicated that differential power positions and relevance to the con...

health and wellbeing has always been an important concept of relevance for concerned health specialists and workers. the present study envisages to look at the nature of occupational stressors and mental health problems in a group of hospital employees at the zahedan university of medical sciences. the study was carried out on 130 employees chosen from various hospitals in zahedan. results reve...

The core job dimensions from 57 jobs in Hong Kong measured by job incumbents' self-reports on the Job Diagnostic Survey (JDS) and supervisory ratings on the Job Rating Form (JRF) together with job incumbent work satisfaction measured on the Job Descriptive Index (JDI) provided the data base for this research. The convergent and discriminant validities of the JDS and the JRF were examined by usi...

The exponential growth of the Internet has allowed the development of a market of on-line job search sites. This paper aims at presenting the E-Gen system (Automatic Job Offer Processing system for Human Resources). E-Gen will implement two complex tasks: an analysis and categorisation of job postings, which are unstructured text documents (e-mails of job listings possibly with an attached docu...

The purpose of this study was to examine empowerment, job satisfaction levels, and relationships among 139 associate degree nursing educators.The Conditions of Work Effectiveness II, Psychological Empowerment Scale, and Job Diagnostic Survey were used. Findings indicated that the majority of educators were satisfied with their jobs as nursing faculty and felt empowered in their workplaces. Psyc...

Near real time Big Data from social network sites like Twitter or Facebook has been an interesting source for analytics by researchers in recent years owing to various factors including its up-to-date-ness, availability and popularity, though there may be a compromise in genuineness or accuracy. Apache Spark, the trendy big data processing engine that offers faster solutions compared to Hadoop,...

Despite a number of studies in the field of job satisfaction, there are still some problematic areas left. A question, which still lacks explanation, is whether specific sample may be evaluated using instruments which were primarily developed based on a different type of a sample than the one under research. With regard to the problematic area, we generated the purpose for our research. The pur...