Does job control act as a stress-buffer when employees’ type and level of work selfdetermination is taken into account? It was anticipated that job control would only be stress-buffering for employees high in self-determined and low in non-self-determined work motivation. In contrast, job control would be stress-exacerbating for employees who were low in self-determined and high in non-self-det...

OBJECTIVES The overall aim of this explorative study was to investigate the relationship between factors in the psychosocial work environment and work environment-related production loss. METHODS Employees at a Swedish university were invited to answer a workplace questionnaire and were selected for this study if they reported having experienced work environment-related problems in the past 7...

Joel Brockner Columbia University Gretchen Spreitzer University of Michigan Aneil Mishra Wake Forest University Wayne Hochwarter Florida State University Lewis Pepper Boston University Janice Weinberg Boston University Two field studies tested the hypothesis that high perceived control may serve as an antidote to the negative effects of layoffs on the employees who are not laid off (survivors)....

BACKGROUND This study sought to identify the extent to which employee level and work stressors were associated with mental health problems experienced by Australian government employees, and with their use of primary care services. METHODS 806 government employees aged between 40 and 44 years were surveyed as part of an epidemiological study conducted in Australia. Data collected from partici...

We propose a model of job passion that links two types of passion, harmonious and obsessive passion, to employees’ work performance, via the mediating mechanism of cognitive engagement (comprising attention and absorption). Results from a survey conducted with 509 employees from an insurance firm indicate that employees with harmonious passion performed better at work, and that this relationshi...

This study extended incivility research beyond the confines of the workplace by exploring the relationships between incivility, work-to-family conflict and family support. Data collected from 180 employees from various organizations in Singapore showed that incivility is not a rare phenomenon in Asian cultures. Employees experienced more incivility from superiors than coworkers or subordinates,...

In view of the importance of employees’ knowledge sharing, this research, which draws on social capital theory and employees' sense of well-being, develops a comprehensive theoretical model which aims to explore deeply the mediating impact of employees’ sense of well-being on social capital and the contribution of knowledge in the complex context of a virtual organisation. The quantitative appr...

The article presents considerations on the functioning of academic environment, defined as a community different groups employees and students. In context occupational stress experienced, salutogenesis concept health by Aaron Antonovsky sense coherence, intelligibility, meaningfulness resourcefulness in work environment were indicated. factors conducive to its development directly threatening i...

In view of the importance of employees’ knowledge sharing, this research, which draws on social capital theory and employees' sense of well-being, develops a comprehensive theoretical model which aims to explore deeply the mediating impact of employees’ sense of well-being on social capital and the contribution of knowledge in the complex context of a virtual organisation. The quantitative appr...

We sought to determine the source of a norovirus outbreak among attendees of 46 weddings taking place during a single weekend. Norovirus-compatible illness was experienced by 332 (39%) of wedding guests surveyed; the outbreak affected up to 2700 persons. Illness was associated with eating wedding cake provided by a bakery common to the weddings (adjusted RR 4.5, P<0.001). A cake requiring direc...