Job burnout can reduce job performance. The present study aimed to investigate the job burnout syndrome and its effective factors among military personnel. In this cross-sectional study, 930 military personnel from different areas were selected via cluster sampling. For data collection, the job burnout questionnaire and the job description index were used. The findings showed that 33.8 percent ...

The topic of this paper is Audio Description (AD) for blind and partially sighted people. I will outline a discourse-based approach to AD focussing on the role of mental modelling, local and global coherence, and different types of inferences (explicatures and implicatures). Applying these concepts to AD, I will discuss initial insights and outline questions for empirical research. My main aim ...

This paper investigates in detail the determinants of job satisfaction in a developing country. Two main results emerge from our analysis. Firstly, we show that as opposed to the empirical evidence from industrial countries, Chilean self-employed workers are more satisfied with their job than Chilean employees only after controlling for job protection and occupational hazard. Descriptive statis...

BACKGROUND Stress and stress-related illnesses are increasing among medical specialists. This threatens the quality of patient care. In this study we investigated (a) levels of job stress and job satisfaction among medical specialists, (b) factors contributing to stress and satisfaction and (c) the effect of stress and satisfaction on burnout. METHODS A questionnaire was mailed to a random sa...

OBJECTIVE To examine the impact of globalization on employee psychological health and job satisfaction via job characteristics (i.e., job demands and job resources) in an emerging economy, that of Malaysia. As external factors are regarded as influences on the working environment, we hypothesized that global forces (increased pressure and competition) would have an impact on burnout and job sat...

A grid job’s requirements description is very important, and raises interesting issues for resource management and scheduling within a grid environment. Several languages such as Globus Resource Specification language and European Data Grid JDL have been developed for describing grid jobs, the latest of which is Job Submission Description Language (JSDL). None of the current job description lan...

BACKGROUND One of the basic prerequisites of efficient organizational management in health institutions is certainly monitoring and measuring satisfaction of employees and their commitment to the health institution in which they work. The aim of this article was to identify and test factors that may have a predictive effect on job satisfaction and organizational commitment. METHODS We conduct...