PURPOSE To investigate the reliability and validity of a single-item overall job satisfaction measure. METHODS Public agency employees (n = 745) were surveyed regarding job satisfaction, work, personality, and health variables. The single-item measure underwent the following analyses: correction for attenuation formula to estimate minimum reliability; correlations with multiple-item job satis...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To describe the association between horizontal violence and job satisfaction in hospital staff registered nurses and the degree to which peer relationships mediates the relationship. Additionally, the association between nurse and work characteristics and job satisfaction were determined. BACKGROUND Horizontal violence is a major predictor of nurses' job satisfaction. Yet,...

Previous studies have paid little attention to the employees' ability to exit a job-lock situation and factors that determine this ability. It remains unclear why some employees who experience job lock are able to exit this state while others remain in job lock. We use longitudinal data to identify employees who have fallen in the state of job lock and their subsequent behavior-exiting or remai...

In performance evaluation literature, although the combination of some variables such as age, gender, experience, observation time, and interpersonal affect has been widely considered in determining employee performance, no investigation has indicated the influence of workplace conditions on job performance. This study reports the effects of job characteristics (physical efforts and job grade),...

Determinants of Further Training: Evidence for Germany Based on a German representative sample of employees we explore the relevance and development of further training in private sector firms. We focus on formal training and explore possible individual and job-based determinants of its incidence. We also show changes over time during a 20 year observation period from 1989 to 2008. Most hypothe...

Employee Retention has gained importance in recent years, particularly as part of talent management programs, and its relevance can be seen so much that the HR practitioner who integrates it into a talent program may grow bewildered by the huge volume of research about it. Employee retention is more than just keeping employees on the job. It is also about sustaining employees, primarily by enha...