The component structure of a 14-item scale measuring different aspects of job satisfaction was investigated, and its stability among different types of organizations. The participants were 2066 workers from 220 organizations in the Italian social service sector. The job satisfaction items were measured at an ordinal scaling level and analyzed by Categorical Principal Components analysis (CATPCA...

In this paper we present a class of queueing models with multiple job types, multiple machines and machine dependent processing times. Each machine is restricted in such a way that it can only handle jobs from a specific, machine dependent, set of job types. If a job arrives at the system and it can be handled by two or more idle machines, then a probability distribution determines to which mac...

The quest to obtain job satisfaction is not an easy task. Most of the time it will comes together with job stress. Managing and handling job stress is a must and it is a challenging task. Able to control job stress will increase the productivity while failure to manage will lead to many problems in the workplace. A challenging career as an engineer usually leads to many types of job stress. Job...

BACKGROUND A growing number of German hospitals have been privatized with the intention of increasing cost effectiveness and improving the quality of health care. Numerous studies investigated what possible qualitative and economic consequences these changes issues might have on patient care.However, little is known about how this privatization trend relates to physicians' working conditions an...

Employee job satisfaction is an important component of any and could be influenced by different types leadership. Keeping employees happy satisfied while at the same time being a great leader extremely difficult balance, especially in educational leadership, where there are two employees, mainly administrators, educators. It requires who can balance between lines choose proper leadership style ...