occupational asthma is defined as “a disease of variable airflow limitations and/or airway hyper-responsiveness due to causes and conditions attributable to a particular occupational environment and not stimuli that are being encountered outside the workplace.” an analysis of general population-based studies published up to 2007 showed that 17.6% of all adultonset asthma is due to workplace exp...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background : work-related stress has increased during recent years throughout the world as well as in developing countries. studies demonstrate that work-related stress can have a negative effect on the quality of life, productivity, and as a result lead to considerable socioeconomic consequences. the purpose of the curren...

introduction: in medical education, particularly in residency courses, most of the training occurs in real clinical environments. workplace-based learning profoundly affects students’ knowledge, attitudes, and practice; therefore, it should be properly planned. due to the extensiveness of the clinical environment and its importance in training residents, investigating how residents learn in the...

Workplace deviance has become a growing concern for many organizations particularly in developing countries because of its negative consequences on organizational productivity. Drawing on the basis of organizational support theory, this study examined the relationship of perceived organizational support and perceived supervisor support with workplace deviance. The aim of this paper was to test ...

There remains a critical gap in understanding challenges faced by humanitarian workers who may be key in providing assistance during complex emergencies. This study examines self-reported views by humanitarian workers working in Palestine concerning three concepts: resilience, generalized self-efficacy, and importance of workplace empowerment. Aid workers in Palestine face unique obstacles plac...

IBM's adoption of operating system personalities was one of the most publicized issues in operating systems design. The basic premise of Workplace OS work was: 1) IBM would adopt and improve the CMU Mach 3.0 microkernel for use on PDAs, the desktop, and massively parallel machines, and 2) that several operating system personalities would execute on the micro-kernel platform concurrently. This a...

The design of virtual workplaces that can support virtual work processes has traditionally been either adhoc, or has been influenced by the virtual architecture or requirements engineering disciplines. The problem with these approaches is the difficulty in obtaining, and subsequently retaining and reusing, ready-made configurations of collaborative work processes. Such configurations naturally ...

The Information area has revolutionized the workplace. Douglas Kruse, a professor of human resources and the director of the program for disability research at Rutgers University, states that 7% of employed persons with disabilities work 20 hours or more a week from home. While some modern countries have established “virtual teams”, which are said to be comprised of people who are geographicall...

Anecdotal evidence suggests that trade unions succeed in ameliorating workplace health and safety, but no attempt has been made to link specific workplace injury rates with a respective union presence. Relying on WERS98, this paper establishes a cross-sectional link between trade unions and occupational injury rates, revealing that unions gravitate to accident-prone workplaces and react by redu...

In this ever-changing business environment, business processes are constantly being customized to reflect the up-to-date organizational structure and business objectives. Furthermore, technological updates and innovation also affect the way business is carried out. A workplace application provides an interactive electronic working environment that integrates software applications to assist user...