OBJECTIVES To investigate if participation in workplace health promotion (WHP) depends on the work environment. METHODS Questionnaire data on participation in WHP activities (smoking cessation, healthy diet, exercise facilities, weekly exercise classes, contact with health professionals, health screenings) and the work environment (social support, fatiguing work, physical, quantitative and em...

BACKGROUND A discrete choice experiment was conducted to investigate preferences for job characteristics among nursing students and practicing nurses to determine how these groups vary in their respective preferences and to understand whether differing policies may be appropriate for each group. METHODS Participating students and workers were administered a discrete choice experiment that eli...

PURPOSE This study aimed to develop a job description for healthcare managers of metabolic syndrome management programs using task analysis. METHODS Exploratory research was performed by using the Developing a Curriculum method, the Intervention Wheel model, and focus group discussions. Subsequently, we conducted a survey of 215 healthcare workers from 25 community health centers to verify th...

Despite recent interest in the practice of allowing job applicants to retest, surprisingly little is known about how retesting affects 2 of the most critical factors on which staffing procedures are evaluated: subgroup differences and criterion-related validity. We examined these important issues in a sample of internal candidates who completed a job-knowledge test for a within-job promotion. T...

background and purpose: nurses constitute the largest group of human resources in healthcare systems of almost all countries they also play a significant role in community health promotion. nurses’ job satisfaction is of great importance in the promotion of healthcare quality. therefore, the present study aimed to analyze the relationship between personality type (type a & b) and job satisfacti...

This study aims to determine the effect of promotion and incentives on work motivation at Regional Secretariat Musi Banyuasin Regency. The type research used in this is quantitative descriptive. population were employees Regency which opened 175 people. sample slovin formula as many 122 Data collection techniques interviews, observation, library questionnaires. analysis using SPSS program. resu...

Background: This study aimed to assess the determinants of job satisfaction among health workers at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria. Materials and Methods: In this survey, a descriptive design was employed among 440 health workers, including doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and laboratory scientists. The participants were recruited via systematic random sampling at every fo...

Using data representative of the U.S. working population, this research explores age norms for promotional expectations and assesses whether or not they carry with them psychological consequences. Findings reveal some degree of normativity in promotion expectations during two age brackets of the work life span, and they are consistent across assorted structural features. Normative expectations,...

OBJECTIVES The study aimed at assessment of the Polish occupational medicine service system after over ten years of functioning in the current shape, made by occupational nurses. The article focuses on the job satisfaction level among Polish occupational medicine nurses. MATERIALS AND METHODS The survey was performed among 600 randomly selected occupational medicine nurses, registered in the ...