This exploratory study sought to gather detailed information about how domestic violence affects women's employment, specifically to identify the types of job interference tactics used by abusers and their consequences on women's job performance; identify and understand the context associated with disclosure about victimization to employers and coworkers; and identify the supports offered to em...

background today, continuous emergence of new jobs and elimination of old jobs have made a lot of problems for some individuals and in the meantime, developing countries transferring from traditional economy to world economy are more influenced by these changes. objectives considering the importance of personality types and the role of culture in job selection, the current study was conducted a...

This survey study identifies the correlations between types of perceived stress, exhaustion, and job satisfaction in a sample of 149 hospital nurses. Data were analyzed using the Pearson's correlation analysis, t-test, oneway ANOVA, and Tukey’s HSD test. Significant positive correlations were found between stress-sensitive perception and exhaustion, and between stressresistant perception and jo...

The flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSP) is one of the most difficult NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems. It is extremely difficult to solve the FJSP with the disturbances of manufacturing environment, which is always regarded as the flexible job shop online scheduling problem. This paper proposes a new method based on Process-Tree to solve this type of scheduling problem. Proce...

PURPOSE In a 2011 survey sponsored by the American Nurses Association (ANA), nurses identified the acute and chronic effects of stress and overwork as one of their two top safety and health concerns. DESIGN/METHODS A review of the literature was conducted to investigate the impact that job stress has on the health and safety of nursing professionals and the role that working conditions and jo...

This study examined the role of passion for work in the health impairment and motivational processes proposed by the job demands-resources model. Based on the dualistic model of passion, we proposed that harmonious and obsessive passion intervene simultaneously in the relationship between (1) job demands and burnout/ engagement, and (2) job resources and burnout/engagement. This model was teste...

Historically, job analysis has played a fundamental role for developing and validating licensure and certification examinations. Still, research on what constitutes reliable and valid job analysis data is lacking. This paper illustrates several ways to examine the reliability and validity of job analysis survey results. Generalizability theory and the many-facets Rasch model are applied to inve...