BACKGROUND In labour market policy and planning, it is important to understand the motivations of people to continue in their current job or to seek other employment. Over the last decade, besides the increasingly medical approach to pregnancy and childbirth and decreasing home births, there were additional dramatic changes and pressures on primary care midwives and midwifery care. Therefore, i...

It has been debated that employees in a government or public ownership agency may perceive less need for growth opportunities or high-powered incentives than is the case for employees in private organizations. This study examined employees' job autonomy in government-run community health centers, its predispositions and its relation to their work outcomes. A cross-sectional study was conducted ...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study was to assess both the direct and indirect effects (i.e., interacting with various job demands) of skill discretion on various psychological outcomes (i.e., emotional exhaustion, intention to leave, affective well-being, and job satisfaction). MATERIAL AND METHODS Data were collected by a self-reported questionnaire in 3 hospitals in Italy. The sample c...

This study investigates the extent to which job satisfaction mediates the relationship between job stress work outcomes, such as intention to leave the employer and citizenship behaviour (OCB). Job satisfaction is examined as a mediator between stress and intention to leave, and OCB. The procedure advocated by Baron and Kenny (1986) was selected for the mediation test. The result pattern across...

this article aimed at identifying the rate of dissatisfied employees who had  left  their previous jobs and the main factors which caused their dissatisfaction. in order to collect data for this study a well-structured questionnaire was distributed to 150 employees of different private and public organizations in bangladesh who already left their previous jobs and  142 usable responses were rec...

many studies have already been conducted to understand the various dimensions of the burnout. the purpose of the present research is to investigate the moderating effect of demographic variables on the relationship between job burnout and its consequences among the staff of an iranian public sector company. in this research, job burnout is considered as independent variable; organizational comm...