We study the relationship between the political connections of Chinese firms and workplace fatalities. The worker death rate for connected companies is five times that of unconnected firms; this result also holds when we exploit executive turnover to generate within-firm estimates. The connections-mortality relationship is attenuated in provinces where officials’ promotion is contingent on meet...

Teaching mathematics can be a very challenging job. In many situations traditional teaching methods does not work and our efforts seem to be quite unsatisfactory. By using some computer programs we can expand our teaching methods and make the subject more interesting. In this paper I show how, using Scientific Notebook, teachers are able to improve their teaching and assessment of mathematics. ...

Workplace bullying is a serious problem faced by nurses nationally. This study was conducted to determine the frequency of workplace bullying and evaluate the effectiveness of a training program on cognitive rehearsal of responses to common bullying behaviors. This program to increase staff nurses' knowledge of management of workplace bullying consisted of three components: pilot survey testing...

background : safety signs provide information as well as instructions concerning the hazard or dangers in the workplace. the correct comprehension of these signs is very important for doing the necessary feedback in the specific situation which are described.  materials and methods: in this descriptive study, the comprehension of 10 selected safety signs were investigated in 53 randomly selecte...

In this paper, I revisit the discussion on workplace studies in computersupported cooperative work (CSCW). Mainly this discussion has debated the designrelated outcome, direct or indirect, of doing ethnographically informed studies of workplaces. There is, however, no clear definition on what counts as a workplace study in a CSCW context. Sometimes a workplace study signifies ethnographic field...

Nurses are at high risk of incurring workplace violence during their working life. This paper reports the findings on a cross-sectional, descriptive, self-report, postal survey in 2007. A stratified random sample of 3000 of the 29 789 members of the Queensland Nurses Union employed in the public, private and aged care sectors resulted in 1192 responses (39.7%). This paper reports the difference...

it is inevitable that healthcare workers throughout their careers will witness actual or potential threats to patient safety in the course of their work. some of these threats will result in serious harm occurring to others, whilst at other times such threats will result in minimal harm, or a ‘near miss’ where harm is avoided at the last minute. despite organizations encouraging employees to ‘s...

fisheries industry in india is an unorganized sector of occupation where considerable proportion of workers is female. however, the prevalent gender inequality in terms of task allocation, wages, and other welfare facilities makes the men as dominant workforce. furthermore, there are occasions when incidents of workplace violence take place. the present study was conducted to find the prevalenc...