INTRODUCTION Occupational stress is one of the major problems of health care staff, substantially affecting their professional and personal performance. This research has been conducted with the aim of determining the effect of stress management on occupational stress and satisfaction among the Midwives in Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital wards at Motahari Hospital in Jahrom, Iran 2013-2014. ...

This study examined job satisfaction among nurses in China. A nationwide survey was conducted with 403 nurses employed at hospitals in 16 provinces in China using the Job Descriptive Index Scale. The findings indicated that, overall, nurses were dissatisfied with work, pay, and promotions. Pay was rated as the least satisfying aspect of work followed by promotions. Nurses with more years of exp...

It has been 4 years since Journal of Diabetes Investigation (JDI) was launched as a bimonthly journal in 2010, as the official journal of the Asian Association for the Study of Diabetes (AASD). Two years after the launch, the first Impact Factor was released with the evaluation of 1.861. Contributions come from all over the world, and in 2012 almost 300 papers per year as original articles have...

Correctness constraints provide a foundation for automated debugging within object-oriented systems. This paper discusses a new approach to incorporating correctness constraints into Java development environments. Our approach uses the Object Constraint Language (“OCL”) as a specification language and the Java Debug Interface (“JDI”) as a verification API. OCL provides a standard language for e...

The views expressed in this report are those of the authors, not necessarily those of the Home Office (nor do they reflect Government policy). Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank colleagues in Research Development and Statistics and Partnership Performance and Support Unit for their helpful comments on drafts of this report. Thanks also go to Kate Pearce from the National Centre fo...

BACKGROUND Nurses' job satisfaction and job stress are important issues regarding their turnovers. While there are some recent descriptive studies on job satisfaction in public hospitals, very limited research was found on this topic in private hospital setting. It is worth to examine the job satisfaction of nurses and its correlates in such a specific hospital context in Hong Kong, by which th...

ISSN 2277-5056 | © 2013 Bonfring Abstract--This study aims at exploring the impact of high performance HR practices on employees’ job performance. The study sought to establish the effect of job design, training and development, motivation, supervisory support, working environment and compensation on employees’ job performance in Leather goods manufacturing companies at Vellore district. The re...

OBJECTIVE Office-work poses a high-risk for musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), with consequences for workers, employers and society. The aims of this study were to determine the prevalence of musculoskeletal symptoms in a sample of Iranian office workers, to investigate the association between pain severity and job satisfaction and to investigate the association between MSDs and job satisfaction...