Quality of work life (QWL) refers to how staff think about their profession, to what extents they are satisfied, and how they consider their job comparable with their goals (1, 2). It is commonly believed that improvement of the QWL is vital for attracting and keeping the staff (3). Quality of work life for nurses is not an exception; however, low quality of their work life has been confirmed b...

Measuring Labor Market Frictions: A Cross-Country Comparison In this paper we define and estimate measures of labor market frictions using data on job durations. We compare different estimation methods and different types of data. We propose and apply an unconditional inference method that can be applied to aggregate duration data. It does not require wage data, it is invariant to the way in wh...

introduction: hospital managers, as one of the most important health care workers, are the subject of continuous education. in some countries around the world, health management education is an important part of health reforms. the aim of present research is to perform evidence-based studies based on assessing hospital managers’ needs. therefore, it should be considered that educational need as...

This article explores the relationship between the job characteristics underlying the Goldthorpe model of social class (work monitoring difficulty and human asset specificity) and those underlying theories of technological change (routine and analytical tasks) highlighted as key drivers for growing inequality. Analysis of the 2012 British Skills and Employment Survey demonstrate monitoring diff...

BACKGROUND Many factors influence the organizational commitment of employees. One of these factors is job designing since it affects the attitude, beliefs, and feelings of the organization employees. OBJECTIVES We aimed to determine the relationship between job characteristics and organizational commitment among the employees of hospitals. PATIENTS AND METHODS In this descriptive and correl...

The EXCLASS system (Expert Job Evaluation Assistant) is intended to provide intelligent support for job description and classification in the Canadian Public Service. The Job Description Module (JDM) of EXCLASS is used to create conceptual representations of job descriptions, which are used for job evaluation and bilingual generation of textual job descriptions. The design of these representati...

The job satisfaction of academics is related to a number of variables of complex function such as demographic characters, the work itself, pay, work responsibilities, variety of tasks, promotional opportunities, relationship with co-workers and others. Academics may be simultaneously satisfied with some facets of the job and dissatisfied with others. This paper aims at determining the influenti...

Background and objective: Nursing is an extremely stressful job and nurses face a variety of personal, organizational and communicational stresses which negatively affect their health and their job satisfaction. Accordingly, the present study was done to determine the level of job stress among nurses in intensive care units. Methods: In this analytical descriptive and cross sectional study, 175...

Training, Job Satisfaction and Workplace Performance in Britain: Evidence from WERS 2004 This paper analyses the relationship between training, job satisfaction and workplace performance using the British 2004 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS). Several measures of performance are analysed including absence, quits, financial performance, labour productivity and product quality. While th...