Meaningful work has become an increasingly valued job outcome for many employees. It is also receiving increased attention in the management and organizational behavior research literatures. In this study, antecedents and consequences of meaningful work are examined. A particular type of person-job fit, self-concept-job fit, is proposed and found to be a significant predictor of meaningful work...

BACKGROUND Nurses' intention to leave their profession is a worldwide concern. Studies have shown that it can take the form of a chain reaction: many nurses first leave the unit, then the hospital, and finally the profession. Organisation and other labour factors, personal and conjunctural, have been associated with the intention to quit nursing. This study aimed to examine the factors associat...

Self-determined work motivation predicts important job outcomes, such as job satisfaction [Richer, S. F., Blanchard, C., & Vallerand, R. J. (2002). A motivational model of work turnover. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 32, 2089– 2113], but what predicts self-determined work motivation is less fully understood. We tested general causality orientation—specifically autonomy and control orien...

background and objectives: job stress is not always caused directly by the stressful sources, but it results more from the way in which those sources are perceived. therefore, a lot of factors are effective in job stress. as such, the present study was done to predict the job stress based on spiritual intelligence and self-diffrentiation of teachers of exceptional children in the town of shahri...

OBJECTIVE Accidental injuries are frequent and their socioeconomic consequences enormous. The present study aimed to identify predictors of the number of days of leave taken in a consecutively selected group of accident victims who sustained severe, mostly life-threatening physical trauma. METHOD One hundred patients with severe accidental injuries who were referred to a trauma surgeons' inte...