Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is becoming a fast changing and renewing technology in education sector. The use of these fast changing and renewing technologies create a source of pressure among academicians. This study analyzes the factors affecting the technostress among Indian academicians. This research is conducted on 116 academicians in India using an online questionnaire....

Premised on two social-psychological perspectives, the costreward theory of helping and social exchange theory, our study made one of the first attempts to explore the processes involved in online knowledge sharing among academicians. We collected data from management conference presenters (n=530) by the use of quasi-experimental approach. The results revealed that, on receiving a request to sh...

This study addresses the mortality of the members of the Saxonian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig. In fact, learned societies have been shown to present vanguard groups in the achievement of longevity. We use biographical records from the members of the Saxonian Academy of Sciences from 1846 to 2010 and compare their mortality to German life table estimates, where particularly att...

This study aimed to find out how managers and academicians working in the organization perceived their organization and how they responded to the variations arising from climatic changes in the organization. The data were collected from 146 academicians by Kocaeli University Organizational Climate Questionnaire (KUOCQ) measuring five factors“rules and discipline”, “democracy”, “social and cultu...

Objective: To determine psychological violence behaviors (mobbing) exposed by academic personnel working in Erciyes University, Turkey. Methods: A questionnaire-based cross sectional study was performed in June 2010 in Erciyes University. No sampling methods were used, questionnaires were delivered by mail to all academicians and 450 of 850 (53.0%) questionnaires were returned. We used the Mobb...

This was a descriptive research conducted in order to determine health beliefs of the female academicians about breast cancer and screening tests and the Affecting factors that determined these beliefs. 200 female academicians made up the sample of the research. The data were gathered by the researcher using a Descriptive Data Collection Form that aimed at the characteristics of the women and C...