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Relationships between burnout and role ambiguity, role conflict and employee absenteeism among health workers
2014
The aim of this research was to analyze the influence of some psychosocial risk factors in the development of burnout and to analyze the influence of this phenomenon on employee absenteeism. The study sample included 142 health care workers. The data analysis included descriptive statistics and multiple linear regression models. The results confirmed the influence of role ambiguity and role conflict on burnout [F (2.139) = 26.720; p < .001], but the influence of burnout on employee absenteeism was not confirmed. However, a significant and positive relationship has been shown between burnout and employee absenteeism (β = 0.197; p < .05). In conclusion, the findings of this study support the …
Work-to-family conflict and its relationship with satisfaction and well-being: a one-year longitudinal study on gender differences
2004
The present study produced new knowledge about gender differences with respect to work-to-family conflict and its longitudinal relations with indicators of satisfaction and well-being. The study examined the longitudinal relations between work-to-family conflict and self-reported satisfaction and well-being in the domains of work (job satisfaction), family (marital satisfaction, parental distress) as well as overall (psychological and physical) symptoms. Data were obtained from a random sample of Finnish men (n=208) and women (n=218) who were employed and had either a partner or/and children. A survey was conducted at two points in time, in 1999 (Time 1), and one year later, in 2000 (Time 2…
How Many Clocks, How Many Times? On the Sensory Basis and Computational Challenges of Circadian Systems
2018
A vital task for every organism is not only to decide what to do but also when to do it. For this reason, “circadian clocks” have evolved in virtually all forms of life. Conceptually, circadian clocks can be divided into two functional domains; an autonomous oscillator creates a ~24 h self-sustained rhythm and sensory machinery interprets external information to alter the phase of the autonomous oscillation. It is through this simple design that variations in external stimuli (for example, daylight) can alter our sense of time. However, the clock’s simplicity ends with its basic concept. In metazoan animals, multiple external and internal stimuli, from light to temperature and even metaboli…
Comprehensive education boundaries and remedies on the edges of the Spanish educational system
2015
Throughout the history of education different conceptions have been developed about the role and the function that education has in society as a whole. Such conceptions have been constructed around different discourses that show underlying social conflicts. The different educational practices acquire their legitimacy through such discourses, which organize the action of the subjects participating in them. In the research works that have been developed from the University of Valencia over the period 1994 to 20141, discursive keys through which educators of comprehensive measures legitimate their action have been identified. In those analyses a notion of discourse as the structure of argumen…
The OECD civil servant: Caught between Scylla and Charybdis1
2011
ABSTRACT Civil servants in international secretariats are exposed to numerous, cross-cutting and, at times, conflicting pressures and expectations. The secretariat of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is no different. This study reveals a fundamental ‘misfit’ between external demands and internal dynamics in the OECD Secretariat. On one hand, the OECD analysts are employed on the basis of merit. Compared to the employees in the central administrations in many OECD member states, the OECD personnel are very competitive in terms of experience and academic skills. Thus, the OECD Secretariat can be seen as a veritable powerhouse of idea generation, data collection…
Violent Conflict and Online Segregation: An Analysis of Social Network Communication Across Ukraine's Regions
2016
Does the intensity of a social conflict affect political division? Traditionally, social cleavages are seen as the underlying cause of political conflicts. It is clear, however, that a violent conflict itself can shape partisan, social, and national identities. In this paper, we ask whether social conflicts unite or divide the society by studying the effects of Ukraine's military conflict with Russia on online social ties between Ukrainian provinces (oblasts). In order to do that, we collected original data on the cross-regional structure of politically relevant online communication among users of VKontakte social networking site. We analyze the panel of provinces spanning the most active p…
Antecedentes y efectos del burnout-engagement del vendedor
2012
ResumenEl burnout o «síndrome del trabajador quemado» ha demostrado tener una gran importancia en el campo de las ventas. Sin embargo, no se han encontrado estudios que analicen en profundidad su opuesto, el engagement. El presente trabajo trata de profundizar en los antecedentes y efectos de un concepto integrador de ambos opuestos denominado burnout-engagement. Para ello, se realiza un estudio sobre 107 vendedores de distintos sectores. Los datos obtenidos, dado el tamaño de la muestra, son analizados mediante el sistema PLS. En lo relativo a antecedentes, los resultados demuestran una relación significativa entre el conflicto de rol y el burnout-engagement, la ambigüedad de rol y el burn…
La factibilidad de los derechos sociales en Europa: debate actual y perspectivas
2021
El presente trabajo reflexiona acerca de la relación entre el análisis económico y la efectividad y justiciabilidad de los derechos sociales en Europa. En efecto, si en la era de la globalización se confiere una posición relevante al mercado cuando se redactan las normas nacionales e internacionales sobre derechos sociales (incluso en la fase inicial –previendo el impacto económico de dichas normas, la denominada “factibilidad”), el autor pone de relieve que la estructura jurídica y dogmática de tales derechos sociales es tan idónea como la de los derechos civiles a la hora de garantizar su justiciabilidad. En tal sentido, se subraya el camino hacia un estándar común europeo en materia de d…
Democracy, political risks and stock market performance
2015
We study whether the emerging stock markets’ performance is affected by direct and indirect effects of democracy level and political risk. We argue that the relationship between democracy level and the political risk is parabolic instead of a simple linear relation i.e. there exists a limit in democracy after which the political risk begins to decline and this is reflected in stock prices. Using panel data for 38 emerging markets at yearly frequency and controlling for several domestic and international factors, we find a fairly robust evidence that during the period 2000-2010, this relationship is true and after some threshold, the more democratic countries produce higher returns. Similar …