Search results for "Work environment"
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Why people engage in supplemental work: The role of technology, response expectations, and communication persistence
2021
Supported by various collaboration technologies that allow communication from any place or time, employees increasingly engage in technology-assisted supplemental work (TASW). Challenges associated with managing work and non-work time have been further complicated by a global pandemic that has altered traditional work patterns and locations. To date studies applying a TASW framework have focused mainly on individual uses of technology or connectivity behaviors, and not considered the potential team and social pressures underlying these processes. This study provides clarity on the differences between technology use and TASW and sheds light on the drivers of TASW in a work environment charac…
Pràctiques de recursos humans, clima laboral i resultats de gestió. Anàlisi del cas "Verdifresh"
2012
La crisi econòmica mundial obliga cada empresa a lliurar una batalla, a vegades amb si mateixa, per incrementar la seua competitivitat. Cada vegada més, les organitzacions són conscients de la necessitat de comptar amb treballadors alineats amb la seua estratègia. Per aconseguir-ho, algunes empreses s'esforcen a humanitzar les relacions laborals i redissenyar les seues pràctiques de gestió de recursos humans (RH). En aquest estudi s'analitza el cas de l'empresa Verdifresh. Les seues pràctiques de RH s'han dissenyat amb l'objectiu de fidelitzar els treballadors i millorar la seua percepció de les condicions laborals. En aquest treball s'analitzen aquest tipus de relacions i es descriuen les …
University as a workplace: searching for meaningful work
2018
Work in academia is changing, and research suggests that not all the changes are desirable. Higher education is developing in a direction heavily criticized, especially in relation to the concepts of neoliberal and academic capitalism. In this article, we explore meaningful work in a university context. Our focus lies on individual lecturers’ positive opportunities to make work meaningful and the university a better place to work for both students and faculty. We examine meaningful work as a relational phenomenon: how meaningfulness is constructed through features such as dialogue, expertise, interaction and sharing of ideas. Our empirical findings are based on analysis of qualitative and q…
Clinical Nurses Research Priorities in Hospital Settings: A Delphi Survey
2021
This study aimed to identify the research priorities of clinical nurses to develop a research program at a health care services system that includes three hospitals. A Delphi survey was emailed to all clinical nurses in two rounds. The Delphi method was used to collect data from the nurses in regards to their priority research themes, and the data were analyzed using descriptive and comparative statistics. A total of 933 clinical nurses returned the first round of the Delphi survey and 543 nurses answered the second round. Clinical nurses identified 89 potential research themes. Patient safety and ethical challenges were the two highest ranked research priorities. The 40 highest ranked pri…
CREATING A POSITIVE WORKING ENVIRONMENT FOR TEACHERS
2018
The purpose of the research paper is to study a positive working environment importance for teachers work satisfaction and the role of principal in improving working conditions. Whereas teacher profession is subject to different changes and reforms it makes the whole profession and teacher well-being an important subject to discuss.The research paper includes analysis of the theoretical material about physical environment as well as psychological (also called microclimate). Empirical part is based on teacher’s survey – 97 teachers from different schools in Riga were involved. The statements of survey have partially adopted from Teaching and Learning International Study TALIS 2013. The main …
Working outside academia? : perceptions of early-career, fixed-term researchers on changing careers
2019
This article examines the perceptions of early-career, fixed-term researchers in Finnish universities towards changing careers. It maps out the reasons this group has considered the change and where they see themselves in five years. As a theoretical framework, a synthesisation of variables related to career change, created by Ryan, Healy, and Sullivan [2012. “Oh, Won’t You Stay? Predictors of Faculty Intent to Leave a Public University.” Higher Education 63: 421–437.], was used. The results show that the most common reasons for early-career researchers to change careers are job-security related stress, job-related dissatisfaction, and salary. Over half of the respondents would like to work…
Darbinieku ar invaliditāti tiesiskā aizsardzība Latvijas normatīvo aktu tvērumā.
2020
Tēma “Darbinieku ar invaliditāti tiesiskā aizsardzība Latvijas normatīvo aktu tvērumā” ir aktuāla, jo vēl aizvien invalīdu nodarbināšana un veiksmīga integrēšana darba tirgū ir problēma. Darbā autore, galvenokārt, analizējusi Darba likuma normas kopsakarā ar apskatītajiem šķēršļiem, kas kavē invalīdu nodarbināšanu. Pēc normu analīzes autore nonākusi pie secinājuma, ka galvenā problēma, kas kavē invalīdu veiksmīgu integrēšanu darba tirgū, ir sabiedrībā pastāvošie stereotipi, ka invalīdu nodarbināšana būs papildu slogs darba devējam. Autore secina, ka darba devēji baidās nodarbināt invalīdus, jo pareizi neizprot normu, kas aizsargā personas ar invaliditāti, jēgu un mērķi. Lai veicinātu pareiz…
User behavior in Smart and Sustainable Offices (SSO)
2017
Smart and Sustainable Offices (SSO) require synergies between technologies and users behaviors. The sociotechnical approach considers users’ motives, attitudes, cognitions and behaviors when designing work environments. This note will describe those phenomena in office environments. It will also present a set of tools to assess those phenomena and will provide guidelines to improve them.
Psychosocial Work Factors, Job Stress and Strain at the Wheel: Validation of the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ) in Professional Drive…
2019
Introduction: Psychosocial work environment has been related to many negative health outcomes in different workforces. However, evidence in this regard is still limited in the case of transport workers, and most of the tools used in research, often excessively generic, do not fully consider the specific key stressors and adverse issues present in the psychosocial environment of professional driving. Objective: Thus, the purpose of this study was to obtain a complete description of the validation of measurement applied to psychosocial factors at work in professional drivers, using the Enterprise version (2018) of COPSOQ-III. Methods: The data was collected from 726 Spanish professional drive…