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Showing 1 to 20 of 85 for “"Quitting"”.
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Quitting versus Not Quitting: The Process and Development of an Assimilation Program Within Opportunity Resources, Inc.
To assist Opportunity Resources, Inc. (ORI) in lowering its turnover rate, an assimilation program was designed to be implemented within the ogranization to enhance communication difficulties and training deficiencies. Information was collected from 17 current and former employees (management and …
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Quitting versus Not Quitting: The Process and Development of an Assimilation Program Within Opportunity Resources, Inc.
To assist Opportunity Resources, Inc. (ORI) in lowering its turnover rate, an assimilation program was designed to be implemented within the ogranization to enhance communication difficulties and training deficiencies. Information was collected from 17 current and former employees (management and …
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Investigating the relationship between conscientiousness, neuroticism and the quiet quitting phenomenon in South Africa: conceptualising quiet quitting as psychological turnover behaviour
In this study, the phenomenon of quiet quitting within the South African workforce is explored, focusing on how motivation, job satisfaction and specific personality traits influence this behaviour. Quiet quitting – which is defined as the practice of performing only the minimum required duties – …
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An Artificial Life Model of Engineering Attrition Contemplation: Why do Federally Employed Civilian Engineers Think of Quitting?
… stress is burnout, and its extreme expression is quitting or turnover. Various models have been used to explain and predict this behavior. Behavior models are useful tools to explore the ability of organizational policies to reduce stress levels and turnover. Advancing the usefulness of models is …
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Talking Story About Quitting Pugua - An Exploratory Study on Self-Driven Cessation of Betel Nut (Pugua) Chewing on Saipan
… and culturally adapted services to assist with quitting betel nut.
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Self-Planned Smoking Cessation: A Retrospective Study of the Strategies and Resources Used by Individuals in Quitting and Remaining Quit
Interviews were administered to a random population of 30 successful and 34 unsuccessful quitters in order to investigate if there was a difference in the strategies and resources used in self-planned smoking cessation. Self-planned quitters were defined as those responsible for planning their last …
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Formal Mentoring Advantage for Leadership Development and Thoughts of Quitting in Early Career: Mediating Roles of Leadership Self-Efficacy and Protégé’s Network
… affects leadership development and thoughts of quitting. In this study, I tested a comprehensive model to explain how quality of formal mentoring can enhance leadership development and reduce the consideration of turnover by integrating social cognitive and social capital theories. I collected …
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A Mixed Methods Examination Of The Relationship between Workload, Job Satisfaction, and Burnout on Faculty Quitting Intentions at Public, Associate Degree Granting Institutions In Georgia
<p>Increased budgetary constraints for postsecondary institutions may lead to increased workloads for full-time faculty members. Previous studies have shown that a negative relationship exists between workload and job satisfaction, which may lead to faculty burnout and increased faculty turnover. …
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Six-month outcomes of a multi-campus smoking cessation contest
… contacted by phone to assess their smoking and quitting behaviours. Qualitative and quantitative measures were collected, including weekly tobacco consumption, efficacy to resist temptations to smoke, use of quitting aids, and strategies to cope with withdrawal. Quitting was assessed using 7-day …
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Dispositional Differences in Frequencies of and Reasons for Voluntary Turnover: A Latent-Class Approach
… neglected in the literature: frequencies of past quitting and reasons for quitting versus staying. While most turnover research in the past has focused on the phenomenon of voluntary turnover from organizational perspectives (e.g., predicting whether a person will quit or not in a given …
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Human Capital Management Within the Federal Government Utilizing Generational Stratification With a Focus on Generation Y
… Generation Y is also separating; specifically quitting for unknown reasons. Understanding this apparent dichotomy between Generation Y and Generation X and Baby Boomer federal government employees is a current knowledge gap within the federal government's strategic human capital management …
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The Association between Perceived Distress Tolerance and Cannabis Use Problems, Cannabis Withdrawal Symptoms, and Self-Efficacy for Quitting Cannabis: The Explanatory Role of Pain-Related Affective Distress
… withdrawal severity, and self-efficacy for quitting. The current study sought to examine the experience of pain, which frequently co-occurs with cannabis use (Ashrafioun, Bohnert, Jannausch, & Ilgen, 2015), as an underlying factor in the relation between perceived distress tolerance and …
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Smoking cessation in those living with schizophrenia
… The 4 people in the study all showed interest in quitting smoking. The subjects were given questionnaires weekly and were monitored daily to record the amount of cigarettes smoked. The questionnaires that were administered are the Intention to Quit/ Interest in Quitting, Withdrawal Symptoms, …
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Responding to the Workplace Narcissist
… method categories existed: non-responding, quitting one’s job, befriending the narcissist, confronting the narcissist, and going to management. Contrary to existing literature, only quitting one’s job or going to management were perceived by respondents as effective methods.
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Factors Influencing College Seniors' Intentions To Quit Cigarette Smoking
… would have more positive intentions toward quitting than nondaily smokers) was not supported, nondaily smokers did have more positive intentions to quit smoking than daily smokers. When intentions were examined by sex, no statistical difference was found between males and females in …
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Cigarette smoking amongst Rheumatoid Arthritis patients in a tertiary centre in South Africa
… Although 50.1% felt that living with RA made quitting difficult, 86.9% had considered quitting, and almost half (45.6%) had previously quit for more than 3 months. Conclusion: In this cohort of RA patients, a third actively smoke. Smoking is a modifiable risk factor, although half of the …
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Evaluating the Outcomes of a Quit and Win Contest Among Young Adults Enrolled in Post-Secondary Schools and Not in Post-Secondary Schools
… questions addressing demographics and smoking/quitting behaviours and intentions. Six weeks after the start of the contest, participants completed an Intervention Check assessing use of contest supports (emails, Facebook group), perceived value of the prize, and use of quit aids. Abstinence …
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Improving smoking cessation for vulnerable populations in low-resourced settings
… reasons for tobacco use maintenance, interest in quitting, barriers to cessation, and preferred quitting methods among adolescent smokers in South Africa. We conducted 6 focus groups (n = 38) to assess adolescents' opinions on tobacco maintenance and interest in quitting, as well as perceived …
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