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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Work situation"”.
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The work situation and class position of Brazilian engineers
This thesis analyses the work situation and class position of Brazilian engineers through a Marxist perspective. The research is based on two case studies, one focused on a large German steel company based in Brazil and the other on a large Brazilian energy corporation. The fieldwork involved 114 …
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A meaningful work in a strained context - exploring midwives' work situation and professional role
Midwives report a challenging work situation globally with a work force shortage, which is a large challenge for health-care organisations and can influence midwives’ professional role. The overall aim of this thesis was to explore midwives’ work situation and professional role in relation to …
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An exploratory study of the relationships among personality characteristics, work situation, job satisfaction, and ability to empathize in an industrial framework
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Psychology, 1955
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The maladjusted worker : a survey by means of the Rorschach and other indices
In every work situation, assuming that the conditions of work are reasonably satisfactory, the workers may be divided into two classes. The first type of worker is the individual who is capable of making adjustive reactions to the work situation. The second type is the individual who is unable to …
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The organizational environment and its relationship to social workers' absenteeism and overall job satisfaction
This study was designed to examine social workers' perceptions of a selected set of organizational job factors and their relationship to workers' absenteeism and overall job satisfaction. The organizational job factors were examined from three different organizational levels: individual needs for …
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Person-in-job determinants and work outcomes of fit
… the present study as an emotional cognition of workers (and others in the workplace) that results from cognitive appraisals of interactions between personal characteristics, representing needs of workers, and corresponding reinforcers of those needs in the work situation. Fit was seen to lead to …
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The Efficiency of Community Forests: Successful and Unsuccessful Examples From Nepal
… problem, and inconsistent forest policy. This work recommends for amendment of modern CF policy guidelines to reduce CF transformation costs, increase present value of future returns, and reduce present value of enforcement costs. These amendments will be effective to improve prevailing CF work …
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To work or not to work in an extended working life? Factors in working and retirement decisions
… the welfare state, because the active working section of the population must fund the non-active and old population. Aim: The overall aim of this thesis was to obtain knowledge about older workers’ work and life situation in association with their planning and decision to retire from …
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Ömsesidighet i förhandling. Sjuksköterskors förutsättningar för och erfarenheter av att främja patientdelaktighet.
… in nursing care. Hindrances in nurses’ work situation were identified: Competence, Influence of significant others and Organisation and work environment. A qualitative, inductive content analysis has been described and used to illuminate nurses’ strategies in order to stimulate and …
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IZWI : the working conditions of African domestic workers in Cape Town in the 1980s
… on African women's experiences as domestic workers results from the fact that the majority of women within the African population in Cape Town are employed in this sector of economy. Further, the African working class is in a peculiar position as a result of the strict enforcement of the …
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T-F-A patterns, coping strategies, and personality characteristics associated with type A/B behavior
… used Hutchins’ T-F-A System as a conceptual framework to determine whether relationships exist among thinking-feeling-acting (T-F-A) behavior patterns, selected personality characteristics, coping strategies, and Type A/B behavior patterns. Variables were measured by the Hutchins Behavior …
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The influence of affect on leader evaluations of subordinates: a laboratory simulation employing a process approach
Recent work in performance appraisal has focused on the cognitive operations involved in a rating task, but has neglected the influence of affect. The purpose of the present study was to examine the process by which affect influences evaluations and to examine the impact of affeet on outcome …
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A study to assess the status of staff development programs for the identification, assessment, and/or training of prospective principals in public school districts in the Commonwealth of Virginia
… in-depth experiences relevant to the everyday work situation of the principal.
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Job factors contributing to the job satisfaction and job dissatisfaction of primary principals in one Ministry of Education district in Western Australia
… the development of the study's conceptual framework and research questions. Data to address the research questions were collected through a modification of Flanagan's critical incident technique. During interview sessions, eighteen primary principals were each asked to provide four sequences of …
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Hospital nurses' attitudes to work: a case study of a Chinese hospital
… relevant factors of nurses' attitudes to and at work are. These include the separate but related hypotheses – the nature of the profession and changes in terms of management and training; the nature of the work situation including contracts and pay determination; and the nature of work relations …
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Home As A Place Of Work
… and dualisms relating to 'home'- and 'work'. These are seen as socially constructed concepts in a dialectical relationship with one another; to understand one it is necessary to understand the other. It is argued that the meaning of 'home', in particular, has been largely taken for …
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Empirical Methods for Evaluating Video-Mediated Collaborative Work
… the structure and means by which information workers conduct business. From a human factors perspective, however, the study of new communication technologies and their relationships with end users presents a challenging research domain. This study employed two diverse research approaches to …
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An investigation into the advocacy role of the learning disability nurse
… a grounded theory methodology, augmented by situational analyses and mapping. It took as its foundation definitions of advocacy and their advocacy needs obtained from people with learning difficulties. The definitions were considered by learning disability nurses and expanded by them. Nurses …
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Gyvūnų psichologinio poveikio subjektyvus vertinimas ir vertintojo asmenybės ypatumai /
… 140 respondents of various education and work situation, aged 18-76 years (average of 28,5 years), of which 25.7% were male and 74.3%. was a female. Five factor personality questionnaire were used for evaluation of personality traits and a questionnaire of the subjective evaluation of …
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Effects of nursing work loads on patients safety in the selected public hospitals in Vhembe District of Limpopo Province, South Africa
Background: The heavy workload of hospital nurses is a major problem globally. Nurses are experiencing higher workloads than ever before due to four main reasons, increased demand for nurses, inadequate appointment of new nurses, reduced staffing and increased overtime and reduction in patient …
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