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Promoting Fun or Competition? Testing Interventions on Ludic and Agonistic Work Design

open access: yesJournal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research highlights the benefits of play‐at‐work, yet little is known about training employees to self‐initiate it. We tested two programs to train employees on designing work with elements of fun (ludic work design [LWD]) or competition (agonistic work design [AWD]).
Jan E. Walsken   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Meta‐Analysis of Antecedents and Outcomes of Flexible Working Arrangements

open access: yesJournal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Flexible working arrangements (FWAs) are increasingly available and used across diverse settings, particularly following the COVID‐19 pandemic. Yet, knowledge of the antecedents and outcomes of FWAs is incomplete and inconclusive. It remains unclear what factors facilitate the perceived availability and use of FWAs, and under what conditions ...
Niamh Harrop   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effect of Socio-Demographics, Health-Related Problems, and Family Structure on Chronic Absenteeism Among Children

open access: yes, 2019
Purpose/Background: From 5 to 7.5 million school children are chronically absent, defined as missing ≥15 days of school within a year. Students miss schools due to various reasons such as health, socioeconomic status, and environmental factors.
Chen, John J.   +3 more
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Screening disability insurance applications [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper investigates the effects of stricter screening of disability insurance applications. A large-scale experiment was setup where in two of the 26 Dutch regions case workers of the disability insurance administration were instructed to screen ...
A Nevins   +15 more
core   +2 more sources

Job Characteristics for Work Engagement: Autonomy, Feedback, Skill Variety, Task Identity, and Task Significance

open access: yesGlobal Business and Organizational Excellence, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the factors influencing employees’ work engagement with focus on the experiences of employees in Slovenian and Malaysian organizations. Previous research has shown that the closer an employee's engagement is with an organization, the higher the employee's performance.
Lea Pfajfar Cotič   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the prevalence and predictors of prolonged grief disorder among children and adolescents bereaved by the 2023 earthquake in Turkey

open access: yesJournal of Traumatic Stress, EarlyView.
Abstract The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of prolonged grief disorder (PGD) in children and adolescents who experienced parental loss in the 2023 Turkey earthquake and to identify factors predicting the development of PGD. The study was designed as a prospective, longitudinal observational study. The final sample consisted of 147
Yahya Esad Özdemir   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

New Evidence on the Determinants of Absenteeism Using Linked Employer-Employee Data [PDF]

open access: yes
In this paper, we provide new evidence on the determinants of absenteeism using the Workplace Employee Survey (WES) 1999-2002 from Statistics Canada. Our paper extends the typical labour-leisure model used to analyze the decision to skip work to include ...
Benoit Dostie, Georges Dionne
core   +3 more sources

Approaches for predicting long-term sickness absence. Re: Schouten et al. “Screening manual and office workers for risk of long-term sickness absence: cut-off points for the Work Ability Index”

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2015
We read with much interest the article of Schouten et al (1) on identifying workers with a high risk for future long-term sickness absence using the Work Ability Index (WAI).
Ludovic GPM van Amelsvoort   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Patient Perspectives on the Impact of Living With Hidradenitis Suppurativa: Results From the Global ‘HS Uncovered’ Burden of Disease Survey

open access: yesJEADV Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic, painful inflammatory skin disease. There is a need to evaluate how patients experience their disease. Objectives The HS Uncovered survey was conducted to understand patient activation, the patient journey and burden of disease.
Georgios Kokolakis   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multiple Approaches to Absenteeism Analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
Absenteeism research has often been criticized for using inappropriate analysis. Characteristics of absence data, notably that it is usually truncated and skewed, violate assumptions of OLS regression; however, OLS and correlation analysis remain the ...
Sturman, Michael C.
core   +1 more source

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