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Job satisfaction among primary school personnel in Madagascar [PDF]

, 2016
This article analyzes the job satisfaction of primary school teachers in Madagascar. Based on the estimation of multilevel models, low wages and problems getting paid, job insecurity, lack of in-service training, high pupil-teacher ratios, and lack of ...
Gamero-Buron, Carlos, Lassibille, Gérard   +1 more
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Locus of Control and Job Search Strategies [PDF]

Standard job search theory assumes that unemployed individuals have perfect information about the effect of their search effort on the job offer arrival rate. In this paper, we present an alternative model which assumes instead that each individual has a
Caliendo, Marco, Cobb-Clark, Deborah A., Uhlendorff, Arne   +2 more
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The relationship between empowering leadership and radical creativity

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Drawing on the conservation of resource theory, we theorized and tested a serial mediation model linking empowering leadership with employee radical creativity through job control and willingness to take risks.
Wenjun Yin, Su Liu
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When is Taking Charge Depleting? Job Control and Self-Control Demands as Moderators in Daily Depletion Processes

Scandinavian Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
During the past decades, organizational research has adopted a rather positive perspective on proactive behavior. However, scholars repeatedly suggested examining negative consequences of proactive behavior, such as taking charge.
Wilken Wehrt, Sabine Sonnentag
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Job Satisfaction Among Methadone Maintenance Treatment Clinic Service Providers in Jiangsu, China: A Cross-sectional Survey. [PDF]

, 2020
ObjectiveService providers' job satisfaction is critical to the stability of the work force and thereby the effectiveness of methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) programs.
Cao, Xiaobin, Chen, Guohong, Chen, Yuheng, Huan, Xiping, Li, Li, Lin, Chunqing, Liu, Xiaoyan, Luo, Sitong, McGoogan, Jennifer M, Wu, Zunyou   +9 more
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Overeducation and job satisfaction: the role of job demands and control [PDF]

International Journal of Manpower, 2016
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how job demands and control contribute to the relationship between overeducation and job satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach – The analysis is based on data for Belgian young workers up to the age of 26 ...
Verhaest, Dieter, Verhofstadt, Elsy
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A Longitudinal Test of the Demand–Control Model Using Specific Job Demands and Specific Job Control [PDF]

International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 2010
Supportive studies of the demand-control (DC) model were more likely to measure specific demands combined with a corresponding aspect of control.A longitudinal test of Karasek's (Adm Sci Q. 24:285-308, 1) job strain hypothesis including specific measures of job demands and job control, and both self-report and objectively recorded well-being.Job strain
De Jonge, J., Van Vegchel, N., Shimazu, A., Dormann, C., Schaufeli, Wilmar   +4 more
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Using Financial Incentives and Improving Information to Increase Labour Market Success: A Non-Parametric Evaluation of the 'Want2Work' Programme [PDF]

, 2010
The `Want2Work´ programme was designed to help individuals back into work. This article uses propensity score matching to evaluate the success of a policy that cannot otherwise be evaluated using standard parametric techniques.
Edlin, R., Lindley, J., McIntosh, S., Murray, C.C., Roberts, J.   +4 more
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Meditation Awareness Training (MAT) for Work-related Wellbeing and Job Performance: A Randomised Controlled Trial [PDF]

, 2014
Due to its potential to concurrently improve work-related wellbeing (WRW) and job performance, occupational stakeholders are becoming increasingly interested in the applications of meditation.
A Chiesa, A Chiesa, AJ Arias, American Psychiatric Association, BK Sahdra, C Trungpa, D Lama, DG MacCoon, E Dane, E Fox, E Shonin, E Shonin, E Shonin, E Shonin, E Shonin, Edo Shonin, EW Morrison, F Faul, I Boutron, J Houdmont, JA Edwards, JD Henry, KF Schulz, L Ho, Mark D. Griffiths, MS Krasner, MW Eysenck, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), Nirbhay N. Singh, NN Singh, NN Singh, R Kanfer, R Peter, R. Manocha, SG Hofmann, SH Lovibond, SM Gillespie, SS Russel, T Cox, T McConville, T Nhat Hanh, T Wu, TD Allen, Thomas J. Dunn, TM Welbourne, W Gordon Van, W Gordon Van, WB Malarkey, William Van Gordon   +48 more
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The influence of low job control on ambulatory blood pressure and perceived stress over the working day in men and women from the Whitehall II cohort. [PDF]

, 2004
Objective: Work stress contributes to risk of coronary heart disease and hypertension. This study tested the influence of job control on ambulatory blood pressure, and ratings of perceived stress and happiness in men and women systematically sampled by ...
Andrew Steptoe, Berardi, Bosma, Brisson, Colhoun, Costa, Gonneke Willemsen, Hemingway, Kamarck, Kamarck, Kario, Lachman, Landsbergis, Marmot, Marmot, Melamed, Owens, Rau, Schnall, Schwartz, Steenland, Steptoe, Steptoe, Steptoe, Steptoe, Theorell   +25 more
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