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This paper analyses the relationship between training, job satisfaction and workplace performance using the British … 2004 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS). Several measures of performance are analysed including absence, quits … associated with job satisfaction, and job satisfaction in turn is positively associated with most measures of performance, the …
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sometimes, as in the case of happiness and life satisfaction, QoL indicators remain unchanged despite a doubling or more of real …
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Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses … the level of satisfaction with political and economic institutions and with the education and health systems, whereas the …
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This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and measures of health of workers using the German Socio …) cross-sectional causality problems and (b) absence of objective measures of physical health that complement self … positive link between job satisfaction (and changes over time therein) and subjective health measures (and changes therein …
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We build a model of worker interdependence in which two workers can either compete or cooperate and compare performance under either scenario to that of a single worker working in isolation. We show that whilst competition unequivocally reduces performance, cooperation may raise or lower...
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regarding their job-related health risk perception, mental and physical health, sickness absence, probability of reporting … problems. As previously shown, older workers are more likely to report work-related absence. …
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measured by absence, turnover and labour productivity. Work-related psychological illness is found to be negatively associated …
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In many countries, sickness absence financed by generous insurance benefits has become an important concern in the … policy debate. It turns out that there are strong variations in absence behavior between local geographical areas, and it has …
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by work absence. The experiment altered the work absence incentives for half of all employees living in Göteborg, Sweden … document that employees in workplaces with a high proportion treated coworkers increase their own absence level significantly …
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This study investigates possible reasons for the gender difference in sickness absence. We estimate both short- and … parenthood, women increase their sickness absence by between 0.5 days per month (during the child's third year) and 0.85 days per …, increases female sickness absence. …
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