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We consider the effects of contractual and working conditions on self-assessed health and psychological well-being using twelve waves (1991/92 – 2002/2003) of the British Household Panel Survey. While one branch of the literature suggests that “atypical” contractual conditions have a...
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useful and supportive elements concerning the function of changes on stress and productivity. We find that change leads to … increased stress but when the necessity and utility of change is understood it then leads to increased productivity. The good …, we have increased productivity and reduced stress. …
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The erosion of standard forms of employment is creating new needs and management requirements in organizations. This article examines the polarization within the workforce. The classical approach of the core and marginal workforce based on the work of Doeringer and Piore (1971) will be reshaped...
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Employees exposed to high involvement management (HIM) practices have higher subjective wellbeing, fewer accidents but more short absence spells than “like” employees not exposed to HIM. These results are robust to extensive work, wage and sickness absence history controls. We present a...
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Employees exposed to high involvement management (HIM) practices have higher subjective wellbeing, fewer accidents but more short absence spells than “like” employees not exposed to HIM. These results are robust to extensive work, wage and sickness absence history controls. We highlight the...
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In the spirit of the International Labour Organisation Code (2001) of decent work and respect for the human rights and dignity of persons infected or affected by HIV/AIDS, there should be no discrimination against applicants for work on the basis of real or perceived HIV status. Whilst, the...
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the department substantially. On the other hand, higher physical and psychological stress and the experience of traumatic … accept stress as an acceptable factor in their job description. …
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This paper analyses the effect of gender on reported and perceived levels of stress through examination of both the … physical and psychological indicators. It may be interesting to work with police data due to high stress levels among police … female officers are significantly more likely to report suffering from physical stress indicators than their male …
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employees. The attitudes of employees are conceptualised from a stress theoretical perspective on the basis of the job … high levels of stress compared to other professional groups. Multivariate analysis shows that the high level of stress …
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Based on the finding that entrepreneurs who found new firms tend to work as employees of small rather than large firms prior to start-up, we test how different working conditions, which enhance entrepreneurial learning, affect their decision to become entrepreneurs when moderated by firm size....
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