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Optimising Employee Mental Health: The Relationship Between Intrinsic Need Satisfaction, Job Crafting, and Employee Well-Being
Slemp, Gavin; Vella-Brodrick, Dianne - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 15 (2014) 4, pp. 957-977
Organisations are frequently confronted with the issue of how to enhance employee mental health. Based on self-determination theory, a model is proposed that examines the relationships between job crafting, the satisfaction of the intrinsic needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness at...
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A Multilevel Investigation of Individual and Contextual Effects on Employee Job Crafting
Li, Jie; Sekiguchi, Tomoki; Qi, Jipeng - Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University - 2014
We extend the theory of job crafting by proposing that job characteristics, individual differences, and group-level contexts interactively promote employee job crafting. Specifically, drawing on the theories of job characteristics, regulatory focus, and social exchange, we develop a multilevel...
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Determinants of Job Crafting among Part-Time and Full-Time Employees in Japan: A Relational Perspective
Sekiguchi, Tomoki; Jie, Li; Hosomi, Masaki - Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University - 2014
Based on the relational perspective of work, we examine the role of job autonomy, social skill, and employee status as factors related to employee job crafting. We found that job autonomy and social skill both directly and interactively influenced job crafting for part-time employees in Japan....
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Corporate-Sponsored Volunteering: A Work Design Perspective
Pajo, Karl; Lee, Louise - In: Journal of Business Ethics 99 (2011) 3, pp. 467-482
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Perceived performance risk and its influence on Abandoned Cart Syndrome (ACS) - An exploratory study
Moore, Simon Scott - 2004
Despite predictions of Internet shopping reaching 6.9 trillion dollars by the end of 2004, research is now suggesting many online consumers are still very reluctant to complete the online shopping process. A number of authors have attributed consumers' reluctance to purchase online to apparent...
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An Economic Analysis of the Supply of General Practitioners in the Rural and Urban Areas of Australia.
Abhayaprada Kamalakanthan - 2010
Currently in Australia, the topic on the supply of general practitioners (GPs) is controversial; there is an argument from one Australian Government agency that doctors are under-utilised and misallocated, not under-supplied. Then, there are many government and medical school representatives who...
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Women's leadership journeys in family firms: preliminary results from a qualitative study
Barrett, Mary; Moores, Ken - 2006
The family business literature has thus far not devoted much attention to understanding female vantage points in family firms (e.g. Dumas, 1998; Sharma, 2004). Poza and Messer (2001) and Curimbaba (2002) describe the varying roles that women adopt, but without explaining why they adopt such roles....
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Representational predicaments at work: How they are experienced and why they may happen
Snell, Robin; Wong, May; Chak, Almaz; Hui, Sandy - In: Asia Pacific Journal of Management 30 (2013) 1, pp. 251-279
Representational predicaments reflect unfavorable perceptual or attributional incongruence between subordinates and superiors about the employees’ work, and adversely affect morale. Critical incident interviews were held with 63 Hong Kong Chinese employees from over 50 organizations. Stories...
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Qualitative data envelopment analysis by affinity set: a survey of subjective opinions for NPOs
Huang, Wen-Tsung; Chen, Yuh-Wen - In: Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology 47 (2013) 6, pp. 3079-3093
performance, and this problem is seldom considered. In this study, we use the qualitative DEA as a tool to find the emphasized … describe the qualitative performance of NPOs. This paper proposes a new perspective for computing the efficiency of a Decision … Making Unit based on qualitative data by affinity Set. The DEA model for qualitative data could be traced back to the work of …
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Organizational Innovation and Institutional Change: The Case of Valio in Finland
Lamprinakis, Lampros - In: International Journal on Food System Dynamics 03 (2012) 2
Firms in the agri-food industry are embedded in a system of institutions, regulations and policies that shape their economic environment and affect their conduct and performance. Changes in this system can propose new challenges for the firms that need to adequately and efficiently change and...
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