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Job design
About: Job design is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 9218 publications have been published within this topic receiving 426180 citations.
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TL;DR: Improvements for the nurses and midwives could be attributed to the organisational intervention by the NT Department of Health, providing compelling evidence for the success of the system/organisational level intervention.
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TL;DR: In this article, a survey data was collected by a self-administered questionnaire from frontline service workers at six four and five-star hotels in the Macau Special Administrative Region of China.
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test the relationship between perceived empowerment practices and Chinese service employee service effort and turnover intention, also to examine the mediating role of employee job attitudes in this relationship.Design/methodology/approach – To test hypotheses about the relationships above, survey data were collected by a self‐administered questionnaire from frontline service workers at six four‐ and five‐star hotels in the Macau Special Administrative Region of China. The final sample of 290 participants rated empowerment practices in their workplace, as well as their job attitudes, service effort and turnover intention. Perceived empowerment practices were measured using items from Hayes' employee employment questionnaire. Employee job attitudes were measured using job satisfaction and organizational commitment scales based on Harrison et al. Structural equation modeling was used to examine the hypotheses.Findings – Statistically significant results were obtaine...
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TL;DR: In this paper, focus group findings about job satisfaction of nontenure-track faculty at 12 research universities were presented, highlighting policies supporting teaching, job security/advancement, and inclusive climates.
Abstract: While scholars have investigated the recent influx of non-tenure-track faculty (NTTF), few have talked extensively with NTTF to understand their perspectives. Using Herzberg's motivation-hygiene theory, we present focus group findings about job satisfaction of NTTF at 12 research universities. We highlight policies supporting teaching, job security/advancement, and inclusive climates.
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TL;DR: For example, the authors found that for those high in self-determination, high job control was just as useful as low job control as a stress-buffer as compared to those low in non-self-determination.
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