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Job Tenure (job + tenure)
Selected AbstractsJob tenure in Britain, 1975,2000.OXFORD BULLETIN OF ECONOMICS & STATISTICS, Issue 2 2002Is a job for life or just for Christmas? First page of article [source] Borrower- and Mortgage-Related Factors Associated With FHA ForeclosuresFAMILY & CONSUMER SCIENCES RESEARCH JOURNAL, Issue 3 2006Lucy Delgadillo The study identifies which household factors contribute to the likelihood of foreclosure by responding to the question: What borrower-related and mortgage-related factors are correlated with home foreclosure? Data used are from an inventory of active and foreclosed FHAhomes in Utah from the years 2000 to 2001. The sample consisted of 179 cases. The borrower-related factors included age of borrower, job tenure, self-employed, race of borrower, first-time homebuyer, number of dependents, homeownership counseling, and borrower's income. The mortgage-related factors included loan-to-value ratio, payment-to-income ratio, back-end ratio, gift amount, size of down payment, and interest rate. Results revealed that race, front-end ratio, and interest rate were statistically significant factors associated with the probability of foreclosure. The multiple interaction regression model indicated that the interaction between race and front-end ratio was statistically significant, which suggests that the effect of front-end ratio differs between Whites and non-Whites. [source] Designing Training Interventions: Human or Technical Skills Training?INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT, Issue 3 2001Eugenia N Petridou Training is seen as the key instrument in the implementation of Human Resource Management policies and practices in both the private and public sector. The choice of the type of training, focused on human or technical skills, is crucial in designing the training process. This field study investigates the personal and occupational characteristics of 444 public managers, candidates for human and technical skills training. A classification model is proposed which allows the selection and weighting of the candidate trainees' personal and occupational differences in order to participate in one of the two types of training. By means of the stepwise logistic regression method, gender, age, education, attitudes towards training, managerial level and job tenure have been identified as the significant variables associated with type of training. [source] Compensation Dispersion Between and Within Hierarchical LevelsJOURNAL OF ECONOMICS & MANAGEMENT STRATEGY, Issue 1 2007Pedro Ortín-Ángel This paper studies the dispersion around the expected compensation of workers before and after controlling for hierarchical positions in cross-section data samples. From data for Spanish managers, we find that this dispersion decreases with education and work experience before entering the current job and increases with job tenure. This finding contrasts with previous research that finds a positive association between compensation dispersion and education and work experience. We explain the new finding through a model of learning that separates compensation dispersion between jobs and within jobs (hierarchical positions). The model takes advantage of the information revealed when workers are promoted to their current hierarchical positions and allows for more robust tests of learning theories. [source] Predictors of Home Healthcare Nurse RetentionJOURNAL OF NURSING SCHOLARSHIP, Issue 2 2008Carol Hall Ellenbecker Purpose:To examine the level of job satisfaction and test a theoretical model of the direct and indirect effects of job satisfaction, and individual nurse and agency characteristics, on intent to stay and retention for home healthcare nurses. Design:A descriptive correlation study of home healthcare nurses in six New England states. Methods:Home healthcare nurse job satisfaction self-report data was collected with the HHNJS survey questionnaire & Retention Survey Questionnaire. Findings:Based on a structural equation model, job tenure and job satisfaction were the strongest predictors of nurse retention. Conclusions:Understanding the variables associated with home healthcare nurse retention can help agencies retain nurses in a time of severe nurse shortages and increased patient demand. Clinical Relevance:Predicted nursing shortages and increasing demand have made the retention of experienced, qualified nursing staff essential to assure access to high-quality home healthcare services in the future. [source] Does Public Service Motivation Adapt?KYKLOS INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, Issue 2 2010Yannis Georgellis SUMMARY Theoretical arguments highlight the importance of Public Service Motivation (PSM) in underpinning employment relationships in the public sector, mainly based on the presumption that many aspects of public service provision are non-contractible. Consequently, hiring workers who are public service, or pro-socially, motivated helps to overcome incentive problems and to increase organizational efficiency, thus reducing the need for high-powered incentives. However, such an argument would be undermined should workers' pro-social or intrinsic motivation dissipates rapidly with job tenure. Based on longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), we explore patterns of overall and domain satisfaction measures for workers who made the transition from private to public sector employment. We are particularly interested in finding out whether any possible boost in satisfaction with the nature of the work itself, our proxy for pro-social or Public Service Motivation (PSM), associated with accepting public sector employment dissipates following the transition into public sector employment. Our results reject the hypothesis of a rapid and complete adaptation of PSM back to baseline or pre-transition levels. Interestingly, this is not the case for public to private or for within-sector transitions, which result in a short-lived increase in intrinsic motivation. This is welcome evidence for the advocates of the benefits of having pro-socially or intrinsically motivated people working in the public sector. [source] Stressors, resources, and well-being among Latino and White warehouse workers in the United StatesAMERICAN JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE, Issue 3 2010Annekatrin Hoppe MSc Abstract Background Social forces and cultural factors may contribute to Latino and White workers experiencing similar jobs differently. This study examines the psychosocial stressors and resources experienced by Latino and White workers in manual material handling jobs in the US and the effects of these stressors and resources on worker well-being. Methods Fifty-nine Latino warehouse workers were matched with White workers by job title, job tenure, and warehouse facility. Matched sample t tests and linear regression analyses models were conducted. Results Results reveal similar psychosocial stressors and resources for both groups. However, Latino workers reported better well-being. For Latino workers, social resources at work such as management fairness and supervisor support have a stronger relationship with well-being. For White workers wage fairness is the most significant predictor for well-being. Conclusions These differential results challenge us to consider how cultural factors, expectations and the prior work history of Latino workers may influence their experience of work and the effect of work on health. Am. J. Ind. Med. 53:252,263, 2010. © 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source] Ergonomic and socioeconomic risk factors for hospital workers' compensation injury claimsAMERICAN JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE, Issue 7 2009Jon Boyer ScD Abstract Background Hospital workers are a diverse population with high rates of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). The risk of MSD leading to workers' compensation (WC) claims is likely to show a gradient by socioeconomic status (SES) that may be partly explained by working conditions. Methods A single community hospital provided workforce demographics and WC claim records for 2003,2005. An ergonomic job exposure matrix (JEM) was developed for these healthcare jobs from direct observation of physical workload and extraction of physical and psychosocial job requirements from the O*NET online database. Occupational exposures and SES categories were assigned to workers through their O*NET job titles. Univariate and multivariate Poisson regression analyses were performed to estimate the propensity to file an injury claim in relation to individual factors, occupational exposures, and SES. Results The jobs with the highest injury rates were nurses, semi-professionals, and semi-skilled. Increased physical work and psychological demands along with low job tenure were associated with an increase in risk, while risk decreased with psychosocial rewards and supervisor support. Both occupational and individual factors mediated the relationship between SES and rate of injury claims. Conclusions Physical and organizational features of these hospital jobs along with low job tenure predicted WC injury claim risk and explained a substantial proportion of the effects of SES. Further studies that include lifestyle risk factors and control for prior injuries and co-morbidities are warranted to strengthen the current study findings. Am. J. Ind. Med. 52:551,562, 2009. © 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source] Gender Implications of Wrongful Dismissal Judgments in Canada, 1994,2002,CANADIAN REVIEW OF SOCIOLOGY/REVUE CANADIENNE DE SOCIOLOGIE, Issue 1 2004SANDRA ROLLINGS-MAGNUSSON l'étude sur laquelle cet article se fonde explore les aboutissements des demandes d'carindemnités pour congédiement injustifié déposées par des hommes et des femmes contre leur ancien employeur. Elle révèle l'existence au sein du système juridique d'carun préjugé en faveur des hommes même si un traitement égal des deux sexes devant la loi est devenu un principe constitutionnel il y a 20 ans. l'analyse suggère que trois facteurs primaires, soit l'âge de l'employé(e), son ancienneté et le poste occupé au moment du congédiement, sont utilisés dans la détermination des jugements en dommages-intérêts, et que les cours tendent à accorder de plus importantes indemnités aux hommes. The study on which this paper is based explored the outcomes of wrongful dismissal claims brought by men and women against their former employers. It revealed that a bias favouring men exists within the legal system, even though equal treatment of men and women under the law became a constitutional principle twenty years ago. Analysis suggests that three primary factors,the age of the employee, his or her job tenure, and the occupation held at the time of dismissal,are used to determine damage awards, and that courts tend to award the highest levels of compensation to men. [source] Toward a Multidimensional Construct of Social Support: Implications of Provider's Self-Reliance and Request CharacteristicsJOURNAL OF APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 7 2004Anat Drach-Zahavy The two studies reported here sought to propose a multidimensional taxonomy for providing social support, and to use an attachment-theory framework to investigate provision of support at work. Additionally, the studies sought to explore the distinct contextual considerations that affect decisions on the type of support provided. In Study 1, case studies were presented to 164 hospital nurses, who, taking the role of the head nurse, were asked to deal with a distressed staff nurse who was either high or low tenured, and whose cause of distress was either personal or job-related. In the second study, 55 nurses with various job tenures described the support behaviors of their superiors. In both studies, support interventions and attachment styles were measured. Results provided partial evidence of the multidimensionality of social support, and indicated that it contains 4 distinct support behaviors: helping, maintenance, referral, and encouragement of self-coping. Furthermore, the distinct support behaviors were affected by different attachment styles and contextual considerations. [source] | ||||||||||||||||