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An Empirical Investigation of Work Life Balance and Satisfaction among the University Academicians

  • MALIK, Azam;ALLAM, Zafrul
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.8 no.5
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    • pp.1047-1054
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    • 2021
  • University academicians are playing a significant role in nation building and striving hard to impart quality education to students and also instill moral and ethical values in them. The current study aims to determine the relationship between work-life balance (WLB) and satisfaction among academicians. For the study purpose, 154 academicians from different universities with varied designations were selected randomly from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Pareek et al. (2011) constructed and validated a scale to gather responses from respondents with the aim of understanding WLB in relation to satisfaction. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to interpret the results to make the study more authentic and valuable. The study's findings revealed that (i) all facets of WLB have positive relationships with one another, resulting in workplace satisfaction; (ii) the result also reflects that male faculty members have a lot of pressure and responsibility in the universities than the female faculty members which reflect that male are more prone to dissatisfaction in comparison to the dfemale faculty members (iii) the factor personal needs is having the high degree of correlation followed by the social needs. Results indicate that WLB plays a crucial role to provide satisfaction and surely ignite new information in the contemporary knowledge of work life balance among the Saudi Arabian Universities.

Determining Dimensions of Job Satisfaction among Employees: Evidence from Commercial Bank Industries in Bangladesh

  • Md. Sayed, UDDIN;Md. Atikur, RAHAMAN;Wasib Bin, LATIF
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.195-201
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    • 2023
  • Since the banking industry relies so heavily on strong customer-staff interactions, measuring employee job satisfaction has become a critical problem. To achieve benefits for both individuals and organizations, it is crucial to foster and ensure employee job satisfaction. The main objective of this study is to determine the influencing factors of employees' job satisfaction in commercial banks in Bangladesh. This study focused on some significant factors such as employee empowerment, job security, management support, and attractive compensation in an organization. In terms of research purpose, non-probability convenience sampling has been used, and the study is quantitative in nature. For data collection purposes, an online survey questionnaire was prepared based on previously published articles. The targeted population was the bank employees of commercial banks in Bangladesh where the final sample size was n = 200. For analyzing the collected data, SPSS 26.0 version has been used to test the study model and the proposed hypotheses. This study also shows that employee empowerment, job security, management support, and attractive compensation have positive and significant effects on employees' job satisfaction at the workplace. Finally, this study has offered some extraordinary directions and implications for future research on commercial bank authorities in Bangladesh.

Individual Control over the Physical Work Environment to Affect Creativity

  • Samani, Sanaz Ahmadpoor;Rasid, Siti Zaleha Binti Abdul;Sofian, Saudah Bt
    • Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.94-103
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    • 2015
  • The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the background information regarding to the impact of personal control over the physical work environment on satisfaction with work environment and creativity at work. Today creativity has a significant and special place in business especially in innovative organizations which need creative people to generate new, and useful ideas for produce new products, services, work methods, systems etc. Moreover the design and appearance of workspace and individual ability to control the ambient conditions of the workplace have significant effect on their behavior, satisfaction and overall outcome including creativity. So the result of this study will contribute towards enhancing the understanding of the effect of office design to enhance employees' creativity.

Narcissism and Social Media Addiction in Workplace

  • Choi, Youngkeun
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.95-104
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of narcissism on employees' social media addiction and how it influences their job satisfaction and organizational commitment. And this study explores if perceived organizational support can moderate the relationship between narcissism and social media addiction. For this, this study collected data from 285 employees in Korean companies through a survey method and uses SPSS 18.0 for hierarchical regression analysis in the hypothesis test. First, organizational politics increases mood modification, withdrawal and tolerance among the sub-factors of social media addiction. Second, each phenomena of social media service addiction such as salience, withdrawal and tolerance decrease each relevant factors of job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Third, withdrawal and tolerance among the sub-factors of social media addiction play the mediating roles between narcissism and each relevant factors of job satisfaction/organizational commitment. Finally, perceived organizational support decrease the effect of narcissism on mood modification, withdrawal and tolerance among the sub-factors of social media addiction. This study provides some of managerial implications to corporate executives who try to manage organizational attitudes.

The Effect of Infection Anxiety about COVID-19 Perceived by Home Appliance Installation and Repair Technicians on Work Stress (가전제품 설치수리기사가 인지하는 코로나19에 대한 감염 불안이 업무스트레스에 미치는 영향)

  • Kwon, Eun-Jung;Hwang, Jee-Hyun;Kim, Hee-Gerl
    • Journal of Korean Society of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.531-539
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    • 2021
  • Objectives: The purpose of this study is to understand the effect of infection anxiety about COVID-19 perceived by home appliance installers and repair technicians on work stress. Methods: To collect data, the purpose of the study was explained through the labor union of domestic home appliance service companies, and a survey was conducted through mobile to 286 home appliance installers and repair technicians who agreed to the survey. Results: As a result of the analysis, it was found that age, fatigue, work satisfaction, visit time, and Corona 19 infection anxiety had a significant effect on work stress. In other words, the higher the age, the higher the fatigue, the lower the job satisfaction, the higher the work stress was when the visit time was more than 30 minutes, and the higher the Corona 19 infection anxiety, the higher the work stress. Conclusions: Based on the results of this study, the following suggestions are made. First, in order to prevent work stress, we propose the development of a workplace health care program that can solve fatigue. Second, it is necessary to prepare a working environment and provide institutional support to reduce work stress by increasing Job satisfaction. Third, a workplace quarantine measures is needed to prevent infection for essential-workers who do face-to-face work in preparation for possible infectious diseases in the future.

Impacts of Conflicts Between Families and Work Places to Startup and Management (가정과 직장 간 갈등이 창업 경영 직무만족에 미치는 영향)

  • Kang, Seung Koo;Byun, Sang Hae
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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    • v.10 no.5
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    • pp.197-208
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    • 2015
  • This study is to suggest a system to increase workers' job satisfaction by analyzing the impact of conflicts in their families and work places to the satisfaction of work and the effects of personality types affecting job satisfaction. For this study, a questionnaire targeting 450 workers was conducted. As a result of this study, firstly, it was revealed that both conflicts of the family-work place and the work place-family have statistically negative interrelationships and impacts with/on job satisfaction. In terms of sub-fact categories, it is revealed that work itself has more impacts than personal persuasion based on people's value. Secondly, the results of this study concerning the conflicts in a family and the workplace shows the same result with the previous studies. They are formed by mutual interactions of cause and effect. Thirdly, it turned out that differences in Enneagram Personality Types have statistically significant impacts on job satisfaction. The result also shows that thinking-centered personalities and behavior-centered personalities have more impacts on job satisfaction than emotion-centered personalities. Study result indicates that more wide use of a psychology consultation program for workers and their families, EPA(Employee Assistant Program). It also shows that introductions of personality trainning programs and personality coaching programs are required.

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Musculoskeletal Disorders Among Greek Physiotherapists: Traditional and Emerging Risk Factors

  • Anyfantis, I.D.;Biska, A.
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.314-318
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    • 2018
  • Background: Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) in the health industry are quite common, however, there have only been a few studies regarding physiotherapists, while in Greece, there is an apparent lack of research and data. The aim of this study is to investigate MSDs experienced by physiotherapists in Greece, their causes and specific measures, and good practices followed. Additional emerging risk factors will be examined. Methods: A questionnaire of MSDs followed by individual and workplace characteristics was completed by 252 physiotherapists. It covered the major workplace categories such as public hospitals, private rehabilitation centers, and private practices. Results: Analysis indicated that 89% of the respondents had experienced a work-related MSD; 32.2% of those injuries occurred within the first 5 years of working. The most lumbered physiotherapists were those working as private practitioners and almost half of the injured respondents chose to work while injured. The most common measure taken to tackle work related MSDs was found to be physical therapy sessions. Job satisfaction and psychosocial issues were also identified as side-effects of the economic slowdown. Conclusion: Physiotherapists in Greece were found to suffer from MSDs; workplace musculoskeletal injuries were quite common but under-reported. The body parts most affected were the lower back, the upper back, the shoulders, and the neck. There was a strong correlation between the workplace setting and the number of MSDs. A well-defined occupational safety and health management system and strict administration steering were found to reduce MSDs. The economic slowdown experienced in Greece during the execution of this study placed additional pressure on physiotherapists.

Convergence Factors Influencing Workplace bullying and Resilience on Retention Intention in Dental Hygienists (치과위생사의 직장 내 괴롭힘과 회복탄력성이 재직의도에 미치는 융합적 영향요인)

  • Park, A-Reum;Lee, Hye-Jin
    • Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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    • v.9 no.12
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    • pp.236-243
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    • 2019
  • This purpose of this study was indentify the effect of the workplace bullying, resilience and retention intention on dental hygienists' retention intention and conducted in order to be applied to basic data for enhancing dental hygienists' retention intention. The participants in the study were 202. Data were analyzed using SPSS 19.0, t-tst, ANOVA, regression analysis. The dental hygienists' retention intention showed a high outcome in case of the higher employment satisfaction (p<.001), in the lower workplace bullying(p=.011) and in the higher resilience(p<.001). Conclusively, this study indicate a need to develop program the efficiently promote resilience and to plan improving organizational culture to increase retention intention in dental hygienists.

A Study on the Satisfaction of Occupational Health Nursing Work Related Infuluencial in Rural Area (산업간호사의 업무수행과 직무만족도에 관한 연구)

  • Kim Sung Sil;Kone Dong youn
    • Journal of Korean Public Health Nursing
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.37-54
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    • 1998
  • For the purpose of investigating the job implementation of industrial health nurses catch hold of satisfaction, relational character of influence. A questionnaire survey was carried out on 131 nurses who employed at the manufacture of electronic products$(27.1\%)$, distribution industry$(38\%)$, service station$(22\%)$, construction$(10\%)$, et cetra The tool of this study was modified as completed from kang's(l991) checklist of questions were composed of the performance of nurses' duty(13 items), the factor of main influential character of nurses' job(11 items), job satisfaction(26 items). The results were as follows. 1. Industrial health nurses worked to labor follow up study after physical examination$(100\%)$, medication$(97.1\%)$, workers regular physical examination(95.5%), dressing$(94.1\%)$. 2. The factor of influence of job performance were personal relation$(100\%)$, satisfaction of nurses job performance$(86.7\%)$, environment of workplace$(86.7\%)$. 3. A period of long work experienced nurses felt the highest satisfaction as 3.44 point.

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An analysis of the Relationship between Railway Dispatchers' Stress Factors and Job Satisfaction Levels (철도교통관제사의 스트레스 요인과 직무만족의 관련성에 관한 실증적 분석)

  • Kim, Jae-Yeon;Kim, In
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.148-155
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    • 2014
  • This practical study investigates the effects of job satisfaction as a result of the stresses felt by many dispatchers who work in the subway industry in the Seoul metropolitan area. Factors that cause stress are assessed. The organization system, inappropriate compensation, workplace culture, and job requirements, among several types of organizational stresses are significantly related to job satisfaction. The results of the analysis indicate that there is a close link between job satisfaction and dispatcher communication factors. This paper suggests stress-relief measures for dispatchers who must handle a variety of civil complaints and improper communications with field departments based on the analysis of the answers to descriptive questionnaire items.