Labor: Personnel Economics eJournal最新文献

Unwilling to Train? Firm Responses to the Colombian Apprenticeship Regulation 不愿意训练?对哥伦比亚学徒制度的坚定回应

Labor: Personnel Economics eJournal Pub Date : 2021-10-07 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3707938

S. Caicedo, Miguel Espinosa, Arthur Seibold

引用次数: 9

Salary History and Employer Demand: Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit 薪资历史与雇主需求:来自双面审计的证据

Labor: Personnel Economics eJournal Pub Date : 2021-09-23 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3929578

Amanda Y. Agan, Bo Cowgill, Laura K. Gee

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引用次数: 6

Job Satisfaction of Health Assistants in Selected Upazila Health Complexes of Bangladesh 孟加拉国选定的Upazila保健中心保健助理的工作满意度

Labor: Personnel Economics eJournal Pub Date : 2021-09-10 DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/rcx4d

Sunanda Bosu, M. Haque, Shomrita Barua, Kazi Md. Israfil, Aninda Sen, Md. Mahmud Al Hasan

{"title":"Job Satisfaction of Health Assistants in Selected Upazila Health Complexes of Bangladesh","authors":"Sunanda Bosu, M. Haque, Shomrita Barua, Kazi Md. Israfil, Aninda Sen, Md. Mahmud Al Hasan","doi":"10.31219/osf.io/rcx4d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/rcx4d","url":null,"abstract":"Health assistants play an important role in providing primary health care among the rural population in Bangladesh. Their improper working performance can hamper the entire nations’ health care. Proper productivity is related to the job satisfaction and job satisfaction is the result of attitude and behavior. The purpose of this study was to assess the job satisfaction level among health assistants working in selected Upazila Health Complex (UHC). 203 health assistants were interviewed through purposive sampling technique from four UHCs in the Dhaka district. Out of 203 respondents, 114 were female and 89 were male where Mean± SD was 38.80 ±7.62. The highest 109 (53.7%) participants had 1-10 years of working experience and 104 (51.2%) respondents had monthly income between 18000 -23000 BDTK. The percentage of neutral, satisfied and unsatisfied participants’ was 65%, 28% and 7%, respectively. There was significant (P < 0.05) relationship between job satisfaction and getting medical allowance, training opportunity and salary. Job nature such as security, meaningless, pride and enjoying, support colleagues such as supervisor and coworkers, acceptance by both the community and oneself were identified as the satisfied items where low and fair opportunities for promotion, low increment, and low pay, no praise, high work pressure, and null administrative capacity were found as dissatisfied factors of job. On the basis of these findings, policy makers and concerned authorities could take necessary steps for increasing the level of job satisfaction of health assistants.","PeriodicalId":198334,"journal":{"name":"Labor: Personnel Economics eJournal","volume":"7 11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129283534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Johan Cruyff and his Contribution to Success and Stadium Attendance at Feyenoord 约翰克鲁伊夫和他对费耶诺德的成功和球场上座率的贡献

Labor: Personnel Economics eJournal Pub Date : 2021-08-16 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3905947

J. van Ours

引用次数: 0

Employee Sexual Harassment Reviews and Firm Value 员工性骚扰审查与公司价值

Labor: Personnel Economics eJournal Pub Date : 2021-07-30 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3437444

Shiu-Yik Au, Ming Dong, A. Tremblay

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引用次数: 2

Do managers distinguish between effects of luck and effort on employees' performance outcomes? Evidence from a high-stakes field setting 管理者是否区分运气和努力对员工绩效结果的影响?证据来自高风险的野外环境

Labor: Personnel Economics eJournal Pub Date : 2021-07-27 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3894211

Patrick J. Ferguson

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引用次数: 0

Sporting Contests with Network Effects 具有网络效应的体育竞赛

Labor: Personnel Economics eJournal Pub Date : 2021-07-19 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3889342

Arne Aarnink, Andreas Goetsch

引用次数: 0

The Cooperative Consequences of Contests 竞赛的合作后果

Labor: Personnel Economics eJournal Pub Date : 2021-05-21 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3850570

J. Lien, Jie Zheng, Yilin Zhuo

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引用次数: 0

Work from Home & Productivity: Evidence from Personnel & Analytics Data on IT Professionals 在家工作与生产力:来自IT专业人员的人事和分析数据的证据

Labor: Personnel Economics eJournal Pub Date : 2021-05-07 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3841457

Michael J. Gibbs, F. Mengel, Christoph Siemroth

引用次数: 90

Pay Me Later: Savings Constraints and the Demand for Deferred Payments 《以后付款:储蓄约束和延期付款需求》

Labor: Personnel Economics eJournal Pub Date : 2021-03-19 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3822087

Lasse Brune, Eric T. Chyn, J. Kerwin

引用次数: 16