46 (2009) 147–153 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Personality and Individual Differences journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/paid Cognitive-behavioural training to change attributional style improves employee well-being, job satisfaction, productivity, and turnover Judith G. Proudfoot a,*, Philip J. Corr b, David E. Guest c, Graham Dunn d a School of Psychiatry and Black Dog Institute, University of New South Wales, Randwick 2031, Australia Department of Psychology, Swansea
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2.1 SECTION A: LEVEL OF WORK 3.2.2 SECTION B: EMOTIONAL ASPECTS 3.2.3 SECTION C: PHYSICAL ASPECTS 3.2.4 SECTION D: SOCIAL / WORKING ENVIRONMENT ASPECTS CHAPTER FOUR 4.0 CONCLUSION 4.1 OVERVIEW OF THE STUDY CHAPTER FIVE 5.0 RECOMMENDATION 4.1 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH REFERENCES APPENDIXES CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 2 BACKGROUND OF STUDY Stress is body's way of responding
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UNDERSTAND BY STRESS? DISCUSS THE SOURCES OF STRESS FROM THE INDIVIDUAL, GROUP AND ORGANISATIONAL POINTS OF VIEW. Work stress is recognised world-wide as a major challenge to workers health and the healthiness of their organization. Workers who are stressed are also more likely to be unhealthy, poor motivated, less productive and less safe at work. Their organisations are less likely to be successful in a competitive market. Stress can be brought about by pressures at home and at work. Employers
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all while attempting to appease the hourly workers and general managers. The stress and frustration placed on the foremen has taken its toll on employee morale and company production. The company recognizes a need for formal training to combat the problems with the foremen position, but the plant lacks the financial resources to implement this idea. As an alternative, it is recommended that the plant implement an employee mentorship and training program to help aide line foremen in their roles. Losing
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were credited to Elton Mayo in the year's nineteen twenty-four to nineteen fifty-three. Elton Mayo was from Harvard Business School who sought to find the effects of various conditions focusing on workers' productivity. His study showed that changes in work conditions temporarily increased productivity which is also known as the Hawthorne Effect. Some individuals may form an attitude towards their jobs by taking into account their feelings, beliefs and behavior. All these different factors can affect
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effectively. * It makes an employee feel less anxious or worried about the existing problems BENEFITS * Increase in productivity * Helps in superior decision making * Decrease absenteeism * Improve employee performance Identifying an Employee in Need 1. Job-related Problems - can be generated in many ways from poor working conditions to dissatisfaction with the job itself. 2. Family-related Problems – can have a profound effect on employee job performance. Family crisis
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1 LITERATURE REVIEW ABSTRACT The economic recession that hit the world in 2007 resulted in global downsizing in many prestige organizations and its effects of workers productivity. This literature reviews focuses on affective organizational commitment among survivors of organizational restructuring and downsizing. It focused on middle level managers and employees in supervisory positions because survivors of this group are often called upon to assume expanded roles, functions and responsibilities
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Abstract: Motivation and rewards work hand in hand. In an organization rewarding employees will impact their performance. When an employee is rewarded for a job well done will feel appreciated and will motivate employees to keep up the good work. According to Schermerhorn, Hunt, & Osborn (2008), “Motivation influences work effort, and the key to motivation is the ability to create a work setting that positively supports individual needs and goals. Whether or not a work setting proves motivational
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the reinforcement. For example, fishing, you may catch a fish every time you cast out your line, or you may catch a fish after one cast, then after 5 more, then after 2 more, then after 6 more etc. (Fast to very slow extinction of behaviour) Stress Stress is a general term applied to pressures people feel in life. When pressures
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www.sciedu.ca/jbar Journal of Business Administration Research Vol. 1, No. 1; 2012 Organizational Communication, Job Stress and Citizenship Behaviour of IT Employees in Nigerian Universities Fidelis Aondoaseer Ayatse (PhD) Department of Business Administration College of Management Sciences University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Nigeria Darius Ngutor Ikyanyon (Corresponding Author) Department of Business Management Benue State University, Makurdi, Nigeria E-mail: ikyanyondarius@gmail.com Received:
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