ABSTRACT We analyzed the differences, by Student’s t-test and ANOVA, between nurses and physicians from Portugal, Poland, Spain, and United Kingdom regarding their relationship with their work and ...organization. In total, 1,401 professionals answered the HSA-QHPR questionnaire. There are different levels of connection between physicians and nurses. The United Kingdom has the lowest levels of connection with the work while Portugal has the highest levels of relationship with the organization. The results provide guidelines for the development of policies and differential strategies aimed at improving the quality of healthcare service.
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Healthcare accreditation models generally include indicators related to healthcare employees' perceptions (e.g. satisfaction, career development, and health safety). During the accreditation ...process, organizations are asked to demonstrate the methods with which assessments are made. However, none of the models provide standardized systems for the assessment of employees. In this study, we analyzed the psychometric properties of an instrument for the assessment of nurses' perceptions as indicators of human capital quality in healthcare organizations. The
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The increasing spread of digital technologies and respective consequences for the way we live, work, and communicate can evoke feelings of tension and discomfort. This so-called digitalisation ...anxiety is related to existing and future technologies, includes the process of digitalisation in everyday life, and refers to multiple levels (the individual, organisations, and society). Existing scales measuring technology-related fears due not adequately reflect these features. Therefore, we developed the German version of the Digitalisation Anxiety Scale (DAS). Having generated items based on a qualitative interview study (Study 1, n = 26), we demonstrated the DAS’s factor structure, internal consistency and construct validity in Study 2a (n = 109) and test-retest reliability in Study 2b (n = 30). In Study 3 (n = 223), the scale’s structure was confirmed and correlates of digitalisation anxiety were examined. The final version of the DAS consists of 35 items with a four-factor structure (societal triggers for digitalisation anxiety, triggers related to interaction and leadership, triggers within oneself and triggers resulting from the digitalisation implementation process). Digitalisation Anxiety had negative relationships with well-being and performance. The scale allows practitioners and researchers to measure and benchmark individuals’ levels of digitalisation anxiety, and to track changes over time. The scale can inform interventions aiming at reducing digitalisation anxiety and stress resulting from digitalisation.
The purpose of this study is the adaptation and validation of the "Survey Work-Home Interaction - NijmeGen" (SWING) developed by Geurts and colleagues to Spanish speaking countries (SWING-SSC). In ...order to analyze the questionnaire's psychometric properties, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was carried out with a sample of 203 employees from various Spanish-speaking countries. Criterion related validity was tested by examining correlations between the SWING-SSC, and the theoretically relevant variables: health, role conflict, role clarity and supervisor support. Finally, reliability was tested analyzing the internal consistency of the scales. The analyses carried out indicate that SWING-SSC has good psychometric properties. In addition, the present results support the relation of the construct with health, role conflict, role clarity, and supervisor support. This study offers evidence for a sound work-life balance measure that contributes to the encouragement adequate conditions in the workplace, to reduce the conflict between the two spheres of professional and personal life, and to enhance positive relationships
Healthcare accreditation models generally include indicators related to healthcare employees' perceptions (e.g. satisfaction, career development, and health safety). During the accreditation process, ...organizations are asked to demonstrate the methods with which assessments are made. However, none of the models provide standardized systems for the assessment of employees. In this study, we analyzed the psychometric properties of an instrument for the assessment of nurses' perceptions as indicators of human capital quality in healthcare organizations. The Human Capital Questionnaire was applied to a sample of 902 nurses in four European countries (Spain, Portugal, Poland, and the UK). Exploratory factor analysis identified six factors: satisfaction with leadership, identification and commitment, satisfaction with participation, staff well-being, career development opportunities, and motivation. The results showed the validity and reliability of the questionnaire, which when applied to healthcare organizations, provide a better understanding of nurses' perceptions, and is a parsimonious instrument for assessment and organizational accreditation. From a practical point of view, improving the quality of human capital, by analyzing nurses and other healthcare employees' perceptions, is related to workforce empowerment.
The current global economic crisis has led us to ask how to generate competitive advantages with an impact on organizational effectiveness without jeopardizing the employees' quality of life. The ...importance of the development of health and safety policies (Montero, Araque, & Rey, 2009), among them, those relating to family-friendly policies promoting work-life balance (WLB) of employees (Leon & Chinchilla, 2010; Urcelay, 2005) has been pointed out by various authors in our country. This article reviews the main Spanish and Latin American contributions on work-life balance (WLB) published in the last eight years, and presents the research work of ASH-PsicoSAO Group (University of Barcelona) related to this topic. The objective of our work is to contribute to both, the scientific and the occupations fields, with particular attention to the role of supervisor.
Healthcare accreditation models generally include indicators related to healthcare employees' perceptions (e.g. satisfaction, career development, and health safety). During the accreditation process, ...organizations are asked to demonstrate the methods with which assessments are made. However, none of the models provide standardized systems for the assessment of employees. In this study, we analyzed the psychometric properties of an instrument for the assessment of nurses' perceptions as indicators of human capital quality in healthcare organizations. The Human Capital Questionnaire was applied to a sample of 902 nurses in four European countries (Spain, Portugal, Poland, and the UK). Exploratory factor analysis identified six factors: satisfaction with leadership, identification and commitment, satisfaction with participation, staff well‐being, career development opportunities, and motivation. The results showed the validity and reliability of the questionnaire, which when applied to healthcare organizations, provide a better understanding of nurses' perceptions, and is a parsimonious instrument for assessment and organizational accreditation. From a practical point of view, improving the quality of human capital, by analyzing nurses and other healthcare employees' perceptions, is related to workforce empowerment.
Esta investigación tiene por objetivo medir y evaluar las diferencias individuales en una muestra brasileña en relación a la adicción al trabajo, dada su repercusión en la competitividad de las ...empresas. Se aplicó el WART 15-PBV a una muestra de 153 directivos de empresas ubicadas en Brasil, 82 mujeres (53,6%) y 71 hombres (46.4%), con un rango de edad entre los 20 y los 69 años y un valor medio de 41 (SD = 9,06). Se analiza la estructura factorial del cuestionario, su consistencia interna y convergente (a partir de la Dutch Work Addiction Scale --DUWAS), la validez de criterio (con el Cuestionario General de Salud--GHQ) y las diferencias individuales de género. El cuestionario WART15-PBV presenta buenas propiedades psicométricas y de validez convergente y de criterio. Las mujeres y los hombres difieren en la dimensión Deterioro de la comunicación / auto-absorción. Esta dimensión únicamente tiene un efecto directo en la percepción de salud de los hombres, mientras que la dimensión Tendencias compulsivas tiene un efecto directo en ambos géneros. Los resultados sugieren la escala WART15-PBV es una medida válida y fiable de la adicción al trabajo que orienta la intervención atendiendo a las diferencias individuales de los trabajadores, en aras de mejorar su salud y su vida profesional y personal y fomentando, a su vez, unas condiciones adecuadas en el lugar de trabajo. Palabras clave: Adicción al trabajo; Work Addiction Risk Scale (WART); Dutch Work Addiction Scale (DUWAS); Salud; Género. The aim of this research is the measurement and assessment of individual differences of workaholism in Brazil, an important issue which affects the competitiveness of companies. The WART 15-PBV was applied to a sample of 153 managers from companies located in Brazil, 82 (53.6%) women and 71 (46.4%) men. Ages ranged from 20 to 69 years with an average value of 41 (5D=9.06). We analyzed, on one hand, the factor structure of the questionnaire, its internal consistency and convergent (with the Dutch Work Addiction Scale DUWAS) and criterion validity (with General Health Questionnaire GHQ). On the other hand, we analyzed individual gender differences on workaholism. WART15-PBV has good psychometric properties, and evidence for convergent and criterion validity. Females and males differed on Impaired Communication / Self-Absorption dimension. This dimension has a direct effect only on men's health perception, while Compulsive tendencies dimension has a direct effect for both genders. The findings suggest the WART15-PBV is a valid measure of workaholism that would contribute to the workers' health and their professional and personal life, in order to encourage adequate conditions in the workplace taking into account workers' individual differences. Key words: Workaholism; Work Addiction Risk Scale (WART); Dutch Work Addiction Scale (DUWAS); Health; Gender.
As a result of increased nutrient levels in the Baltic Sea during the past 50 years, mass developments of filamentous algae have become a common feature along the Swedish east coast and deposition of ...organic matter has also increased. To test whether these two factors have any effects on the early life stages of Fucus vesiculosus a number of laboratory and field studies were conducted. The amount of epilithic and epiphytic filamentous algae on F. vesiculosus and the amount of deposited matter in the littoral zone were quantified during the two reproductive periods of F. vesiculosus, early summer (May-June) and late autumn (September-October). Both filamentous algae (Cladophora glomerata) and deposited matter (introduced either before or after settlement of fertilized eggs) were shown to significantly decrease the number of surviving germlings. The survival of germlings seeded on stones with filamentous algae, or seeded on culture dishes concurrently with the lowest concentration of deposited matter (0.1 g dm super(-2)), was 5% or less. In the field, the amount of filamentous algae was significantly higher during F. vesiculosus summer reproduction, whereas the amount of deposited matter collected in traps was significantly higher during the period of autumn reproduction. The greatest biomass of filamentous algae was observed at sheltered sites. Based on the negative effects of filamentous algae and deposited matter on Fucus recruitment and the observation of local and seasonal differences in abundance of filamentous algae and deposition, we suggest that the prerequisites for the survival of either summer or autumn-reproducing populations of F. vesiculosus in the Baltic Sea may differ locally.
In diesem Beitrag der Zeitschrift „Gruppe. Organisation. Interaktion. (GIO)“ wird ein Modell organisationaler Akkulturation entwickelt, das beschreibt, wie beim Eintritt von Arbeitsmigrant/-innen in ...Organisationen durch das Zusammentreffen unterschiedlicher Kulturen akkulturative und sozialisationsbedingte Stressoren entstehen und das dabei auch die Perspektive der bereits in der Organisation tätigen Personen berücksichtigt. Dabei werden Ansätze der Akkulturationsforschung mit Ansätzen der Sozialisationsforschung verknüpft. Intrapersonelle (zyklisches Zusammenspiel von Information, Unsicherheitsreduktion und Lernen) und interpersonelle (Voice, Partizipation, Empowerment, soziale Unterstützung) Copingprozesse führen zu einer gelungenen Anpassung der Arbeitsmigrant/-innen. Eine erfolgreiche Anpassung wirkt sich wiederum positiv auf weitere arbeitsbezogene Ergebnisse aus. Das Modell berücksichtigt, dass durch die zusätzliche Herausforderung der Anpassung an eine neue Kultur die organisationale Sozialisation für Arbeitsmigrant/-innen komplexer verläuft. Das Modell liefert Ansatzpunkte für Forschung und Praxis.
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