This research relates to the relationship between organic political awareness and work stress and involvement and other issues of employees. It also aims to discuss variables for harmonization of organic politics and results using personality as interfering parameter. This study is mainly conducted on lucrative institutions and businesses in private sector. A total of 948 effective questionnaires were received and the survey was conducted using data for factor analysis, credibility analysis, relevant analysis, regressive analysis and level-based regressive analysis among other approaches. The outcome suggests sound credibility of the quantitative tables, which is available for reference. While organic political awareness does create impacts on work involvement and work stress, we have come to realize that personality does remarkably interfere with the interaction between organic political awareness and work stress and involvement.

Coping is an important concept to explain stress-related factors because it is a process that is mediated by both primary, and secondary appraisal (Lazarus &amp / Folkman, 1984). The present study aims to examine the extent to which correctional officers&#039 / cognitive appraisal associated with stress, and to develop, and test models including work stress, cognitive appraisal of stress, affect-related variables, coping strategies, psychological distress, and psychological adjustment. For this aim, a total of 268 correctional officers from seven different prisons in Turkey participated in the present study. The subjects were given Stress Appraisal Measure (SAM), Work Stress Scale for Correctional Officers (WSSCO), Positive, and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Emotional Approach Coping Scale (EACS), State-Trait Anxiety Inventory-Trait Form (STAI-T), Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), Job Satisfaction Scale (JSS), and The Ways of Coping Inventory (WCI) in addition to Demographic Information Form. A variety of hierarchical multiple regression analyses were conducted to reveal the significant associates of psychological distress and adjustment. According to the results of regression analyses, four models were developed, and tested by structural equation modeling. The results of the present study demonstrated that different cognitive appraisals, different affect-related variables, different coping strategies combined to influence psychological distress, and psychological adjustment measures in addition to the direct effects of work stress. Following discussion of the results in terms of theoretical, and methodological perspectives, the limitations of the present study, and the suggestions for future research were also handled.

This paper studies the use of Group Recreation Activity (G.R.A.) in the development of organization. G.R.A. is a skill usually used in an enterprise to improve interpersonal relationship, to relieve employees¡¦ working pressure, and to promote the morale of the employees so that the company will be more competitive. Besides literature review, the questionnaire investigation is applied before and after G.R.A. is implemented, in order to examine the effect of G.R.A. The study reveals that, at large, G.R.A. is helpful in raising the working efficiency. G.R.A. can promote workers¡¦ enthusiasm for their jobs, relieving employees from heavy pressure, improving the communicative ability of the group leader, fostering cooperation inside the company as well as strengthening the loyalty of the employees to the enterprise. The study also discloses a fact that G.R.A. cannot promote the employees¡¦ satisfaction for their salary. What employees care most is not G.R.A., but their income. In other words, the application of G.R.A. will work after the employees are satisfied with their wages, i.e., their basic need of living.

The present study has two primary contributions to the existing literature linking stressors to employee reactions. First, job satisfaction and emotional exhaustion are proposed to mediate the relationship between stressors and both forms of voluntary workplace behaviors, specifically OCB and CWB. A comprehensive framework, which includes both streams of voluntary workplace behaviors (OCB and CWB) will expand the common practice of investigating them separately and helps us better understand the parallel mechanisms linked to OCB and CWB. Secondly, the role of proactive personality will be investigated to gain insights into how it relates to job attitudes and voluntary work behaviors. We will have new look at the dispositional antecedents of OCB and CWB by investigating how proactive people react, feel, and behave in the organizational context.

Extensive research on burnout in different occupational fields has taken place internationally. However, no studies on students at higher education institutions in South Africa have been performed. The objective of this research was to standardise the Maslach Burnout Inventory- Student Survey (MBI-SS) and the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale-Student Survey (UWESSS) for student leaders in a South African university. Further objectives included empirically determining the relationships between burnout and engagement on the one hand, and work stress, optimism, individual and organisational commitment on the other. In so doing the researchers would be able to advise higher education institutions on how they could help with preventing burnout in student leaders, as well as enhancing the work engagement of these student leaders. A cross-sectional survey design was used. The entire population of student leaders were involved (N=196). The population of student leaders consisted of student leaders of 22 different House Committees and the Students' Representative Council. The Maslach Burnout Inventory-Student Survey and the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale-Student Survey, Life Orientation Test Revised, Attitudes Towards Your Organisation Survey and Position Characteristics Survey were administered. Descriptive and interferential statistics were used to analyse the data. The results obtained for MBI-SS proved this measuring instrument to be reliable and valid. By using the structural equation modelling approach a three-dimensional factor structure for burnout among student leaders emerged which supported earlier conceptions in this regard. The same applies to the UWES-SS. The results showed that for the Burnout model Emotional Exhaustion was best predicted by Overload, Cynicism by Job Demands and Professional Eficacy by Resources. For the Engagement model Absorption was best predicted by Recources and Dedication and Vigour were best predicted by Optimism. / Thesis (M.Com. (Industrial Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2004.

Tyrimo tikslas - nustatyti, X ir Y organizacijų darbuotojų prisitaikymo organizacijoje, saviveiksmingumo bei darbe patiriamo streso sąsajas. Naudoti metodai: Darbiniui stresui įvertinti naudotas Amerikos Streso Instituto darbinio streso klausimynas, sudarytas iš 10 klausimų. Prisitaikymui organizacijoje naudotas Prisitaikymo organizacijoje klausimynas (Morton, 1993), sudarytas iš 4 subskalių (darbinių žinių subskalės, santykių su kolegomis subskalės, akultūrizacijos subskalės, pasitenkinimo darbu subskalės). Šį klausimyną sudaro 22 teiginiai, vertinami Likerto skalėje, nuo 1 iki 5. Saviveiksmingumas matuojamas 16 teiginių Noe, Wilk (1993) Požiūrio į mokymus klausimyno viena subskale (saviveiksmingumo subskale), kuri buvo naudojama ir A. Skrydailaitės magistriniame darbe – „Požiūrio į profesinį tobulėjimą sąsajos su psichologinėmis charakteristikomis tarp darbuotojų dirbančių nevyriausybinėse ir vyriausybinėse įstaigose”. Tiriamąją imtį sudarė dviejų organizacijų darbuotojai. Pirmoji organizacija X – 62 darbuotojai, antroji – Y organizacija – 205 darbuotojai. Iš viso – 267 respondentai. Atlikto tyrimo rezultatai parodė, kad saviveiksmingumas siejasi su prisitaikymu organizacijoje, o prisitaikymas organizacijoje su patiriamu darbiniu stresu. Apdorojus respondentų duomenis galima teigti, kad nuo sociodemografinių rodiklių labiausiai priklauso darbinis stresas. Saviveiksmingumo lygmuo taip pat priklauso nuo šių rodiklių, išskyrus amžiaus grupes. O su prisitaikymu... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The aim of the study to asses the the connection between adjustment in organization, self-eficacy and work stress in X organization and in Y organization”. Methods. To asses the work stress in organizations was used American Institute of Stress questionare – Job stress. It compound from 10 propositions. Them employers should evaluate from 1 „absolutely agree” to 10 – „absolutely disagree”. 10 points mean that responder have no work stress at all. To asses adjustment in organization was used Workplace adaptation questionare (Morton, 1993), which is compouned from 4 suscales – job knowledge, relations between colleques, job satisfaction and aculturization subscale. Responders shold evaluate propositions in Likert scale from 1 to 5. Self-eficacy was evaluated by Wilk‘s (1993) questionare Attitude to education one of 13 subscales (self-eficasy subscale). The subjects of the study were 267 employers from both organizations: 62 from X organization and 205 responders from Y organization. The results of the study showed that self – efficacy is connected with adjustment in organization, and adjustment in organization is connected with work stress. Affter analysing empoyeers answers we can say that the hardest connection of sociodemographic statistic‘s is with work stress. Self – efficacy is connected with sociodemographic statistic‘s as well, but there is no significant difference with age groups. And with adjustment in organization there is no significant difference between... [to full text]

Tyrimo tikslas – nustatyti darbinio streso bei profesinio perdegimo sąsajas su socialinės paramos šaltiniais. Tiriamieji: 196 Kauno miesto vidurinių mokyklų mokytojai: 171 moteris ir 25 vyrai nuo 23 iki 70 metų amžiaus. Tyrimo metodikos: sociodemografiniai duomenys (lytis, amžius, šeimyninė padėtis, išsilavinimas); multidimensinė socialinės paramos skalė, vertinanti paramos, gaunamos iš šeimos, draugų, kitų žmonių, naminių gyvūnėlių, vadovų bei kolegų, stiprumą; HSE darbinio streso skalė, matuojanti darbe patiriamo streso išreikštumą; mokytojų perdegimo skalė, matuojanti perdegimo simptomų išreikštumą. Rezultatai: nustatyta, kad darbinis stresas stipriausiai neigiamai susijęs su šeimos ir vadovų parama, o profesinis perdegimas – su šeimos bei naminių gyvūnėlių parama. Tiriamųjų, gaunančių didesnę paramą iš šeimos, kitų žmonių, vadovų bei kolegų, darbinis stresas yra mažiau išreikštas nei gaunančių mažesnę paramą. Tiriamųjų, gaunančių didesnę paramą iš šeimos, naminių gyvūnėlių bei vadovų, profesinis perdegimas yra mažiau išreikštas nei gaunančių mažesnę paramą. Mažesnė socialinė parama negatyviau veikia vyrus ir vyresnio amžiaus asmenis, o didesnė parama efektyvesnė moterims ir jaunesniems asmenims. Gaunančių mažesnę paramą iš tam tikrų šaltinių, vyrų ir vyresnio amžiaus asmenų darbinio streso bei profesinio perdegimo išreikštumas yra didesnis nei moterų ir jaunesnio amžiaus asmenų. Gaunančių didesnę paramą iš tam tikrų šaltinių, moterų ir jaunesnio amžiaus asmenų... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Objective – to examine links between work stress, burnout and social support. Setting: Lithuania, Kaunas. Participants: 196 teachers aged from 23 to 70. 171 women and 25 men. Measurements: sociodemografic variables include subject age, sex, marital status, education; multidimensional social support scale includes family, friends, other people, pets, managers and colleagues support; HSE work stress evaluation scale; teachers burnout scale. Results: the strongest negative correlations observed between work stress and family, and managers support and between burnout and family, and pets support. Those who get more support from family, other people, managers and colleagues indicated lower work stress level than those who get less support. Those who get more support from family, pets and managers indicated lower burnout level than those who get less support. Lower social support negatively affects men and older people, and higher social support more positive affects women and younger people. Men and older people getting lower support from particular resources indicated higher work stress and burnout level than women and younger people. Women and younger people getting higher support from particular resources indicated lower work stress and burnout level than men and older people. Individuals living alone and getting more support from friends and coleagues indicated less work stress than those living not alone. Individuals living alone and getting more support from their pets... [to full text]

Extensive research on burnout in different occupational fields has taken place internationally. However, no studies on students at higher education institutions in South Africa have been performed. The objective of this research was to standardise the Maslach Burnout Inventory- Student Survey (MBI-SS) and the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale-Student Survey (UWESSS) for student leaders in a South African university. Further objectives included empirically determining the relationships between burnout and engagement on the one hand, and work stress, optimism, individual and organisational commitment on the other. In so doing the researchers would be able to advise higher education institutions on how they could help with preventing burnout in student leaders, as well as enhancing the work engagement of these student leaders. A cross-sectional survey design was used. The entire population of student leaders were involved (N=196). The population of student leaders consisted of student leaders of 22 different House Committees and the Students' Representative Council. The Maslach Burnout Inventory-Student Survey and the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale-Student Survey, Life Orientation Test Revised, Attitudes Towards Your Organisation Survey and Position Characteristics Survey were administered. Descriptive and interferential statistics were used to analyse the data. The results obtained for MBI-SS proved this measuring instrument to be reliable and valid. By using the structural equation modelling approach a three-dimensional factor structure for burnout among student leaders emerged which supported earlier conceptions in this regard. The same applies to the UWES-SS. The results showed that for the Burnout model Emotional Exhaustion was best predicted by Overload, Cynicism by Job Demands and Professional Eficacy by Resources. For the Engagement model Absorption was best predicted by Recources and Dedication and Vigour were best predicted by Optimism. / Thesis (M.Com. (Industrial Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2004.

The reduction of workplace accidents and improvement of workplace safety is a concern for most mining houses. Pressure from the labour movement and legislative requirements do not make the burden any lighter. There are circumstances directly and indirectly relating to accidents and therefore a need to obtain an in-depth analysis of underlying causes of accidents in order to draw relevant conclusions exists. There are workplace environmental matters as well as individual attitudinal issues that need to be addressed. The objective of this study is to investigate the relationship of work stress and job insecurity with safety compliance, job satisfaction and commitment in a mine. A cross-sectional survey design was used with an availability sample (n=158). A survey booklet including a biographical questionnaire, scales on job insecurity, job satisfaction, affective organisational commitment, workplace accidents and safety compliance as well as a work stress measure comprising dimensions of role clarity, conflict and overload was administered. The results indicated that when miners experience work stress and job insecurity, their safety compliance is low. Job satisfaction was found to be a positive predictor of safety compliance among miners. / Thesis (M.A. (Industrial Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2010.

Education is recognised worldwide as one of the most stressful work environments. Contributing factors include poor remuneration, workload. poor administrative support. Poor relationships with colleagues and superiors. a lack of respect for the profession and few career advancement opportunities. The result is that a high number of educators experience negative physical and psychological symptoms. Evidence from research suggests that the level of burnout among educators is increasing. that educators are experiencing lower levels of job satisfaction. That there is an increase in the levels of absenteeism and alcohol abuse of educators. Retention problems arise as more educators are leaving the profession at an earlier stage. that the relationship between the educator and learner are becoming more destructive and that the quality of our education is consequently on the decrease. The objective of this research is to determine the relationship between job insecurity. Job satisfaction, social support and general health of educators in the Sedibeng West Municipal District as well as to establish whether social support has a moderating effect on the relation between job insecurity and job satisfaction. The research method consists of a literature review and an empirical study. A cross-sectional survey design was used to collect the data. A random sample (n 312) was taken from educators in the Sedibeng West Municipal District. The Job Insecurity Questionnaire (J IQ) of De Witte. The Revised Minnesota Job Satisfaction Questionnaire (JSQ) by Weiss ct al... the Social Support Scale of Caplan and Goldberg and Hillier"s General Health Questionnaire (GI IQ) were used as measuring instruments. The statistical analysis was carried out with the SPSS-programme. The statistical methods utilised in the article consisted of descriptive statistics, Cronbach alpha coefficients. Pearson product-moment correlation coefficients and multiple regression analyses were used to analyse the data. The results obtained for the four scales proved the measuring instruments to be reliable. The analysis of Pearson product-moment correlations in this study showed that Job Insecurity is negatively related to intrinsic, Extrinsic and Total Job Satisfaction as well as positively related to higher levels of Somatic, Anxiety and Insomnia, Social Dysfunctional and Depression related General Health, but all with a small effect. Intrinsic, Extrinsic and Total Job satisfaction however had a clear positive relation to Social Support received from a Supervisor and Extrinsic Job Satisfaction also correlated positively with Social Support received from Colleagues. The four General Health scales in turn had only small negative relations with Total Job Satisfaction. A regression analysis with Job Satisfaction as dependent variable le indicated that none of the Social Support constructs had a moderating influence on the negative effect that Job insecurity has on a person's experience of their job. Recommendations are made for the educators' profession and for future research purposes. / Thesis (M.A. (Industrial Psychology))--North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2010.