This research based on factors affecting Job Satisfaction among the female teachers in Private Schools of Naushahro Feroze. Job satisfaction is an important topic in aca-demic and business practices. The salary scale, coworkers’ relationship scale, and working environment scale measure job satisfaction in this study. Researchers applied the quantitative research and numerical analysis of the data using the random sam-pling method. The study was held only on female teachers who work in the education sector in Private Schools in District Naushahro Feroze and filled the survey question-naires. The questionnaires were analyzed through IBM SPSS 16. Then co-relation test was used for hypothesis proving and to see the relationship between variables.
This article presents an occupational risk management model of the possible causes of occupational burnout in teachers, and their connection with the psychological and social factors present in the teaching environment. The described risk-management model was assessed empirically on the basis of the example of occupational burnout in safety education teachers. The importance of occupational risk-management was stressed in terms of its role in identifying the causes and results of occupational risks in the working environment, as well as the promotion and development of measures aimed at reducing such risks.
Psychological violence at work is becoming an everyday phenomenon profoundly affecting an individual's physical and mental health and socio-economic life. In addressing this problem, which requires particular attention, it is of utmost importance, on the basis of research, to identify psychological violence in Lithuania, to carry out an analysis of causes and actions, to encourage society to consider potential consequences and take preventive action allowing to change the situation based on the examples of effective practice. In this article, the author aims at analysing the peculiarities of international and regional legal regulation of psychological violence at work.
Środowisko pracy zawodowej człowieka wywiera szeroki i wieloaspektowy wpływ na funkcjonowanie jednostki w społeczeństwie, jego rodzinę oraz zdrowie. Jednym z istotnych czynników organizacyjnych, który wpływa na odczucia, emocje, postawy i zachowania pracowników, a także na jego efektywność i motywacje do prac jest klimat organizacyjny. Klimat pracy wpływa także na to jak pracownicy przeżywają swoją pracę i jakie ponoszą w związku z nią psychologiczne koszty pracy. Jednym z istotnych źródeł kosztów psychologicznych jest stres zawodowy, który najogólniej można zdefiniować jako stale odczuwane przez pracownika poczucie braku komfortu psychicznego lub/i fizycznego powstałe na skutek czynników panujących w miejscu pracy, subiektywnie postrzeganych przez pracownika jako uciążliwe. W artykule przytoczono wybrane koncepcje klimatu organizacyjnego oraz koncepcję psychologicznych kosztów pracy J. Mesjasz oraz zaprezentowano wyniki badań własnych. Badania przeprowadzone w polskich przedsiębiorstwach ukazują związek pomiędzy klimatem pracy, a ponoszonymi przez pracowników a psychologicznymi kosztami pracy.
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Working environment has wide and multi-faceted impact on the functioning the person in society, family and his health. One of the most important organizational factors that affect the feelings, emotions, attitudes and behaviors of employees, as well as its efficiency and motivation to work is the organizational climate. Working environment also affects how employees experience their work and they incur in connection with the psychological costs of work. One of the significant cost sources of psychological costs is stress in work, which can be broadly defined as constantly experienced by the employee a sense of discomfort mental and / or physical caused by factors prevailing in the workplace, subjectively perceived by the employee as a nuisance. The article presents selected concepts of organizational climate and the concept of the psychological costs of work J. Mesjasz, and presents the results of my research. Research was carried out in Polish enterprises and shows the relation between climate work and psychological work costs incurred by employees.
Aims: Global business today usually requires organizations to be present locally in countries where their customers are. To do this successfully, good cooperation with local people is needed. Therefore, this paper focuses on the integration of cultures in the business world. The insights from this study are expected to benefit Slovenian expatriates to foreign companies in South Korea, as well as national culture researchers. The main goals of this research include a comparison of Hofstede’s IBM survey results with the researched working environment, and identifying the benefits of merging two national cultures for the working environment. Methods: A questionnaire was distributed to purposive samples within the researched working environments and the collected data analysed used SPSS, where the hypotheses were tested using a chi-square test and t-test for independent samples. Results: The results revealed significant differences between the two national cultures in the working environment, e.g.: fear of expressing disagreement towards superiors, commitment to work, preference of challenges, tendency to avoid conflicts and innovations - all differed according to nationality. Conclusion: Working together with people from different cultures requires a certain amount of adaptation (learning about another culture, expecting situations that are not usual). If this adaptation is successful, then cooperation between the different cultures can also be successful, leading to a potential output that is even better than cooperation between people from the same culture.
Objectives The objective of the present study was to evaluate and compare the efficiency of a filter based sampling method and a high volume sampling method for sampling airborne culturable fungi present in waste sorting facilities. Material and Methods Membrane filters method was compared with surface air system method. The selected sampling methods were modified and tested in 2 plastic waste sorting facilities. Results The total number of colony-forming units (CFU)/m³ of airborne fungi was dependent on the type of sampling device, on the time of sampling, which was carried out every hour from the beginning of the work shift, and on the type of cultivation medium (p < 0.001). Detected concentrations of airborne fungi ranged 2×10²–1.7×10⁶ CFU/m³ when using the membrane filters (MF) method, and 3×10²–6.4×10⁴ CFU/m³ when using the surface air system (SAS) method. Conclusions Both methods showed comparable sensitivity to the fluctuations of the concentrations of airborne fungi during the work shifts. The SAS method is adequate for a fast indicative determination of concentration of airborne fungi. The MF method is suitable for thorough assessment of working environment contamination by airborne fungi. Therefore we recommend the MF method for the implementation of a uniform standard methodology of airborne fungi sampling in working environments of waste treatment facilities.
Interakcje zachodzące pomiędzy obiektami, ich wyposażeniem a środowiskiem naturalnym stają się istotnymi czynnikami w projektowaniu środowiska pracy w celu zapewnienia dobrostanu w miejscu pracy. Dążenie do zwiększenia wydajności i efektywności pracy biurowej spowodowało poszukiwanie optymalnych warunków do jej wykonywania. Podczas projektowania zespołów, obiektów i wnętrz biur stosowane są odpowiednie rozwiązania konstrukcyjne, technologiczne, materiałowe. Zauważalny jest także kierunek poszukiwania ergonomicznych rozwiązań w celu zaspokojenia potrzeby kontaktu pracownika ze środowiskiem przyrodniczym. Tendencje te w projektowaniu obiektów biurowych występują zarówno w ujęciu urbanistycznym, jak i architektonicznym. Są widoczne w sposobie lokalizacji obiektów biurowych, kształtowaniu formy biurowca i samego środowiska pracy. Na podstawie wybranych europejskich obiektów biurowych przeanalizowano relacje zachodzące pomiędzy potrzebami pracowników, obiektami i ich wyposażeniem a środowiskiem naturalnym. Analiza budynków biurowych została poprzedzona wstępem, w którym omówiono problematykę związku struktury miejskiej ze środowiskiem przyrodniczym. Wskazano znaczenie zieleni w środowisku zbudowanym, a następnie wpływ środowiska przyrodniczego na wybór miejsca lokalizacji obiektów i zespołów oraz kształtowanie formy i otoczenia budynku. Można stwierdzić, że w celu poprawy komfortu psychicznego pracowników roślinność stosowana jest we wnętrzach biurowych, w strefach wspólnych, a także w najbliższym otoczeniu budynku. Powstają założenia „w zieleni” w postaci: reprezentacyjnych rezydencji, miasteczek administracyjnych, parków biurowych. W obszarach śródmiejskich i na styku ze śródmieściem wznoszone są nowe obiekty i zespoły, którym często towarzyszą funkcje rekreacyjne i wypoczynkowe.
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Interactions between the facilities, their equipment and the natural environment have become the essential aspect of the office work environment design, made in the way ensuring the well-being of the employees in their workplaces. The striving to increase productivity and efficiency of the office work resulted in the search for the optimal conditions for the work performance. There are appropriate construction, technological and material solutions used for designing the office units and their interiors. Moreover, the tendency to search the ergonomic ways to satisfy the workers’ need for the contact with nature can be observed. The tendencies in building design mentioned above can be noticed when it comes to the urban architectural planning as well. They are visible in the ways of locating the office buildings, shaping the forms of such buildings and the working environment itself. On an example of the selected European office buildings, the relationships between the needs of employees, facilities together with their equipment and the natural environment have been analyzed. The analysis of the office buildings was preceded with the entry, which discusses the problems of the relationship between the urban structure and the natural environment. The importance of greenery in the built environment was indicated together with the influence of the natural environment on the location of buildings and the architectural complexes as well as the ways of shaping the forms of them and of their surroundings. It can be stated that plants have become the part of the office life in the common spaces and outside, in order to improve the mental comfort of the employees. “Green” complexes have been raised up, including representative residences, administrative towns, office parks. In the city center areas and on the verge of them, the new buildings come along with the accompanying recreation and leisure functions.
This article deals with the problem of professional burnout among correctional facilities workers (such as pedagogues, teachers, psychologists and prison officers) as being particularly vulnerable to this phenomenon. In this paper professional burnout has been dealt with twofold, i.e. as a result of dispositional as well as situational evaluation of stress. In the former case, professional burnout is connected with the way an individual functions in his/her working environment with various strategies of dealing with occupational stress. Individual features and characteristic ways of coping with stress at work have been taken into consideration. It has been found that both personal predispositions and individual approach to the assigned tasks are important predicates of burnout. Following on from this, a set of potential features that prison officers should be characterised by has been described. In the context of situational infl uence on stress, the description of a workplace plays a crucial role as it is an institution, which, very peculiar in its character, may bring about stressful situations that, in turn, may lead to burnout, no matter what individual strategies of overcoming difficult situations have been applied. The article describes situations that might infl uence the cognitive evaluation of an individual as stressful situations, it also presents features that can possibly lower the stress and those are controllability and predictability of the incident. Finally, it has been emphasised how important it is to prevent the workers particularly vulnerable to burnout from such situations as early as possible. It might be helpful to be familiar with the potential stress factors at work and to be equipped with professional diagnostic tools which will distinguish the features and the personality types exceptionally susceptible to burnout, remembering at the same time that burnout is a special phenomenon that should not be mistaken with experiencing stress at work, fatigue, alienation or depression.
One’s functioning at work depends strongly on working environment conditions, including work organization and interpersonal relationships. Working environment is an important area of professional and social development of an individual but may also constitute a source of many problems, causing unnecessary tensions, negative behaviours and consequently, lower the working culture. The aim of this study is to draw attention to work humanization issue and place of an individual in the working process. The article shows an analysis of studies concerning working environment and its elements, interpersonal relationships at work and educational impact of the working environment.
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Funkcjonowanie człowieka w miejscu pracy zależy przede wszystkim od warunków środowiska pracy, w tym organizacji pracy i relacji międzyludzkich. Środowisko pracy jest istotnym obszarem rozwoju zawodowego i społecznego człowieka, ale może też stanowić źródło wielu problemów, co w konsekwencji powoduje niepotrzebne napięcia i negatywne zachowania oraz obniża kulturę pracy. Celem podjętych rozważań jest zwrócenie uwagi na zagadnienie humanizacji pracy i miejsce człowieka w procesie pracy. Artykuł prezentuje analizę treści dotyczących środowiska pracy i jego elementów, relacji interpersonalnych w miejscu pracy oraz edukacyjnych oddziaływań środowiska pracy.
W przedstawionym artykule ukazano wybrane aspekty tworzenia biur typu open space, jako przyjaznych środowisk pracy. Rozważania uwzględniają kwestie komunikacji i relacji interpersonalnych. Ponadto omówione zostały problemy dotyczące stanowisk pracy, a wśród nich głównie hałas jako czynnik szkodliwy związany z pracą w tego typu biurach oraz próby ich rozwiązania.
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The article presents selected aspects of creating open space offices as a friendly work environments. The considerations take into account the issues of communication and interpersonal relations. In addition, issues related to problems about workplaces, mainly including the noise as a harmful agent work-related in this kind of offices and attempts of possible solutions.
Over the past few years we have observed an increasing number of theories concerning empathy and its positive influence on our everyday life. This article deals with the issue of empathy in the working environment. In a survey of studies the author attempts to prove that this dispositional trait is required in various professions at different ranks of an organizational hierarchy. Possible negative consequences of empathizing are considered as well. The author concludes that empathy, once neglected, nowadays is highly valued by psychology of organization and management.
W szeroko rozumianym środowisku pracy istotną kategorię pojęciową stanowi „zakład pracy”. Dlatego też w niniejszym artykule to właśnie tej podstawowej strukturze gospodarczej poświęcono (oczywiście w sposób wybiórczy) analizy i rozważania. Strukturę treściową opracowania autorskiego wyznaczają następujące problemy: okres aktywności zawodowej w wersji współczesnej, współczesna organizacja i rola zakładu pracy, rzeczywiste problemy humanizacji pracy, problemy efektywności i jakości działania zespołów pracowniczych we współczesnych strukturach gospodarczych. W prezentowanym opracowaniu zaakcentowano realne i wartościujące spojrzenia na rozwój i stan nowej polskiej rzeczywistości – od ostatniej dekady XX wieku po dzień dzisiejszy; głównie z pozycji pedagogiki pracy i innych nauk o pracy.
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The author of the abovementioned paper claimed that in a broadly defined notion of professional environment, the head terminological category is ‘a work place’. Therefore, he devoted his analyses and consideration (in a much selective manner) upon this basic economic structure. The content structure of the above authoring consists of matter problems: the period of activity in the labour market in its modern version, the contemporary organization and role of work place, the true problems within humanizing work, the problems of efficiency and quality represented by activities of human resources within the modern economical structures. In the above paper, one highlighted both real and evaluative perceptions of the development and the overall state of Polish modern reality – from the last decade of the 20th century until today; mostly from the point of view of work pedagogy and other disciplines concerning labour.
Introduction. The essence of nursing care is to improve treatment results, patient satisfaction, and decrease treatment costs. Aim. Presenting the factors determining the assessment of nursing care quality in acute hospitals. Material and method. The study included 2605 nurses working in 30 hospitals in Poland. The Work Environment Scale and an opinion questionnaire were used to collect the data. The analysis based on logistic regression model, generalised estimating equations, χ² test, and Mann-Whitney test. Results. Three in every four respondents evaluated the quality of nursing care as good. The assessment depended on the conditions of work, autonomy in providing care, patient information flow, patient safety, occurrence of adverse events, discussion of mistakes, nurse workload, potential for education, and flexible working time. Conclusion. The factors significantly influencing the assessment of nursing care quality are the working environment, care monitoring and management.
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