How does GE Healthcare uses Reward and Recognition strategies and how do their co-workers perceive these strategies with a focus on motivation and job satisfaction? We want to examine potential gaps between evidence and practice on Reward and Recognition Strategies. Furthermore we want to develop and understanding of how co-workers perceive these strategies.We have chosen to [...]
Work Environment Stressors – The link between employees’ well-being and job performance?
Employees are the human capital which contributes to the success and development of a company to a great extent. Thus, these days, companies do not see them only as factors of production from the classical perspective, but have started to value them as stakeholders and partners with whom long-term goals are achieved together.Problem Discussion & [...]
Assessing the role of work Motivation on Employee Performance
The main purpose of this study was to” assess the role of work motivation on employee performance”. This study in an assessment of this purpose used deductive approach in which a qualitative survey was carried out among students at of Umea Business School (USBE) who are assumed to be future employees .The survey was intended [...]
A Caregiver Perspective on Incorporating IT Support into Dementia Care
Aim: The overall aim of the present thesis was to describe and evaluate IT support in dementia care from the perspectives of staff and relatives. More specifically, it was to examine staff members’ satisfaction with work, life satisfaction and sense of coherence before and after increased IT support, to describe staff members’ opinions and perceptions [...]
Locked Up: Exploring the Complex Nature of Conflicting Values Systems and Their Effects on Work Attitudes
Values are individuals’ enduring perspectives on what is fundamentally right or wrong (Rokeach, 1973). These perspectives affect how people interpret their surroundings and interactions with others; individuals act in accordance with, and judge others’ behavior by, what they believe is right (Bandura, 1991). Values have been studied extensively in the organizational literature, focusing on how [...]