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Clementine Msengi; Raymond Doe; Grace Lartey; Melvin Getwood; Katherine Sprott – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2025
The purpose of this study was to design a tool measuring the influence of educational leaders in the health and wellness promotion of their employees. A reliable and valid multidimensional Likert scale instrument "Leaders' Perception of Health and Wellness Promotion" to assess the health and wellness promotion of staff was developed. A…
Descriptors: Health, Wellness, Health Promotion, Measures (Individuals)
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Ablah, Elizabeth; Umansky, Emily; Wilcox, Elizabeth A.; Usher, Jeff; Church, Jennifer; Barnes, Virginia – Health Education Research, 2019
Recruiting for wellness initiatives is challenging. WorkWell KS, a statewide worksite wellness initiative, offers unique worksite recruitment strategies that may serve as lessons. From 2012 to 2018, WorkWell KS utilized champions, well-connected local leaders, to recruit worksites. A total of 784 worksites were recruited for at least one WorkWell…
Descriptors: Recruitment, Wellness, Occupational Safety and Health, Employees
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Henning, Marcus A.; Zhou, Chen; Adams, Peter; Moir, Fiona; Hobson, Jennifer; Hallett, Charlene; Webster, Craig S. – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2017
Workplace harassment in higher education adversely impacts workforce productivity and has deleterious health effects on victims. The aim of this study was to review the literature pertaining to workplace harassment in higher education. This systematic literature search was conducted in December 2013 and completed in January 2014. Refereed journal…
Descriptors: Work Environment, Journal Articles, Incidence, Correlation
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Fadda, Salvatore; Giorgi, Gabriele; Benitez Muñoz, Juan Luis; Justicia Justicia, Fernando; Solinas, Giuliana – International Journal of Educational Management, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the prevalence of workplace bullying in an Italian university. Design/methodology/approach: More than 200 workers have completed the Italian version of the Negative Acts Questionnaire and the General Health Questionnaire. Findings: The results show a spread of low to medium negative actions in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Incidence, Work Environment, Bullying
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Cheung, Francis; Wu, Anise M. S. – Journal of Career Development, 2014
This study adopted self-identity theory (Tajfel & Turner, 1979) to examine the role of affective and cognitive identification and the perception of aging with regard to Chinese employees' successful aging in the workplace. A total of 242 Chinese workers in Hong Kong aged 45 and above were recruited. Results showed that cognitive identification…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Older Workers, Self Concept, Identification (Psychology)
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Hou, Su-I; Hsiao, Tun-Jen; Hou, Peng-Hsi – International Electronic Journal of Health Education, 2012
Purpose: This study compared Internet and online health information (OHI) utilization among selected employees age 40-49 and 50-64 years, and examined the influence of age, gender, education, and worksite. Methods: A questionnaire was administered to participants from two worksites in Taiwan. Results: A total of 527 employees completed the survey…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Foreign Countries, Internet, Employees
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Bakker, Arnold B.; Boyd, Carolyn M.; Dollard, Maureen; Gillespie, Nicole; Winefield, Anthony H.; Stough, Con – Career Development International, 2010
Purpose: The central aim of this study is to incorporate two core personality factors (neuroticism and extroversion) in the job demands-resources (JD-R) model. Design/methodology/approach: It was hypothesized that neuroticism would be most strongly related to the health impairment process, and that extroversion would be most strongly related to…
Descriptors: Extraversion Introversion, Structural Equation Models, Personality, Work Environment
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Akkermans, Jos; Brenninkmeijer, Veerle; Blonk, Roland W. B.; Koppes, Lando L. J. – Career Development International, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to gain more insight into the well-being, health and performance of young intermediate educated employees. First, employees with low education (9 years or less), intermediate education (10-14 years of education), and high education (15 years or more) are compared on a number of factors related to well-being,…
Descriptors: Well Being, Health, Job Performance, Educational Attainment
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Lakdawalla, Darius; Philipson, Tomas – Journal of Human Resources, 2007
We use panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to investigate on-the-job exercise and weight. For male workers, job-related exercise has causal effects on weight, but for female workers, the effects seem primarily selective. A man who spends 18 years in the most physical fitness-demanding occupation is about 25 pounds (14…
Descriptors: Labor Supply, Body Weight, Gender Differences, Exercise
Rosse, Joseph G. – 1982
According to an employee withdrawal model suggested by Miller and Rosse (1982), workers engage in a variety of integrated behaviors that are intended to place physical and psychological distance between themselves and a noxious work environment. To investigate the relationship of job satisfaction and employee withdrawal behaviors, 48 newly hired,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Employee Attitudes, Employees, Females