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The impact of stress on IT employees' health and its consequential effects on productivity

The IT industry is one of the most lucrative industries which motivates hundreds of employees to join the industry for future success every year. With digital technologies dictating every aspect of our lives, the IT sector is only going to grow and create immense opportunities for employees in the field. However, working in the IT industry is quite a daunting task due to the highly demanding job environment and fierce competition at all levels. This further leads to employees being subjected to stress while working at various positions in the industry and this in turn has an impact on their health and productivity. Hence, the aim of this research is to explore the impact that stress has on the health of IT employees along with its effects on improvement. Secondary sources of information have been collected in the process to provide a detailed idea of this area of research. It has been found had stress impacts employees at all levels- physical, mental and behavioral. The level of stress has a direct impact on the performance of the employees and in turn, affects the overall productivity of the organization. It becomes important for the industry to take appropriate steps to manage stress and improve productivity in the process. Hence, all of these aspects have been discussed in detail in the below article.

Workplace loneliness and performance: Study from India offers support for PE (person-environment) fit as mitigator of negative effect of loneliness

PurposeThis paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.Design/methodology/approachThis briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.FindingsA study of hundreds of employees and their supervisors from India established the negative effect of workplace loneliness on job performance. The author’s findings also supported the role of person-environment fit (PE) in minimizing the negative effect of workplace loneliness on well-being, as well as the impact of workplace loneliness on psychological safety.Originality/valueThe briefing saves busy executives, strategists and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Necessity of Fire Safety Measure Intervention among Garment Workers

Background: Providing Bangladesh with low-cost garment industries has had terrible results, including fires and building collapses that have claimed lives and injured hundreds of employees. Objective: This study was carried out to assess the effectiveness of educational intervention programs in increasing fire safety measures among garment workers. Methods: This was a quasi-experimental study conducted among purposively selected 160 garment workers with a semi-structured questionnaire through face-to-face interviews from 1st January to 31st December, 2021 in a factory situated in Narayanganj district. Results: Before the educational intervention, about one-third (29.4%) of respondents had a strong awareness of fire safety; after the intervention, that number increased to 92.5%. All of them (100.0%) had clear knowledge about fire alarms and fire extinguishers after the intervention. After the intervention, the percentage of people who needed sufficient training for fire safety measures improved from 70.6% to 95.6%. Conclusion: The results show that there is a critical need for safety intervention in the sector, which may include safety training for industry workers and health education to reduce the number of fatalities, disabilities, and societal financial burdens. Mediscope 2023;10(2): 50-55

CONVERSION OF AGRICULTURAL SECTOR INTO MANUFACTURING SECTOR IN ACEH PROVINCE

The change in labor structure and quality from the agricultural sector to the industrial sector has created prospects for expanded job opportunities, which are much more important year-on-year in comparison with the agricultural sector. Moreover, the manufacturing sector also offers resources for its employees to boost their health. The workforce experienced an average annual decrease of -1.69 percent from 1994 to 2017, but the manufacturing sector experienced a 6.44 percent rise in jobs. This thesis is a secondary study using time series data collected from the Aceh Province Central Statistical Agency (BPS). The model is structured in the form of simultaneous equations consisting of 6 structural equations and 2 identity equations. The model is an Econometrics model that is used to classify the variables affecting the movement of labor to the manufacturing sector in the agricultural sector. The results of the study indicate that salaries in the industrial sector are higher than wages in the agricultural sector, which is what encourages workers in the agricultural sector to tend to migrate to the industrial sector (transformation). The industrial sector consumes more labor than the agricultural sector with every rise in the number of industries in Aceh Province. Seen by the growth of 1 Aceh industrial unit capable of employing hundreds of employees.

Life span of Covid-19 antibodies following infection in a sample worker population in Qatar

Background: COVID-19 antibodies’ longevity following infection is still unclear. Early data brought hope that acquired immunity was possible but subsequent studies suggested that immune protection might be short-lived. The results of recent studies provide greater insight into the human immune response to COVID-19. The Qatar Gas medical department’s strategy in preventing spread of infection among offshore and onshore workers consisted of maximizing the opportunities for COVID-19 polymerise chain reaction (PCR) and antibody testing. A large amount of data revealing the possible lifespan of COVID-19 antibodies in the study population was collected. Methods: Out of hundreds of employees who volunteered in this study about seroprevalance of COVID-19 antibodies, 52 whose results were reactive were tested for COVID-19 PCR before being selected. Employees with reactive or inconclusive PCR test results were excluded. Age, medical/surgical/social history, apart from past COVID-19 infection, were not selection criteria. We measured the period of time between the date of diagnosis and the antibody test result, segregating those still reactive from those who tested non-reactive at any point in time. The reactive group were retested for antibodies every 90 days as long as results continued to be reactive. Any cured employee was retested if they developed symptoms or was exposed to a confirmed positive case, to rule out the possibility of re-infection during this timeframe. Results: Only one employee was non-reactive after 110 days of COVID-19 PCR positive test result. 22 employees tested reactive although their PCR result had been negative. 30 employees tested reactive after a positive PCR with an average duration of 145 days, the shortest and longest being 24 and 223 respectively. Conclusion: We determined that antibodies’ longevity may extend to more than 6 months following COVID-19 infection and that there may be an early decay of antibodies in a limited proportion of the population, however further studies are recommended on larger populations. We noticed no cases of COVID-19 reinfection.

Can internal marketing activities save small and medium industrial enterprises in a tough economy Back to the basics approach

Recently, and due to the economic pressure in Jordan, several small and medium enterprises have filed for bankruptcy, or downsized their business leading to the layout of hundreds of employees, which will deepen the economic problems in Jordan and increase the circle of effect. Small and medium enterprises can follow other courses of actions to address such issue. This paper aims to understand the possible impact of internal marketing practices and activities during economic problems on the employees' productivity in small and medium industrial enterprises. In order to achieve this aim, a descriptive analytical methodology was used, quantitative approach through survey strategy was applied and electronically administrated questionnaires were utilised to collect the primary data from a representative stratified random sample of 490 small and medium industrial enterprises out of 2,291 registered local small and medium industrial enterprises. 345 filtered and screened questionnaires were analysed using SPSS, the main results of simple and multiple regression analyses indicate that internal marketing mix has a strong positive direct effect on employees' productivity, where internal promotion has the most effect followed by workplace, internal product and internal price respectively. Discussion, conclusion, and recommendations are provided based on the results of the study.

Intuitionistic Fuzzy Decision Making Towards Efficient Team Selection in Global Software Development

For successful completion of any software project, an efficient team is needed. This task becomes more challenging when the project is to be completed under global software development umbrella. The manual selection of team members based on some expert judgment may lead to inappropriate selection. In reality, there are hundreds of employees in an organization and a single expert may be biased towards any member. Thus, there is a need to adopt methods which consider multiple selection criteria with multiple expert views for making appropriate selection. This article uses an intuitionistic fuzzy approach to handle uncertainty in the expert's decision in multicriteria group decision making process and ranking among the finite team members. An intuitionistic fuzzy Muirhead Mean (IFMM) is used to aggregate the intuitionistic criteria's. To gain confidence between criteria and expert score relationship, the Annova test is performed. The results are promising with p value as small as 0.02 and one-tail t-test score equals to 0.0000002.

Can Internal Marketing Activities Save Small and Medium Industrial Enterprises in a Tough Economy Back to the Basics Approach

Recently, and due to the economic pressure in Jordan, several small and medium enterprises have filed for bankruptcy, or downsized their business leading to the layout of hundreds of employees, whi...

Cultura material e trabalho nos serviços de mineração do Distrito Diamantino (Minas Gerais, século XVIII)

RESUMO Com o propósito de intensificar o controle sobre a produção e o comércio de diamantes na segunda metade do século XVIII, a Coroa portuguesa criou a Real Extração. De 1772 em diante, esta nova administração passou a adquirir em mercados locais e europeus tudo que fosse necessário à extração das pedras preciosas e à sobrevivência de seus empregados no Distrito Diamantino. Neste artigo, estuda-se esse abastecimento pela perspectiva da cultura material, com o objetivo de evidenciar as relações possíveis entre os elementos materiais utilizados no cotidiano da extração e o trabalho de centenas de empregados e milhares de escravos. Assim, materiais para mineração, materiais de escritório, tecidos e aviamentos, artigos de luxo, drogas de botica e alimentos não serão apenas descritos, mas analisados naquele contexto social específico. O estudo da interação entre homens e objetos, longe de se apresentar como trivial, desvela o funcionamento de um mundo do trabalho ainda pouco conhecido pela historiografia da mineração.

Track key metrics to ensure efficient, effective staff management

While large charities with hundreds of employees in chapters across the country might be on the forefront of human resources data analytics, most smaller organizations with just a handful of employees likely are not. Often, they are unsure of what HR data analysis could do for their organizations, or even where to start in collecting relevant information. As a result, many small charities are missing out on valuable insight that could help them in their missions, experts say.

‘Campi nomadi’ as sites of resistance: The experience of Romani camp dwellers in Rome

ABSTRACTThis article focuses on the Romani people who live at the margins of Italian society, often in city camps that show signs of institutional abandonment, neglect and extreme decay. Every year, large amounts of public money are spent on managing these camps, whetting the appetites of various institutions, both private and public. Consequently, the Romani issue has turned into a business involving hundreds of employees in which it is very hard to know exactly how funds are actually used. However, as well as the top-down approach adopted by the Government and its agents, this study also uncovers the existence of a bottom-up opposition expressed by the Romani communities living in camps. The Romani camp dwellers have recently been described as ‘fighters’ or ‘warriors’ in the sense that they have learned to take advantage of their marginal conditions. The daily struggle to make the best of a bad situation might be interpreted as a form of resistance. Inside the camps, Romanies now occupy an in-between position, partly imposed on them by outside forces and partly the consequence of their own volition. While standing on the side of the subjugated and against a hierarchy which produces and reproduces injustice, this article examines how Romani camp dwellers have managed to exercise what remains to them of their free agency.

The Application of Technology and Strategy in Management Business of SMEs

In this work, I tried to give a detail answer in concerning the relationship between technology and business strategy in the Management of SMEs. Entrepreneurship and innovation is now all over the world are centered because of further economic growth and reduction of unemployment can only be based on the entrepreneurial society. Entrepreneurial Society entrepreneurial economy is characterized with entrepreneurs where there are a large number of new businesses. An entrepreneur is a person who is willing to take the risk of starting business ventures and the establishment of new businesses. Entrepreneurship is defined as the totality of entrepreneurial knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully conduct business. The basic characteristics entrepreneurial companies are constantly establishing a variety of small businesses entrepreneurships / trades that do not employ any workers to entrepreneurship employing up to hundreds of employees. The success entrepreneurship is based on the constant changes and responding to changes. Essentially all of the changes is innovation of products and services and high quality new products that can only confirm the market. DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2015.v4n2s1p104

Access Control Model for an Electronic Master Plan Maintenance Web-based GIS

Aims: The article is dedicated to give an assessment of the applicability of the popular access control models for designing the information security subsystem of an electronic master plan (EMP) web-based geographic information system. An overview of access control models used for designing and creation of modern information systems is given. The article also contains main features of information security system implementation based on given access control models. Conclusion: The use of role-based access control model as a basis of information security subsystem of the enterprise geographic information system (GIS) can simplify the designing and administration of the given system. Such model corresponds well to the companies with complex organizational and staff structure and provides an opportunity to simulate real enterprise structure with hundreds of employees working simultaneously with different aspects of master plan. The presented implementation of the role-based access control model allowed authors to develop GIS which supports assignment of access permissions to groups of users on each kind of master plan objects, including different map areas, layers and GIS functionality. Review Article Zhukovsky et al.; BJAST, 8(4): 334-340, 2015; Article no.BJAST.2015.211 335

The Future of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act: How Automation and Crowdsourcing Can Protect Fair Use

On August 6, 2012, NASA completed one of the most technologically advanced missions in the agency's history. 1 After a decade of work and input from hundreds of employees, NASA successfully landed a robotic rover named Curiosity on the planet Mars. 2 Curiosity travelled over 350 million miles and landed almost flawlessly. 3 NASA anticipated a global audience for this historic event and prepared a YouTube channel to exhibit video taken from this mission. 4 Just one hour after Curiosity landed on Mars, while popping champagne and exchanging high-fives, NASA engineers posted a thirteen-minute video of the extraordinary landing on their YouTube channel. 5 Ten minutes later the video was inaccessible. 6

A Study of Training and Development at Private Educational Institutions- with special reference to Malwa Region- Punjab

This paper addresses the main issues of training and development for private sector particularly educational institutions. This Paper has been made to understand how training and development in private educational Institutions make a difference in the working style of employees. The involvement of the private sector to foster the improvement of the workforce can affect the entire economy. The operations of the companies in the formulation and implementation of the training is having its own potential to grow as a strategy. This provided opportunity to the professionals deserves an upgrading approach into their skills and to their careers. The paper is based on the author’s personal experience with more than 100 different training activities. The author has also had in-depth conversations with hundreds of employees and employers of private educational institutions.

Journal Scan: Ivermectin: A New Treatment for the Seven-Year Itch

Journal Scan: Ivermectin: A New Treatment for the Seven-Year Itch

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Page 2 American Book Review American Book Review Founded 1977 by Ronald Sukenick Published at the School of Arts and Sciences, University of Houston–Victoria American Book Review specializes in reviews of frequently neglected published works of fiction, poetry, literary and cultural criticism from small, regional, university, ethnic, avant-garde, and women’s presses. ABR as a literary journal aims to project the sense of engagement that writers themselves feel about what is being published. It is edited and produced by writers for writers and the general public. Comment on its reviews is encouraged, as are suggestions for future reviews. Send all editorial correspondence or review copies to: American Book Review, University of Houston–Victoria, School of Arts and Sciences, 3007 N. Ben Wilson, Victoria, TX 77901-5731 Telephone: (361) 570-4101 Fax: (361) 580-5501 Email: americanbookreview@uhv.edu Send all subscription correspondence to: American Book Review, University of Houston–Victoria, 3007 N. Ben Wilson, Victoria, TX 77901-5731 Telephone: (361) 570-4101 Email: americanbookreview@uhv.edu© 2009 by American Book Review ISSN 0149-9408. Covers and cover details used by permission. American Book Review appears bimonthly.Annual subscription rates are $24 for a one-year and $40 for a two-year individual subscription; $30 for a one-year institutional subscription; $35 for a one-year foreign, airmail subscription. American Book Review is published by its editors, and is made possible, in part, by generous support from the School ofArts and Sciences, University of Houston–Victoria and Friends of ABR. This project is also supported in part by awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes a great nation deserves great art, and the Texas Commission on the Arts. ABR is also a member of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses. Trade distribution by Hudson–RPM, 150 Black River Road, Worcester, MA 01607; and Armadillo, 7310 LaCienaga Blvd., Inglewood, CA 90302. Indexed in Humanities International Complete, Book Review Index, Current Contents/Arts & Humanities, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. http://americanbookreview.org Publisher: Editor: Managing Editor: Assistant Editor: Layout: Subscription Manager: Cover Image: Focus Editor: Publisher Emeritus: Associate Editors: Contributing Editors: Assistants: Jeffrey R. Di Leo Jeffrey R. Di Leo Charles Alcorn David C. Felts David C. Felts Susie Albert© istockphoto.com/sironpe, “Cyborg Head” Zahi Zalloua Charles B. Harris Mark Amerika, R.M. Berry, C. S. Giscombe, Larry McCaffery, Doug Nufer, Lance Olsen, Kevin Prufer, John Tytell, Barry Wallenstein, Tom Williams, Eric Miles Williamson Rudolfo Anaya, Ron Arias, John Ashbery, Michael Bérubé, Rosellen Brown, Andrei Codrescu, William Demby, Rikki Ducornet, Raymond Federman, William Gass, Russell Hoover, Steve Katz, Clarence Major, Michael McClure, Joyce Carol Oates, Marjorie Perloff, Robert Peters, Corinne Robins, Charles Russell, Paul Schiavo, Barry Seiler, Charles Simic, Bruce Sterling, Regina Weinreich Nathan King Page 2 Stories are beginning to circulate about the negative impact that the economic crisis is having on the world of book publishing. And they’re coming from all corners of the publishing world. Just today, a friend who is an editor at a major university press told me that five of his colleagues were let go by the press. I’m sure that other university presses are feeling the financial crunch and downsizing as well. Even the big publishing houses are cutting back. Simon & Schuster just cut thirty-five jobs, and Thomas Nelson fired fifty-four employees—which amounted to 10% of their workforce. And the worst is probably yet to come. Publishing giant Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, with $1.3 billion in revenue and 3,550 employees, is rumored to have laid off hundreds of employees this past month (as of right now, solid numbers are not in general circulation). In addition, Houghton has put a ban on all new acquisitions. Before the acquisition ban was publicly announced, Becky Saletan, Houghton’s trade and reference publisher, was said to have teared up at an editorial meeting. Shortly after the announcement, she quit. The downsizing has sent a chill through the publishing world. I’m sure many in the book business are wondering if they’re next. Even the big-box booksellers are getting hit: the nation’s three largest bookstore chains—Barnes & Noble, Borders Group, and Books-A-Million—all...

The film industry's battle against left-wing influences, from the Russian Revolution to the Blacklist

Anti-radicalism in the United States has a long history. During World War I, it was transformed into anti-communism and became embedded in the political culture of the United States for the next seventy-plus years. There were many varieties of anti-communism, but it can be divided into two main categories: official or governmental, and unofficial or nongovernmental. This article traces the development of those varieties that most impacted the motion picture industry, led to the blacklisting of hundreds of employees, and cast a pall of censorship over moviemaking.

A Dynamic Search Termination Scheme for Retail Labour Scheduling Problems

Integer programming is a common approach for assigning employees to different shifts in a retail labour scheduling problem. Due to the size of some real life problems, it may not be possible to solve them optimally within a reasonable amount of time. Hence, in practice, one may be satisfied if the solution reaches an acceptable gap from the best bound, a 2% gap for example. This gap is the difference between the current best solution and the theoretically best possible solution that can be found. However, an analysis of several real life labour scheduling problems reveals that, for some cases, a reasonable gap (e.g. 5%) can be found quickly but will take several hours or more to find a 2% gap. In large schedules, with several hundreds of employees, this difference in solution quality can hardly be noticed from the retail store manager's perspective. The difference between the times needed to generate schedules, on the other hand, is noticeable. Therefore, this paper presents a dynamic termination scheme that can be used to prevent long search processes that do not yield recognizable/practical improvements. The scheme is tested on 13 real life problems and results show an average of 55% reduction in search time.

Leadership in Academic Medicine: Capabilities and Conditions for Organizational Success

Leadership in Academic Medicine: Capabilities and Conditions for Organizational Success