Successful Job Research Articles

Workplace Spirituality and Employee Job Attitude: Direct Test Effect: An Empirical Check Among Nursing Community

Workplace spirituality is a concept that is gaining traction in the business world. Finding opportunities for self-expression, practicing moral ideals at work, and experiencing sacredness in all aspects of life is what workplace spirituality entails. Nursing is a physically and emotionally taxing career when compared to other occupations, especially given the large amount of physical and emotional labour needed in patient care. The goal of this paper was to synthesise the relationship between workplace spirituality and one of three forms of employee job attitude. The study finding shows that there is a high relationship between spirituality in the workplace and employee job attitude. An integrated environment is necessary for any successful job. This study seems to be of value to researchers and practitioners. Spirituality in the workplace needs to be strengthened by an establishment's HR ethic, which in effect helps to build a positive work atmosphere for the future.

Work Experiences and Self-Esteem Development: A Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies

Theory suggests that people’s work experiences influence their self-esteem and, vice versa, that self-esteem influences work experiences. This meta-analysis of longitudinal studies synthesizes the available evidence on prospective effects between work experiences and self-esteem, controlling for prior levels of the outcomes. The following work variables were examined: job satisfaction, job success, income, job resources, job stressors, and employment status. The analyses were based on 30 independent samples, including data from 53,112 participants. Mean age ranged from 17 to 64 years, spanning most of the work life. For each work variable, we computed random-effects models with standardized regression coefficients as effect size measure. Results suggested reciprocal effects between work experiences and self-esteem. The effects of self-esteem on later work experiences (point estimates ranged from .05 to .10) were slightly larger than the effects of work experiences on later self-esteem (point estimates ranged from .02 to .05). Moderator analyses on the relation between job satisfaction and self-esteem indicated that the effects did not differ across age, gender, sample type, and time lag. Overall, the findings support the corresponsive principle of personality development and suggest that the work domain and people’s self-esteem are interdependent.

Information, reflection, and successful job search: A labor market policy experiment

AbstractJobseekers, especially young people with little experience on the job market, face several challenges. They need to know which jobs are suited for them, where to find them, how to apply, and they need resilience in the face of repeated rejections. Previous research has shown that receiving information and reflecting on how to search for a job enhance self‐efficacy and search motivation, thereby reducing the duration of unemployment spells. Following up on these results, we conducted an experiment in cooperation with the Austrian Ministry of Social Affairs which combines an “information nudge” in the form of a short video‐clip with what we call “reflection nudge” in the form of an online survey. We find that a treatment combining reflection and information reduces job search duration of young unemployed people with a low level of formal education. Considering the low costs of the intervention, efficiency is very high.

A Review of Emotions Makes up The Bulk of Life

The direct and indirect presence of emotions can be seen in reasoning and rationality. Ignorance of emotions, their lack of management and carelessness in expressing them can have huge costs for human beings. New research shows that lack of emotional intelligence can have devastating effects on individual and social contexts, and conversely, education and reinforcement can pave the way for great success. Emotional intelligence training can provide a good platform for individual and social development in various fields of culture. According to some experts, emotional intelligence is very important in normal life. It seems reasonable to assume that some people cannot cope well with their emotions, do not have good interpersonal relationships, have less mental health and experience less job success. The field of emotional intelligence emerged as a subject of study from the heart of scientific psychology, so educators, psychiatrists, human resources specialists and others became interested in this subject and thus, this field was developed. From the time that reputable scientific journals published articles in this field until today, journals and research articles report activities related to this field.

Post traumatic growth during COVID-19: unity in diversity

AimsThis poster reflects how the experience of staying with people of diverse nations and cultural background helped the stranded IMGs cope with this agony in a foreign land during an unprecedented tumultuous situation. The aim is to show that despite diversity among people, the hard times made them unite and overcome countless difficulties.BackgroundThe COVID 19 pandemic has been a period of global health crisis and has exponentially affected mental health issues in the world population. In these difficult times, several International Medical Graduates (IMGs), who had come to the UK to attend their PLAB exams, were left stranded as the exams were postponed, flights cancelled and borders sealed. Faced with huge uncertainty their mental health was of great concern.At this time the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (BAPIO) came forward to help this cohort of stranded doctors in terms of accommodation, finances, mental health support, preparation for exams to the extent of liaising with General Medical Council (GMC) and Home Office. The virtual support group provided a platform for IMGs from different nations and cultures to get in touch with each other helping overcome mental burden and stress.The stories presented in the poster show how unity in diversity helped these young doctors deal with mental trauma amidst the Pandemic.Method276 doctors from 27 countries were looked after by BAPIO. From those excerpts taken from 26 IMGs, personal narratives was used as a method for qualitative assessment.The percentage of IMGs clearing their exams and getting jobs in the NHS has been used for quantitative assessment.ResultQualitative: The personal narratives of the IMGs show how they were positively impacted by staying together albeit different nationalities and cultural background.Quantitative: A total of 21 IMGs out of the 26 cleared their PLAB 2 exams and got registration under General Medical Council giving a percentage of 81.7%. 20 IMGs have successfully joined the NHS in various posts giving a job success rate of 95.2%.ConclusionThe experience of living and sharing housings with people from different nationalities, has increased appreciation and also prepared them to work in the NHS which has a diverse work force. This learning experience has been integral for all of us in shaping our life in the UK making everyone more compassionate.

A green and efficient acid system for carbonate reservoir stimulation

Matrix acidizing is a well stimulation method that is applied to enhance productivity. The success of a stimulation job depends mainly on the efficiency of the acid systems that are employed. This study investigated a new and efficient acid system that is biodegradable, not corrosive, and safe to handle. The system efficiency was compared to that of HCl and chelating agents. Acid coreflooding has been applied to chalk, dolomite, and limestone carbonate rock samples to measure the efficiency in terms of injected pore volume to breakthrough (PVBT). The rock samples were characterized in terms of porosity, permeability, composition using X-ray diffraction (XRD), and pore distribution using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). The effluent was collected at different times and analyzed using induced coupled plasma (ICP). Medical computed tomography (MCT) was used to visualize the interior of the rock samples after acidizing. The new acid system was more efficient in terms of acid spending than straight HCl acid and chelating agents in Indiana limestone. At the optimum injection rate, chelating agents had an optimum PVBT value of about 15 compared to 0.85 for plain HCl acid. Using the new acid system resulted in an optimum PVBT value of only 0.41, which is less than half of HCl acid. A numerical wormhole simulator was implemented to match the experimental PVBT and assess the reactivity of the acid system.

Good fences make good neighbors: Collaborating with families to create employment opportunity

BACKGROUND: Collaboration between supported employment providers and parents/guardians of job seekers with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities is key to employment success. However, parents are often concerned about the efficacy of employment supports or the capacity of the professionals providing the service. Likewise, job coaches may consider certain kinds of parent involvement as detrimental to a successful job match. OBJECTIVE: This article provides context for why parents/guardians may be distrustful of the employment process, as well as why employment specialists may struggle to build strong partnerships with parents/guardians. METHODS: This article will discuss how to implement practices that not only welcome the critical input of families, but also maintain healthy and well-defined boundaries that affirm the autonomy, professionalism, and competence of the worker.

Graduates’ career success predicted by mathematical and affective abilities, effective higher-education learning and economic contexts: a bioecological positivity to success model

ABSTRACT This study posits a bioecological positivity to success (BEPS) model and examines how diverse bioecological factors predict graduates’ career success. The BEPS model with an emphasis on hard (e.g. science, technology, engineering and mathematics [STEM]) and soft (e.g. interpersonal and critical thinking) skills generate a hypothetical model: positive aspects of person (mathematical/hard and affective/soft abilities), process (effective hard and soft competencies learning in higher education) and proximal contexts (original family income and present employment status) predict graduates’ career success (job income and perceived extrinsic, intrinsic and autonomy satisfaction) in early adulthood. Gender, studying STEM, and study years are also included as predictors in the path analysis as control. Path analyses examine the model with cohort data from the Taiwan Education Panel Survey (TEPS) and its follow-up (TEPS-B), which are longitudinal studies of a group of young people (n = 2,700) since grade 7 till age 24–25 years old. Results reveal that soft skills and employment play the most significant roles in graduates’ career success. Hard skills play a minor role. Findings support the BEPS model and provide implications for educational practices and policymaking to emphasise on soft skills learning, employability and entrepreneurship education.

PELATIHAN: PENTINGNYA SOFT SKILL UNTUK KESUKSESAN KERJA BAGI SISWA-SISWI SEKOLAH MENENGAH KEJURUAN

Training with the topic "the importance of soft skills in job success for Vocational High School students" is deemed necessary for preparation in entering the workplace. Besides hard skills, soft skills also play an essential role in work success. The training is packaged in a talk-show format via Instagram Live, which is considered relevant for Vocational High School students under supervised Bulir Padi. The material covered in this training includes: What are soft skills? The difference between hard skills?; The benefits of having soft skills at work; and how to improve soft skills. This activity in the form of training packaged in a talk show with Instagram Live media is carried out following the preparation and implementation stages. The evaluation stage is not carried out in a structured manner. Still, from the responses and questions that arise, we can conclude that the participants are interested in joining the talk-show enthusiastically. In the next training, if it is still in a covid-19 pandemic situation that does not allow face-to-face meetings at the same location, we will continue to apply training virtually either with the zoom application, google meet, or with Instagram Live. The training evaluation will be made more structured by distributing questionnaires to determine the level of participant satisfaction with the training and conducting pre and post-test materials to determine the progress of participants.

Inequality in online job searching in the age of social media

ABSTRACT As hiring processes have increasingly moved online, having better digital skills could play an important role in successful job seeking. However, digital inequality suggests that people use the Internet in different ways with varying levels of skills raising questions about who is most likely to be able to search for jobs online, including on social media. This paper examines online job searching, including the role of digital job-search skills in the process. Results show that sociodemographic characteristics (i.e., age, race, education, and income) as well as online experiences, being a social media user, and having higher digital job-search skills relate to online job-seeking behaviors. These findings highlight the presence of digital inequalities in online job searching including differences by social media experiences.

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Mothers' Job Search after Childbirth

We explore the impact of successful job search after childbirth on mothers' labor market careers. Using a bounding approach and administrative data, we find strong heterogeneity in the returns to leaving the pre-birth employer. Moving to a new employer after childbirth leads to an increase in re-employment earnings only for mothers at the upper part of the earnings distribution. For these mothers, initial job search also increases long-term earnings. We provide evidence that earnings gains are the result of higher geographical mobility and longer commutes to work. Successful mothers are also more likely to move to faster growing firms and firms offering better opportunities to women. Our results do not suggest that husbands play an important role in supporting successful job search of mothers.

A knowledge and intelligent-based strategy for resource discovery on IaaS cloud systems

Resource discovery selects appropriate computing resources in cloud systems to accomplish the users' jobs. This paper proposes a knowledge and intelligent-based strategy for resource discovery in IaaS cloud systems, called KINRED. It uses a fuzzy system, a Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) controller and an artificial neural node to discover suitable resources under various changes on network metrics. The suggested fuzzy system uses hardware specifications of the computing resources in which CPU speed, CPU core, memory, disk, the number of virtual machines and utilisation rate are considered as inputs, and hardware type is considered as output of the system. The suggested MCDM controller makes proper decisions based on users' requirements in which CPU speed, CPU core, memory, and disk are assumed as inputs, and job type is assumed as output of the controller. Furthermore, the artificial neural node selects the computing resource having the highest success rate based on both outputs of the fuzzy system and MCDM controller. Simulation results show that the proposed strategy surpasses some of the existing related works in terms of the number of successful jobs, system throughput and service price.

Influence on Forgiveness, Character Strengths and Satisfaction with Life of a Short Mindfulness Intervention via a Spanish Smartphone Application.

Mindfulness-based interventions (MBI) are a recognized effective psychological practice characterized by attention control, awareness, acceptance, non-reactivity, and non-judgmental thinking obtained through the practice of meditation. They have been shown to be useful in reducing stress and enhancing well-being in different contexts. In this research, the effectiveness of an MBI was evaluated on variables that can promote successful job performance such as mindfulness trait, positive and negative affect, forgiveness, personality strengths and satisfaction with life. The intervention was carried out through a smartphone application called “Aire Fresco” (Fresh Air) during 14 days in the middle of the quarantine produced by the Covid-19 pandemic. The study sample was composed of 164 Spanish people who were distributed in two groups: control group and experimental group, which were evaluated before and after the intervention. The MANCOVA performed showed an overall positive effect of the intervention on the variables evaluated. The different ANCOVAs carried out showed that the intervention was beneficial in increasing mindfulness trait, reducing negative affect or increasing life satisfaction, among others. Our study is, as far as we know, the first to demonstrate the effectiveness of a brief intervention in mindfulness conducted using a smartphone application in Spanish.

Executive functions form a single construct and are associated with schooling: Evidence from three low- and middle- income countries.

Measuring executive function (EF) among adults is important, as the cognitive processes involved in EF are critical to academic achievement, job success and mental health. Current evidence on measurement and structure of EF largely come from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic (WEIRD) countries. However, measuring EF in low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs) is challenging, because of the dearth of EF measures validated across LMICs, particularly measures that do not require extensive training, expensive equipment, or professional administration. This paper uses data from three LMIC cohorts to test the feasibility, validity and reliability of EF assessment in adults using three sub-tests (representing key components of EF) of the NIH Toolbox Cognitive battery. For each cohort, all three EF measures (inhibition, flexibility and working memory) loaded well onto a unidimensional latent factor of EF. Factor scores related well to measures of fluid intelligence, processing speed and schooling. All measures showed good test-retest reliability across countries. This study provides evidence for a set of sound measures of EF that could be used across different cultural, language and socio-economic backgrounds in future LMIC research. Furthermore, our findings extend conclusions on the structure of EF beyond those drawn from WEIRD countries.

Проблемы рынка труда молодёжи в современном мире и Узбекистане: пути их преодоления

Статья посвящена изучению и сравнению проблем рынка труда молодёжи. Установлено, что на определённом этапе развития страны безработица среди молодёжи является основным показателем степени её адаптации на рынке труда. В статье, автором рассмотрены и проанализированы особенности и проблемы мирового рынка труда и Республики Узбекистан. На основе сравнительного анализа показаны страны по уровням занятости и безработицы. Сделана попытка установить причины, которые приводят к увеличению числа невостребованной на рынке труда молодёжи, а также выяснена возможность успешного поиска работы в соответствии с полученной профессией. Охарактеризованы закономерности различных аспектов поведения молодежи на рынке труда.
 В статье сформулированы ключевые направления государственной политики поддержки занятости молодежи.

Work-Life Balance, Self-Esteem, Work Motivation, and Organizational Commitment of Library Personnel in Federal Universities in Southern Nigeria

Organizational commitment is one of the influential factors in job success such that its maintenance and strengthening lead to excellence in employees’ performance. This study was designed to examine the effects of work-life balance, work motivation, and self-esteem on organizational commitment of library personnel in federal universities in southern Nigeria. The total enumeration technique was used to cover all the 1,138 library personnel in the federal universities in southern Nigeria. The validated questionnaire was used to collect data on 1,138 library personnel out of which 1,023 responded. The response rate achieved was 90%. The study found that work-life balance, work-motivation, and self-esteem had significant effect on the organizational commitment of the respondents. Self-esteem has the most significant effect (34%) on organizational commitment. It is, therefore, recommended that library administrators and most especially policy makers in the education industry should give adequate attention to work-life balance, work motivation, and self-esteem to improve the organizational commitment of personnel in the industry.

The Effects of Mindfulness on Job Success: The Mediating Role of Job Adaptability and Burnout

The Effects of Mindfulness on Job Success: The Mediating Role of Job Adaptability and Burnout

How does affect relate to job search effort and success? It depends on pleasantness, activation, and core self‐evaluations

AbstractAlthough research indicates that affect is related to job search self‐regulation, evidence is mixed. Such mixed results may be because most prior studies examined either the information—pleasantness—function of affect, or the motivation—activation—function of affect, although affect is theorized to serve both functions. Based on the circumplex model of affect, we examine four types of affect based on pleasantness and activation, namely activated and deactivated positive and negative affect. We propose that these four types of affect have different effects on job search processes—effort—and in turn outcomes—number of interviews and job offers. Furthermore, we draw on Hoyle's conditional influence approach (2006, 2010) to propose that how job seekers react to affect depends on individual differences in self‐regulation abilities as indicated by core self‐evaluations (CSEs). In an 8‐week repeated‐measure study, we found that both activated positive and activated negative affect related positively to job search processes and outcomes. These relationships were negative for deactivated positive affect, and nonsignificant for deactivated negative affect. CSE moderated the positive relationships of activated positive and activated negative affect with job search processes and outcomes, such that these relationships were positive only for job seekers high in CSE.

How Employer-Supported Volunteering (ESV) Benefits Can Lead to Job Success: The Mediating Role of Flexitime, Volunteering Hours and Skills, Moderated by Recognition and Demography

Defined as “the formal and informal policies and practices that employers use to encourage and help employees volunteer in community service activities”, employer-supported volunteering (ESV) benefits programs are now widely used in HR Practice. However, its impact on success and performance was sparsely researched. The bigger question that remained unclear is how they affect success. To describe the growing trend of employers providing employer-supported volunteering (ESV) benefits, Booth et. al. (2009) explored the formation of exchange relationships between employer and employee as well as between the voluntary organization and employee. Using the concept of gift exchange, we proposed a theoretical framework based on the Booth conceptualization of ESV and further modifying to concept to include moderators' effects in a unified structural framework. We hypothesized that ESV benefits would lead to success directly, as well as through an increase in voluntary hours as well as through gaining Skills Acquired from volunteering. Moreover, different demographic factors and recognition complement these effects. Empirical validity was established by conducting a survey using a close-ended questionnaire. Data was collected from about 300 employees that are volunteering in nonprofit organizations and the questionnaires are filled by visiting different nonprofit organizations operating in Karachi like Citizen Foundation, SIUT, and Indus hospital. Data were analyzed using confirmatory factor analysis and structured equation modeling. The results suggested that ESV benefits seem to have a significant and positive impact on the Perception of Job success directly, as well as through increasing volunteering hours. volunteering hours also seem to have a positive and significant impact on Skills Acquired from volunteering, however, ESV did not seems to affect skills directly. Employees with ESV would also seem to gain Flextime, however, the impact of flexible time on Volunteering is surprisingly negative. Moreover, Skills acquired as well as employee recognition seem to be positively affecting job success. The findings also suggested that Age, Income, Working Hours, and recognition does not seem to have any moderating effect on ESV and volunteering nexus. Education seems to effect volunteering positively however, higher education seems to lower the impact of ESV on Volunteering, hence have negative complementarities. Employee recognition also did not produce any effect on the effect of ESV on both skilled acquired, and job success. We discuss the implications of these findings for business, employees, and volunteer organizations, with an emphasis on human resource management policy and practice.