nima ranji jafroudi; MORTEZA GHORBANI
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IntroductionIn organizations, the emergence of some factors such as stressful conditions in the work environment, physical injuries and some other factors make employees decide to rotate their jobs. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of musculoskeletal diseases on employees’ ...
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IntroductionIn organizations, the emergence of some factors such as stressful conditions in the work environment, physical injuries and some other factors make employees decide to rotate their jobs. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of musculoskeletal diseases on employees’ desire to rotate their jobs, considering the mediating role of job stress and the moderating role of mindfulness in firefighters of the Ports and Maritime Administration of Iran.MethodThis descriptive research is correlational type. The statistical population of the research was all the firefighters of the Ports and Maritime Administration of the whole country, whose number was 598. The sampling method in this research is cluster sampling method. The minimum number in sample in this research is 280 employees. The instruments of the present research are standard skeletal-muscular, mindfulness, job stress, and job rotation questionnaires. Convergent and divergent validity coefficients were used to check the validity of the questionnaires. The reliability of the questionnaires was calculated using Cronbach's alpha. In order to analyze the data, the structural equation modeling method of Smart PLS software was used.ResultsThe results showed that skeletal-muscular diseases have a positive effect on job stress. Skeletal-muscular diseases and job stress have positive effects on job rotation. Skeletal-muscular diseases have indirect effect on job r otation through job stress. Mindfulness moderates the effect of skeletal-muscular diseases on job stress.Discussion It can be concluded that skeletal-muscular diseases have an effect on the tendency of a individuals to rotate their jobs due to the role of job stress and mindfulness. Through this study It was confirmed that real physical pain can be reduced by mindfulness.
Rehaneh Dezhban; Hossein Samavatian; Nasrin Arshadi
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Introduction The well-being of employees in the field of shiftwork can be examined in a variety of ways. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between neuroticism and hardiness with employee well-being, with mediating role of resiliency and mindfulness and moderating role of working ...
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Introduction The well-being of employees in the field of shiftwork can be examined in a variety of ways. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between neuroticism and hardiness with employee well-being, with mediating role of resiliency and mindfulness and moderating role of working hours and type of shift. Personality variables that may struggle with the consequences of stress, and thus provide the conditions for improving the well-being of employees, have attracted the interest of researchers for many years. Recent research clearly shows that psychological hardiness is negatively related to shift-work. Therefore, psychological hardiness can be one of the effective factors in improving the well-being of shift workers. Method The statistical population of the study consisted of all employees working in an industrial company in Ahvaz. The sample consisted of 206 men with an average age of 38 years, with at least two years experience of shiftwork, and an average weekly working time of 54 hours. For collecting data, Zheng et al.’s Employee Well-Being Scale (2015), Conner and Davidson's Resilience Scale (2003), Braun and Ryan's Mindfulness Scale (2003), and the DRS-15 Psychological Hardiness (2007) were used. Structural equation modeling, bootstrap test, and hierarchical regression analysis in AMOS-24 and SPSS-24 were used for data analysis. Results The results indicated that resiliency mediates the relationship between psychological hardiness with employees' well-being. However, the type of shiftwork and weekly working hours did not show any moderating effects in the relationship between psychological hardiness and well-being. Discussion Therefore, it can be concluded that the psychological flexibility obtained from resiliency can be a possible mechanism that leads to the well-being of employees. However, more research is needed on variables in the field of shiftwork. Further studies are needed on shift context variables.
