Healthcare professionals may frequently violate organizational policies to deal with ethical dilemmas challenging quality of patient care. However, healthcare professionals need strong moral foundation to justify such violation of organizational policies. This study emphasized on morality as one of the social factors nurturing individual characters embodying prosocial violation as explained by 'Belief in Self-Determinism (BSD) Theory.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe objective of this study was to address the paradox of citizenship cost by hypothesizing an indirect rather than a direct effect of altruistic citizenship behavior (ACB) on employee work-family conflict (WFC) through coworker support (CWS). Data were gathered in a three-wave longitudinal survey of employees from private commercial banks ( = 318). A multiple linear autoregressive longitudinal mediation model was analyzed with partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExisting literature lacks studies that examine the indirect effect of high-performance work systems (HPWSs) on employee job satisfaction through employee-employee relations. Moreover, less is known about the boundary conditions of this indirect effect. This study sought to longitudinally examine the mediating role of a specific form of employee-employee relations-relational coordination-in the relationship between HPWS and job satisfaction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Recognizing the need for improving maternal and newborn care, the Punjab public health department (Pakistan) launched emergency obstetric neonatal care (EmONC) services under WHO guideline. Unfortunately, the program implementation is facing some serious problems. The purpose of this study was to identify barriers to implementation of EmONC in district Bahawalnagar (Pakistan).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOwing to the growing public concerns about environmental sustainability, the importance of sustainable workplaces has increased. Despite knowing that employees can play a vital role in achieving workplace sustainability, less attention has been paid to understand how employee attitude toward the use of environmentally sustainable work practices (ESWPs) can be developed. We examined the effect of intervention on employees' knowledge about ESWPs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrevious research has paid less attention to examine the mechanisms through which positive feedback affects employees' organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). Moreover, the use of cross-sectional data in most previous research has prevented researchers to make accurate inferences about the mediating processes between feedback and OCB. Given that, more research is required to understand the ways feedback enhances OCB.
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