Employee age and tenure within organizations: relationship to workplace satisfaction and workplace climate perceptions.

This study estimated the relative influence of age/generation and tenure on job satisfaction and workplace climate perceptions. Data from the 2004, 2008, and 2012 Veterans Health Administration All Employee Survey (sample sizes >100 000) were examined in general linear models, with demographic characteristics simultaneously included as independent variables. Ten dependent variables represented a broad range of employee attitudes.

Innovative approaches for understanding seasonal influenza vaccine declination in healthcare personnel support development of new campaign strategies.

Objective: The main objectives of our study were to explore reasons for seasonal influenza vaccine acceptance and declination in employees of a large integrated healthcare system and to identify underlying constructs that influence acceptance versus declination. Secondary objectives were to determine whether vaccine acceptance varied by hospital location and to identify facility-level measures that explained variability.

Design: A national health promotion survey of employees was conducted that included items on vaccination in the 2009-2010 influenza season.

Disparities in health behaviors and chronic conditions in health care providers in the Veterans Health Administration.

Objective: To determine baseline prevalence of health behaviors and chronic health conditions in Veterans Health Administration (VHA) employees and highlight disparities by occupation group.

Methods: There were 29,834 responses to the survey. Age-standardized prevalence estimates for VHA employees were compared to national estimates from BRFSS surveys.

Employee working conditions and healthcare system performance: the Veterans Health Administration experience.

Objective: The authors explored the association between health care employees' perceptions of their organizations and objective measures of system performance.

Methods: A national survey of employees conducted in 2001 by the Veterans Administration (VA) assessed employee perceptions of hospital organizational characteristics. The authors analyzed cross-sectional associations between these perceptions and objective measures of health care system performance--employee and patient care outcomes.