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Working conditions in hospitals revisited: a moderated-mediated model of job co...
Mach, M.; Ferreira, A. I.; Martinez, L. F.; Lisowskaia, A.; Dagher, G. K.; Perez-Nebra, A. R.This study examines whether the relationship between the employees' perceived job autonomy may be prone to the contextual influence of supervisor support and presenteeism climate in explaining the attendance behaviors of presenteeism-the employees' decision to attend work despite being ill or not feeling well. Does work context play a role on presenteeism climate and the specific act of presenteeism? This study...
Mediation of job embeddedness and satisfaction in the relationship between task...
Ferreira, A. I.; Martinez, L. F.; Lamelas, J. P.; Rodrigues, R. I.Purpose - Employees' turnover intention is a key problem that hotel managers face daily. This is partially explained by the inevitability of performing tasks with little significance and low identity. This study aims to understand how job embeddedness and job satisfaction could lessen the undesirable effect of task characteristics on turnover intentions. Design/methodology/approach - A sample of 525 employees o...
The impact of human resources practices on consumers’ investment intentions
Ferreira, A. I.; Martinez, L. F.; Rodrigues, R. I.; Ilhéu, C.Purpose: Research has shown that corporate policies affect customers’ decisions. The purpose of this paper is to focus on the influence of human resources (HR) practices on investment intentions in the financial sector. Design/methodology/approach: Data were obtained from 548 managers and management students. Participants were presented real news regarding two banks with contrasting HR practices. Subsequently, ...
Consultant–client relationship and knowledge transfer in small- and medium-size...
Martinez, L. F.; Ferreira, A. I.; Can, A. B.Based on Szulanski’s knowledge transfer model, this study examined how the communicational, motivational, and sharing of understanding variables influenced knowledge transfer and change processes in small- and medium-sized enterprises, particularly under projects developed by funded programs. The sample comprised 144 entrepreneurs, mostly male (65.3%) and mostly ages 35 to 45 years (40.3%), who filled an online...
LMX as a negative predictor of presenteeism climate: a cross-cultural study in ...
Ferreira, A. I.; Martinez, L. F.; Cooper, C. L.; Gui, D. M.Purpose – Some underlying mechanisms regarding presenteeism still remain unclear, namely, the construct of “presenteeism climate” and the importance of “leadership” Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) for presenteeism. In order to shed some light into this phenomenon, the purpose of this paper is to develop and apply a new scale of presenteeism climate. Design/methodology/approach – In Study 1, the authors identified ...
Cognitive processes and math performance: a study with children at third grade ...
Campos, I. S.; Almeida, L. S.; Ferreira, A. I.; Martinez, L. F.; Ramalho, G.The present study aims to examine the relationship between cognitive factors and mathematical achievement in primary education. Participants were 103 Portuguese third grade students, aged 8 and 9. All participants completed a battery for working memory (WMTB-C), a test of general intelligence (Raven's Progressive Color Matrices), a selective attention test (d2), and mathematical exercises (arithmetic story prob...
Presenteeism and burnout among teachers in public and private Portuguese elemen...
Ferreira, A. I.; Martinez, L. F.This research aims to study the possible relation between presenteeism and burnout in the public and private education sector. Presenteeism - a groundbreaking concept in organizational behaviour literature - refers to productivity losses that occur when employees come to work but under-perform due to physical and psychological causes. Next, we further clarified the burnout criterion with three groups of predict...
Sick at work: presenteeism among nurses in a Portuguese public hospital
Martinez, L. F.; Ferreira, A. I.Presenteeism refers to attending work despite being ill. This article focuses on this innovative organizational concept. Data from nurses at a major Portuguese public hospital (N?=?296) reported some major causes of presenteeism, namely lower-back pain, breath infections, migraines and stress. Although females revealed higher prevalence levels for most of the presenteeism causes, no gender differences were foun...
Intellectual capital: perceptions of productivity and investment
Ferreira, A. I.; Martinez, L. F.This study focuses on the influence intellectual capital has on employees' perceptions as related to both company investments and productivity levels. The data was obtained from 440 employees at 13 Portuguese companies. Both ANOVA and Regression Analysis were conducted in order to understand the impact three Intellectual Capital Scale components have on perceptions of investment and organizational productivity....
Tradução e validação para a língua portuguesa das escalas de presentismo WLQ-8 ...
Ferreira, A. I.; Martinez, L. F.; Sousa, L. M.; Cunha, J. V.Este estudo teve como objectivo a validação para a língua Portuguesa de duas escalas de presentismo e apresentar as características métricas das versões reduzidas do Work Limitations Questionnaire (WLQ) e da Stanford Presenteeism Scale (SPS-6). Tratando-se de instrumentos desenvolvidos para avaliar o presentismo: um fenômeno frequente nas organizações que consiste no facto de as pessoas estarem presentes no loc...