scholarly journals Difference in mood at work and home. An additional indicator of job satisfaction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renaud Gaucher ◽  
Martijn Burger ◽  
Ruut Veenhoven
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Reconstruction Method ◽  
Day Reconstruction Method ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Worker Performance ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Using Data ◽  
At Home

AbstractNew techniques for multiple moment assessment allow us to assess how people feel at different times of the day. These techniques are mostly used to assess how well people feel during particular activities, such as during work or childcare. In this paper we focus on the difference in how well people feel at work and at home. The following questions are addressed: 1) How large is the difference in mood at work and at home? 2) How much does the difference in mood at work and at home vary across kinds of people and occupations? 3) Is the difference in mood at work and at home associated with job satisfaction as measured using common general retrospective ratings or does it tap another aspect of job satisfaction? We explore answers to these questions, using data from a diary study in the Netherlands, done using an e-application of the Day Reconstruction Method (DRM) in which 1,410 people provided information about mood experienced in 32,000 episodes. We found that the average difference in mood at work and at home is small in this sample but that it varies across people and occupations. We found a low correlation of the difference in mood with the respondent’s retrospective ratings of their general job satisfaction, which suggests that there is more in the phenomena of job satisfaction than is measured using the usual questions on general job satisfaction. This, as yet unrecognized, aspect of job satisfaction is likely to add to information demands behind common measurements of job satisfaction, that is, to indicate the quality of the work conditions and estimate chances to improve worker performance and reduce turnover by making work more satisfying. We suggest an agenda for research in these areas of possible gains.

scholarly journals Pembuatan dan Pengujian Mesin Pemotong Lidi Tusuk Sate

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 421-430
Author(s):  
Gusri Akhyar Ibrahim ◽  
Arinal Hamni ◽  
Wahyu Budiono
Keyword(s):  
Cutting Machine ◽  
Simple Tool ◽  
Business Opportunities ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Time Required ◽  
At Home

MAKING AND TESTING OF SKEWERS CUTTING MACHINES. In Indonesia there are more than 100 types of bamboo that can be used by craftsmen, one of which is skewers. Skewers are promising commodities for business opportunities. The process of producing skewers are started from cutting down the bamboo, cutting bamboo, splitting bamboo, shriveling bamboo to become a stick skewer after that is done cutting the skewer sticks, drying sticks, polishing the sticks skewers and chopping sticks. The process of cutting a stick skewer which is done at this time is still using a simple tool, so the results are bad and the cutting time is very long. To maintain the quality of the results of a good stick skewer sticks and to increase the productivity of the stick skewers, the process of producing and testing of a skewer stick cutting machine is done. The method to produce a skewer stick cutting machine is done by designing the tool, determining the material to be used then making it. This skewer stick cutting machine is made with a press system and vertical cutting directions. From the results of testing the skewer stick cutting machine obtained that the quality of skewer cutting is good and the time required to cut is only 10 seconds. the difference is about 50 seconds faster than the hand saws used, so as to increase the productivity of the skewer sticks. The cutting machine was impelemented at home industry at Sidomulyo of South Lampung. Using the machine has increased productity and also quality of skewers.

scholarly journals A Model for Evaluating Specifications Quality of Projects of Consulting Services

2009 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Hossam Toma ◽  
Mohamed Alharth
Keyword(s):  
Great Influence ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Consulting Services ◽  
Quality Specifications ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Engineering Projects

The quality specifications are the first initiative for building a notable partnership between the owner and the contractor of the project to manage a successful project. Specifications’ writing is one of the greatest challenges, where specifications play an important role in obtaining quality deliverables of the project. Specifications of the Projects of Consulting Services (PCSs) are different from specifications of engineering projects due to the difference in the characteristics between the consulting projects and engineering projects. This paper represents a model developed for evaluating the quality of the specifications of the PCSs from the consultant point of view. Owing to the great influence of the specifications on preparing good technical and financial proposals for the projects, the relation between the evaluation degree of specifications and the risk values added to estimate the price of the contracts is also discussed. The model is tested using data of 20 consulting projects.

scholarly journals The Effect of Quality of Work Life on Worker Performance When Work from Home through Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment as Intervening Variables (Case Study at PT Patra Jasa Head Office)

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 59-66
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ihsan Hidayat ◽  
Eny Ariyanto
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Hypothesis Testing ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Quality Of Work Life ◽  
Quality Of Work ◽  
Head Office ◽  
Worker Performance ◽  
Intervening Variables

This study aims to determine the effect of quality of work life on worker performance when working from home (WFH) with job satisfaction and organizational commitment as intervening variables at PT Patra Jasa Head Office. The research method used is a quantitative method. The research population is all employees of PT Patra Jasa with a minimum working period of 1 year, which is 144 people. All members of the population are used as members of the sample (census technique). Primary data collection using a questionnaire instrument. The technique of analyzing and testing the hypothesis is using the Structural Equation Model (SEM) with the SmartPLS version 3.0 application. Partial results of hypothesis testing prove that the quality of work life, organizational commitment, and quality of work life through organizational commitment have no positive and significant effect on worker performance when WFH. Job satisfaction and quality of work life through job satisfaction have a positive and significant effect on worker performance when WFH. Furthermore, simultaneous hypothesis testing with multiple linear regression models has a coefficient of determination (R2) of 67%, quality of work life through job satisfaction and organizational commitment has a strong effect on worker performance when WFH.

scholarly journals Relationship between Training Intensity and Doctor’s Job Satisfaction at Primary Health Care in Indonesian

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 191
Author(s):  
Gita Purnamasari ◽  
Misnaniarti Misnaniarti
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
P Value ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship

A doctor’s job satisfaction is important because it will improve the quality of health services. This study aimed to determine the relationship between intensity training and doctors satisfaction. This research was a cross-sectional study using data from Risnakes 2017. The sample was 5,140 doctors primary health care with civil servant status in Indonesia that was randomly selected. The data were analyzed using the Spearman correlation. This study showed that mean job satisfaction was 70.07 and intensity of the training was 3.98. There is a positive correlation between the training intensityand the doctor's job satisfaction of primary health care in Indonesia (p-value <0.000 and r = 0.063). More doctor's training will improve the ability of doctors to care for the patient's clinical according to the standards of competence.

scholarly journals Computational Aspects of Bayesian Solution Estimators in Stochastic Optimization

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 256-272
Author(s):  
Danial Davarnia ◽  
Burak Kocuk ◽  
Gérard Cornuéjols
Keyword(s):  
Optimal Solution ◽  
Risk Difference ◽  
Computational Effort ◽  
Stochastic Program ◽  
Unknown Parameters ◽  
Stochastic Programs ◽  
Computational Aspects ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Using Data

We study a class of stochastic programs in which some of the elements in the objective function are random and their probability distribution has unknown parameters. The goal is to find a good estimate for the optimal solution of the stochastic program using data sampled from the distribution of the random elements. We investigate two common optimization criteria for evaluating the quality of a solution estimator—one based on the difference in objective values and the other based on the Euclidean distance between solutions. We use risk as the expected value of such criteria over the sample space. Under a Bayesian framework, where a prior distribution is assumed for the unknown parameters, two natural estimation-optimization strategies arise. A separate scheme first finds an estimator for the unknown parameters and then uses this estimator in the optimization problem. A joint scheme combines the estimation and optimization steps by directly adjusting the distribution in the stochastic program. We analyze the risk difference between the solutions obtained from these two schemes for several classes of stochastic programs and provide insight on the computational effort to solve these problems.

scholarly journals Improving GAN with Neighbors Embedding and Gradient Matching

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 5191-5198
Author(s):  
Ngoc-Trung Tran ◽  
Tuan-Anh Bui ◽  
Ngai-Man Cheung
Keyword(s):  
Generative Adversarial Networks ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Real Samples ◽  
The Real ◽  
Local Structures ◽  
Adversarial Networks ◽  
The Difference ◽  
A New Technique ◽  
Discriminator Function

We propose two new techniques for training Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in the unsupervised setting. Our objectives are to alleviate mode collapse in GAN and improve the quality of the generated samples. First, we propose neighbor embedding, a manifold learning-based regularization to explicitly retain local structures of latent samples in the generated samples. This prevents generator from producing nearly identical data samples from different latent samples, and reduces mode collapse. We propose an inverse t-SNE regularizer to achieve this. Second, we propose a new technique, gradient matching, to align the distributions of the generated samples and the real samples. As it is challenging to work with high-dimensional sample distributions, we propose to align these distributions through the scalar discriminator scores. We constrain the difference between the discriminator scores of the real samples and generated ones. We further constrain the difference between the gradients of these discriminator scores. We derive these constraints from Taylor approximations of the discriminator function. We perform experiments to demonstrate that our proposed techniques are computationally simple and easy to be incorporated in existing systems. When Gradient matching and Neighbour embedding are applied together, our GN-GAN achieves outstanding results on 1D/2D synthetic, CIFAR-10 and STL-10 datasets, e.g. FID score of 30.80 for the STL-10 dataset. Our code is available at: https://github.com/tntrung/gan

scholarly journals Temporary employment, job satisfaction and subjective well-being

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Dawson ◽  
Michail Veliziotis ◽  
Benjamin Hopkins
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Job Insecurity ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Job Security ◽  
Temporary Employment ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Panel Survey ◽  
Temporary Employees ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Using Data

This article is concerned with whether employees on temporary contracts in Britain report lower well-being than those on permanent contracts, and whether this relationship is mediated by differences in dimensions of job satisfaction. Previous research has identified a well-being gap between permanent and temporary employees but has not addressed what individual and contract specific characteristics contribute to this observed difference. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey, the article finds that a large proportion of the difference in self-reported well-being between permanent and temporary employees appears to be explained by differences in satisfaction with job security. Other dimensions of job satisfaction are found to be less important. In fact, after controlling for differences in satisfaction with security, the results suggest that temporary employees report higher psychological well-being and life satisfaction. This indicates that an employment contract characterized by a definite duration lowers individual well-being principally through heightened job insecurity.

scholarly journals Factors Influencing Quality of Life for Disabled and Nondisabled Elderly Population: The Results of a Multiple Correspondence Analysis

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Avolio ◽  
S. Montagnoli ◽  
M. Marino ◽  
D. Basso ◽  
G. Furia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Correspondence Analysis ◽  
Elderly Population ◽  
Multiple Correspondence Analysis ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Italian National Health ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Using Data

Objectives. The aim of our study is to examine the role of some factors (sociodemographic patterns, social relationship support, and trust in healthcare actors) on structure of quality of life among the Italian elderly population, by stratifying according to presence or absence of disability.Methods. Using data of the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) survey, we obtained a sample of 25,183 Italian people aged 65+ years. Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) was used to test such a relationship.Results. By applying the MCA between disabled and nondisabled elderly population, we identified three dimensions: “demographic structure and social contacts,” “social relationships,” “trust in the Italian National Health Services (INHS).” Furthermore, the difference in trust on the INHS and its actors was seen among disabled and non-disabled elderly population.Conclusions. Knowledge on the concept of quality of life and its application to the elderly population either with or without disability should make a difference in both people’s life and policies and practices affecting life. New domains, such as information and trusting relationships both within and towards the care network’s nodes, are likely to play an important role in this relationship.

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