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The Influence of Organizational Context on Quitting Intention
(Sage Publications, 1999)
This study uses multilevel methods to investigate the effects of organizational context on job satisfaction and quitting intention among staff working in long-term mental health care settings. Two types of organizational ...
Personalization and the Determination of News
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1998-09)
This article addresses the relationship between the construction of news and personal experiences. Ethnography and narrative approaches are used to study a metropolitan newspaper where it is discovered that personalization ...
Social support and social structure
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Eastern Sociological Society ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1987-12)
The burgeoning study of social support in relation to social stress and health would benefit from increased attention to issues of social structure. Three aspects of social relationships, all often referred to as social ...
Gender Effects among Telephone Interviewers in a Survey of Economic Attitudes
(SAGE PUBLICATIONS, 1985)
Male and female telephone interviewers are compared on both administrative efficiency and data quality, using data from 24 replications of an attitudinal survey on personal and national economic prospects. The 40 male ...
The effect of the social organization of work on the voluntary turnover rate of hospital nurses in the United States
(Elsevier, 1992-06)
In light of current concerns over nursing shortages and productivity, voluntary turnover among hospital nurses in the United States has assumed renewed importance as a managerial issue. This study examines the thesis that ...
Social change and the family: Comparative perspectives from the west, China, and South Asia
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Eastern Sociological Society ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1987-09)
This paper examines the influence of social and economic change on family structure and relationships: How do such economic and social transformations as industrialization, urbanization, demographic change, the expansion ...
Attachment to Volunteering
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1999-06)
We propose that volunteers' attachment to their work is determined by the level of resources they bring to it, the rewards they derive from it, and the context in which the work is carried out. We test this theory using ...
Question Wording as an Independent Variable in Survey Analysis
(Sage Publications, 1977)
This paper renews the line of research into the effects of changes in survey question wording and form which occupied researchers during the 1940s. We suggest two reasons for the cessation of such research: the idiosyncratic ...
Parent-Child Relationships During the Transition to Adulthood
(SAGE Periodicals Press, 1995)
This article uses a panel study of children and mothers to examine how parents and children conceptualize, perceive, and report on their relationships with each other during the children's transition to adulthood years. ...
Organizational Demography and Turnover: An Examination of Multiform and Nonlinear Heterogeneity
(Sage Publications, 1995)
This paper advances the study of organizational demography and turnover by testing propositions derived from Blau's theory of heterogeneity and social structure. In a sample of 398 U.S. community hospitals, voluntary nursing ...