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Research in the occupational safety realm has tended to develop and test models aimed at predicting accident involvement in the workplace, with studies treating accident involvement as the starting point and examining its outcomes being more rare. In this study, we examine the relationship between accident involvement and a series of outcomes drawing upon a learned helplessness theory perspective. Specifically, we predicted that psychological empowerment would moderate the relationship between prior accident involvement and outcomes. We tested our hypotheses on a sample of 392 employees and their 66 supervisors working in an iron and steel manufacturing firm in Southern Turkey, using data collected from employees and their supervisors via four separate surveys.Results suggest that accident involvement was positively related to supervisor-rated employee withdrawal, production deviance, and sabotage only when psychological empowerment was low. The results illustrate that workplace accidents have indirect costs in the form of higher withdrawal and maladaptive behaviors, and organizations may inoculate employees against some of these outcomes via higher psychological empowerment.

New product development (NPD) projects are costly, and fragile against failures as compared to other structures. This study has a holistic view of team factors to examine their relationship with team communication. Communication contributes to technical and practical processes such as learning, new idea development, and creativity. Trust has become prominent by affecting outcomes and processes indirectly, and changing relationships within team. This paper attempted to offer a contribution to the technology and innovation management (TIM) literature by presenting a model for researchers and project managers to understand potential interrelationships among team level factors (team autonomy, stability, member experience, and empowerment), team trust, and team formal and informal communication in NPD teams.

The purpose of the study is to check if the cost of commuting reduces job satisfaction and lead to withdrawal. A cross-sectional design is implemented by electronic surveys through a snowball sampling (N=210) . Regression analysis and SPSS extension called PROCESS is used. Study could not generate enough statistical power to point out a relationship between the time spent during the commute and withdrawal behavior, between the money spent during the commute and withdrawal behavior, between time spent during the commute and job satisfaction. The hypothesized interaction of job satisfaction both on the relationship between the time spent during the commute and withdrawal, and the money spent during the commute and withdrawal behavior are not supported. The results concluded that monetary costs of commuting reduces job satisfaction, job satisfaction mediates the relationship between the time spent during the commute and withdrawal behavior. Job satisfaction also found to mediate the relationship between monetary costs of commuting and withdrawal behavior.

İş fırsatları ve iş piyasası, birçok ülkede yalnızca bazı bölgelerde yoğunlaşmaktadır ve işgücü piyasasına katılmak isteyenlerin bu duruma uyum sağlaması gerekmektedir. Çalışanların evi ve işyerleri arasındaki mesafeler, bu uyumu zorlaştıran unsurlardandır. Mesleği ya da işi ne kadar zorlu veya rahat olursa olsun, tüm çalışanların bir iş günü öncelikle işe gitmek için yapılan yolculukla başlamaktadır. Günümüzde modern çalışma biçimlerinin yaygınlaşması ile dahi çok az sayıda insan evden çalışma veya işyerine bağımlı olmadan çalışma olanaklarına sahiptir. Bu çalışmada, gündelik iş yolculuğunun etkilerini ve sonuçlarını tartışmak amacıyla, kaynakların korunumu yaklaşımı ve iş talepleri-iş kaynakları yaklaşımı gibi teorilerden yararlanılmış ve bu yaklaşımların yardımıyla, yolculuk sırasında yaşanan kaynak tüketiminin, hayatın iş dışında kalan yönlerine, işe bağlılığa, işten geri çekilme davranışlarına ve iş-yaşam dengesi gibi örgütsel sonuçlara nasıl etki ettiği ele alınmıştır. Konunun, çalışma hayatını ele alan kaynaklarda nadir tartışılmış olduğu tespit edilmiş ve bu yolculuğun ortaya çıkardığı sonuçların nasıl ortadan kaldırılabileceği ile ilgili görüşler ve öneriler tartışılmıştır.