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Analyse Measures of Job Satisfaction, Organisational Commitment, Mental Health and Job Related Well-Being.


DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c75883) has announced the addition of "Measures of Job Satisfaction, Organisational Commitment, Mental Health and Job related Well-being: A Benchmarking Manual, 2nd Edition" to their offering.

The first edition of this manual was published by the Institute of Work Psychology in 1999. It presented three widely used measurement scales of Job Satisfaction, Mental Health and Job-related Well-being, along with benchmarking data for comparison. For this second edition, there is an additional chapter detailing a widely used measure of Organizational Commitment In the study of organizational behavior and Industrial/Organizational Psychology, organizational commitment is, in a general sense, the employee's psychological attachment to the organization. , and an expanded introduction to the book presenting a rationale rationale (rash´nal´),
n the fundamental reasons used as the basis for a decision or action.
 for the work and explaining how it can help researchers and professionals.

The benchmarking data is based on a sample of almost 60,000 respondents In the context of marketing research, a representative sample drawn from a larger population of people from whom information is collected and used to develop or confirm marketing strategy.  from 115 different organizations across a wide spectrum of industries and occupations. Information is given by occupational group, and is further broken down by age and gender.

Each of the chapters is devoted to a reliable and widely used measurement scale of employee well-being, comprising of a description of the scale and brief development history, followed by the supporting benchmarking data.

Author Information

Chris Stride obtained his first degree in Mathematics and Statistics and his Ph.D in Statistics at the University of Warwick In the 1960s and 1970s, Warwick had a reputation as a politically radical institution.[3] More recently, the University has been seen as a favoured institution of the British New Labour government. , England. He is the statistician at the Institute of Work Psychology, University of Sheffield The University of Sheffield is a research university, located in Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. Reputation
Sheffield was the Sunday Times University of the Year in 2001 and has consistently appeared as their top 20 institutions.
.

Toby D. Wall obtained his first degree and his Ph.D in Psychology from the University of Nottingham The University of Nottingham is a leading research and teaching university in the city of Nottingham, in the East Midlands of England. It is a member of the Russell Group, and of Universitas 21, an international network of research-led universities. , England. He is Professor of Psychology at the University of Sheffield, where he was the former director of the Institute of Work Psychology and ESRC ESRC Economic and Social Research Council (UK)
ESRC Environmental Sciences Research Center
ESRC Engineers & Scientists Resources & Construction (US Army Corps of Engineers)
ESRC Exxonmobil Singapore Recreation Club
 Centre for Organisation and Innovation.

Nick Catley obtained both his first degree and his M.Sc in Economics at the University of Warwick, England. He is an auditor at the National Audit Office, London

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About the Authors

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Introduction

Job Satisfaction

Organisational Commitment

Mental Health

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