Remuneration, Job Satisfaction, and Performance of Health Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic Period at the Dr. Soetomo Hospital Surabaya, Indonesia.

Purpose: One of the hospital management issues that has not been studied much during the COVID-19 Pandemic is the relationship between health workers' performance, job satisfaction and remuneration. This study aims to examine the relationship between remuneration, job satisfaction and the employee performance during 2019-2021. Materials and Methods: This study applied an employee satisfaction survey at a General Academic Hospital between 2019-2021. The population and samples were 716 employees. The data collection were based on the personnel database, remuneration database, and the annual Employee Satisfaction Survey Database for the period 2019-2021 at General Academic Hospital of Dr. Soetomo, Surabaya, Indonesia. Results: The results of the correlation test between Employee Satisfaction, Remuneration, and Performance based on employee performance objectives showed an insignificant positive correlation between the remuneration variable and satisfaction based on The Job Itself; very weak significant positive correlation between remuneration variable and Satisfaction based on Pay; a very weak significant positive correlation between the remuneration variable and Satisfaction based on Promotion; very weak significant positive correlation between remuneration variable and satisfaction based on supervision; significant positive correlation between remuneration variable and satisfaction based on coworkers; There is a significant positive correlation between remuneration and performance variables. Conclusion: The correlation between remuneration and employee satisfaction based on the Job Description Index shows that the components of the job itself, and coworkers have a positive but not significant relationship, while the components of pay, promotion, and supervision have a positive and significant relationship. Employees satisfaction with performance achievement have a positive and significant relationship, especially job satisfaction based on pay and supervision, but there is also a positive and insignificant relationship related to job satisfaction based on the job itself, promotion, and co-workers.

ADOPTION OF TELECOMMUTING IN THE BANKING INDUSTRY: A TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL APPROACH

Aim/Purpose Currently, the world faces unprecedented challenges due to COVID-19, particu-larly concerning individuals' health and livelihood and organizations and indus-trial performance. Indeed, the pandemic has caused rapid intensifying socio-economic effects. For instance, organizations are shifting from traditional work-ing patterns toward telecommuting. By adopting remote working, organizations might mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on their workforce, explicitly concern-ing their safety, wellbeing, mobility, work-life balance, and self-efficiency. From this perceptive, this study examines the factors that influence employees' behav-ioral intention to adopt telecommuting in the banking industry. Background The study's relevance stems from the fact that telecommuting and its benefits have been assumed rather than demonstrated in the banking sector. However, the pandemic has driven the implementation of remote working, thereby reveal-ing possible advantages of working from home in the banking industry. The study investigated the effect of COVID-19 in driving organizations to shift from traditional working patterns toward telecommuting. Thereby, the study in-vestigates the banking sector employees' behavioral intention to adopt telecom-muting. Methodology The study employed a survey-based questionnaire, which entails gathering data from employees of twelve banks in Jordan, as the banking sector in Jordan was the first to transform from traditional working to telecommuting. The sample for this research was 675 respondents;convenience sampling was employed as a sampling technique. Subsequently, the data were analyzed with the partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to statistically test the research model. Contribution Firstly, this study provides a deep examination and understanding of facilitators of telecommuting in a single comprehensive model. Secondly, the study pro-vides a deeper insight into the factors affecting behavioral intention towards tel-ecommuting from the employees' perspective in the banking sector. Finally, this study is the first to examine telecommuting in the emerging market of Jordan. Thereby, this study provides critical recommendations for managers to facilitate the implementation of telecommuting. Findings Using the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), this study highlights signifi-cant relationships between telecommuting systems, quality, organizational sup-port, and the perceived usefulness and ease of use in telecommuting. Employ-ees who perceive telecommuting systems to be easy and receive supervision and training for using these systems are likely to adopt this work scheme. The results present critical theoretical and managerial implications regarding employees' be-havioral intentions toward telecommuting. Recommendations for Practitioners This study suggests the importance of work-life balance for employees when telecommuting. Working from home while managing household duties can cre-ate complications for employees, particularly parents. Therefore, flexibility in terms of working hours is needed to increase employees' acceptance of tele-commuting as they will have more control over their life. These increase em-ployees' perceived self-efficacy with telecommuting, which smooths the transi-tion toward remote working in the future. In addition, training will allow em-ployees to solve technical issues that can arise from using online systems. Recommendations for Researchers This study focused on the context of the banking sector. The sensitivity of data and transactions in this sector may influence employers' and employees' willing-ness to work remotely. In addition, the job descriptions of employees in banks moderate specific factors outlined in this model, including work-life balance. For instance, executive managers may have a higher overload in banks in con-trast to front-line employees. Thus, future studies should explore different con-texts, including manufacturing and consultation, to understand the industry's ef-fect on remote working. Similarly, future researc should concentrate on the in-fluence of job descriptions on employees' intentions toward telecommuting. Impact on Society The COVID-19 pandemic created a sudden shift towards telecommuting, which made employees struggle to adopt new work schemes. Therefore, managers had to provide training for their employees to be well prepared and increase their acceptance of telecommuting. Furthermore, telecommuting has a positive effect on work-life balance, it provides employees with the flexibility to organize their daily schedule into more activities. Along the same line, the study highlighted the correlation between work-life balance and telecommuting. Such a relation-ship provides further evidence for the need to understand employees' lifestyles in facilitating the adoption of telecommuting. Moreover, the study extends the stream of literature by outlining critical factors affecting employees' acceptance of telecommuting. Future Research Future studies should explore different contexts, including manufacturing and consultation, to understand the industry's effect on remote working. Similarly, future research should concentrate on the influence of job descriptions on em-ployees' intentions toward telecommuting. Furthermore, the research team con-ducted the study by surveying 12 banks. Future research recommends surveying the whole banking industry to add more validation to the model. © 2022 Informing Science Institute. All rights reserved.

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In this article, author discusses about the impacts of the dental staffing crisis, poor management and bad leadership on the dentistry, increased amid the Covid-19 pandemic in Australia.

Research on Data Analysis and Visualization of Recruitment Positions Based on Text Mining

With the rapid development of the Internet and the impact of COVID-19, online recruitment has gradually become the mainstream form of recruitment. However, existing online recruitment platforms fail to fully combine the job seekers' demands for salary, region, benefits, and other aspects, which cloud not display the information related to recruitment positions in a multidimensional way. To solve this problem, this paper firstly uses a web crawler to collect job information from recruitment websites based on keywords retrieved by users, then extracts job information using regular expressions, and cleans and processes the extracted job information using third-party libraries such as Pandas and NumPy. Finally, through the probabilistic theme model of text mining, the topic model of job description content in the recruitment information is modeled. Combining with the django development framework and related visualization technology, the relationship among education requirement, experience requirement, job location, salary, and other aspects in the recruitment information is visually displayed in a multidimensional way. At the same time, the GM model is used to realize the gray prediction of the number of employment personnel in related industries, which provides employment reference for the majority of job seekers and enterprises. © 2022 Yuanyuan Chen and Ruijie Pan.

Diagnosing occupational COVID-19 in Croatian healthcare workers.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can be diagnosed as occupational disease by an occupational health physician (OHP), if supported by relevant work-related and medical documentation. The aim of this study was to analyse such documentation submitted by Croatian healthcare workers (HCWs) and discuss its relevance in view of European and Croatian guidelines. The study included 100 Croatian HCWs who were SARS-CoV-2-positive and requested that their infection be diagnosed as occupational disease by their OHPs from 1 May 2020 to 10 March 2021. As participants they were asked to fill out our online Occupational COVID-19 in Healthcare Workers Questionnaire. For the purpose of this study we analysed answers about the type of close contact at the workplace, COVID-19 symptoms, and enclosed work-related (job description, employer statement about exposure to SARS-CoV-2) and medical documentation (positive SARS-CoV-2 polymerase chain reaction test and patient history confirming the diagnosis of COVID-19). Most participants were working in hospitals (N=95), mostly nurses (N=75), who became infected by a patient (N=68) or colleague (N=31), and had at least one COVID-19 symptom (N=87). Eighty participants did not enclose obligatory documents, 41 of whom failed to submit job description and 31 both job description and employer statement. These findings confirm that the major risk of occupational COVID-19 in HCWs is close contact with patients and colleagues, and points out the need for better cooperation between OHPs, occupational safety experts, employers, and diseased workers.

Another Moment in Time: A Follow-Up Survey on Speech-Language Pathologists' Experiences With the COVID-19 Pandemic During the Fall of 2020

Purpose: Although the COVID-19 pandemic had been impacting K--12 education since spring 2020, educational professionals working in schools faced unique challenges at the beginning of the 2020-2021 school year. This study focused on gaining a deeper understanding of the experiences of school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs) during the first half of the 2020-2021 school year and comparing these experiences to the previous spring. Method: This study involved a survey of 333 school-based SLPs working across the United States. The results of the survey were analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively to identify key themes and trends related to communication, service delivery models, changes in job requirements, confidence levels, and personal challenges.