...Huihui Tang; Yan Liu; Raymond Loi; Cheris W. C. Chow; Ning Jiang Purpose This study examines why and when nurses' role ambiguity leads to their work alienation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach Survey data were collected from 335 hospital nurses in Ma’anshan, China...

... the necessary support of superiors and organisation tended to be more effective. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Role conflict Role ambiguity Job satisfaction Performance management According to the reciprocity norm of the social exchange theory (Gouldner, 1960), employees...

...Marc Siegall Traditional measures of role conflict and role ambiguity assess the frequency with which a person experiences issues with role expectations. The cognitive model of stress developed by Lazarus and Folkman in 1984 emphasizes that a potentially stressful episode does not actually create...

... Performance appraisal Personal needs Religion Role ambiguity Role conflict Work Formal organizations have explicit and implicit norms which define appropriate behaviours for people performing various roles. These norms frequently reward the repression, and punish the expression of“negative” feelings...

...“functionally dependent”. Data were obtained from questionnaires completed by 128 managers. Analysis revealed that eight of the nine stressors(role ambiguity, pressure for performance, travel as part of the job,being on the interface, responsibility for people, responsibility for things, status...