Towards healthy organisation in correctional setting: Correctional officers' wellness, occupational stress and personality

Correctional officers always confronted with two interrelated issues: wellness and stress at work. Correctional officers’ wellness was irrefutable due to intense pressure conditions at the workplace that continuously faltered their wellness.Gradual wellness fluctuation due to excessive stress would...

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Main Authors: Ahmad Marzuki, Najib, Ku Ishak, Awanis
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Published: The Social Sciences Research Society 2011
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spelling my.uum.repo.207692017-01-30T02:07:14Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/20769/ Towards healthy organisation in correctional setting: Correctional officers' wellness, occupational stress and personality Ahmad Marzuki, Najib Ku Ishak, Awanis BF Psychology Correctional officers always confronted with two interrelated issues: wellness and stress at work. Correctional officers’ wellness was irrefutable due to intense pressure conditions at the workplace that continuously faltered their wellness.Gradual wellness fluctuation due to excessive stress would severely tarnish performance of correctional officers and prison department.Nevertheless, their personality played an important role in conserving their wellness level despite continuous overrun of stress during work.Therefore this paper elaborated on correctional officers’ personality and occupational stress in order to maintain their wellness at work.This research examined the relationship between correctional officers’ wellness, their personality and occupational stress in Prison Department of Malaysia.Pertinent question of the study was to look at influence of correctional officers’ personality and occupational stress on their wellness degree. These findings were significant since correctional officers’ wellness, their personality and occupational stress remained loose issue particularly in Malaysia.Findings revealed that personality and occupational stress influenced correctional officers’ health and well being. The Social Sciences Research Society 2011 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/20769/1/IJSSHS%203%202%202011%20355%20365.pdf Ahmad Marzuki, Najib and Ku Ishak, Awanis (2011) Towards healthy organisation in correctional setting: Correctional officers' wellness, occupational stress and personality. International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanity Studies (IJ-SSHS), 3 (2). pp. 355-365. ISSN 1309-8063 http://www.sobiad.org/ejournals/journal_ijss/arhieves/2011_2/najib_ahmad_marzuki.pdf
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Towards healthy organisation in correctional setting: Correctional officers' wellness, occupational stress and personality
description Correctional officers always confronted with two interrelated issues: wellness and stress at work. Correctional officers’ wellness was irrefutable due to intense pressure conditions at the workplace that continuously faltered their wellness.Gradual wellness fluctuation due to excessive stress would severely tarnish performance of correctional officers and prison department.Nevertheless, their personality played an important role in conserving their wellness level despite continuous overrun of stress during work.Therefore this paper elaborated on correctional officers’ personality and occupational stress in order to maintain their wellness at work.This research examined the relationship between correctional officers’ wellness, their personality and occupational stress in Prison Department of Malaysia.Pertinent question of the study was to look at influence of correctional officers’ personality and occupational stress on their wellness degree. These findings were significant since correctional officers’ wellness, their personality and occupational stress remained loose issue particularly in Malaysia.Findings revealed that personality and occupational stress influenced correctional officers’ health and well being.
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author Ahmad Marzuki, Najib
Ku Ishak, Awanis
author_facet Ahmad Marzuki, Najib
Ku Ishak, Awanis
author_sort Ahmad Marzuki, Najib
title Towards healthy organisation in correctional setting: Correctional officers' wellness, occupational stress and personality
title_short Towards healthy organisation in correctional setting: Correctional officers' wellness, occupational stress and personality
title_full Towards healthy organisation in correctional setting: Correctional officers' wellness, occupational stress and personality
title_fullStr Towards healthy organisation in correctional setting: Correctional officers' wellness, occupational stress and personality
title_full_unstemmed Towards healthy organisation in correctional setting: Correctional officers' wellness, occupational stress and personality
title_sort towards healthy organisation in correctional setting: correctional officers' wellness, occupational stress and personality
publisher The Social Sciences Research Society
publishDate 2011
url http://repo.uum.edu.my/20769/1/IJSSHS%203%202%202011%20355%20365.pdf
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