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The purpose of this study is to analyze the influence of work environment and training on work performance through employee work motivation. The research was conducted by an explanatory method that is unstructured and informal research with the aim to get information about the general nature of the research problem. The population in this study is all employees in the General Staff of Army Personnel as many as 107 employees. The sampling technique of this research using simple random sampling. The research method used cross-sectional quantitative method and analysis using multiple linear regression and path analysis. The results showed that the magnitude of the direct influence of work environment on work performance that is equal to 0.359, while the amount of indirect influence of work environment on work performance through the motivation of 0.705. The value of indirect influence is greater than the value of direct influence which gives the meaning that the motivation variable is able to mediate the work environment to the work performed. The magnitude of the direct influence of training on work performance of 0.307, while the amount of indirect influence of training on work performance through motivation that is equal to 0,560. The value of indirect influence is greater than the value of direct influence which gives the meaning that motivational variables are able to mediate training on work performance.

Objective: to point out the social expectations experienced by teenagers with chronic kidney disease. Methods: it is a qualitative, exploratory and descriptive study, which used the theoretical perspective of Geerts and Leininger. It was performed from June to August of 2013, having 8 teenagers as participants, who were under hemodialysis. Results: it was noticed that the informants' lives were related to their social expectations relative to this stage, with influences of values, beliefs, rules, and lifestyles. Thus, it was highlighted that the teenager life was constituted by the desire of a family formation, the performance of labor activities, studies, and leisure. Final Conclusions: as a lived stage by a teenager consists in a period marked by events and achievements, which have decisions and important choices, it is accentuated the necessity of a human, welcoming, and comprehensive professional attention.

Numerous studies in the field of Industrial and Organizational (I/O) Psychology have revealed that Quality of Work Life (QWL) is related to work related attitudes and behaviours. QWL advocates have argued that QWL have effects on job satisfaction, job involvement, job stress and organizational citizenship behaviours. However, most of these studies have only reported a direct link between QWL and these work related outcomes, and relatively few have looked at the role that other variables play in these relationships. This study examined the mediating effect of orgnisational commitment in the relationship between university staff perceived QWL and work performance. Questionnaires were distributed to fifty (50) randomly selected academic staff of the Kumasi Campus of the University of Education. Results from mediated regression analysis and Pearson r showed that organizational commitment partially mediated the relationship between QWL and work performance. In addition QWL related positively with work performance. This study presents new information on quality of work life and work performance of university staff in a Ghanaian context.