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JOB INVOLVEMENT – refers to systems that give
workers a degree of autonomy over immediate
day-to-day working conditions. Quality circles and
total quality management are examples of job-
involvement approaches, provided that employees
have direct implementation authority.

JOB SATISFACTION – is the degree to which
individuals feel positively or negatively about their
jobs. It is an emotional response to one’s tasks as
well as the physical and social conditions of the
workplace.

JOHN DOE WARRANT – is one issued to person
whom the witnesses cannot identify

JOHN EVANGELIST PURKINJI – was a professor of
Physiology, who wrote in 1823 a thesis in which he
described and named nine standard types of
fingerprint patterns and vaguely outlined a system
of classification.

JOHN FIELDING – the younger brother of Henry
Fielding who took over the control of Bow Street
Court in 1753. His investigators were then called
Bow Street Runners and became quite effective
because of his personal guidance despite the fact
that he was blind. He introduced the practice of
developing paid informants, printing wanted
notices, employing criminal raids, and bearing
firearms and handcuffs.

JOHN HOWARD – was sheriff of Bedfordshire in 1773
who devoted his life and fortune to prison reform,
and became known as ‘Father of Prison
Reformation’.

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