All articles starting with J

Joasaph II (Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, 1555–1565)

Joasaph II (Ιωάσαφ Β΄) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1555 or 1556 until 1565, formerly bishop of Adrianople and founder of the Patriarchal School.

Joasaph II (Patriarch of Moscow, 1667–1672)

Joasaph II (Иоасаф II), surnamed Novotorzhets, was Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' from 1667 until his death in 1672, presiding over the council rulings that anathematized the Old Believers.

Sep 19, 2026

Joash of Judah

Joash of Judah, also called Jehoash, was a king of Judah who reigned forty years, dated 835–796 BC, and funded repairs of the Temple in Jerusalem.

Oct 21, 2026

Joasurf (조아서프) is a surf shop, school, and guesthouse at Jukdo Beach, Yangyang, South Korea, offering lessons, rentals, and lodging; the name also covers a Brazilian clothing trademark and the Rio spot Joá.

Job (biblical figure)

Job (Hebrew איוב) is the central figure of the Book of Job, a righteous man in the land of Uz who loses everything in a wager between God and the accuser.

Job (professional wrestling)

In professional wrestling, a job is a scripted loss by a wrestler, called a jobber, whose role is making better-known performers look stronger, a practice now labeled enhancement talent.

Job (role)

Job (role): the set of tasks, duties, and expectations directing one person's work for an employer, distinct from an occupation. Covers job design, the Hackman-Oldham Job Characteristics Model, and AI-driven boundary changes.

Job analysis

Job analysis: the systematic HR procedure for gathering and documenting a job's tasks, competencies, and working conditions, used as the legal and validity foundation for selection, training, and appraisal.

Sep 21, 2026

Job Boekhoven

Job Boekhoven is a Dutch chemist and professor at the Technical University of Munich, known for chemically fueled self-assembly and the 2015 Science paper on transient assembly.

Job characteristics theory

Job characteristics theory, also called the Job Characteristics Model, is a work motivation theory by Hackman and Oldham holding that five job features drive internal motivation.

Job Corps

Job Corps: the largest free residential career-training program for low-income U.S. youth ages 16–24, run by the Department of Labor since 1964 across 119 centers, with over 75 trades and mixed randomized-trial earnings results.

Job costing

Job costing is a costing method that assigns direct materials, direct labor, and overhead to each distinct job or contract, suited to custom work such as construction and consulting.

Sep 20, 2026

Job Dekker

Job Dekker is a Dutch-born molecular biologist and geneticist at UMass Chan Medical School known for developing chromosome conformation capture, which opened the 3D genome to measurement.

Job demands-resources model

The job demands-resources model is an occupational psychology framework introduced in 2001 that explains employee burnout and work engagement through job demands and job resources, and is among the most cited well-being theories.

Job description

A job description is a written document stating a position's duties, responsibilities, reporting relationships, and qualifications, serving as the source of truth for hiring, classification, pay, and legal compliance.

Job enrichment

Job enrichment is a job design method in organizational behavior and human resource management that adds responsibility, autonomy, and more meaningful tasks to a job to raise employees' intrinsic motivation and satisfaction.

Job evaluation

Job evaluation is a systematic process for weighing and grading jobs within an organization to create fair, transparent pay, evaluating the job itself rather than the person in it.

Job for a Cowboy

Job for a Cowboy is an American death metal band from Glendale, Arizona, formed December 2003; it began in deathcore with the 2005 Doom EP, shifted to death metal on Genesis, and released Moon Healer in 2024 on Metal Blade.

Job in Islam

Job in Islam, known as Ayyub (أيوب), is a prophet and the Quranic counterpart of the biblical Job, mentioned in four suras as the model of patience under affliction.

Job interview

A job interview, also called an employment interview, is a conversation in which an employer evaluates a candidate for a job, usually the final screening step in hiring.

Sep 19, 2026

Job Jobse

Job Jobse is a Dutch DJ and label manager from Amsterdam, resident at Trouw and De School and founder of the labels De Vlieger and Planet Strangelove.

Sep 19, 2026

Job Kurian

Job Kurian is a Malayalam playback singer, composer, and independent musician from Kerala, born in 1982, who broke through with "Aaranne Aaranne" from Urumi (2011) and won a SIIMA Award in 2023.

Job Ochieng

Job Nguono Ochieng, born 2003 in Nairobi, is a Kenyan winger for Real Sociedad in LaLiga and Kenya's Harambee Stars; La Liga debut February 2026, Copa del Rey 2025/26 winner, contract to 2028.

Sep 24, 2026

Job of Edessa

Job of Edessa (أيوب الرهاوي), known as Ayyub al-Ruhawi, was a Christian physician and translator who served the Abbasid caliphs and translated 36 works of Galen into Syriac.

Oct 15, 2026

Job safety analysis

Job safety analysis, also called job hazard analysis, is a workplace technique that breaks a job into steps to identify and control hazards before harm occurs.

Job satisfaction

Job satisfaction is the positive emotional state from appraising one's job (Locke, 1976). Measured globally or by facets with instruments like the JDI and MSQ; linked to commitment, turnover, and performance.

Oct 21, 2026

Job Security

Job security: the expected continuity of a person's employment, objective or perceived; its subjective form, job insecurity, was defined by Greenhalgh and Rosenblatt (1984) as perceived powerlessness to maintain desired continuity in a threatened job situation.