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Using linked employer-employee data for Finland we examine associations between job design and ten measures of worker wellbeing. In accordance with Karasek's (1979) model we find positive correlations between many aspects of worker wellbeing and job control. However, contrary to the model, job...
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with several measures of workplace performance. -- job anxiety ; stress ; absence ; labour productivity …
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Working time autonomy is often accompanied by output-based incentives to counterbalance the loss of monitoring that comes with granting autonomy. However, in such settings, overprovision of effort could arise if workers are uncertain whether their performance suffices to secure the output-based...
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stress, income and hours worked. However, despite these large effects on job attributes, we find that promotions have … deterioration two years after receiving a promotion. Thus, it seems the additional stress involved with promotions eventually … outweighs the additional status, at least for the average worker. -- promotion ; status ; stress ; job satisfaction …
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effect of SWB varies by types of homeworking. In comparison with working in the workplace, telework increases stress in both …
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We investigate how bonus payments affect satisfaction and performance of managers in a large, multinational company. We find that falling behind a naturally occurring reference point for bonus comparisons reduces satisfaction and subsequent performance. The effects tend to be mitigated if...
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Self-determination theory posits that individuals are motivated at work when their inherent psychological needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness are satisfied. Drawing on this theory, this paper presents a new conceptual model explaining how work meaningfulness influences effort at...
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The existing burnout literature has predominantly focussed on the determinants of burnout, whereas its consequences for … persons with a very high risk of clinical burnout differ in job preferences from non-burned-out workers. Moreover, we link … current risk of burnout judged fictitious job offers with experimentally manipulated characteristics in terms of their …
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Recent studies have explored hiring discrimination as an obstacle to former burnout patients. Many workers, however …, return to the same employer, where they face an even more severe aftermath of burnout syndrome: promotion discrimination. To … experiment with 406 genuine managers, testing the potential of the main burnout stigma theoretically described in the literature …
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-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the …
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