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Extra status and extra stress: Are promotions good for us?
Johnston, David W.; Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287604
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Retaining the Thin Blue Line: What Shapes Workers' Intentions not to Quit the Current Work Environment
Gächter, Martin; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - 2010
accept high levels of stress as inherent to the job of policing. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294817
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Discretion, Productivity and Work Satisfaction
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2012
In Bartling, Fehr and Schmidt (2012) we show theoretically and experimentally that it is optimal to grant discretion to workers if (i) discretion increases productivity, (ii) workers can be screened by past performance, (iii) some workers reciprocate high wages with high effort and (iv)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334127
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Training, job satisfaction and workplace performance in Britain: evidence from WERS 2004
Jones, Melanie K.; Jones, Richard J.; Latreille, Paul L.; … - 2008
This paper analyses the relationship between training, job satisfaction and workplace performance using the British 2004 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS). Several measures of performance are analysed including absence, quits, financial performance, labour productivity and product...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268854
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Vignette Equivalence and Response Consistency; The Case of Job Satisfaction
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M.S. Van; … - 2011
We compare reported job satisfaction with vignette evaluations of hypothetical jobs by using a British, Greek and Dutch data set, containing 95 randomly assigned vignettes. In order to test comparability of international data sets recently the method of anchoring vignettes has been introduced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326220
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Men's sexual orientation and job satisfaction
Drydakis, Nick - 2012
respect received from one's supervisor - between male heterosexual and gay employees in Athens, Greece. Gay employees are … patterns in Greece suggest that homosexual employees face labour market discrimination, gay employees will report being less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282454
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Vignette equivalence and response consistency: The case of job satisfaction
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; van Praag, Bernard M. S.; … - 2011
We compare reported job satisfaction with vignette evaluations of hypothetical jobs by using a British, Greek and Dutch data set, containing 95 randomly assigned vignettes. In order to test comparability of international data sets recently the method of anchoring vignettes has been introduced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282497
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Gender differences in work stress, related to organizational conflicts and organizational constrains: An empirical research
Stafyla, Amalia; Kaltsidou, Georgia; Spyridis, Nikolaos - In: International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied … 6 (2013) 1, pp. 91-101
In modern era, stress at workplace is a component of employees' and organizations' daily routine. The current research … intends to study the gender differences as far as the ways that stress is witnessed in the workplace is concerned … interpersonal conflicts at workplace to a larger extent; also that both men and women would not be so different on stress that stems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310242
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Validating Abbreviated Measures of Effort-Reward Imbalance at Work in European Cohort Studies: The IPD-Work Consortium
Siegrist, Johannes; Dragano, Nico; Nyberg, Solja T.; … - In: International Archives of Occupational and … 87 (2014), pp. 249-256
Background: Effort-reward imbalance (ERI) is an established conceptualisation of work stress. Although a validated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507566
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The impact of flexible working arrangements on work-life conflict and work pressure in Ireland
Russell, Helen; O'Connell, Philip J.; McGinnity, Frances - 2007
Recent rapid economic growth in Ireland has been accompanied by a strong surge in the number of women in employment, and this has led to a significant increase in the proportion of dual-earner families. These changes have brought the issue of reconciliation between work and care commitments to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290561