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...

This paper investigates job characteristics that German training companies could use as a signal to apprentices to lower the quit intentions of apprentices and further to maximize their own probability to cover occurred net costs. Moreover, the results could also be used as policy implications...

Researchers and human resource practitioners are nearly unanimous that satisfied and committed employees can play a major positive role in business performance. There is, however, a need for further evidence on what determines satisfaction at the workplace and how it can be promoted. In other...