The interplay between extraversion, task significance, and task variety at work

2020 ◽  
pp. 110471
Author(s):  
Erik Dietl ◽  
Olga Kombeiz
Keyword(s):  
Task Variety ◽  
Task Significance ◽  
And Task

scholarly journals PERCEIVED TASK CHARACTERISTICS AND ITS EFFECT ON EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT AT PRIVATE COLLEGES IN SARAWAK

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (10) ◽  
pp. 22-34
Author(s):  
Muhammad Madi Abdullah ◽  
Hui Lin Lau
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Employee Engagement ◽  
Private Colleges ◽  
Task Characteristics ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Task Identity ◽  
Task Variety ◽  
Task Characteristic ◽  
Task Significance ◽  
And Task

This study examines five perceived task characteristics variables (decision-making autonomy, task variety, task significance, task identity, feedback from job) and its effect on employee engagement at six private college employees in Sarawak. Despite extensive research on employee engagement, very little empirical research has examined this area of study specifically in the context of Sarawak private colleges. A survey questionnaire was employed to collect the data. A total of 284 responses were analysed using SPSS version 22.0. The results of this study revealed that only feedback from job, task identity and decision-making autonomy are significantly and positively associated with employee engagement. Task significance and task variety were not significantly related to employee engagement. Most importantly, decision-making autonomy was perceived as a dominant task characteristic for employee engagement; it was associated with significant improvements on private colleges’ employee engagement. This study contributes to a better understanding of the effect of perceived task characteristics on employee engagement among private colleges in Sarawak. The implications for practice and suggestions for future research are discussed.

scholarly journals A Person-Centered Perspective on the Combined Effects of Global and Specific Levels of Job Engagement

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 556-594
Author(s):  
Nicolas Gillet ◽  
Alexandre J. S. Morin ◽  
Christine Jeoffrion ◽  
Evelyne Fouquereau
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Exhaustion ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Affective Commitment ◽  
Latent Profile Analysis ◽  
Profile Analysis ◽  
Job Engagement ◽  
Normative Commitment ◽  
Task Variety ◽  
Organizational Tenure ◽  
Task Significance

This study examines how the different dimensions of job engagement combine within different profiles of workers ( n = 264). This research also documents the relations between the identified job engagement profiles, demographic characteristics (gender, age, education, working time, and organizational tenure), job characteristics (work autonomy, task variety, task significance, task identity, and feedback), attitudes (affective and normative commitment), and psychological health (emotional exhaustion and ill-being). Latent profile analysis revealed four profiles of employees defined based on their global and specific (physical, emotional, and cognitive) job engagement levels: Globally Disengaged, Globally Engaged, Globally but not Emotionally Engaged, and Moderately Engaged. Employees’ perceptions of task variety and feedback shared statistically significant relations with their likelihood of membership into all latent profiles. Profiles were finally showed to be meaningfully related to employees’ levels of affective commitment, normative commitment, emotional exhaustion, and ill-being.

Engaging Academic Staff in Transnational Teaching: The Job Satisfaction Challenge

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 333-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danny Toohey ◽  
Tanya McGill ◽  
Craig Whitsed
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
International Education ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Job Characteristics Model ◽  
Task Identity ◽  
Determinants Of Satisfaction ◽  
And Control ◽  
Task Significance ◽  
And Task

Transnational education (TNE) is an important facet of the international education learning and teaching landscape. Ensuring academics are positively engaged in TNE is a challenging but necessary issue for this form of educational provision if the risks inherent in TNE are to be successfully mitigated. This article explores job satisfaction for academics using the job characteristics model (JCM) to better understand the conditions that influence their involvement with TNE. The results highlight the important role that teaching-related interaction with host-country students and staff (the Feedback and Task Significance JCM dimensions) plays in academics’ satisfaction. Feelings of ownership and control of the TNE course (Autonomy and Task Identity) were also shown to be important determinants of satisfaction. It is therefore recommended that these aspects of TNE be encouraged and supported through university procedures and policies. Similarly, those aspects of TNE teaching that contribute to dissatisfaction, such as additional administration, need to be better understood, managed, and their impact mitigated where possible.

scholarly journals The productivity effects of multiple pay incentives

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 588-608 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Pendleton ◽  
Andrew Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Labour Productivity ◽  
Profit Sharing ◽  
Single Individual ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
Incentive Theory ◽  
Group Incentives ◽  
Individual Incentive ◽  
Task Variety ◽  
Pay Incentives ◽  
And Task

Drawing on recent incentive theory and the growing use of multiple incentives by firms, this article examines the effects of combining incentives on workplace labour productivity. Utilizing data from the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey, the article explores whether multiple incentives are more effective than single incentives. It is found that the productivity effects of individualized incentives are enhanced by profit sharing though not by collective payment by result schemes (PBR). Profit sharing also enhances the effect of collective PBR, and it is found that two group incentives are more effective than a single individual incentive. However there are limits on the number of incentive schemes that can be combined effectively. The effects of mixed incentives tend to be greater in workplaces with worker discretion and task variety, thereby providing support for a contingency perspective.

Werkplekleren, energie-uitputting en psychische vermoeidheid

2010 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joris Van Ruysseveldt
Keyword(s):  
Informal Learning ◽  
Workplace Learning ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Energy Depletion ◽  
Work Pressure ◽  
Task Variety ◽  
Reducing Energy ◽  
And Task

Workplace learning, energy-depletion and psychological fatigue Workplace learning, energy-depletion and psychological fatigue A parsimonious, robust and theoretical elaborated model has been developed to predict psychological fatigue; it also discriminates between an energy-depleting and a workplace learning process. It was tested both on three heterogeneous sub-samples taken out of the Flemish Workability Monitor 2007, and on homogeneous samples representing respondents out of three sectors of employment. Work pressure, autonomy, learning opportunities and – foremost – work-to-home interference (WHI) were significantly related to fatigue, explaining more than half of the total variance. Emotional load had an indirect relation with fatigue through WHI, and task variety through learning opportunities. Both WHI and learning opportunities acted as potent mediators. From a policy point of view, more effort was recommended in reducing energy-depleting work conditions such as work pressure and emotional load because of its lowering effects on both WHI and fatigue. At the same time, a practice of job redesign promoting informal learning opportunities and workplace learning should be re-valued.

Moderating Role of Gender between Job Characteristics and Job Satisfaction

2017 ◽  
pp. 412-425
Author(s):  
Shruti Traymbak ◽  
Pranab Kumar ◽  
A.N. Jha
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Job Characteristics ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Task Identity ◽  
Task Significance ◽  
Moderating Role ◽  
And Task

This study examines the moderating role of gender between job characteristics and job satisfaction among Indian software employees which has received less attention in the Indian context. Additionally, it also examines difference in the job characteristics that affect male and female employee's job satisfaction. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and chi-square difference in multi group moderation analysis, used to test the hypothesized relationships. Chi-square difference test showed invariant moderation effect of gender on the relationship between job characteristics and job satisfaction. It has been also found that five job characteristics (skill variety, task significance, task identity, autonomy and feedback) have a significant positive impact on job satisfaction among male employees, whereas in case of female, only two job characteristics task significance and task identity were significant predictors of job satisfaction. Interestingly, task significance and task identity were common significant positive predictors of job satisfaction for both male and female software employees.

Another Look at the Effects of Age Cohort, Job Family and Task Variety on Industrial Accident Rates

1985 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
John K. Schmidt ◽  
Barry L. Petree ◽  
James P. McDaniel ◽  
Kevin W. Olive ◽  
Nigel B. Lamont
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Accident ◽  
Age Cohort ◽  
Accident Rates ◽  
Task Variety ◽  
And Task
Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document