The Relationship Between Task Interdependency and Role Stress: A Revisit of the Job Demands?Control Model

2007 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 284-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sze-Sze Wong ◽  
Gerardine DeSanctis ◽  
Nancy Staudenmayer
Keyword(s):  
Job Demands ◽  
Role Stress ◽  
Control Model ◽  
The Relationship

Compensatory Coping Through the Extension of Working Hours

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 115-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maie Stein ◽  
Sylvie Vincent-Höper ◽  
Nicole Deci ◽  
Sabine Gregersen ◽  
Albert Nienhaus
Keyword(s):  
Job Demands ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Leader Member Exchange ◽  
Workplace Health ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Data Analyses ◽  
Member Exchange ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Advance Knowledge

Abstract. To advance knowledge of the mechanisms underlying the relationship between leadership and employees’ well-being, this study examines leaders’ effects on their employees’ compensatory coping efforts. Using an extension of the job demands–resources model, we propose that high-quality leader–member exchange (LMX) allows employees to cope with high job demands without increasing their effort expenditure through the extension of working hours. Data analyses ( N = 356) revealed that LMX buffers the effect of quantitative demands on the extension of working hours such that the indirect effect of quantitative demands on emotional exhaustion is only significant at low and average levels of LMX. This study indicates that integrating leadership with employees’ coping efforts into a unifying model contributes to understanding how leadership is related to employees’ well-being. The notion that leaders can affect their employees’ use of compensatory coping efforts that detract from well-being offers promising approaches to the promotion of workplace health.

Perceção do nível de exigências e controlo numa amostra de militares portugueses

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Palhau ◽  
Rui Pimenta
Keyword(s):  
Job Demands ◽  
Control Model

As Forças Armadas Portuguesas são uma organização estruturante do Estado Português da qual faz parte o Exército Português (EP), como componente terrestre do sistema de forças nacionais. O EP é uma organização secular com uma estrutura rígida e hierarquizada com características díspares, que tem como referências os mais nobres e notáveis valores de lealdade, rigor, firmeza e união. O desempenho e atuação dos militares do EP é sujeito a constantes tensões pois funcionam na generalidade em ambientes hostis. A sua atividade é pautada por situações stressantes (missões de combate, manutenção de paz, humanitárias, proteção civil bem como administrativas) resultado da natureza das missões atribuídas, pondo em causa por vezes a própria vida e influenciando o desempenho organizacional. Neste artigo apresentamos os resultados de uma investigação cujo objetivo era avaliar o nível de exigências/recursos dos militares do EP, usando como referência o modelo das exigências-controlo do trabalho (Job Demands-Control Model/JD-C) proposto por Karasek (1979). 1121 militares (oficiais, sargentos e praças) do EP responderam a um questionário através da intranet do EP, constituída por 11 itens, numa escala de resposta de formato Likert, sendo que 1 corresponde a Nunca e 5 a Quase sempre. Nesta escala podem considerar-se duas dimensões: exigências do trabalho (item 1 a 7) e latitude de decisão (item 8 a 11). O valor de alfa de Cronbach obtido foi de 0,73, comprovando que os níveis de confiança do instrumento utilizado são adequados. Os principais resultados encontrados neste estudo permitem consolidar a perceção do nível de exigências e recursos dos militares do EP, demonstrando que o elevado nível de exigência que caracteriza a função militar se faz acompanhar, numa mesma linha, de elevados níveis de autonomia, isto é de controlo. Esta dicotomia percecionada pelos inquiridos (exigência vs. autonomia), permite realizar um equilíbrio real e adequado, impeditivo de uma exaustão no trabalho.

scholarly journals Relationship between generic and occupation-specific job demands and resources, negative work−home interference and burnout among GPs

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
N.C. Verhoef ◽  
M. De Ruiter ◽  
R.J. Blomme ◽  
E.C. Curfs
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Exhaustion ◽  
Ecological Validity ◽  
Job Demands ◽  
Job Design ◽  
Specific Work ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Important Extension ◽  
Work Family ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Job Demands And Resources

Abstract Scholars often examine the effect of generic job demands and resources on burnout, yet to increase ecological validity, it is important to examine the effects of occupation-specific characteristics. An extended version of the job demands-resources model with work−home interference as a mediator is examined among a cross-sectional sample of 178 general practitioners (GPs). Interviews with GPs were used to develop questions on occupation-specific work characteristics. Hypotheses were tested in MEDIATE. Both generic and occupation-specific job demands positively affected emotional exhaustion, while only occupation-specific job demands affected depersonalization. Only strain-based work−family interference mediated the relationship between generic and occupation-specific job demands, emotional exhaustion and depersonalization. This study offers an important extension of the job demands-resources model by including occupation-specific job characteristics. This broader perspective can aid in more targeted job design to reduce burnout among GPs.

Emotional labor strategies mediate the relationship between psychological empowerment and burnout of frontline hotel employees

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Min Li ◽  
Ziyu Zhao ◽  
Lijuan Cui
Keyword(s):  
Negative Correlation ◽  
Emotional Labor ◽  
Psychological Empowerment ◽  
Job Demands ◽  
Significant Negative Correlation ◽  
Job Burnout ◽  
Automatic Regulation ◽  
Conservation Of Resources ◽  
Hotel Employees ◽  
The Relationship

We examined the relationships among psychological empowerment, emotional labor strategies, and job burnout of frontline hotel employees with reference to conservation of resources theory and the job demands–resources model. A sample of 414 employees from a Chinese chain hotel was recruited to take part in this study. There was a significant negative correlation between psychological empowerment and job burnout for these frontline hotel employees. Furthermore, the emotional labor strategies of deep acting and automatic regulation played partial mediating roles in the relationship between psychological empowerment and job burnout, which has implications for the development of intervention mechanisms and work practices for addressing burnout.

scholarly journals Employees’ Job Characteristics and Job Crafting Behavior: The Mediating Role of Perceived Opportunities to Craft

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Jessica Van Wingerden ◽  
Rob Poell
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Job Demands ◽  
Job Characteristics ◽  
Job Crafting ◽  
Job Resources ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Dutch Health ◽  
The Relationship

The present study was designed to gain knowledge about the relationship between job characteristics in the workplace (job demands and job resources), employees’ perceived opportunities to craft, and subsequently their actual job crafting behavior. Specifically, the potential mediating role of perceived opportunities to craft could shed better light on the mechanisms that lead employees to job craft in the context of particular work characteristics. We collected data among a group of Dutch health care professionals working in an organization that offers care for patient with mental disabilities (N=522). Participants of the study reported their job demands; workload, emotional demands and work-home interference, their job resources; role clarity, communication and team cohesion, their perceived opportunities to craft, and their job crafting behavior. We tested the hypothesized antecedents of job crafting perceptions and behavior model with structural equation modelling (SEM) analyses. Results indicated that perceived opportunities to craft mediates the relationship between job resources and employees actual job crafting behavior. The insights provided in this study do not only build on job crafting literature but are also helpful to understand which aspects of the workplace influence employees’ job crafting behavior. Therefore, these insights may be useful for the deliberate cultivation of job crafting behavior within organizations.

scholarly journals Job Stress in Journalism: Interaction between Organisational Support and Job Demands–Resources Model

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Imad Al Muala
Keyword(s):  
Job Stress ◽  
Job Insecurity ◽  
Job Demands ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Moderation Effect ◽  
Organisational Support ◽  
Additional Support ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Task Significance

This study aims to analyse the impact of job demands and job resources on job stress among journalists in Jordan. In addition, the moderation effect of organisational support on such relationship is assessed in this research. A questionnaire survey was conducted among journalists working in daily newspapers in Jordan. This study used multiple and hierarchical regression analyses and determined a significant and positive relationship amongst emotional demands, job insecurity, and task significance on job stress. Additionally, organisational support moderated the relationship between task significance and job stress. Results of study revealed that the organisational support moderates the relationship between task significance and job stress. This finding could challenge journalists, newspaper managements and decision-makers in Jordan. When journalists work on sensitive topics and are in conflict areas, they are in need of additional support from newspaper managements to mitigate high job stress and motivate them to produce quality work.

scholarly journals Wanneer bevordert en wanneer hindert werkdruk het werkplekleren?

2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joris Van Ruysseveldt ◽  
Marius van Dijke
Keyword(s):  
Workplace Learning ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Control Model ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Working Adults ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Learning Hypothesis ◽  
High Workload ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
The Relationship

When does workload promote workplace learning opportunities, and when does workload hinder workplace learning opportunities? When does workload promote workplace learning opportunities, and when does workload hinder workplace learning opportunities? Building on theoretical frameworks like the Job Demands Control model we tested whether the relationship between workload and employees’ experiences of opportunities for workplace learning is of an inverted u-shaped nature. Furthermore we researched whether autonomy moderates this relationship. We predicted that at moderate levels of autonomy rising workload was associated with increasing learning opportunities at low levels of workload, but with decreasing learning opportunities at high levels of workload. Also, we predicted that low autonomy prevents positive effects of moderate workload from materializing whereas high autonomy makes high workload less destructive to the learning process. We found support for these ideas in a large and heterogeneous sample of Flemish working adults (FWM, 2010). These results integrate conflicting prior findings and extend Karasek’s (1979) active learning hypothesis. They also have clear implications for job redesign practices aiming to promote workplace learning opportunities.

scholarly journals Job demands when exhausted: the relationship between exhaustion and the perception of job demands mediated by self-undermining

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-50
Author(s):  
Lucia Rațiu ◽  
Ana-Maria Dobre
Keyword(s):  
Indirect Effect ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Job Demands ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Cross Sectional Design ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Practical Implications

There is a large body of literature devoted to factors that shape performance in organizations. Although much of this literature focuses on the relationships between job demands, job resources and performance, Bakker and his colleagues (2014; 2018) have recently drawn attention to self-undermining effects that can add support for a deeper understanding of such a relationship. The following contribution explores self-undermining related to exhaustion at work and its mediating role in the perception of three types of job demands in a sample of employees working in IT companies. More specifically, the paper draws on the concept of self-undermining to reflect on how it activates a loss cycle of job demands and potential negative reactions at work. We argue that (i) exhaustion has an indirect effect on the perception of job demands through self-undermining; and so on referring to each dimension of job demands: (ii) exhaustion has an indirect effect on the perception of workload through self-undermining; (iii) exhaustion has an indirect effect on the emotional load through self-undermining; (iv) exhaustion has an indirect effect on the cognitive load through self-undermining. In order to test the hypotheses, a cross-sectional design was employed. The regression analyses revealed that self-undermining mediated the relationship between exhaustion and the perception of workload meeting our expectations, and a significant indirect effect of exhaustion on the perception of job demands and emotional load. However, there is a need for future studies to generalize the results. Finally, theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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