Arbeitszufriedenheit
Zufriedene Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter sind produktiver, seltener krank und verursachen geringere Sozialkosten. Arbeitszufriedenheit hat aber nicht nur Vorteile für Betriebe. Das Wohlbefinden am Arbeitsplatz ist auch ein wichtiger Indikator für die Qualität der Arbeit selbst. Doch was ist überhaupt Arbeitszufriedenheit? Wie wird sie gemessen? Welche Faktoren und Prozesse fördern, welche schränken sie ein?
Das Thema Arbeitszufriedenheit steht seit Jahrzehnten im Mittelpunkt kritischer wissenschaftlicher Auseinandersetzungen. Die Infoplattform gibt einen Überblick über aktuelle Arbeiten und ausgewählte ältere Publikationen zu theoretischen Ansätzen und empirischen Resultaten der Arbeitszufriedenheitsforschung.
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Job Satisfaction and the 'Great Resignation': An Exploratory Machine Learning Analysis (2023)
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Celbiş, Mehmet Güney, Pui-hang Wong, Karima Kourtit & Peter Nijkamp (2023): Job Satisfaction and the 'Great Resignation': An Exploratory Machine Learning Analysis. In: Social indicators research, Jg. 170, H. 3, S. 1097-1118. DOI:10.1007/s11205-023-03233-3
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"Labor market dynamics is shaped by various social, psychological and economic drivers. Studies have suggested that job quit and labor market turnover are associated with job satisfaction. This study examines the determinants of job satisfaction using a large survey dataset, namely the LISS Work and Schooling module on an extensive sample of persons from the Netherlands. To handle these big data, machine learning models based on binary recursive partitioning algorithms are employed. Particularly, sequential and randomized tree-based techniques are used for prediction and clustering purposes. In order to interpret the results, the study calculates the sizes and directions of the effects of model features using computations based on the concept of Shapley value in cooperative game theory. The findings suggest that satisfaction with the social atmosphere among colleagues, wage satisfaction, and feeling of being appreciated are major determinants of job satisfaction." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))
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The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and the Implications for the Structure of Wages (2023)
Maestas, Nicole; Mullen, Kathleen J.; Von Wachter, Till; Powell, David; Wenger, Jeffrey B.;Zitatform
Maestas, Nicole, Kathleen J. Mullen, David Powell, Till Von Wachter & Jeffrey B. Wenger (2023): The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and the Implications for the Structure of Wages. In: The American economic review, Jg. 113, H. 7, S. 2007-2047. DOI:10.1257/aer.20190846
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"We document variation in working conditions in the United States, present estimates of how workers value these conditions, and assess the impact of working conditions on estimates of wage inequality. We conduct a series of stated-preference experiments to estimate workers' willingness to pay for a broad set of working conditions, which we validate with actual job choices. We find that working conditions vary substantially, play a significant role in job choice, and are central components of the compensation received by workers. We find that accounting for differences in preferences for working conditions often exacerbates wage differentials and intensifies measures of wage inequality." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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How White Workers Navigate Racial Difference in the Workplace: Social-Emotional Processes and the Role of Workplace Racial Composition (2023)
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Nelson, Jennifer L. & Tiffany D. Johnson (2023): How White Workers Navigate Racial Difference in the Workplace: Social-Emotional Processes and the Role of Workplace Racial Composition. In: Work and occupations online erschienen am 12.06.2023, S. 1-46. DOI:10.1177/07308884231176833
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"Research on racialized emotions and racialized organizations has begun to inform how we understand social interactions in the workplace and their implications for racial inequality. However, most research to date focuses on the experiences and coping strategies of racial minority workers, especially when confronted with instances of racial prejudice and discrimination. We extend research on racialized emotions in the workplace by mapping the stages of belonging/unbelonging white workers go through when they encounter instances of racial discomfort or perceived prejudice in the workplace. This is an important contribution to the study of race and work because existing research suggests the deleterious effects for people of color when white people experience negative emotions such as threat, fear, and anxiety in interracial encounters. Drawing on interview data with 56 white teachers in a metropolitan area in the U.S. Southeast, we document a process of racialized belonging. This is a process whereby white workers experienced varying degrees of surprise, confusion, frustration, and fear resulting from interracial—and some intraracial—experiences with coworkers as well as students. We note how the process is informed by racialized imprinting prior to workplace entry and followed by racialized emotions and racialized coping. Racial composition of the workplace also played a role, though the process looked similar across contexts. We argue that by accounting for white workers’ prior life experiences as well as organizations’ involvement in accommodating their emotional expectations, the way white workers behave when race becomes salient to them can be better understood and addressed." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Healthy New Work: Auswirkung agiler Arbeit auf die psychische Gesundheit (2023)
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Rietze, Sarah & Hannes Zacher (2023): Healthy New Work: Auswirkung agiler Arbeit auf die psychische Gesundheit. In: Personal quarterly, Jg. 75, H. 3, S. 32-38.
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"Unternehmen führen agile Praktiken ein, um Leistung und Innovation zu steigern. Welche Auswirkungen diese Praktiken auf Arbeitsmerkmale und die psychische Gesundheit von Beschäftigten haben, wurde bislang nicht untersucht. Es wurde eine Fragebogenstudie mit zwei Messzeitpunkten und 260 Beschäftigten in agilen Teams durchgeführt. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass agile Praktiken positiven Auswirkungen auf die psychische Gesundheit (höheres Engagement, geringere Ermüdung), vermittelt durch reduzierte Arbeitsanforderungen und erhöhte Ressourcen, haben." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku, © Haufe-Lexware)
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Empowerment, Task Commitment, and Performance Pay (2022)
Beckmann, Michael; Kräkel, Matthias;Zitatform
Beckmann, Michael & Matthias Kräkel (2022): Empowerment, Task Commitment, and Performance Pay. In: Journal of labor economics, Jg. 40, H. 4, S. 889-938. DOI:10.1086/718465
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"Although, from the viewpoint of social psychology, task commitment is a driving force for intrinsic motivation at the workplace, this topic has been widely ignored in labor and personnel economics so far. Our paper contributes to reduce this gap in the literature by offering a theoretical analysis on worker empowerment and task commitment. This approach also helps to explain the observed variety of compensation schemes across workers and firms. By using a large-scale linked employer-employee panel data set, we present empirical evidence that is consistent with the predicted patterns of our theoretical model." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Does job crafting always lead to employee well-being and performance? Meta-analytical evidence on the moderating role of societal culture (2022)
Boehnlein, Philipp; Baum, Matthias;Zitatform
Boehnlein, Philipp & Matthias Baum (2022): Does job crafting always lead to employee well-being and performance? Meta-analytical evidence on the moderating role of societal culture. In: The International Journal of Human Resource Management, Jg. 33, H. 4, S. 647-685. DOI:10.1080/09585192.2020.1737177
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"We quantitatively summarize existing studies on job crafting and its effects on well-being and individual in-role and extra-role performance. We differentiate job crafting behaviors by target of impact (individual vs. work environment) and regulatory focus (prevention vs. promotion focus). Drawing on 60 independent samples with a total of 20,547 participants, we use meta-analysis to show that promotion-oriented job crafting can be associated with increased well-being and both in-role and extra-role performance. Prevention-oriented crafting yielded partially significant results for well-being while showing non-significant relationships with both performance outcomes. Drawing on previous findings of the GLOBE study, we further show that the effects of job crafting on both in-role and extra-role performance are partially moderated by the cultural practices of in-group collectivism, future orientation, performance orientation, and uncertainty avoidance. By doing so, we illuminate the cultural circumstances under which job crafting behaviors are more suitable and where job crafting is less effective as a way to improve individuals’ performance." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))"We quantitatively summarize existing studies on job crafting and its effects on well-being and individual in-role and extra-role performance. We differentiate job crafting behaviors by target of impact (individual vs. work environment) and regulatory focus (prevention vs. promotion focus). Drawing on 60 independent samples with a total of 20,547 participants, we use meta-analysis to show that promotion-oriented job crafting can be associated with increased well-being and both in-role and extra-role performance. Prevention-oriented crafting yielded partially significant results for well-being while showing non-significant relationships with both performance outcomes. Drawing on previous findings of the GLOBE study, we further show that the effects of job crafting on both in-role and extra-role performance are partially moderated by the cultural practices of in-group collectivism, future orientation, performance orientation, and uncertainty avoidance. By doing so, we illuminate the cultural circumstances under which job crafting behaviors are more suitable and where job crafting is less effective as a way to improve individuals’ performance." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))756k
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Happy at Work - Possible at Any Age? (2022)
Carleton, Cheryl; Kelly, Mary T.;Zitatform
Carleton, Cheryl & Mary T. Kelly (2022): Happy at Work - Possible at Any Age? (Villanova School of Business working paper 51), Villanova, PA, 31 S.
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"With the growing attachment of older workers to the labor force and their engagement in alternative work arrangements, it is important to investigate the characteristics of older cohorts of individuals who are in the labor market and the factors that influence job satisfaction, as job satisfaction may be a predictor of which older individuals are likely to continue to work and in what type of work arrangement. This study uses several recent years of the General Social Survey to both explore the characteristics of older workers and investigate what contributes to job satisfaction, controlling for both gender and work arrangement. It splits the sample of workers into two cohorts to test for differences in job satisfaction between those who are nearing retirement age (55-64) and those who continue to work post the traditional retirement age (65-80). For the sample as a whole, and similar to other studies, we find that job satisfaction is higher for women and for those who work in alternative work arrangements as compared to those in regular jobs. We also find that there are differences in what contributes to job satisfaction between the two groups of older workers. These outcomes may inform firms about what they might do in order to keep these workers as well as informing the government on whether it is necessary to rethink how some benefits are both provided and paid for." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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New insights into self-initiated work design: the role of job crafting, self-undermining and five types of job satisfaction for employee's health and work ability (2022)
Döbler, Antonia-Sophie ; Wegge, Jürgen; Nowak, Joshua; Richter-Killenberg, Stefanie; Emmermacher, Andre;Zitatform
Döbler, Antonia-Sophie, Andre Emmermacher, Stefanie Richter-Killenberg, Joshua Nowak & Jürgen Wegge (2022): New insights into self-initiated work design: the role of job crafting, self-undermining and five types of job satisfaction for employee's health and work ability. In: German Journal of Human Resource Management, Jg. 36, H. 2, S. 113-147. DOI:10.1177/23970022211029023
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"The present study provides evidence for the important role of job crafting and self-undermining behaviors at work, two new concepts that were recently integrated into the well-known job demands-resources (JD-R) theory (Bakker and Demerouti, 2017). We investigate how these behaviors are associated with work engagement, emotional exhaustion, and work ability as a long-term indicator of employee’s well-being. Furthermore, we examine the moderating role of personal resources in the stress-strain process by comparing groups of employees representing the five types of job satisfaction defined by Bruggemann (1974). Data was collected in a cross-sectional study within a German DAX company’s manufacturing plant from 1145 blue- and white-collar workers. Results of structural equation modeling provided, as expected, support for an indirect effect of job demands and job resources on emotional exhaustion and work engagement through job crafting and self-undermining. Work ability, on the other hand, was mainly affected by emotional exhaustion, but not by work engagement. Most important, we found significant differences between path coefficients across the five types of job satisfaction indicating that these types represent important constellations of personal resources and job demands that should be considered both for analyzing stress at work and for offering tailored stress interventions in organizations." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Wie Arbeit, Transformation und soziale Lebenslagen mit anti-demokratischen Einstellungen zusammenhängen: Befunde einer repräsentativen Bevölkerungsumfrage (2022)
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Hövermann, Andreas, Bettina Kohlrausch & Dorothea Voss-Dahm (2022): Wie Arbeit, Transformation und soziale Lebenslagen mit anti-demokratischen Einstellungen zusammenhängen. Befunde einer repräsentativen Bevölkerungsumfrage. (Hans-Böckler-Stiftung. Working paper Forschungsförderung 241), Düsseldorf, 78 S.
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"Die vorliegende Analyse präsentiert detaillierte Ergebnisse einer repräsentativen Bevölkerungsumfrage zum Zusammenhang zwischen Arbeit, sozialer Lebenslage, Digitalisierungserfahrungen, Einstellungen zum sozial-ökologischen Wandel und anti-demokratischen Einstellungen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die Integration in den Arbeitsmarkt sowie gute, sichere Arbeitsbedingungen vor anti-demokratischen Einstellungen schützen. Ebenso wird gezeigt, dass die konkrete politische Gestaltung von Digitalisierung in der Arbeitswelt und der sozial-ökologischen Transformation eine hohe Bedeutung hat für die demokratische Integration der Bürger:innen und damit für die Stabilität der Demokratie." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Viel Schatten, aber auch etwas Licht: Die Situation der Baubeschäftigten – Ergebnisse einer Online-Beschäftigtenbefragung (2022)
Kümmerling, Angelika; Weinkopf, Claudia; Bosch, Gerhard; Hüttenhoff, Frederic;Zitatform
Kümmerling, Angelika, Gerhard Bosch, Frederic Hüttenhoff & Claudia Weinkopf (2022): Viel Schatten, aber auch etwas Licht. Die Situation der Baubeschäftigten – Ergebnisse einer Online-Beschäftigtenbefragung. (IAQ-Report 2022-06), Duisburg ; Essen, 24 S. DOI:10.17185/duepublico/76127
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"Eine Online-Befragung unter 3052 Baubeschäftigten zeigt, dass rund jeder vierte Beschäftigte in “näherer Zukunft“ beabsichtigt, seinen Arbeitgeber oder sogar die Branche zu wechseln. Baubeschäftigte beschreiben ihren Beruf als abwechslungsreich, vielfältig und lernförderlich und schätzen die Entscheidungsspielräume. Negativ werden die hohe körperliche Belastung und die Verdichtung der Arbeit durch neue Technologien gesehen. Ein hoher Anteil berichtet auch, dass der Fachkräftemangel in ihrem Betrieb bereits spürbar sei. Die Unzufriedenheit mit den Arbeitsbedingungen insgesamt, den Arbeitszeiten und der Bezahlung ist hoch und stellt einen Hauptgrund für Wechselabsichten dar. Nur gut jeder fünfte Arbeiter ist der Meinung, seinen Beruf bis zum gesetzlichen Renten-Einstiegsalter durchhalten zu können. Arbeiter wünschen sich einen Renteneintritt mit 60,7 Jahren, Angestellte mit 61,7 Jahren. Die Wechselneigung ist nicht betriebsunabhängig: Beschäftigte, die ihren Betrieb für zukunftsfähig halten und die das Betriebsklima als gut einschätzen, zeigen eine geringere Wechselneigung." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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The determinants of the link between life satisfaction and job satisfaction across Europe (2022)
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Soboleva, Natalia (2022): The determinants of the link between life satisfaction and job satisfaction across Europe. In: The international journal of sociology and social policy, Jg. 42, H. 11/12, S. 1180-1198. DOI:10.1108/IJSSP-06-2021-0152
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"Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the effect of work values and socio-demographic characteristics upon the link between life satisfaction and job satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach: The European Values Study (EVS) 2008–2009 is used as the dataset. The sample is limited to those who have paid jobs (28,653 cases). Findings: Socio-demographic characteristics matter more than work values in explaining the effect of job satisfaction on life satisfaction. The association between life satisfaction and job satisfaction is stronger for higher educated individuals and those who are self-employed and weaker for women, married individuals, religious individuals and those who are younger. Extrinsic and intrinsic work values significantly influence life satisfaction independent of the level of job satisfaction. Practical implications It is important to pay attention to the working conditions and well-being of the core of the labour force, in other words, of those who are ready to invest more in their jobs. Also, special attention should be given to self-employment. Originality/value: The paper compares the roles of work values and of socio-demographic characteristics as predictors of the association between job satisfaction and life satisfaction. It shows that the role of job in person's life depends largely on demographic factors, religiosity and socio-economic factors." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Emerald Group) ((en))
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Job Satisfaction, Structure of Working Environment and Firm Size (2022)
Tansel, Aysit;Zitatform
Tansel, Aysit (2022): Job Satisfaction, Structure of Working Environment and Firm Size. (IZA discussion paper 15397), Bonn, 27 S.
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"Employees' wellbeing is important to the firms. Analysis of job satisfaction may give insight into various aspect of labor market behavior, such as worker productivity, absenteeism and job turn over. Little empirical work has been done on the relationship between structure of working environment and job satisfaction. This paper investigates the relationship between working environment, firm size and worker job satisfaction. We use a unique data of 28,240 British employees, Workplace Employee Relations Survey. In this data set the employee questionnaire is matched with the employer questionnaire. Four measures of job satisfaction considered are satisfaction with influence over job, satisfaction with amount of pay, satisfaction with sense of achievement and satisfaction with respect from supervisors. They are all negatively related to the firm size implying lower levels of job satisfaction in larger firms. The firm size in return is negatively related to the degree of flexibility in the working environment. The small firms have more flexible work environments. This is the first study that explore the effect of work amenities. We further find that, contrary to the previous results lower levels of job satisfaction in larger firms can not necessarily be attributed to the inflexibility in their structure of working environment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Overqualification at Work: A Review and Synthesis of the Literature (2021)
Erdogan, Berrin; Bauer, Talya N.;Zitatform
Erdogan, Berrin & Talya N. Bauer (2021): Overqualification at Work: A Review and Synthesis of the Literature. In: Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, Jg. 8, S. 259-283. DOI:10.1146/annurev-orgpsych-012420-055831
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"Both perceived and objective measures of employee overqualification can impact job attitudes, various workplace behaviors, and work relationships. Utilizing motivation and capability-based theoretical approaches, this review summarizes research regarding the antecedents (demographic influences, personality traits, relational influences, job characteristics) and outcomes (individual health and well-being, turnover intentions and turnover, job performance, organizational citizenship behaviors, interpersonal relationships, innovative behaviors, counterproductive work behaviors, and career success) of overqualification. In addition, we review work done to date regarding the moderators and mediators of these relationships. Finally, we offer future directions for research." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Employees as reputation advocates: Dimensions of employee job satisfaction explaining employees’ recommendation intention (2021)
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Gross, Hellen P., Stefan Ingerfurth & Jurgen Willems (2021): Employees as reputation advocates: Dimensions of employee job satisfaction explaining employees’ recommendation intention. In: Journal of Business Research, Jg. 134, S. 405-413. DOI:10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.05.021
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"Reputation is a crucial asset for service organizations, in particular when actual service quality is hard to assess, e.g. in the context of hospitals. Employees and their recommendation intentions to other professionals and potential patients are crucial in the reputation building process. Against this background, we test with a quantitative-exploratory approach, for 1,022 employees in two German hospitals, how eleven dimensions of employees’ job satisfaction explain their recommendation intention on behalf of the hospital they work. Moreover, we explore this for different employee groups. Our results show that there are different employee job satisfaction dimensions explaining recommendation intention for different employee groups such as nurses, doctors, or employees in the administrative field. We frame our findings against the broad but scattered management literature that is relevant for job satisfaction and organizational reputation, and discuss implications for practice and further research." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2023 Elsevier) ((en))
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Adopting Telework. The causal impact of working from home on subjective well-being in 2020 (2021)
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Gueguen, Guillaume & Claudia Senik (2021): Adopting Telework. The causal impact of working from home on subjective well-being in 2020. (PSE working paper / Paris School of Economics 2021-65), Paris, 36 S.
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"Using the UK household longitudinal survey, we uncover a positive effect of work from home on life satisfaction, which is driven by partnered people and those without children at home. Concerning mental health, there is no average effect of telework, except for those living in rural areas, but this hides a dynamic evolution, as mental health initially deteriorates in the first months of telework, but improves after a period of adaptation, especially the feeling of being useful, of being a worthy person, and of being able to concentrate." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Worker wellbeing and productivity in advanced economies: Re-examining the link (2021)
Isham, Amy; Mair, Simon; Jackson, Tim;Zitatform
Isham, Amy, Simon Mair & Tim Jackson (2021): Worker wellbeing and productivity in advanced economies: Re-examining the link. In: Ecological economics, Jg. 184. DOI:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.106989
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"Labour productivity is a key concept for understanding the way modern economies use resources and features prominently in ecological economics. Ecological economists have questioned the desirability of labour productivity growth on both environmental and social grounds. In this paper we aim to contribute to ongoing debates by focusing on the link between labour productivity and worker wellbeing. First, we review the evidence for the happy-productive worker thesis, which suggests labour productivity could be improved by increasing worker wellbeing. Second, we review the evidence on ways that productivity growth may undermine worker wellbeing. We find there is experimental evidence demonstrating a causal effect of worker wellbeing on productivity, but that the relationship can also sometimes involve resource-intensive mediators. Taken together with the evidence of a negative impact on worker wellbeing from productivity growth, we conclude that a relentless pursuit of productivity growth is potentially counterproductive, not only in terms of worker wellbeing, but even in terms of long-term productivity." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Being Your Own Boss and Bossing Others: The Moderating Effect of Managing Others on Work Meaning and Autonomy for the Self-Employed and Employees (2021)
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Nikolova, Milena, Boris Nikolaev & Christopher Boudreaux (2021): Being Your Own Boss and Bossing Others. The Moderating Effect of Managing Others on Work Meaning and Autonomy for the Self-Employed and Employees. (IZA discussion paper 14909), Bonn, 37 S.
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"We examine the moderating role of being a supervisor for meaning and autonomy of self-employed and employed workers. We rely on regression analysis applied after entropy balancing based on a nationally representative dataset of over 80,000 individuals in 30 European countries for 2005, 2010, and 2015. We find that being a self-employed supervisor is correlated with more work meaningfulness and autonomy compared with being a salaried supervisor working for an employer. Wage supervisors and self-employed supervisors experience similar stress levels and have similar earnings, though self- employed supervisors work longer hours. Moreover, solo entrepreneurs experience slightly less work meaningfulness, but more autonomy compared with self-employed supervisors. This may be explained by the fact that solo entrepreneurs earn less but have less stress and shorter working hours than self- employed supervisors." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Inhabiting the Self-Work Romantic Utopia: Positive Psychology, Life Coaching, and the Challenge of Self-Fulfillment at Work (2021)
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Pagis, Michal (2021): Inhabiting the Self-Work Romantic Utopia: Positive Psychology, Life Coaching, and the Challenge of Self-Fulfillment at Work. In: Work and occupations, Jg. 48, H. 1, S. 40-69. DOI:10.1177/0730888420911683
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"Much has been said about the rise of work as a central identity marker in modern society. With the recent popularization of self-help and positive psychology, this identity marker broadened its signification to include new emotional needs such as love and passion, creating a new cultural imaginary: the “self-work romantic utopia.” Sociological studies have criticized this utopia as a myth that serves capitalist neoliberal structures, leading to frustration and self-blame. However, little is known about how workers themselves confront this myth and the strategies they employ when attempting to inhabit it in today’s precarious job market. Based on 60 in-depth interviews with upper-middle class Israeli workers who hired life coaches to improve their work experience, the author identifies five strategies used to inhabit this romantic utopia: starting over, healing, idealization, polygamy, and vision. Through the analysis of these strategies, the author illustrates how even the relatively privileged workers need to adapt the self-work romantic utopia to their life circumstances, inhabiting the myth in partial degrees. Such flexible implementation turns the “myth” into a cultural tool that directs workers’ lives and actions even in a precarious, unstable job market, maintaining subjective experiences of agency in a sphere characterized by growing structural constraints. Yet paradoxically, these strategies eventually strengthen the precarious, noncommitted, and individual-oriented structure of the job market, yielding flexible, individualistic solutions that replace workplace responsibility." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The Role of Employees' Age for the Relation between Job Autonomy and Sickness Absence (2020)
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Grund, Christian & Maike Rubin (2020): The Role of Employees' Age for the Relation between Job Autonomy and Sickness Absence. (IZA discussion paper 13945), Bonn, 27 S.
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"We investigate whether job autonomy is associated with employees' sickness absence. We can make use of the representative German Study of Mental Health at Work data. In line with our theoretical considerations, we do find evidence for an inverse relation between employees' job autonomy and days of sickness absence. This relation is only weakly mediated by job satisfaction and particularly relevant for more senior employees." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Implications of work effort and discretion for employee well-being and career-related outcomes: An integrative assessment (2019)
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Avgoustaki, Argyro & Hans T. W. Ffrankort (2019): Implications of work effort and discretion for employee well-being and career-related outcomes. An integrative assessment. In: ILR review, Jg. 72, H. 3, S. 636-661. DOI:10.1177/0019793918804540
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"How does work effort affect employee outcomes? The authors bridge distinct literatures on the well-being versus career-related implications of work effort by analyzing the relation of overtime work and work intensity to both types of outcomes. They also extend examination of the role of discretion in modifying the effects of work effort from well-being to career-related outcomes. Using data from the fifth and sixth European Working Conditions Surveys, the authors show that greater work effort relates strongly to reduced well-being and modestly to inferior career-related outcomes, while discretion may attenuate these adverse implications. Even with discretion, work intensity generally is a stronger predictor of unfavorable outcomes than is overtime work. Implications include the need for employees to become aware of the broader limitations of excessive work effort, for employers to give discretion when viable, and for public policy to devise strategies that help limit the adverse consequences of work intensity." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Does employee happiness have an impact on productivity? (2019)
Bellet, Clément S.; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Ward, George;Zitatform
Bellet, Clément S., Jan-Emmanuel De Neve & George Ward (2019): Does employee happiness have an impact on productivity? (CEP discussion paper 1655), London, 48 S.
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"This article provides quasi-experimental evidence on the relationship between employee happiness and productivity in the field. We study the universe of call center sales workers at British Telecom (BT), one of the United Kingdom's largest private employers. We measure their happiness over a 6- month period using a novel weekly survey instrument, and link these reports with highly detailed administrative data on workplace behaviors and various measures of employee performance. We show that workers make around 13% more sales in weeks where they report being happy compared to weeks when they are unhappy. Exploiting exogenous variation in employee happiness arising from weather shocks local to each of the 11 call centers, we document a strong causal effect of happiness on labor productivity. These effects are driven by workers making more calls per hour, adhering more closely to their workflow schedule, and converting more calls into sales when they are happier. No effects are found in our setting of happiness on various measures of high-frequency labor supply such as attendance and break taking." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Sinnstiftendes Management: Welche Faktoren das Sinnerleben der Mitarbeiter beeinflussen (2019)
Busse, Ronald;Zitatform
Busse, Ronald (2019): Sinnstiftendes Management. Welche Faktoren das Sinnerleben der Mitarbeiter beeinflussen. In: Zeitschrift Führung und Organisation, Jg. 88, H. 2, S. 130-138.
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"Extrinsische Anreize sind weit verbreitet, haben aber meistens nur einen kurzfristigen Motivationseffekt. Der Frage, welche organisationalen Bedingungen bereitgestellt werden müssen, damit Mitarbeiter intrinsisch motiviert sind, wird in diesem Beitrag nachgegangen. Dabei wird die Methode des vernetzten Denkens nach Frederic Vester angewandt." (Autorenreferat, © 2019 Schäffer-Poeschel Verlag für Wirtschaft - Steuern - Recht GmbH, Stuttgart)
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The role of job satisfaction and local labor market conditions for the dissolution of worker-job matches (2019)
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Hinz, Tina (2019): The role of job satisfaction and local labor market conditions for the dissolution of worker-job matches. (Universität Erlangen, Nürnberg, Lehrstuhl für Arbeitsmarkt- und Regionalpolitik. Diskussionspapiere 109), Erlangen, 27 S.
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"Der Artikel untersucht den Zusammenhang von Arbeitszufriedenheit und der Auflösung von Arbeitsverhältnissen. Wir verwenden Daten des Sozioökonomischen Panels (SOEP) für Deutschland und schätzen multinomiale Logitmodelle mit zufälligen Effekten, um die Wahrscheinlichkeit der Auflösung eines Arbeitsverhältnisses zu untersuchen. In Übereinstimmung mit der Literatur finden wir einen negativen Zusammenhang zwischen der Arbeitszufriedenheit und der Auflösung eines Arbeitsverhältnisses. Wir zeigen, dass dieser Zusammenhang vollständig durch weniger zufriedene Individuen verursacht wird, da die Auflösungswahrscheinlichkeit bei zufriedeneren Arbeitnehmern nicht mit deren Arbeitszufriedenheit variiert. Allerdings verharren selbst die meisten der sehr unzufriedenen Arbeitnehmer in deren aktuellen Arbeitsverhältnissen. Wir zeigen, dass der Effekt der Arbeitszufriedenheit auf die Auflösung des Arbeitsverhältnisses sowohl mit den regionalen Arbeitsmarktbedingungen als auch mit der Art der Auflösung (Wechsel in anderes Beschäftigungsverhältnis oder in Nichterwerbstätigkeit) zusammenhängt." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Gratifikation und Befindlichkeit - Ein Berufsgruppenvergleich von verbeamteten Lehrkräften, Angestellten im öffentlichen Dienst und Erwerbstätigen in Wirtschaftsunternehmen (2019)
Kiel, Ewald; Braun, Annika; Hillert, Andreas; Bäcker, Klaus; Weiß, Sabine;Zitatform
Kiel, Ewald, Annika Braun, Andreas Hillert, Klaus Bäcker & Sabine Weiß (2019): Gratifikation und Befindlichkeit - Ein Berufsgruppenvergleich von verbeamteten Lehrkräften, Angestellten im öffentlichen Dienst und Erwerbstätigen in Wirtschaftsunternehmen. In: Zeitschrift für Arbeitswissenschaft, Jg. 73, H. 3, S. 324-336. DOI:10.1007/s41449-019-00159-w
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"Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die Befindlichkeit und das Erleben von beruflicher Verausgabung und Gratifikation in einem Berufsgruppenvergleich mit verbeamteten Lehrkräften sowie Angestellten im öffentlichen Dienst und in Wirtschaftsunternehmen. Mittels eines Online-Verfahrens wurden insgesamt 24.516 Erwerbstätige der genannten Berufsgruppen zu Symptomen von Depressivität, Ängstlichkeit und Stress befragt, erhoben durch die Depressions-Angst-Stress-Skalen (DASS). Die Wahrnehmung von beruflicher Verausgabung und Gratifikation erfolgte durch die Skalen zur Effort-Reward-Imbalance von Siegrist. Ein zentrales Ergebnis ist, dass Depressivitäts-, Ängstlichkeits- und Stresssymptome mit der Art des Arbeitsverhältnisses in Bezug stehen: Angestellte in Unternehmen gefolgt von denen im öffentlichen Dienst zeigen die höchsten Werte in den DASS-Skalen und berichten zudem von einem geringeren Gratifikationserleben. Lehrkräfte erweisen sich als die Berufsgruppe mit der insgesamt günstigsten Einschätzung. Berufliche Sicherheit stellt sich hier als protektiver Faktor heraus, zusätzlich berichten Lehrkräfte von der höchsten Anerkennung durch Kollegen und Vorgesetzte.<br> Praktische Relevanz: Die abgeleiteten Maßnahmen sind explizit auf die Bedürfnisse der unterschiedlichen Erwerbstätigengruppen zugeschnitten. Bei im öffentlichen Dienst tätigen Personen sind immaterielle Gratifikationen bedeutsam, es sind beispielsweise institutionelle Formen der Rückmeldung zu etablieren, die Vorgesetzte für wertschätzende Kommunikation sensibilisieren. Für angestellte Mitarbeiter wären neben Maßnahmen der betrieblichen Gesundheitsfürsorge langfristige Beschäftigungsperspektiven zielführend, deren Bedeutung für die Befindlichkeit sichtbar wird." (Autorenreferat)
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Employee wellbeing, productivity and firm performance (2019)
Krekel, Christian; Ward, George; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel;Zitatform
Krekel, Christian, George Ward & Jan-Emmanuel De Neve (2019): Employee wellbeing, productivity and firm performance. (CEP discussion paper 1605), London, 43 S.
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"Does higher employee wellbeing lead to higher productivity, and, ultimately, to tangible benefits to the bottom line of businesses? We survey the evidence and study this question in a meta-analysis of 339 independent research studies, including the wellbeing of 1,882,131 employees and the performance of 82,248 business units, originating from 230 independent organisations across 49 industries in the Gallup client database. We find a significant, strong positive correlation between employees' satisfaction with their company and employee productivity and customer loyalty, and a strong negative correlation with staff turnover. Ultimately, higher wellbeing at work is positively correlated with more business-unit level profitability." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Helping with the kids? How family-friedly workplaces affect parental well-being and behavior (2019)
Lauber, Verena; Storck, Johanna;Zitatform
Lauber, Verena & Johanna Storck (2019): Helping with the kids? How family-friedly workplaces affect parental well-being and behavior. In: Oxford economic papers, Jg. 71, H. 1, S. 95-118. DOI:10.1093/oep/gpy062
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"Despite political efforts, balancing work and family life is still challenging. This paper provides novel evidence on the effect of firm level interventions that seek to reduce the work - life conflict. The focus is on how childcare support affects the well-being, working time, and caring behaviour of mothers with young children. Since the mid-2000s and pushed by public policies, in Germany an increasing number of employers have become proactive and implemented more family-friendly workplaces. These changes over time allow us to suggest causal effects using a difference-in-differences-matching approach. Based on a large panel data set, we find evidence pointing to welfare enhancing effects of childcare support. Mothers who are likely to be constrained in their allocation of time especially increase their working time and use formal care more intensively. The rise in satisfaction levels is more pronounced if mothers are more career-orientated." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Flexible work and work-related outcomes: The role of perceived organizational alignment (2019)
Zafari, Setareh; Hartner-Tiefenthaler, Martina; Theresia Koeszegi, Sabine;Zitatform
Zafari, Setareh, Martina Hartner-Tiefenthaler & Sabine Theresia Koeszegi (2019): Flexible work and work-related outcomes: The role of perceived organizational alignment. In: Management Revue, Jg. 30, H. 1, S. 63-92. DOI:10.5771/0935-9915-2019-1-63
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"Recent developments in information and communication technology have led to renewed interest in the impact of flexible work on work-related outcomes such as job satisfaction, organizational identification and work engagement. Although there is a vast amount of literature indicating the positive association between job autonomy and work-related outcomes, there has been little discussion about the contextual conditions that strengthen this relationship. This paper analyzes the role of perceived organizational alignment as a conditional factor and shows that autonomy alone cannot explain an organization's success in improving work-related outcomes. An analysis of online survey from 481 employees shows that the perceived organizational alignment moderates the positive effect of autonomy on work-related outcomes in the context of flexible work. For employees who perceive organizational alignment to be high, the positive relationships are strengthened for work engagement and organizational identification, but attenuated for job satisfaction. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Fehlzeiten-Report 2018: Sinn erleben - Arbeit und Gesundheit. Zahlen, Daten, Analysen aus allen Branchen der Wirtschaft (2018)
Badura, Bernhard; Schröder, Helmut; Ducki, Antje; Klose, Joachim; Meyer, Markus;Zitatform
Badura, Bernhard, Antje Ducki, Helmut Schröder, Joachim Klose & Markus Meyer (Hrsg.) (2018): Fehlzeiten-Report 2018. Sinn erleben - Arbeit und Gesundheit. Zahlen, Daten, Analysen aus allen Branchen der Wirtschaft. (Fehlzeiten-Report), Berlin: Springer London, 608 S.
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"Der vorliegende Fehlzeiten-Report beleuchtet das Thema 'Sinn erleben - Arbeit und Gesundheit' aus gesellschaftlicher, unternehmerischer und individueller Perspektive. Welche Rolle das Betriebliche Gesundheitsmanagement (BGM) für die Förderung des Sinnerlebens spielen kann erörtern 28 Fachbeiträge u. a. mit folgenden Fragen: Welchen Zusammenhang gibt es zwischen dem Erleben von sinnhafter Erwerbsarbeit und der Gesundheit der Beschäftigten? Wie erleben Beschäftigte den 'Sinn ihrer Arbeit' und wie können Unternehmen ihre Mitarbeiter unterstützen, ihre Arbeit als sinnerfüllte Tätigkeiten zu erleben? Wie können Führungskräfte und das Unternehmensklima das Sinnerleben positiv beeinflussen? Welche Konzepte und Angebote gibt es im Rahmen des BGM, um zur Prävention von Sinnkrisen beizutragen?
Darüber hinaus ist der Report durch umfassende Daten und Analysen ein wertvoller Ratgeber für alle, die Verantwortung für den Arbeits- und Gesundheitsschutz in Unternehmen tragen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)Weiterführende Informationen
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Nonmonetary incentives and the implications of work as a source of meaning (2018)
Cassar, Lea; Meier, Stephan;Zitatform
Cassar, Lea & Stephan Meier (2018): Nonmonetary incentives and the implications of work as a source of meaning. In: The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Jg. 32, H. 3, S. 215-238. DOI:10.1257/jep.32.3.215
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"Empirical research in economics has begun to explore the idea that workers care about nonmonetary aspects of work. An increasing number of economic studies using survey and experimental methods have shown that nonmonetary incentives and nonpecuniary aspects of one's job have substantial impacts on job satisfaction, productivity, and labor supply. By drawing on this evidence and relating it to the literature in psychology, this paper argues that work represents much more than simply earning an income: for many people, work is a source of meaning. In the next section, we give an economic interpretation of meaningful work and emphasize how it is affected by the mission of the organization and the extent to which job design fulfills the three psychological needs at the basis of self-determination theory: autonomy, competence, and relatedness. We point to the evidence that not everyone cares about having a meaningful job and discuss potential sources of this heterogeneity. We sketch a theoretical framework to start to formalize work as a source of meaning and think about how to incorporate this idea into agency theory and labor supply models. We discuss how workers' search for meaning may affect the design of monetary and nonmonetary incentives. We conclude by suggesting some insights and open questions for future research." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Unfairness at work: well-being and quits (2018)
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D'Ambrosio, Conchita, Andrew E. Clark & Marta Barazzetta (2018): Unfairness at work: well-being and quits. (IZA discussion paper 11318), Bonn, 24 S.
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"We here consider the effect of the level of income that individuals consider to be fair for the job they do, which we take as measure of comparison income, on both subjective well-being and objective future job quitting. In six waves of German Socio-Economic Panel data, the extent to which own labour income is perceived to be unfair is significantly negatively correlated with subjective well-being, both in terms of cognitive evaluations (life and job satisfaction) and affect (the frequency of feeling happy, sad and angry). Perceived unfairness also translates into objective labour-market behaviour, with current unfair income predicting future job quits." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Work engagement as a key for unlocking performance: An investigation across different organizational levels (2018)
Gutermann, Daniela;Zitatform
Gutermann, Daniela (2018): Work engagement as a key for unlocking performance. An investigation across different organizational levels. Amsterdam, 225 S.
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"Constructive leadership and leaders' work engagement itself are important levers for employees' work engagement. Individual and organizational work engagement leads to individual and organizational performance. The Engagement-Index (ENG-I) is a statistically valiated and well accepted measurement of behavioral work engagement in organizations. These are the results of the dissertation by Daniela Gutermann.
Work engagement
Since people spend around one third of their day at work, the question of which factors enhance their well-being and their motivation at work is an important one. Moreover, organizations have to face several challenges, such as a quickly changing global economic market, digitalization, and continuous need for innovation. Work engagement is a construct that is an asset for both employees and organizations. Gutermann aims to answer the question which factors may foster work engagement within organizations and how this is related to individual and organizational performance across different organizational levels.
Constructive and destructive leadership
Daniela Gutermann investigated how constructive and destructive leadership is related to work engagement and which role leaders' work engagement itself may play for followers' tendency to engage in their work. Additionally, since a lot of organizations are interested in the topic of work engagement, she introduced a new engagement assessment - the Engagement Index (ENG-I) - that faces both, scientific and organizational requirements. Finally Gutermann analyzed the link between individual and organizational work engagement and performance by considering causality issues." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))Weiterführende Informationen
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Paying for what kind of performance?: performance pay and multitasking in mission-oriented jobs (2018)
Jones, Daniel; Vlassopoulos, Michael; Tonin, Mirco;Zitatform
Jones, Daniel, Mirco Tonin & Michael Vlassopoulos (2018): Paying for what kind of performance? Performance pay and multitasking in mission-oriented jobs. (CESifo working paper 7156), München, 40 S.
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"How does pay-for-performance (P4P) impact productivity, multitasking, and the composition of workers in mission-oriented jobs? These are central issues in sectors like education or healthcare. We conduct a laboratory experiment, manipulating compensation and mission, to answer these questions. We find that P4P has positive effects on productivity on the incentivized dimension of effort and negative effects on the non-incentivized dimension for workers in nonmission- oriented treatments. In mission-oriented treatments, P4P generates minimal change on either dimension. Participants in the non-mission sector - but not in the mission-oriented treatments - sort on ability, with lower ability workers opting out of the P4P scheme." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The causal analysis of the development of the unemployment effect on life satisfaction (2018)
Lerch, Nils;Zitatform
Lerch, Nils (2018): The causal analysis of the development of the unemployment effect on life satisfaction. (SOEPpapers on multidisciplinary panel data research at DIW Berlin 991), Berlin, 51 S.
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"The long-term negative effects of unemployment, especially on subjective well-being, have been indicated by many studies. Therefore, unemployment and its effects on the individual life course must remain an important challenge for social policy. Many studies have focused on the cognitive component of subjective well-being, i.e., life satisfaction, and have analysed in particular its development during the unemployment period. The trajectory is usually characterized by the effects of anticipation, reaction and adaption. Studies have shown different findings regarding the shape of the effect development. The present study discusses the effect development in greater detail and analyses whether the development of the effect is different depending on unemployment experience using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and applying fixed effects regressions. The findings of this study support a non-linear effect development, which begins with the anticipation of unemployment. The trend can be described by a linear function and polynomials up to the fifth degree. The introduction of a model according to modern causal analysis and the interpretation of the dynamic development of the counterfactual outcomes are the secondary focuses of the study. A detailed discussion of causal assumptions and necessary control variables is needed to reveal the effect of unemployment on life satisfaction. The SOEP provides information about employment status on a monthly basis. This study shows possibilities for using this information for the construction of control groups and treatment groups and analyses with ideal episode patterns." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Something to Celebrate (or not): The Differing Impact of Promotion to Manager on the Job Satisfaction of Women and Men (2018)
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Lup, Daniela (2018): Something to Celebrate (or not): The Differing Impact of Promotion to Manager on the Job Satisfaction of Women and Men. In: Work, employment and society, Jg. 32, H. 2, S. 407-425. DOI:10.1177/0950017017713932
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"The literatures on gender status stereotyping and the 'glass-ceiling' have shown that women managers have more difficult job experiences than men, but whether these experiences result in lower job satisfaction is still an open question. Using fixed-effects models in a longitudinal national sample, this study examines differences in job satisfaction between women and men promoted into lower and higher-level management, after controlling for key determinants of job satisfaction. Results indicate that promotions to management are accompanied by an increase in job satisfaction for men but not for women, and that the differing effect lasts beyond the promotion year. Moreover, following promotion, the job satisfaction of women promoted to higher-level management even starts declining. The type of promotion (internal or lateral) does not modify this effect. By clarifying the relationship between gender, promotion to managerial position and job satisfaction, the study contributes to the literature on the gender gap in managerial representation." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Wir entscheiden! (2018)
Petry, Prof. Dr. Thorsten;Zitatform
Petry, Prof. Dr. Thorsten (2018): Wir entscheiden! In: Personalmagazin, Jg. 20, H. 9, S. 31-33.
Abstract
"Mitarbeiter wollen sich direkt an Unternehmensentscheidungen und Führungsfragen beteiligen. Davon sind die meisten New Worker überzeugt. Doch inwiefern entspricht das tatsächlich dem Wunsch der Arbeitnehmer und wie weit sind die Unternehmen beim Einsatz von partizipativen Methoden? Eine aktuelle Studie der Hochschule Rhein-Main zeigt Antworten auf." (Autorenreferat, © Haufe-Lexware)
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Does telework stress employees out?: a study on working at home and subjective well-being for wage/salary workers (2018)
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Song, Younghwan & Jia Gao (2018): Does telework stress employees out? A study on working at home and subjective well-being for wage/salary workers. (IZA discussion paper 11993), Bonn, 28 S.
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"Using data from the 2010, 2012, and 2013 American Time Use Survey Well-Being Modules, this paper examines how subjective well-being (SWB) varies between working at home and working in the workplace among wage/salary workers. Both OLS and individual fixed-effects models are employed for estimation, and the results are largely consistent. In general, we find that working at home is associated with a lower level of net affect and a higher probability of having unpleasant feelings relative to working in the workplace. We further decompose homeworking into telework and bringing work home and find that the effect of SWB varies by types of homeworking. In comparison with working in the workplace, telework increases stress in both samples of weekdays and weekends/holidays, and it also reduces net affect and increases unpleasantness in the sample of weekends/ holidays. In contrast, bringing work home on weekdays results in a lower level of net affect due to less happiness received. The only positive effect of homeworking we discover is that telework reduces tiredness on weekdays. As to the existence of gender difference in the effect of homeworking, our OLS results show that working at home is associated with positive affections for males but negative affections for females. However, fixedeffects models suggest that both males and females feel more stressed when teleworking, indicating the existence of individual heterogeneity." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Work Orientations, Well-Being and Job Content of Self-Employed and Employed Professionals (2018)
Warr, Peter; Inceoglu, Ilke;Zitatform
Warr, Peter & Ilke Inceoglu (2018): Work Orientations, Well-Being and Job Content of Self-Employed and Employed Professionals. In: Work, employment and society, Jg. 32, H. 2, S. 292-311. DOI:10.1177/0950017017717684
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"Drawing on psychology-derived theories and methods, a questionnaire survey compared principal kinds of work orientation, job content and mental well-being between self-employed and organisationally employed professional workers. Self-employment was found to be particularly associated with energised well-being in the form of job engagement. The presence in self-employment of greater challenge, such as an enhanced requirement for personal innovation, accounted statistically for self-employed professionals' greater job engagement, and self-employed professionals more strongly valued personal challenge than did professionals employed in an organisation. However, no between-role differences occurred in respect of supportive job features such as having a comfortable workplace. Differences in well-being, job content and work orientations were found primarily in comparison between self-employees and organisational non-managers. The study emphasises the need to distinguish conceptually and empirically between different forms of work orientation, job content and well-being, and points to the value of incorporating psychological thinking in some sociological research." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Was ist der Sinn dahinter? (2018)
Weckmüller, Prof. Dr. Heiko;Zitatform
Weckmüller, Prof. Dr. Heiko (2018): Was ist der Sinn dahinter? In: Personalmagazin, Jg. 20, H. 9, S. 27-29.
Abstract
"Auf der Suche nach dem Sinn der Arbeit: Seit die New-Work- Bewegung sich dies auf die Fahnen geschrieben hat, lastet ein regelrechter Druck auf dem einzelnen Mitarbeiter, die einzig sinnstiftende Arbeit zu finden. Und Unternehmen versuchen, ihren Arbeitnehmern diesen Sinn nahezubringen - schließlich wollen sie ihre Fachkräfte nicht verlieren. Eine nähere Analyse der Ergebnisse des DGB-Index 'Gute Arbeit' zeigt, wie sinnstiftend Arbeitnehmer ihren Job tatsächlich empfinden und welche Effekte das für sie und die Unternehmen hat." (Autorenreferat, © Haufe-Lexware)
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Turnover intentions in a call center: the role of emotional dissonance, job resources, and job satisfaction (2018)
Zito, Margherita; Emanuel, Federica ; Colombo, Lara; Ghislieri, Chiara ; Cortese, Claudio Giovanni; Molino, Monica;Zitatform
Zito, Margherita, Federica Emanuel, Monica Molino, Claudio Giovanni Cortese, Chiara Ghislieri & Lara Colombo (2018): Turnover intentions in a call center. The role of emotional dissonance, job resources, and job satisfaction. In: PLoS one, Jg. 13, H. 2, S. 1-16. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0192126
Abstract
"Background: Turnover intentions refer to employees' intent to leave the organization and, within call centers, it can be influenced by factors such as relational variables or the perception of the quality of working life, which can be affected by emotional dissonance. This specific job demand to express emotions not felt is peculiar in call centers, and can influence job satisfaction and turnover intentions, a crucial problem among these working contexts. This study aims to detect, within the theoretical framework of the Job Demands-Resources Model, the role of emotional dissonance (job demand), and two resources, job autonomy and supervisors' support, in the perception of job satisfaction and turnover intentions among an Italian call center.
Method: The study involved 318 call center agents of an Italian Telecommunication Company. Data analysis first performed descriptive statistics through SPSS 22. A path analysis was then performed through LISREL 8.72 and tested both direct and indirect effects.
Results: Results suggest the role of resources in fostering job satisfaction and in decreasing turnover intentions. Emotional dissonance reveals a negative relation with job satisfaction and a positive relation with turnover. Moreover, job satisfaction is negatively related with turnover and mediates the relationship between job resources and turnover.
Conclusion: This study contributes to extend the knowledge about the variables influencing turnover intentions, a crucial problem among call centers. Moreover, the study identifies theoretical considerations and practical implications to promote well-being among call center employees. To foster job satisfaction and reduce turnover intentions, in fact, it is important to make resources available, but also to offer specific training programs to make employees and supervisors aware about the consequences of emotional dissonance." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en)) -
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Do minimum wages increase job satisfaction?: micro data evidence from the new German minimum wage (2017)
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Bossler, Mario & Sandra Broszeit (2017): Do minimum wages increase job satisfaction? Micro data evidence from the new German minimum wage. In: Labour, Jg. 31, H. 4, S. 480-493., 2017-02-10. DOI:10.1111/labr.12117
Abstract
"In Deutschland wurde am 1. Januar 2015 der gesetzliche Mindestlohn von EURO 8.50 pro Arbeitsstunde eingeführt. Mit einer Analyse von Differenzen-in-Differenzen schätzen wir den Effekt auf Outcomes von anhaltend Beschäftigten. Die Ergebnisse zeigen einen deutlichen absoluten Anstieg in der Entlohnungszufriedenheit von betroffenen Personen. Änderungen in der generellen Jobzufriedenheit sind weitestgehend durch den Anstieg in der Entlohnungszufriedenheit getrieben, sodass nur ein kleiner Effekt auf andere Dimensionen der Jobzufriedenheit bestehen bleibt. Effekte des Mindestlohns auf den Arbeitseinsatz und die Bleibebereitschaft zeigen sich nicht." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Qualität der Arbeit 2017: Geld verdienen und was sonst noch zählt (2017)
Crößmann, Anja; Kottenbrink, Barbara; Günther, Lisa; Marder-Puch, Katharina; Hannappel, Monika; Burk, Martina;Zitatform
Crößmann, Anja, Lisa Günther & Katharina Marder-Puch (2017): Qualität der Arbeit 2017. Geld verdienen und was sonst noch zählt. Wiesbaden, 71 S.
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"Die Arbeit spielt im Leben der meisten Menschen nicht nur zur Sicherung des Lebensunterhalts eine zentrale Rolle. Am Arbeitsplatz werden viele Stunden des Tages verbracht - oft mehr Zeit, als für Familie, Freunde und Freizeit zur Verfügung steht. Ein guter Job ist deshalb für viele Menschen eine wichtige Voraussetzung für Zufriedenheit und Lebensqualität. In der Broschüre werden sieben Dimensionen unterschieden, um die qualitativen Aspekte der Arbeit abzubilden." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Human resource management and family-friendly work practices: Mechanisms, boundary conditions and employee-based outcomes (2017)
Ebert, Julia;Zitatform
Ebert, Julia (2017): Human resource management and family-friendly work practices. Mechanisms, boundary conditions and employee-based outcomes. (Schriftenreihe Strategic human capital management 05), München: HCM-Verlag, 240 S.
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"As part of their employee-oriented human resource management (HRM) systems, firms increasingly offer family-friendly work practices (FFWP) that are intended to help employees reconcile their work life with their private responsibilities. These include flexible working time arrangements, telework, childcare support, and related practices. While the public debate predominantly assumes that these practices positively affect firm performance, empirical research provides only limited evidence for the assumption. Therefore, research has focused on mediating mechanisms like employee attitudes and behaviors. This dissertation analyzes the effects of HRM practices and FFWP on attitudinal and behavioral employee outcomes by studying mechanisms, boundary conditions, and comparing methodological approaches. The first two studies empirically examine the influence of FFWP on two important retention-related outcomes, that is, voluntary turnover, and mother┐s return to their employer after childbirth. The third study considers the potential interactive nature of HRM practices. It evaluates two different methodological approaches for identifying interactions between HRM practices: hierarchical linear models and neural networks." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Relationships between followers' behaviors and job satisfaction in a sample of nurses (2017)
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Gatti, Paola, Chiara Ghislieri & Claudio G. Cortese (2017): Relationships between followers' behaviors and job satisfaction in a sample of nurses. In: PLoS one, Jg. 12, H. 10, S. 1-16. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0185905
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"The study investigated two followership behaviors, followers' active engagement and followers' independent critical thinking, and their relationship with job satisfaction in a sample of nurses. In addition, the study also considered a number of control variables and classical job demands and job resources - workload and emotional dissonance for job demands, and meaningful work for job resources - which have an impact on well-being at work. A paper-and-pencil questionnaire was administered to 425 nurses in an Italian hospital, and a hierarchical multiple regression was used to test the hypotheses. In addition to the job demands and job resources considered, followers' active engagement had a significant impact on job satisfaction. Moreover, it showed a significant linear and curvilinear relationship with the outcome variable. Followers' independent critical thinking has a non significant relationship with job satisfaction, confirming the mixed results obtained in the past for this dimension. These findings bore out the importance of analyzing followers' behaviors as potential resources that people can use on the job to increase their own well-being. Looking at followers not just as passive recipients but as active and proactive employees can also benefit the organization." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Bedeutet hohe Arbeitszufriedenheit, dass die Arbeitsbedingungen gut sind? (2017)
Hofbauer, Reinhard; Schwingsmehl, Michael;Zitatform
Hofbauer, Reinhard & Michael Schwingsmehl (2017): Bedeutet hohe Arbeitszufriedenheit, dass die Arbeitsbedingungen gut sind? In: Momentum Quarterly, Jg. 6, H. 2, S. 85-106. DOI:10.15203/momentumquarterly.vol6.no2.p85-106
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"Die Qualität des Arbeitslebens ist eine wichtige Dimension der Lebensqualität und findet in vielen modernen Wohlfahrtsmaßen Berücksichtigung. Sowohl objektive als auch subjektive Indikatoren kommen bei der Messung der Arbeitsplatzqualität zur Anwendung. Anhand von Daten einer Bevölkerungsbefragung wird gezeigt, dass von hoher Arbeitszufriedenheit, die mittels Single-Item-Fragen gemessen wird, nicht einfach auf gute Arbeitsbedingungen geschlossen werden kann. Arbeitszufriedenheit erweist sich als komplexes Konstrukt, in dem Adaptions- und Vergleichsprozesse eine wichtige Rolle spielen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Pay for performance and beyond (2017)
Holmström, Bengt;Zitatform
Holmström, Bengt (2017): Pay for performance and beyond. In: The American economic review, Jg. 107, H. 7, S. 1753-1777. DOI:10.1257/aer.107.7.1753
Abstract
"Incentives are often associated with narrow financial rewards such as bonuses or executive stock options. But in general such rewards are just a small part of the design of incentives. Properly designed incentive systems have to take into account the full portfolio of activities that the agent can engage in, the array of instruments, many nonfinancial, that are available to influence individuals and consider the factors that motivate them in different settings. Thinking about incentives as a system of interacting instruments and influences has been a major advance in the economics of incentives in recent years. In this lecture I will describe the path from pay for performance to the broader view of incentive systems." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Arbeit ohne Sinn gefährdet die Produktivität (2017)
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Jeworrek, Sabrina (2017): Arbeit ohne Sinn gefährdet die Produktivität. In: Wirtschaft im Wandel, Jg. 23, H. 3, S. 49-52.
Abstract
"Arbeit ohne Sinn ruft nicht nur negative Emotionen wie Enttäuschung oder das Gefühl, ersetzbar zu sein, hervor; vielmehr wird auch die zukünftige Arbeitsmotivation der Beschäftigten beeinflusst. Eine experimentelle Studie, die auf einer realen Arbeitssituation beruht, zeigt, dass Beschäftigte einen signifikant niedrigeren Arbeitseinsatz leisten, wenn ein vorangegangenes Projekt seinen ursprünglichen Sinn verloren hat. Die Information, dass das Projekt auch einen alternativen Zweck erfüllte, kompensiert die negativen Effekte allerdings vollständig, sowohl was den Arbeitseinsatz als auch den emotionalen Zustand der Beschäftigten angeht. Unternehmen und Personalverantwortliche sollten daher die Sinnhaftigkeit von Arbeitsaufgaben klar an ihre Beschäftigten kommunizieren sowie versuchen, auch gescheiterten Projekten eine Sinnhaftigkeit beizumessen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Organizational context and employee reactions to psychological contract breach: A multilevel test of competing theories (2017)
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Jiang, Lixin, Tahira M. Probst & Wendi L. Benson (2017): Organizational context and employee reactions to psychological contract breach. A multilevel test of competing theories. In: Economic and Industrial Democracy, Jg. 38, H. 3, S. 513-534. DOI:10.1177/0143831X15579288
Abstract
"This study examines how organizational context affects employee reactions to perceived psychological contract breach. Using Conservation of Resources and Social Comparison theories, the authors develop competing hypotheses regarding the potential exacerbating vs. buffering effects of organizational context on the relationships between psychological contract breach and job security satisfaction, job satisfaction, work - family conflict, and burnout. They collected a multi-source, multilevel data set composed of faculty and departmental administrators at a university experiencing repeated budget reductions. It was found that psychological contract breach was related to detrimental job outcomes (i.e., decreased job security satisfaction and job satisfaction, increased work - family conflict, and burnout). However, this relationship was stronger among faculty in departments reporting low rather than high departmental budget cuts, thus supporting Social Comparison theory rather than Conservation of Resources theory. Social comparison matters when it comes to psychological contract breach." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Mobile Arbeit: eine Analyse des verarbeitenden Gewerbes auf Basis der IG Metall-Beschäftigtenbefragung 2017 (2017)
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Piele, Christian & Alexander Piele (2017): Mobile Arbeit. Eine Analyse des verarbeitenden Gewerbes auf Basis der IG Metall-Beschäftigtenbefragung 2017. Stuttgart, 43 S.
Abstract
"Die vorliegende Studie befasst sich mit dem Themenfeld der örtlich flexiblen Arbeit. Die örtlich flexible Arbeit hat in den vergangenen Jahren eine stetig größere Verbreitung und deutlich andere Qualität gewonnen. Angefangen vom örtlich fixierten Home-Office hat diese Form des Arbeitens mit dem Mobile-Office aktuell eine wesentlich weitere Ebene der örtlichen Flexibilisierung erreicht. Mit den heutigen technischen Möglichkeiten ist örtlich flexibles Arbeiten nicht mehr in Hauptsache zu Hause, sondern an fast jedem frei wählbaren Ort möglich.
Wichtig für Beschäftigte in örtlich flexibler Arbeit ist die Tatsache ob diese Form der Arbeit selbstbestimmt oder dem Tätigkeitsbereich immanent und damit fremdbestimmt erfolgt. In vorliegender Untersuchung liegt die selbstbestimmte Form örtlich flexibler Arbeit - die mobile Arbeit - im Fokus." (Textauszug, IAB-Doku) -
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Core self-evaluations and work engagement: testing a perception, action, and development path (2017)
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Tims, Maria & Jos Akkermans (2017): Core self-evaluations and work engagement. Testing a perception, action, and development path. In: PLoS one, Jg. 12, H. 8, S. 1-19. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0182745
Abstract
"Core self-evaluations (CSE) have predictive value for important work outcomes such as job satisfaction and job performance. However, little is known about the mechanisms that may explain these relationships. The purpose of the present study is to contribute to CSE theory by proposing and subsequently providing a first test of theoretically relevant mediating paths through which CSE may be related to work engagement. Based on approach/avoidance motivation and Job Demands-Resources theory, we examined a perception (via job characteristics), action (via job crafting), and development path (via career competencies). Two independent samples were obtained from employees working in Germany and The Netherlands (N = 303 and N = 404, respectively). When taking all mediators into account, results showed that the perception path represented by autonomy and social support played a minor role in the relationship between CSE and work engagement. Specifically, autonomy did not function as a mediator in both samples while social support played a marginally significant role in the CSE - work engagement relationship in sample 1 and received full support in sample 2. The action path exemplified by job crafting mediated the relationship between CSE and work engagement in both samples. Finally, the development path operationalized with career competencies mediated the relationship between CSE and work engagement in sample 1. The study presents evidence for an action and development path over and above the often tested perception path to explain how CSE is related to work engagement. This is one of the first studies to propose and show that CSE not only influences perceptions but also triggers employee actions and developmental strategies that relate to work engagement." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Do minimum wages increase job satisfaction?: micro data evidence from the new German minimum wage (2016)
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Bossler, Mario & Sandra Broszeit (2016): Do minimum wages increase job satisfaction? Micro data evidence from the new German minimum wage. (IAB-Discussion Paper 15/2016), Nürnberg, 20 S.
Abstract
"In Deutschland wurde am 1. Januar 2015 der gesetzliche Mindestlohn von EURO 8.50 pro Arbeitsstunde eingeführt. Mit einer Analyse von Differenzen-in-Differenzen schätzen wir den Effekt auf Outcomes von anhaltend Beschäftigten. Die Ergebnisse zeigen einen deutlichen absoluten Anstieg in der Entlohnungszufriedenheit von betroffenen Personen. Änderungen in der generellen Jobzufriedenheit sind weitestgehend durch den Anstieg in der Entlohnungszufriedenheit getrieben, sodass nur ein kleiner Effekt auf andere Dimensionen der Jobzufriedenheit bestehen bleibt. Effekte des Mindestlohns auf den Arbeitseinsatz und die Bleibebereitschaft zeigen sich nicht." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Vertrauen und emotionale Stabilität als Determinanten von Erfolg und Lebenszufriedenheit (2016)
Ewers, Mara;Zitatform
Ewers, Mara (2016): Vertrauen und emotionale Stabilität als Determinanten von Erfolg und Lebenszufriedenheit. In: IW-Trends, Jg. 43, H. 2, S. 1-89. DOI:10.2373/1864-810X.16-02-06
Abstract
"Wie erklären sich Unterschiede im guten und erfolgreichen Leben, wenn man dieses an der Lebens- und Arbeitszufriedenheit, dem Bruttostundenlohn, der Gesundheit und den Ausbildungsjahren festmacht? Erkenntnisse fachübergreifender Forschung von Ökonomen und Psychologen werfen die Frage auf, ob allein ökonomische Präferenzen sowie gesellschaftliche und ökonomische Rahmenbedingungen hierfür verantwortlich sind. Die vorliegende Untersuchung zeigt, dass Ungleichheit auch eine Folge der Entwicklung der Persönlichkeit ist. Ökonomische Präferenzen und Persönlichkeitsmerkmale sind nicht perfekt austauschbar. Vielmehr ergänzen sie sich. Erfolgreiche Bundesbürger in allen untersuchten Lebensbereichen weisen vor allem hohe Werte bei der emotionalen Stabilität und beim Vertrauen auf. Von den Bundesbürgern, die der Aussage 'Im Allgemeinen kann man den Menschen vertrauen' voll zustimmten, geben 72 Prozent eine hohe Lebenszufriedenheit an. Unter allen Deutschen trifft dies nur auf jeden zweiten zu." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Social comparisons of wage increases and job satisfaction (2016)
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Grund, Christian & Maike Rubin (2016): Social comparisons of wage increases and job satisfaction. (IZA discussion paper 10038), Bonn, 15 S.
Abstract
"We combine status quo and social comparison considerations and investigate whether relative wage increases in the sense of differences between individual wage increases and wage increases of comparable employees are related to managers' job satisfaction. Using a panel data set of managers in the German chemical industry, we indeed find first evidence. The relation between relative wage increases and job satisfaction is relevant for managers with lower absolute wage levels in particular." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The role of job satisfaction in transitions into self-employment (2016)
Guerra, Giuliano; Patuelli, Roberto;Zitatform
Guerra, Giuliano & Roberto Patuelli (2016): The role of job satisfaction in transitions into self-employment. In: Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Jg. 40, H. 3, S. 543-571. DOI:10.1111/etap.12133
Abstract
"Self-employment is often seen as an attractive alternative to wage employment, despite lower welfare protection, higher risks, and more required effort than in the latter. It is then important to investigate why individuals choose self-employment. In addition to potential earnings, other factors may be considered, including displacement, uncertainty, unemployment risk, and dissatisfaction. Building on a job quits model, we propose an empirical representation of transitions to self-employment, which includes subjective evaluations of pecuniary and non-pecuniary satisfaction on the previous job. Additionally, we focus on the dynamics of job satisfaction, highlighting the role played by shocks in subjective evaluations." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The joint impact of microeconomic parameters and job insecurity perceptions on commitment towards one's job, occupation and career: a multilevel approach (2016)
Otto, Kathleen; Mohr, Gisela; Korek, Sabine; Kottwitz, Maria U.;Zitatform
Otto, Kathleen, Gisela Mohr, Maria U. Kottwitz & Sabine Korek (2016): The joint impact of microeconomic parameters and job insecurity perceptions on commitment towards one's job, occupation and career. A multilevel approach. In: Economic and Industrial Democracy, Jg. 37, H. 1, S. 43-71. DOI:10.1177/0143831X14535822
Abstract
"This study investigates the relationship of microeconomic parameters and subjective job insecurity perceptions with vocational commitment, i.e. commitment towards one's job, occupation and career in a sample of 236 individuals, nested in 47 German administrative districts. Applying a multilevel approach, job insecurity (quantitative and qualitative) and vocational commitment indicators (operationalized via job involvement, occupational commitment and career satisfaction) were measured at the individual level, whereas microeconomic parameters were collected at the level of administrative district. In addition to regional unemployment rates, we included two further economic parameters, namely change in gainful employment (i.e., change in a district's number of gainful workers) and change in economic growth (i.e., change in a district's GDP). It is worth noting that our findings only revealed spillover effects from economic parameters on qualitative (not quantitative) job insecurity on a bivariate level (not after considering controls in multilevel regressions). Cross-level interactions further indicated that environmental economic conditions are important for the relationship between subjective job insecurity perceptions and outcomes." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Are happy workers more productive?: firms' concerns about the well-being of their employees are largely supported by the evidence (2016)
Proto, Eugenio;Zitatform
Proto, Eugenio (2016): Are happy workers more productive? Firms' concerns about the well-being of their employees are largely supported by the evidence. (IZA world of labor 315), Bonn, 8 S. DOI:10.15185/izawol.315
Abstract
"Recently, large companies like Google have made substantial investments in the well-being of their workers. While evidence shows that better performing companies have happier employees, there has been much less research on whether happy employees contribute to better company performance. Finding causal relations between employee well-being and company performance is important for firms to justify spending corporate resources to provide a happier work environment for their employees. While correlational and laboratory studies do find a positive relationship, the evidence remains sparse." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Engagement erhalten - innere Kündigung vermeiden: Wie steht es um das Thema innere Kündigung in der betrieblichen Praxis? (2016)
Scheibner, Nicole; Hapkemeyer, Julia; Bendig, Hanka; Hupfeld, Jens; Banko, Linda;Zitatform
Scheibner, Nicole, Julia Hapkemeyer & Linda Banko (2016): Engagement erhalten - innere Kündigung vermeiden. Wie steht es um das Thema innere Kündigung in der betrieblichen Praxis? (IGA-Report 33), Dresden, 90 S.
Abstract
"In diesem Report wird das Thema der inneren Kündigung aus der Unternehmensperspektive beleuchtet.
Innere Kündigung geht mit gesundheitlichen Risiken, insbesondere psychischen und langfristig chronischen Erkrankungen des Bewegungsapparats und des Herz-Kreislauf-Systems einher. Für Unternehmen entstehen Ausfallkosten und Kosten durch verringerte Produktivität und Qualität. Zudem treten häufig auch Spannungen im beruflichen Umfeld auf, die sich wiederum nachteilig auf die Leistung eines Teams auswirken können.
Der Report zeigt wie Unternehmen und Führungskräfte mit dem Thema umgehen können und liefert Praxistipps um Beschäftigte, die von innerer Kündigung betroffen sind, zu unterstützen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku) -
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Befragung von Betrieben und Beschäftigten: Mehr Zufriedenheit und Engagement in Betrieben mit guter Personalpolitik (2016)
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Wolter, Stefanie, Sandra Broszeit, Corinna Frodermann, Philipp Grunau & Lutz Bellmann (2016): Befragung von Betrieben und Beschäftigten: Mehr Zufriedenheit und Engagement in Betrieben mit guter Personalpolitik. (IAB-Kurzbericht 16/2016), Nürnberg, 6 S.
Abstract
"Betriebe in Deutschland sind angesichts der Konkurrenz um Fachkräfte zunehmend herausgefordert, ihren Beschäftigten ein hohes Maß an guten Arbeitsbedingungen zu bieten. Die wahrgenommene Arbeitsqualität ist ein Zeichen von Arbeitgeberattraktivität und hängt stark mit guter Personalführung zusammen. In dem Kurzbericht wird unter anderem die Verbreitung von Arbeitsbelastungen wie starker Termindruck, Informationsflut, unangenehme Umgebungsbedingungen und körperliche Anstrengungen am Arbeitsplatz untersucht. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Betriebe, die Personalpolitik klug einsetzen, engagiertere und zufriedenere Beschäftigte haben." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Further training for older workers: A solution for an ageing labour force? (2016)
Zboralski-Avidan, Hila;Zitatform
Zboralski-Avidan, Hila (2016): Further training for older workers: A solution for an ageing labour force? Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 267 S.
Abstract
"Aufgrund von arbeitsmarktpolitischen Reformen hat sich in Deutschland die Erwerbsbeteiligung älterer Beschäftigter erhöht. Angesichts eines möglichen Erhalts des Qualifikationsniveaus, der Beschäftigungsfähigkeit und des wirtschaftlichen Potentials älterer Arbeitnehmer muss der beruflichen Weiterbildung zunehmend Bedeutung beigemessen werden. Darüber hinaus scheint die Notwendigkeit einer verlängerten Lebensarbeitszeit mit einem Anstieg von jenen älteren Erwerbstätigen einherzugehen, die nur eine geringe Arbeitszufriedenheit aufweisen und infolgedessen wesentlich häufiger dazu neigen, Frühverrentungsoptionen in Anspruch zu nehmen. Da empirischen Studien zufolge ein enger Zusammenhang zwischen der Arbeitszufriedenheit und dem individuellen Arbeitsmarktverhalten besteht, sollten in der Arbeitsmarktforschung die Einflussfaktoren auf die Arbeitszufriedenheit älterer Beschäftigter, wie es beispielsweise die Weiterbildungsbeteiligung sein könnte, stärker berücksichtigt und analysiert werden. Dementsprechend setzt sich die vorliegende Studie mit folgenden Forschungsfragen auseinander. Erstens soll allgemein untersucht werden, ob in den letzten Jahren ein Anstieg der beruflichen Weiterbildungsbeteiligung älterer Beschäftigter festgestellt werden kann. Zweitens wird analysiert, welchen Einfluss die Weiterbildungsbeteiligung auf deren Arbeitszufriedenheit hat und welche Unterschiede hierbei zwischen der beruflichen Stellung älterer Arbeitnehmer ausgemacht werden können. Zur Bearbeitung dieser zwei Forschungsfragen werden die Daten des Sozioökonomischen Panels (SOEP) der Jahre 2000, 2004 und 2008 ausgewertet. Zunächst wird in einer Querschnitt-Trendanalyse geprüft und nachgezeichnet, wie sich die Weiterbildungsbeteiligung von Arbeitnehmern im Alter von 55 bis 64 Jahren entwickelt hat. Anschließend wird der Zusammenhang zwischen Weiterbildungsbeteiligung und Arbeitszufriedenheit älterer Beschäftigter im Quer- und Längsschnitt untersucht, wofür sowohl ein gepoolter Datensatz als auch das Paneldesign des SOEP genutzt wird. Zum einen deuten die Ergebnisse der empirischen Analysen darauf hin, dass sich die Weiterbildungsbeteiligung älterer Beschäftigter im Zeitverlauf erhöht hat. Dieser stetige Trend zeigt, dass betriebliche Investitionen in das Humankapital älterer Arbeitnehmer als wachsendes Beschäftigungssegment auf dem Arbeitsmarkt zunehmend wichtiger werden. Zum anderen wurde ein positiver Zusammenhang zwischen der Weiterbildungsbeteiligung und der Arbeitszufriedenheit von älteren Erwerbstätigen und insbesondere von gewerblichen Arbeitern gefunden. Unter Berücksichtigung ökonomischer Implikationen, die mit der durch Weiterbildung erhöhten Arbeitszufriedenheit älterer Beschäftigter verbunden sind, könnten aus diesem Befund entsprechende bildungs- und arbeitsmarktpolitische Maßnahmen abgeleitet werden." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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The relationship between employment quality and work-related well-being in the European Labor Force (2015)
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Aerden, Karen van, Guy Moors, Katia Levecque & Christophe Vanroelen (2015): The relationship between employment quality and work-related well-being in the European Labor Force. In: Journal of vocational behavior, Jg. 86, H. February, S. 66-76. DOI:10.1016/j.jvb.2014.11.001
Abstract
"In this article, data from the 2005 European Working Conditions Survey are used to examine the relationship between contemporary employment arrangements and the work-related well-being of European employees. By means of a Latent Class Cluster Analysis, several features of the employment conditions and relations characterizing jobs are combined in a typology of five employment arrangements: SER-like, instrumental, precarious unsustainable, precarious intensive and portfolio jobs. These job types show clear relationships with separate indicators of job satisfaction, perceived safety climate and the ability to stay in employment, as well as with an overall indicator for work-related well-being. The findings from this multifaceted approach towards employment quality raise questions about the long-term sustainability of highly flexible and de-standardized employment arrangements." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Die große Mehrzahl der Beschäftigten in Deutschland ist mit ihrer Arbeit zufrieden (2015)
Brenke, Karl;Zitatform
Brenke, Karl (2015): Die große Mehrzahl der Beschäftigten in Deutschland ist mit ihrer Arbeit zufrieden. In: DIW-Wochenbericht, Jg. 82, H. 32/33, S. 715-722.
Abstract
"Die allermeisten Erwerbstätigen bewerten ihre berufliche Tätigkeit positiv; nur jeder Achte ist mit ihr unzufrieden. An diesem Bild hat sich in den vergangenen 20 Jahren nichts verändert. Es zeigen sich kaum Unterschiede im Ausmaß der Zufriedenheit zwischen den Geschlechtern, zwischen den Beschäftigten in Westdeutschland und Ostdeutschland sowie zwischen den verschiedenen Altersgruppen. Auch die Höhe der Entlohnung sowie die Art der ausgeübten Tätigkeit haben keinen starken Einfluss auf die Zufriedenheit mit dem Job. Bei der Bewertung einer beruflichen Tätigkeit spielen nicht nur deren Eigenschaften eine Rolle, sondern auch die Einschätzungen der Beschäftigten darüber, was der Job ihnen bieten sollte. Dem entsprechend wird die Arbeitszufriedenheit erheblich von Gefühlen und persönlichen Eigenheiten beeinflusst. Unzufrieden mit ihrer Arbeit sind relativ häufig Personen, die oft ängstlich oder ärgerlich sind, die sich vergleichsweise selten glücklich fühlen und die weniger optimistisch in die Zukunft schauen. Personen, die mit ihrer Arbeit unzufrieden sind, neigen häufiger zum Jobwechsel, und dadurch steigt in vielen Fällen die Zufriedenheit. Es gibt aber auch nicht wenige Personen, die an ihrer Stelle festhalten, und dennoch im Laufe der Zeit zufriedener werden. Vermutlich arrangieren sie sich mit den Gegebenheiten." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Intrinsic motivations of public sector employees: evidence for Germany (2015)
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Dur, Robert & Robin Zoutenbier (2015): Intrinsic motivations of public sector employees. Evidence for Germany. In: German Economic Review, Jg. 16, H. 3, S. 343-366. DOI:10.1111/geer.12056
Abstract
"We examine differences in altruism and laziness between public sector employees and private sector employees. Our theoretical model predicts that the likelihood of public sector employment increases with a worker's altruism, and increases or decreases with a worker's laziness depending on his altruism. Using questionnaire data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we find that public sector employees are significantly more altruistic and lazy than observationally equivalent private sector employees. A series of robustness checks show that these patterns are stronger among higher educated workers; that the sorting of altruistic people to the public sector takes place only within the caring industries; and that the difference in altruism is already present at the start of people's career, while the difference in laziness is only present for employees with sufficiently long work experience." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Bedeutung der Arbeit: Ergebnisse der Befragung (2015)
Gaspar, Claudia; Bartels, Marc; Hollmann, Detlef; Kebbedies, Sarah;Zitatform
Gaspar, Claudia & Detlef Hollmann (2015): Bedeutung der Arbeit. Ergebnisse der Befragung. Gütersloh, 16 S.
Abstract
"Unsere Arbeitswelt befindet sich im Wandel. Megatrends wie der Demografische Wandel, Digitalisierung, der zunehmende globale Wettbewerb, Individualisierung sowie neue Kommunikations- und Produktionsprozesse sind nicht nur eine Herausforderung für die Gesellschaft insgesamt, sondern wirken sich auch unmittelbar auf unsere Arbeitswelt aus. Doch wie sehen die deutschen Erwerbstätigen die Berufswelt und welchen Stellenwert nimmt Arbeit in ihrem Leben ein?" (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Control in flexible working arrangements: when freedom becomes duty (2015)
Gerdenitsch, Cornelia; Korunka, Christian; Kubicek, Bettina;Zitatform
Gerdenitsch, Cornelia, Bettina Kubicek & Christian Korunka (2015): Control in flexible working arrangements. When freedom becomes duty. In: Journal of personnel psychology, Jg. 14, H. 2, S. 61-69. DOI:10.1027/1866-5888/a000121
Abstract
"Supported by media technologies, today's employees can increasingly decide when and where to work. The present study examines positive and negative aspects of this temporal and spatial flexibility, and the perceptions of control in these situations based an propositions of self-determination theory. Using an exploratory approach we conducted semi-structured interviews with 45 working digital natives. Participants described positive and negative situations separately for temporal and spatial flexibility, and rated the extent to which they felt autonomous and externally controlled. Situation appraised positively were best described by decision latitude, while negatively evaluated ones were best described by work-nonwork conflict. Positive situations were perceived as autonomous rather than externally controlled; negative situations were rated as autonomously and externally controlled to a similar extent." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Beschäftigungsstruktur und Zufriedenheit von Zeitarbeitnehmern in Deutschland (2015)
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Grund, Christian, Johannes Martin & Axel Minten (2015): Beschäftigungsstruktur und Zufriedenheit von Zeitarbeitnehmern in Deutschland. In: Schmalenbachs Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung, Jg. 67, H. 2, S. 138-169.
Abstract
"Auf Basis von Daten des Deutschen Sozio-Ökonomischen Panels der Jahre 2001 bis 2012 untersuchen wir Determinanten einer Zeitarbeitsbeschäftigung sowie möglicher Erklärungsansätze für Unterschiede in der Arbeits- und Lebenszufriedenheit zwischen Arbeitnehmern in Zeitarbeit im Vergleich zu Normalbeschäftigten und zu arbeitslosen Personen. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass frühere Zeiten von Arbeitslosigkeit die Wahrscheinlichkeit einer Zeitarbeitsbeschäftigung deutlich steigern. Zudem führen Zeitarbeitnehmer eher Tätigkeiten aus, für die sie nicht passend qualifiziert sind. Die niedrigere Arbeitszufriedenheit von Zeitarbeitern im Vergleich zu Normalbeschäftigten lässt sich vor allem auf Unterschiede in individuellen Merkmalen und auf eine als deutlich stärker empfundene Arbeitsplatzunsicherheit zurückführen, während ihre Lebenszufriedenheit auch unter Berücksichtigung dieser Faktoren signifikant geringer ist. Jedoch äußern Zeitarbeitnehmer eine deutlich höhere Lebenszufriedenheit als arbeitslose Personen. Eine explizite Analyse der Übergänge zwischen den Beschäftigungsstatus bestätigt diese Ergebnisse" (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Bewältigung von Stress in einer vernetzten Arbeitswelt: Befunde aus der BIBB/BAuA-Erwerbstätigenbefragung (2015)
Hammermann, Andrea; Stettes, Oliver;Zitatform
Hammermann, Andrea & Oliver Stettes (2015): Bewältigung von Stress in einer vernetzten Arbeitswelt. Befunde aus der BIBB/BAuA-Erwerbstätigenbefragung. In: IW-Trends, Jg. 42, H. 2, S. 113-135. DOI:10.2373/1864-810X.15-02-07
Abstract
"Jeder zweite Beschäftigte erlebt hierzulande häufig starken Termin- und Leistungsdruck. Auf digitalen Arbeitsplätzen, an denen mit dem Internet und vernetzt mit Kollegen und Geschäftspartnern gearbeitet wird, sind es sogar sechs von zehn. Grund zur Sorge, die Digitalisierung würde verstärkt gesundheitliche Risiken bergen, besteht allerdings wenig, wie eine Analyse auf Basis der BIBB/ BAuA-Erwerbstätigenbefragung zeigt. Beschäftigte empfinden Anforderungen wie Termin- und Leistungsdruck nicht zwingend als belastend. Insbesondere Personen, die vernetzt und mit dem Internet arbeiten, haben größere Handlungsspielräume, erleben mehr soziale Unterstützung und erfahren mehr Anerkennung - drei Faktoren, die den Umgang mit unterschiedlichen psychischen Anforderungen am Arbeitsplatz unterstützen können. So lässt sich lediglich bei 4 Prozent aller Beschäftigten in Deutschland ein erhöhtes Belastungsrisiko ausmachen, weil bei einer vernetzten, internetbasierten Tätigkeit eine Dys-Balance zwischen starkem Termin- und Leistungsdruck und fehlenden Handlungsspielräumen besteht. Dagegen sind rund 95 Prozent der Arbeitnehmer auf Internetarbeitsplätzen mit ihrem Job zufrieden, wenn sie ihre Arbeit eigenständig planen können. Handlungsbedarf beim gesetzlichen Arbeitsschutz lässt sich aus der Befragung nicht ableiten. Eine effektive und effiziente Personalarbeit sollte aber im Blick haben, wie die Beschäftigten die Bedingungen an ihrem Arbeitsplatz erleben und bewerten. Die Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelt bietet hier mehr Chancen als Risiken." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Reciprocity and workers' tastes for representation (2015)
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Jirjahn, Uwe & Vanessa Lange (2015): Reciprocity and workers' tastes for representation. In: Journal of labor research, Jg. 36, H. 2, S. 188-209. DOI:10.1007/s12122-015-9198-8
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"Using unique survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this study examines the influence of reciprocal inclinations on workers' sorting into codetermined firms. Employees with strong negative reciprocal inclinations are more likely to work in firms with a works council while employees with strong positive reciprocal inclinations are less likely to work in such firms. However, the results also show striking gender differences in the relationship between reciprocity and taste for representation." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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What field experiments have and have not taught us about managing workers (2015)
Levitt, Steven D.; Neckermann, Susanne;Zitatform
Levitt, Steven D. & Susanne Neckermann (2015): What field experiments have and have not taught us about managing workers. In: Oxford review of economic policy, Jg. 30, H. 4, S. 639-657. DOI:10.1093/oxrep/grv003
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"This paper reviews the field experimental evidence on firm - employee relationships. There is strong evidence that output rises in response to financial incentives, but more mixed support for worker reciprocity in response to employer generosity. Non-financial approaches, such as worker recognition or adding 'meaning' to mundane tasks, can also increase output. Social relations are central to how firms function and have been shown to have an important impact on the design of incentive schemes. What we do not know, however, far exceeds that which we have learned. A broad swathe of important topics, including recruiting, worker promotion, and training, are virtually untouched thus far by field experiments." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Gewünschte und erlebte Arbeitsqualität: Abschlussbericht (2015)
Nübling, Matthias; Schröder, Helmut; Lincke, Hans-Joachim; Gerlach, Irene; Knerr, Petra; Laß, Inga ;Zitatform
Nübling, Matthias, Hans-Joachim Lincke, Helmut Schröder, Petra Knerr, Irene Gerlach & Inga Laß (2015): Gewünschte und erlebte Arbeitsqualität. Abschlussbericht. (Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales. Forschungsbericht 456), Bonn, 148 S.
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"Die vorliegende Studie, die von einem Forschungskonsortium aus Freiburger Forschungsstelle Arbeits- und Sozialmedizin (ffas), dem Forschungszentrum Familienbewusste Personalpolitik (FFP) und dem Institut für angewandte Sozialforschung (infas) im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Arbeit und Soziales durchgeführt wurde, beruht auf der Befragung von 5004 repräsentativ ausgewählten sozialversicherungspflichtig Beschäftigten mit einer Wochenarbeitszeit von mindestens zehn Stunden.
Die Befragung erfolgte mittels telefonischer Interviews. Inhaltliche Grundlage des Fragenkataloges waren im Kern das Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ) sowie der FFP-Index.
Die Ergebnisse der 2012-2015 durchgeführten Studie beinhalten zahlreiche Analysen zu den Anforderungen, Einfluss- und Entfaltungsmöglichkeiten sowie den sozialen Beziehungen bei der Arbeit in Deutschland. Sie zeigen auf der Basis empirischer Erkenntnisse wichtige Aspekte, die die Zufriedenheit und Gesundheit der Beschäftigten mitbestimmen und weisen damit aktuell auf Ansatzpunkte zur Verbesserung der Arbeitsqualität in Betrieben hin." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku) -
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Labor supply and productivity responses to non-salary benefits: do they work? If so, at what level do they work best? (2015)
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Spencer, Marilyn, Deniz Gevrek, Valrie Chambers & Randall Bowden (2015): Labor supply and productivity responses to non-salary benefits. Do they work? If so, at what level do they work best? (IZA discussion paper 9153), Bonn, 41 S.
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"This study explores the impact of a particular low marginal-cost employee benefit on employees' intended retention and performance. By utilizing a unique data set constructed by surveying full-time faculty and staff members at a public university in the United States, we study the impact of this employee benefit on faculty and staff performance and retention. We focus on the impact of reduction in dependent college tuition at various levels on employees' intentions to work harder and stay at their current job by using both OLS and Ordered Probit models. We also simulate the direct opportunity cost (reduction in revenue) in dollars and as a percent of total budgeted revenue to facilitate administrative decision making. The results provide evidence that for institutions where employee retention and productivity are a priority, maximizing or offering dependent college tuition waiver may be a relatively low-cost benefit to increase intended retention and productivity. In addition, the amount of the tuition waiver, number of dependents and annual salary are statistically significant predictors of intended increased productivity and intent to stay employed at the current institution. Employee retention and productivity is a challenge for all organizations. Although pay, benefits, and organizational culture tend to be key indicators of job satisfaction, little attention is given to specific types of benefits. This study is the first comprehensive attempt to explore the relationship between the impact of this low-cost employee benefit and employee performance and retention in a higher education institution in the United States." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Social interactions in job satisfaction (2015)
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Tumen, Semih & Tugba Zeydanli (2015): Social interactions in job satisfaction. (IZA discussion paper 9505), Bonn, 46 S.
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"The literature documents that job satisfaction is positively correlated with worker performance and productivity. We examine whether aggregate job satisfaction in a certain labor market environment can have an impact on individual-level job satisfaction. If the answer is yes, then policies targeted to increase job satisfaction can increase productivity not only directly, but through spillover externalities too. We seek an answer to this question using two different data sets from the United Kingdom characterizing two different labor market environments: Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) at the workplace level (i.e., narrowly defined worker groups) and British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) at the local labor market level (i.e., larger worker groups defined in industry x region cells). Implementing an original empirical strategy to identify spillover effects, we find that one standard deviation increase in aggregate job satisfaction leads to a 0.42 standard deviation increase in individual-level job satisfaction at the workplace level and 0.15 standard deviation increase in individual-level job satisfaction at the local labor market level. These social interactions effects are sizable and should not be ignored in assessing the effectiveness of the policies designed to improve job satisfaction." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The impact of job security on job satisfaction in economic contractions versus expansions (2014)
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Artz, Benjamin & Ilker Kaya (2014): The impact of job security on job satisfaction in economic contractions versus expansions. In: Applied Economics, Jg. 46, H. 24, S. 2873-2890. DOI:10.1080/00036846.2014.914148
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"Job security, often measured using the perceived risk of job loss in the near future, is a significant determinant of job satisfaction. We posit that the impact job security has on job satisfaction is not only a function of how likely it is that a worker loses a job but also how likely it is that a worker could find another. The effect this has on worker job satisfaction then is different depending on whether perceived job loss occurs (or not) when job openings are scarce or when job openings are plentiful. We use difference-in-differences analysis of the 1997 and 2008 waves from the National Study of the Changing Workforce to show that three measures of job security increase private sector worker job satisfaction, and reduce worker incentives to quit, more when job openings are relatively scarce (during contractions) than when job openings are relatively plentiful (during expansions). We find that our results are strongest among less-educated workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Health, work and working conditions: a review of the European economic literature (2014)
Barnay, Thomas;Zitatform
Barnay, Thomas (2014): Health, work and working conditions. A review of the European economic literature. (OECD Economics Department working papers 1148), Paris, 32 S. DOI:10.1787/5jz0zb71xhmr-en
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"Economists have traditionally been very cautious when studying the interaction between employment and health because of the two-way causal relationship between these two variables: health status influences the probability of being employed and, at the same time, working affects the health status. Because these two variables are determined simultaneously, researchers control endogeneity bias (e.g., reverse causality, omitted variables) when conducting empirical analysis. With these caveats in mind, the literature finds that a favourable work environment and high job security lead to better health conditions. Being employed with appropriate working conditions plays a protective role on physical health and psychiatric disorders. By contrast, non-employment and retirement are generally worse for mental health than employment, and overemployment has a negative effect on health. These findings stress the importance of employment and of adequate working conditions for the health of workers. In this context, it is a concern that a significant proportion of European workers (29%) would like to work fewer hours because unwanted long hours are likely to signal a poor level of job satisfaction and inadequate working conditions, with detrimental effects on health. Thus, in Europe, labour-market policy has increasingly paid attention to job sustainability and job satisfaction. The literature clearly invites employers to take better account of the worker preferences when setting the number of hours worked. Overall, a specific 'flexicurity' (combination of high employment protection, job satisfaction and active labour-market policies) is likely to have a positive effect on health. This Working Paper relates to the 2014 OECD Economic Survey of the United States." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Perceived human resource management practices: their effect on employee absenteeism and time allocation at work (2014)
Boon, Corine; Belschak, Frank D.; Pijnenburg, Mark; Den Hartog, Deanne N.;Zitatform
Boon, Corine, Frank D. Belschak, Deanne N. Den Hartog & Mark Pijnenburg (2014): Perceived human resource management practices. Their effect on employee absenteeism and time allocation at work. In: Journal of personnel psychology, Jg. 13, H. 1, S. 21-33. DOI:10.1027/1866-5888/a000101
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"How employees spend their work time can have important consequences for organizations. Although some research has examined the relationship between human resource management (HRM) and employee absence, we know less about whether HRM also affects employees' time allocation at work. This study examines the role of perceived HRM and psychological processes in explaining employee absence and time allocation in the form of time spent on core task and contextual activities. Besides an avoidance mechanism, linking perceived HRM to absence via lower satisfaction, we propose an approach mechanism linking perceived HRM to time spent on task and contextual activities via satisfaction and willingness to exert extra effort. A study among 1,626 employees of a Dutch governmental organization supports the proposed model." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The buffering effect of coping strategies in the relationship between job insecurity and employee well-being (2014)
Cheng, Ting; Mauno, Saija; Lee, Cynthia;Zitatform
Cheng, Ting, Saija Mauno & Cynthia Lee (2014): The buffering effect of coping strategies in the relationship between job insecurity and employee well-being. In: Economic and Industrial Democracy, Jg. 35, H. 1, S. S .71-94. DOI:10.1177/0143831X12463170
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"The modern labour market features job insecurity (JI) as an unavoidable stressor. This study considers the influence of personal coping strategies by combining the conservation of resources with spillover theory. Do coping strategies buffer the negative effects of JI on well-being (work engagement, marital satisfaction and emotional energy at work and home)? A cybernetic coping scale distinguishes five coping strategies and a survey of 2764 Finnish employees reveals that changing the situation and symptom reduction buffer the negative effect of JI on emotional energy at work and home, respectively. Devaluation and accommodation have buffering tendencies in relation to work engagement and marital satisfaction. Thus, more engaged coping strategies reduce the negative effects of JI on employee well-being. Employees who use disengaged coping (i.e. avoidance) instead are less likely to remain engaged at work, such that frequent use of avoidance coping strengthens the negative relationship between JI and employee well-being." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Generation Y und Personalmanagement (2014)
Dahlmanns, Andreas;Zitatform
Dahlmanns, Andreas (2014): Generation Y und Personalmanagement. (Praxisorientierte Personal- und Organisationsforschung 18), München: Hampp, 112 S.
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"Wer ist die Generation Y und welche Bedeutung hat sie für das Personalmanagement in einem Unternehmen? Dieses Buch verschafft den Lesern einen Überblick über die Generation Y und einzelne Einflussfaktoren, welche diese geprägt haben. Es werden konkrete Anforderungen der Generation Y an einen Arbeitgeber sowie deren Auswirkung auf das Personalmanagement aufgezeigt. Darüber hinaus werden ausgewählte Aufgabenfelder des Personalmanagements hinsichtlich einer generationsspezifischen Gestaltung beschrieben." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Employee satisfaction, labor market flexibility, and stock returns around the world (2014)
Edmans, Alex; Zhang, Chendi; Li, Lucius;Zitatform
Edmans, Alex, Lucius Li & Chendi Zhang (2014): Employee satisfaction, labor market flexibility, and stock returns around the world. (NBER working paper 20300), Cambridge, Mass., 41 S. DOI:10.3386/w20300
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"We study the relationship between employee satisfaction and abnormal stock returns around the world, using lists of the 'Best Companies to Work For' in 14 countries. We show that employee satisfaction is associated with positive abnormal returns in countries with high labor market flexibility, such as the U.S. and U.K., but not in countries with low labor market flexibility, such as Germany. These results are consistent with high employee satisfaction being a valuable tool for recruitment, retention, and motivation in flexible labor markets, where firms face fewer constraints on hiring and firing. In contrast, in regulated labor markets, legislation already provides minimum standards for worker welfare and so additional expenditure may exhibit diminishing returns. The results have implications for the differential profitability of socially responsible investing ('SRI') strategies around the world. In particular, they emphasize the importance of taking institutional features into account when forming such strategies." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Lebenszufriedenheit in Deutschland: Entwicklung und Einflussfaktoren (2014)
Enste, Dominik; Ewers, Mara;Zitatform
Enste, Dominik & Mara Ewers (2014): Lebenszufriedenheit in Deutschland. Entwicklung und Einflussfaktoren. In: IW-Trends, Jg. 41, H. 2, S. 43-58. DOI:10.2373/1864-810X.14-02-04
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"Die Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland ist auf dem niedrigsten Stand seit der Wiedervereinigung. Dies hat auch zur Folge, dass die Lebenszufriedenheit in Deutschland auf einen Höchststand angestiegen ist. Denn erwerbstätige Menschen geben eine signifikant höhere allgemeine Lebenszufriedenheit an als Arbeitslose. Auf Basis der neuesten Befragung des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels zeigt sich, dass rund die Hälfte der Deutschen mit ihrem Leben in hohem Maß zufrieden sind. Nur eine kleine Gruppe von weniger als zwei Prozent der Befragten gibt eine niedrige Zufriedenheit an. Das Ausmaß der Zufriedenheit bleibt im Lauf des Lebens nicht konstant, sondern verläuft sinusförmig. Junge Menschen und Ruheständler kurz vor und nach Renteneintritt sind besonders zufrieden. Personen im Alter von 50 bis zu 60 Jahren sowie Menschen über 80 Jahre sind im Durchschnitt am unzufriedensten. Ein Zusammenhang zwischen Höhe des Einkommens und Ausmaß der Lebenszufriedenheit besteht nur mittelbar. Wer gesund ist, einen Hochschulabschluss erworben hat oder anderen vertraut, ist auch zufriedener. So weisen zum Beispiel 64 Prozent der Personen, die Vertrauen in andere Menschen haben, eine hohe Lebenszufriedenheit auf. Unter den misstrauischeren Befragten sind es nur 30 Prozent. Auch ehrenamtliches Engagement scheint glücklich zu machen. Zwar engagieren sich nur 10 Prozent der Deutschen regelmäßig, ohne hierfür ein Entgelt zu beziehen, dafür sind sie signifikant zufriedener als andere." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Pro-social missions and worker motivation: an experimental study (2014)
Fehrler, Sebastian; Kosfeld, Michael;Zitatform
Fehrler, Sebastian & Michael Kosfeld (2014): Pro-social missions and worker motivation. An experimental study. In: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Jg. 100, H. April, S. 99-110. DOI:10.1016/j.jebo.2014.01.010
Abstract
"Do employees work harder if their job has the right mission? In a laboratory labor market experiment, we test whether subjects provide higher effort if they can choose the mission of their job. We observe that subjects do not provide higher effort than in a control treatment. Surprised by this finding, we run a second experiment in which subjects can choose whether they want to work on a job with their preferred mission or not. A subgroup of agents (roughly one third) is willing to do so even if this option is more costly than choosing the alternative job. Moreover, we find that these subjects provide substantially higher effort. These results suggest that relatively few workers can be motivated by missions and that selection into mission-oriented organizations is important to explain empirical findings of lower wages and high motivation in the latter." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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IGA-Barometer 4. Welle 2013: Die Arbeitssituation in Unternehmen: eine repräsentative Befragung der Erwerbsbevölkerung in Deutschland. Flexibilität, Life-Domain-Balance und Gesundheit. Auswirkungen von Erwerbslosigkeitserfahrungen (2014)
Hessenmöller, Anna-Maria; Schröer, Sarah; Schüpbach, Heinz; Pieper, Claudia; Schiml, Nina; Pangert, Barbara; Otto, Kathleen; Scheel, Tabea; Mohr, Gisela;Zitatform
Hessenmöller, Anna-Maria, Barbara Pangert, Claudia Pieper, Nina Schiml, Sarah Schröer, Heinz Schüpbach, Kathleen Otto, Tabea Scheel & Gisela Mohr (2014): IGA-Barometer 4. Welle 2013: Die Arbeitssituation in Unternehmen. Eine repräsentative Befragung der Erwerbsbevölkerung in Deutschland. Flexibilität, Life-Domain-Balance und Gesundheit. Auswirkungen von Erwerbslosigkeitserfahrungen. (IGA-Report 27), Essen, 114 S.
Abstract
"Die Initiative Gesundheit und Arbeit befragte zum vierten Mal seit 2004 etwa 2.000 Erwerbstätige in Deutschland zum Stellenwert der Arbeit. Die Ergebnisse dieser vierten Befragungswelle des iga.Barometers geben Aufschluss darüber, wie die deutsche Erwerbsbevölkerung den Einfluss der Arbeit auf die Gesundheit, die Bereitschaft, das Unternehmen zu wechseln, oder die eigene Arbeitsfähigkeit bis zur Rente einschätzt.
Die befragten Arbeitnehmerinnen und Arbeitnehmer beschrieben ihre Arbeitssituation im Wesentlichen als positiv. Zum Beispiel würde nur jeder fünfte Befragte den Beruf, die Branche oder den Arbeitgeber wechseln, wenn die Möglichkeit bestünde. Bei einer Reihe von Fragen zeigt sich jedoch auch Verbesserungsbedarf für die Unternehmen. Denn nur jeder Zweite sagt, dass er sich vorstellen kann, seine aktuelle Tätigkeit uneingeschränkt bis zur Rente auszuüben.
Ein aktuelles Schwerpunktthema sind die Veränderung von Flexibilitätsanforderungen und -angeboten für die Beschäftigten und deren Folgen für Gesundheit und Life-Domain-Balance. Die Mehrzahl der Befragten berichtet, dass sich die Arbeit positiv auf ihr Privatleben auswirkt. Ein Fünftel hingegen fühlt sich erschöpft, zum Beispiel weil Erholungszeiten fehlen. Als zentrale Ansatzpunkte erweisen sich im iga.Barometer ausreichend Zeitpuffer und eine Begrenzung der ständigen Erreichbarkeit.
Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt dieser Ausgabe sind die Erfahrungen der Beschäftigten mit Erwerbslosigkeit und die Auswirkungen auf weitere Arbeitsverhältnisse. So sind Menschen, die mindestens einmal erwerbslos waren, seltener in ihrem gelernten Beruf tätig und häufiger befristet beschäftigt." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku) -
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Sick of your job? Negative health effects from non-optimal employment (2014)
Kleibrink, Jan;Zitatform
Kleibrink, Jan (2014): Sick of your job? Negative health effects from non-optimal employment. (Ruhr economic papers 514), Essen, 24 S. DOI:10.4419/86788589
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"Dieser Beitrag untersucht empirisch den Effekt von Arbeitsplatzeigenschaften auf die individuelle Gesundheit. In einer breit angelegten ökonometrischen Studie wird auf Basis von Daten des Sozio-ökonomischen Panels gezeigt, dass niedrige Zufriedenheit mit dem Arbeitsplatz zu schlechterer Gesundheit führt. In einem weiteren Schritt werden die zugrunde liegenden Determinanten analysiert. Dabei kann gezeigt werden, dass Arbeitsplatzunsicherheit sowie ein Stundenpensum über dem individuellen Limit negative Gesundheitseffekte haben. Besonders betroffen ist die mentale Gesundheit. Allerdings gibt es auch signifikante Effekte auf die physische Gesundheit. Effekte auf gesundheitsschädigendes Verhalten, wie das Rauch- und Essverhalten, sind nicht zu finden." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Knowing that you matter, matters! The interplay of meaning, monetary incentives, and worker recognition (2014)
Kosfeld, Michael; Yang, Xiaolan; Neckermann, Susanne;Zitatform
Kosfeld, Michael, Susanne Neckermann & Xiaolan Yang (2014): Knowing that you matter, matters! The interplay of meaning, monetary incentives, and worker recognition. (IZA discussion paper 8055), Bonn, 27 S.
Abstract
"We manipulate workers' perceived meaning of a job in a field experiment. Half of the workers are informed that their job is important, the other half are told that their job is of no relevance. Results show that workers exert more effort when meaning is high, corroborating previous findings on the relationship between meaning and work effort. We then compare the effect of meaning to the effect of monetary incentives and of worker recognition via symbolic awards. We also look at interaction effects. While meaning outperforms monetary incentives, the latter have a robust positive effect on performance that is independent of meaning. In contrast, meaning and recognition have largely similar effects but interact negatively. Our results are in line with image-reward theory (Bénabou and Tirole 2006) and suggest that meaning and worker recognition operate via the same channel, namely image seeking." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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European women: the link between money, career, and financial satisfaction (2014)
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Kulic, Nevena (2014): European women. The link between money, career, and financial satisfaction. In: European Sociological Review, Jg. 30, H. 3, S. 287-301. DOI:10.1093/esr/jct030
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"This study goes beyond economic research on women's economic independence, which relies only on income in explaining women's economic well-being within a household, and adopts a perspective that recognizes the importance of their actual employment patterns and occupational choices (Gerson, 1993, Hakim, 2000). Using the data on financial satisfaction from the European Community Household Panel from 1994 - 2001, this article compares married and cohabiting women from five industrialized European countries. Analyses indicate that it is not relative income or pure employment that matters the most for a woman's financial satisfaction but, more likely, the choice of continuous and full-time labour market involvement. The data also offer other interesting findings: a homemaking career may be as beneficial for a woman's financial satisfaction as continuous employment, while a discontinuous employment path seems to be detrimental for a woman's financial satisfaction. Cross-country comparison shows that institutions alter women's economic well-being independently of their individual achievements, suggesting that more research is needed to disentangle the institutional components that most influence the relation between women's paid and unpaid employment, and their economic well-being." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Labour market policy and its effects on subjective well-being and reemployment stability in Europe (2014)
Wulfgramm, Melike;Zitatform
Wulfgramm, Melike (2014): Labour market policy and its effects on subjective well-being and reemployment stability in Europe. Bremen, 143 S.; 1,86 MB.
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"This dissertation analyses the effects of labour market policy on subjective well-being and social inclusion of the unemployed as well as employment stability once the unemployment spell is finished. In the first research stage, the treatment effect of participation in the German work creation scheme One-Euro-Jobs on life satisfaction and perceptions of social inclusion are studied using microeconometric panel methods. It is shown that active labour market policy (ALMP) measures can moderate the social exclusion of long-term unemployed and can thus foster their subjective well-being. However, ALMP cannot fully substitute the psychosocial functions of regular employment. In the second research stage, multilevel as well duration analyses show how country differences in well-being of the unemployed and their reemployment stability can be traced back to national differences in labour market policy. Especially the generosity of unemployment benefits is strongly and positively associated with reemployment stability and subjective well-being of the unemployed in Europe." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The rise in absenteeism: disentangling the impacts of cohort, age and time (2013)
Biørn, Erik; Røed, Knut; Gaure, Simen; Markussen, Simen;Zitatform
Biørn, Erik, Simen Gaure, Simen Markussen & Knut Røed (2013): The rise in absenteeism. Disentangling the impacts of cohort, age and time. In: Journal of population economics, Jg. 26, H. 4, S. 1585-1608. DOI:10.1007/s00148-012-0403-2
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"In recent years, a number of welfare state economies, including Norway, have experienced substantial increases in sickness absence. Using longitudinal individual register data for virtually all Norwegian employees, we examine the remarkable rise since the early 1990s, with emphasis on disentangling the roles of cohort, age, and time. We show that individual age-adjusted absence propensities have risen even more than aggregate absence rates from 1993 to 2005, which casts doubt on the popular hypotheses that the rise was due to the inclusion into the workforce of young or marginal workers with weaker work-norms or poorer health." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Inequality and happiness: when perceived social mobility and economic reality do not match (2013)
Bjørnskov, Christian; Gehring, Kai; Dreher, Axel; Schnellenbach, Jan; Fischer, Justina A.V.;Zitatform
Bjørnskov, Christian, Axel Dreher, Justina A.V. Fischer, Jan Schnellenbach & Kai Gehring (2013): Inequality and happiness. When perceived social mobility and economic reality do not match. In: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Jg. 91, H. July, S. 75-92. DOI:10.1016/j.jebo.2013.03.017
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"We argue that perceived fairness of the income generation process affects the association between income inequality and subjective well-being, and that there are systematic differences in this regard between countries that are characterized by a high or, respectively, low level of actual fairness. Using a simple model of individual labor market participation under uncertainty, we predict that high levels of perceived fairness cause higher levels of individual welfare, and lower support for income redistribution. Income inequality is predicted to have a more favorable impact on subjective well-being for individuals with high fairness perceptions. This relationship is predicted to be stronger in societies that are characterized by low actual fairness. Using data on subjective well-being and a broad set of fairness measures from a pseudo micro-panel from the WVS over the 1990 - 2008 period, we find strong support for the negative (positive) association between fairness perceptions and the demand for more equal incomes (subjective well-being). We also find strong empirical support for the predicted differences in individual tolerance for income inequality, and the predicted influence of actual fairness." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Worker identity, employment fluctuations and stabilization policy (2013)
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Snower, Dennis J. & Wolfgang Lechthaler (2013): Worker identity, employment fluctuations and stabilization policy. (IZA discussion paper 7413), Bonn, 44 S.
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"This paper provides a model of 'social hysteresis' whereby long, deep recessions demotivate workers and thereby lead them to change their work ethic. In switching from a pro-work to an anti-work identity, their incentives to seek and retain work fall and consequently their employment chances fall. In this way, temporary recessions may come to have permanent effects on aggregate employment. We also show that these permanent effects, along with the underlying identity switches, can be avoided through stabilization policy. The size of the government expenditure multiplier can be shown to depend on the composition of identities in the workforce." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Financial development, entrepreneurship, and job satisfaction (2012)
Bianchi, Milo;Zitatform
Bianchi, Milo (2012): Financial development, entrepreneurship, and job satisfaction. In: The Review of Economics and Statistics, Jg. 94, H. 1, S. 273-286.
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"This paper shows that utility differences between the self-employed and employees increase with financial development. This effect is explained not by increased profits but by an increased value of nonmonetary benefits, in particular job independence. We interpret these findings by building a simple occupational choice model in which financial constraints may impede the creation of firms and depress labor demand, thereby pushing some individuals into self-employment for lack of salaried jobs. In this setting, financial development favors a better matching between individual motivation and occupation, thereby increasing entrepreneurial utility despite increasing competition and so reducing profits." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The job satisfaction-productivity nexus: a study using matched survey and register data (2012)
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Böckerman, Petri & Pekka Ilmakunnas (2012): The job satisfaction-productivity nexus. A study using matched survey and register data. In: ILR review, Jg. 65, H. 2, S. 244-262. DOI:10.1177/001979391206500203
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"The authors examine the role of employee job satisfaction in Finnish manufacturing plants over the period 1996-2001 to determine the extent to which it affects establishment-level productivity. Using matched data on job satisfaction from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) and information on establishment productivity from longitudinal register data linked to the ECHP, they estimate that the effect of an increase in the establishment's average level of employee job satisfaction on productivity is positive, but its magnitude varies depending on the specification of the model. The authors use an instrumental variables point estimate and find that an increase in the measure of job satisfaction by one within-plant standard deviation increases value-added per hours worked in manufacturing by 6.6%." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Direkte Partizipation abhängig Beschäftigter: Konzept, organisatorische Realisierung und die Wirkung auf Arbeitszufriedenheit und Gesundheitsressourcen (2012)
Haas, Michael;Zitatform
Haas, Michael (2012): Direkte Partizipation abhängig Beschäftigter. Konzept, organisatorische Realisierung und die Wirkung auf Arbeitszufriedenheit und Gesundheitsressourcen. (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung. Discussion papers SP 1 2012-302), Berlin, 29 S.
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"Restrukturierungen von Unternehmen gehen häufig mit dem Versprechen einher, Teilhabechancen der ausführenden Beschäftigten an Konsultationen und Entscheidungen in der Arbeit - d.h. direkte Partizipation - zu vergrößern. Man erhofft sich davon: motiviertere, zufriedenere und gesündere Beschäftigte, höhere Produktivität sowie geringere Kosten. In diesem Papier wird zunächst der Begriff der direkten Partizipation erläutert und in einen historischen Kontext gestellt. Sodann werden gängige Wege, direkte Partizipation in Unternehmen organisatorisch zu vergrößern, vorgestellt. Schließlich wird auf Basis organisationspsychologischer Ansätze und einschlägiger empirischer Studien untersucht, wie sich organisatorische oder auch nur wahrgenommene Erweiterungen direkter Partizipation auf die subjektive Befindlichkeit der Beschäftigten auswirken. Die Befunde sprechen für einen moderaten Effekt von Partizipation auf die Motivation und das Befinden von Beschäftigten." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Job satisfaction and self-employment: autonomy or personality? (2012)
Lange, Thomas;Zitatform
Lange, Thomas (2012): Job satisfaction and self-employment: autonomy or personality? In: Small business economics, Jg. 38, H. 2, S. 165-177. DOI:10.1007/s11187-009-9249-8
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"Most studies in the economics discourse argue that the impact of self-employment on job satisfaction is mediated by greater procedural freedom and autonomy. Values and personality traits are considered less likely to explain the utility difference between self-employed and salaried workers. Psychology scholars suggest that entrepreneurial satisfaction also depends, at least in part, on specific values and personality traits. Utilising a large dataset derived from the 2006 European Social Survey, this study performs a complementary analysis by taking personality traits, personal values and indicators for workers' autonomy explicitly into account. The empirical findings add further strength to economists' argument that, net of values and personality traits, autonomy and independence are the mechanisms by which self-employment leads to higher levels of job satisfaction. These results hold true for both male and female sub-samples even when a multitude of sociodemographic characteristics, personal values and personality traits are controlled for." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Examining the constructs of work-to-family enrichment and positive spillover (2012)
Masuda, Aline D.; MacNall, Laurel A.; Nicklin, Jessica M.; Allen, Tammy D.;Zitatform
Masuda, Aline D., Laurel A. MacNall, Tammy D. Allen & Jessica M. Nicklin (2012): Examining the constructs of work-to-family enrichment and positive spillover. In: Journal of vocational behavior, Jg. 80, H. 1, S. 197-210. DOI:10.1016/j.jvb.2011.06.002
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"This paper reports three studies examining construct validity evidence for two recently developed measures of the positive side of the work-family interface: work-to-family positive spillover and work-to-family enrichment. Using confirmatory factor analysis, the results from the first two studies indicate that the best fitting model distinguishes between WFPS and WFE, each with three sub-dimensions. However, these studies also showed that several items measuring WFE cross-loaded onto factors measuring WFPS. Results from the discriminant analyses showed that the sub-dimensions of WFPS and WFE uniquely predicted job satisfaction and life satisfaction. Yet, when WFPS and WFE were examined as one dimension, the measure of WFE predicted life satisfaction, but the measure of WFPS did not add to the prediction above WFE. Across both studies, WFE mediated the relationship between WFPS with both job and life satisfaction. Lastly, Study 3 provides some evidence of the content adequacy of these items; however, several items overlapped in content. These results suggest that enrichment and positive spillover are distinct but related constructs, each with three sub-dimensions. Further, more work is needed to refine the measurement of WFE and WFPS; however, this research helps advance our understanding of the positive side of the work-family interface." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Relative wage positions and quit behavior: new evidence from linked employer-employee data (2012)
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Pfeifer, Christian & Stefan Schneck (2012): Relative wage positions and quit behavior. New evidence from linked employer-employee data. In: ILR review, Jg. 65, H. 1, S. 126-147. DOI:10.1177/001979391206500107
Abstract
"We use a large linked employer-employee data set to analyze the importance of relative wage positions in the context of individual quit decisions as an inverse measure of job satisfaction. Our main findings are: (1) Workers with higher relative wage positions within their firms are on average more likely to quit their jobs than workers with lower relative wage positions; and (2) workers, who experience a loss in their relative wage positions, are also more likely to have a wage cut associated with their job-to-job transition. The overall results therefore suggest that the status effect is dominated by an opposing signal effect." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The psychology of quality of life: hedonic well-being, life satisfaction, and eudaimonia (2012)
Sirgy, M. Joseph;Zitatform
Sirgy, M. Joseph (2012): The psychology of quality of life. Hedonic well-being, life satisfaction, and eudaimonia. (Social indicators research series 50), Dordrecht: Springer London, 622 S.
Abstract
"The updated edition of this popular book covers up-to-date research on hedonic well-being (emotional well-being, positive/negative affect, affective dimension of happiness, etc.), life satisfaction (subjective well-being, perceived quality of life, subjective well-being, and cognitive dimension of happiness), and eudaimonia (psychological well-being, self-actualization, self-realization, growth, mental health, character strengths, etc.).
The book is divided in six major sections. Part 1 begins with a chapter that covers much of the history and philosophical foundations of the psychology of quality of life in terms of three major pillars: hedonic well-being, life satisfaction, and eudaimonia. This part also covers much of the research that has successfully made distinctions among these three major constructs and its varied dimensions. To establish to the importance of the topic (the psychology of quality of life), this part also covers much of the literature on the positive benefits of hedonic well-being, life satisfaction, and eudaimonia on the individual, the community, organizations, and society at large. Part 2 focuses on capturing much of research dealing with the effects of objective reality (objective factors grounded in real, environmental conditions) on hedonic well-being, life satisfaction, and eudaimonia. Specifically, this part captures the quality-of-life literature related to biological and health-related effects, income effects, other demographic effects, effects of personal activities, and socio-cultural effects. Part 3 shifts gears to focus on the effects of subjective reality on hedonic well-being, life satisfaction, and eudaimonia. In this context, the book reviews research on personality effects, effects of affect and cognition, effects of beliefs and values, effects of goals, self-concept effects, and social comparison effects. Part 4 focuses on quality-of-life research that is domain specific. That is, the book covers the research on the psychology of life domains in general and delves in some depth to describe research on work well-being, residential well-being, material well-being, social well-being, health well-being, leisure well-being, and the well-being of other life domains of lesser salience. Part 5 focuses on covering much of the psychology of quality-of-life literature dealing with specific populations such as the elderly, women, children and youth, and specific countries. Part 6 is essentially an epilogue. This part discusses a variety of theories proposed by quality-of-life scholars designed to integrate much of the literature on the psychology of quality of life. The last chapter covers the author's own integrative theory." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en)) -
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Fehlzeiten-Report 2011: Führung und Gesundheit. Zahlen, Daten, Analysen aus allen Branchen der Wirtschaft (2011)
Badura, Bernhard; Ducki, A.; Macco, Katrin; Klose, Joachim; Schröder, Helmut;Zitatform
Badura, Bernhard, A. Ducki, Helmut Schröder, Joachim Klose & Katrin Macco (Hrsg.) (2011): Fehlzeiten-Report 2011. Führung und Gesundheit. Zahlen, Daten, Analysen aus allen Branchen der Wirtschaft. (Fehlzeiten-Report), Berlin: Springer London, 438 S.
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"Der Fehlzeiten-Report, der vom Wissenschaftlichen Institut der AOK (WIdO), der Universität Bielefeld und der Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin herausgegeben wird, informiert jährlich umfassend über die Krankenstandsentwicklung in der deutschen Wirtschaft. Er beleuchtet detailliert das Arbeitsunfähigkeitsgeschehen in den einzelnen Branchen und stellt aktuelle Befunde und Bewertungen zu den Gründen und Mustern von Fehlzeiten in Betrieben vor. In seinem Schwerpunkt beschäftigt sich der Fehlzeiten-Report 2011 mit dem Thema 'Führung und Gesundheit'. In einer rohstoffarmen und hochindustrialisierten Dienstleistungswirtschaft bilden die Mitarbeiter das wichtigste Leistungspotenzial eines Unternehmens und sind entscheidend für den zukünftigen Unternehmenserfolg. Damit angesichts des demografischen Wandels die Mitarbeiter motiviert und leistungsfähig bleiben, spielen Führungskräfte eine besondere Rolle. Sie sind oft selbst großen Belastungen und Beanspruchungen ausgesetzt, tragen gleichzeitig aber auch die Verantwortung für die Gesunderhaltung ihrer Mitarbeiter. Der Fehlzeiten-Report stellt sowohl die personalpolitischen Ansätze in Unternehmen und die Rollen von Mitarbeitern und Führungskräften als auch konkrete evaluierte Maßnahmen vor." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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The effect of variable pay schemes on workplace absenteeism (2011)
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Pouliakas, Konstantinos & Nikolaos Theodoropoulos (2011): The effect of variable pay schemes on workplace absenteeism. (IZA discussion paper 5941), Bonn, 39 S.
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"We estimate the effect of variable pay schemes on workplace absenteeism using two cross sections of British establishments. Private sector establishments that explicitly link pay with individual performance are found to have significantly lower absence rates. This effect is stronger for establishments that offer variable pay schemes to a greater share of their non-managerial workforce. Matched employer-employee data suggest that the effect is robust to a number of sensitivity tests. We also find that firms that tie a greater proportion of employees' earnings to variable pay schemes are also found to experience lower absence rates. Further, quintile regression results suggest that variable pay schemes have a stronger effect on establishments with an absence rate that is higher than an average or 'sustainable' level. Finally, panel data suggest that a feedback mechanism is present, whereby high absenteeism in the past is related to a greater future incidence of individual variable pay schemes, which, in turn, is correlated with lower absence rates." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Employee behavior in organizations: on the current state of research (2011)
Rosenstiel, Lutz von;Zitatform
Rosenstiel, Lutz von (2011): Employee behavior in organizations. On the current state of research. In: Management Revue, Jg. 22, H. 4, S. 344-366. DOI:10.1688/1861-9908_mrev_2011_04_Rosenstiel
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"The article gives an overview about scientific research on individual behavior in organizations. A number of reasons are discussed why it is difficult to obtain a coherent body of knowledge about this topic, some of them meta-theoretical and methodological, others political, organizational and ideological, e.g. the existence of different schools of psychology, one-sided and interest-laden views, the dominance of survey methodology, measurement problems, the submission of researchers to dominant styles of publishing. The article further reports on main insights about the effects of stable and variable personal traits, and of situational conditions on employee behavior and about practical consequences. The conclusion is that there is a lot of well-founded knowledge, especially about the aptitudes of employees, but on the other hand one finds remarkable ignorance on behaviour which has no direct relation to performance and on the impacts of specific work and organizational conditions." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Work engagement in eight European countries: the role of job demands, autonomy, and social support (2011)
Taipale, Sakari; Selander, Kirsikka; Nätti, Jouko; Anttila, Timo;Zitatform
Taipale, Sakari, Kirsikka Selander, Timo Anttila & Jouko Nätti (2011): Work engagement in eight European countries. The role of job demands, autonomy, and social support. In: The international journal of sociology and social policy, Jg. 31, H. 7/8, S. 486-504. DOI:10.1108/01443331111149905
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"Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the level and predictors of work engagement among service sector employees in eight European countries.
Design/methodology/approach - The work seeks to discover if job demands and resources, i.e. job autonomy and social support, affect work engagement in differing ways in different countries when socio-demographical variables and work-related factors are controlled. The study is based on a statistical analysis of survey data from Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, The Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden and the UK in 2007 (n=7,867). The data represent four economic sectors: retail trade, finance and banking, telecoms and public hospitals.
Findings - The results show that the level of work engagement varies not only between countries but also between those four economic sectors within each country. Additionally, the findings indicate that demands decrease work engagement, while autonomy and support increase it. Although the effects are mainly the same across the countries, the article also points out some exceptions in this regard.
Originality/value - Although the paper is built upon established theories about job demands and autonomy, it uses a newer work engagement approach, produces cross-national knowledge about work engagement and its predictors. Cross-national approaches to work engagement are still rare." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en)) -
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Why are quit rates lower among defense contractors? (2011)
Watkins, Todd A.; Hyclak, Thomas;Zitatform
Watkins, Todd A. & Thomas Hyclak (2011): Why are quit rates lower among defense contractors? In: Industrial relations, Jg. 50, H. 4, S. 573-590. DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.2011.00653.x
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"This paper presents empirical evidence of lower quit rates at small manufacturers with defense contracts and examines whether this is associated with differences in their human resource policies and organizational practices and strategies. We take advantage of an original data set to compare labor quits, workforce skills, and occupational structure between defense-contracting and noncontracting small manufacturers in eastern Pennsylvania. We find that the remarkably large defense contractor advantage in quit rates - 7 percentage points - is almost totally explained by differences in skills, operational strategies, and workforce management and training practices, suggesting a mediation effect through these HR practices. Defense-contracting status emerges as an important overlooked variable in HRM studies." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Well-being, job satisfaction and labour mobility (2010)
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Green, Francis (2010): Well-being, job satisfaction and labour mobility. In: Labour economics, Jg. 17, H. 6, S. 897-903. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2010.04.002
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"I investigate whether two indicators of job-related well-being predict subsequent quitting. I find that both the Depression - Enthusiasm scale and the Anxiety - Comfort scale predict quitting, the former more strongly, and this contributes an element of criterion validity to their use as welfare measures. However, overall job satisfaction, which implicitly captures well-being relative to outside job opportunities, predicts job mobility better than either the Depression-Enthusiasm or the Anxiety-Comfort scale. I also find asymmetric effects: relative to intermediate levels, low well-being or job satisfaction are associated with greater quitting, yet high well-being or job satisfaction are not significantly associated with reduced quitting." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Formen der Arbeitszufriedenheit und Kreativität (2010)
Gunkel, Jennifer;Zitatform
Gunkel, Jennifer (2010): Formen der Arbeitszufriedenheit und Kreativität. 185 S.
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Die Dissertation befasst sich mit der Entwicklung eines Fragebogens zur Erfassung von Formen der Arbeitszufriedenheit. Untersucht wird ferner der Zusammenhang zwischen Formen der Arbeitszufriedenheit und Mitarbeiterkreativität. Im Fokus steht das Modell der Arbeitszufriedenheit nach Bruggemann mit den Formen resignative, stabilisierte und progressive Arbeitszufriedenheit. Mit dem entwickelten Fragebogen werden anhand von drei Stichproben Zusammenhänge der drei vorgenannten Arbeitszufriedenheitsformen mit kognitiven und mit affektiven Maßen der allgemeinen Arbeitszufriedenheit nachgewiesen. Außerdem werden Zusammenhänge mit dem Arbeitsengagement festgestellt. 'Insgesamt bietet die Arbeit neue Erkenntnisse in der bisher eingeschränkten und widersprüchlichen Befundlage zum Zusammenhang zwischen Arbeitszufriedenheit und Kreativität. Die Differenzierung des Konzeptes Arbeitszufriedenheit und deren neuartige Operationalisierung bieten Möglichkeiten, Arbeitszufriedenheit auch in zukünftigen Untersuchungen auf ökonomische Art und Weise zu erheben und als differenziertes Konzept zu betrachten.' (IAB)