Arbeitszufriedenheit
Zufriedene Mitarbeiter*innen 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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Nonmonetary incentives and the implications of work as a source of meaning (2018)
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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
Abstract
"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)
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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)
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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
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"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.
Abstract
"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
Abstract
"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
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"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.
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"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
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"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.
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"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)