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Smithers, Samuel (2015): Goals, motivation and gender. In: Economics letters, Jg. 131, H. June, S. 75-77. DOI:10.1016/j.econlet.2015.03.030

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"I present an experiment on non-binding goals and motivational effects. Consistent with results from psychology, I find that goals increase output. This is due to improved speed and accuracy. Men are more responsive to goals than women." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Virga, Delia, Alexandra Horga & Dragos Iliescu (2015): Work-life imbalance as a moderator in the relationship between resources and work engagement. In: Journal of personnel psychology, Jg. 14, H. 2, S. 80-90. DOI:10.1027/1866-5888/a000135

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"This study examines the interplay between (a) job resources, (b) personal resources (organizational-based self-esteem, self-efficacy), and personality traits (conscientiousness, extraversion, and emotional stability), (c) a specific job demand (work-life imbalance), and (d) work engagement, in line with the alternative JD-R model proposed by Bakker (2011). Data was collected from 223 Romanian employees. Results Show that work-life imbalance (WLI) undermines the positive relationship between self-efficacy and work engagement. In a three-way Job resources x Personal resources x Job demands interaction, self-efficacy and job resources had a positive relationship with work engagement when work-life imbalance was low. Also, in a three-way Job resources x Personality x Job demands interaction, the association between emotional stability and job resources was positive when work-life imbalance was low." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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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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Bassanini, Andrea & Eve Caroli (2014): Is work bad for health? The role of constraint vs. choice. (IZA discussion paper 7891), Bonn, 28 S.

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"This paper reviews the literature on the impact of work on health. We consider work along two dimensions: (i) the intensive margin, i.e. how many hours an individual works and (ii) the extensive margin, i.e. whether an individual is in employment or not, independent of the number of hours worked. We show that most of the evidence on the negative health impact of work found in the literature is based on situations in which workers have essentially no control (no choice) over the amount of work they provide. In essence, what is detrimental to health is not so much work per se as much as the gap which may exist between the actual and the desired amount of work, both at the intensive and extensive margins." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Brown, Melissa, Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Tay K. McNamara & Elyssa Besen (2014): Returning to the workforce after retiring. A job demands, job control, social support perspective on job satisfaction. In: The International Journal of Human Resource Management, Jg. 25, H. 22, S. 3113-3133. DOI:10.1080/09585192.2014.919951

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"Despite growing interest in the aging of the workforce, few investigations have explored a key aspect of diversity among older workers: whether or not they consider themselves retired. Using a sample of workers ages 50 and older from the National Study of the Changing Workforce (2008), we apply career development theory and the job demand - control( - support) framework to investigate potential differences between working retirees (i.e. employed older adults 50+ who consider themselves retired) and working non-retirees (i.e. employed older adults 50+ who do not consider themselves retired) in terms of their job characteristics (i.e. demands, control, support) and how these job characteristics are related to job satisfaction. We find that working retirees report lower job demands and higher social support, and that there is limited evidence for the buffering hypothesis. Implications for researchers and employers are discussed." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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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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Coada, Alex & Martin Binder (2014): Causal linkages between work and life satisfaction and their determinants in a structural VAR approach. In: Economics letters, Jg. 124, H. 2, S. 263-268. DOI:10.1016/j.econlet.2014.05.021

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"Work and life satisfaction depend on a number of pecuniary and non-pecuniary factors at the workplace and determine these in turn. We analyze these causal linkages using a structural vector autoregression approach for a German sample of the working populace from 1984 to 2008, finding that workplace autonomy plays an important causal role in determining well-being." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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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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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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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

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"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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Higgs, Malcolm & Victor Dulewicz (2014): Antecedents of well-being. A study to examine the extent to which personality and emotional intelligence contribute to well-being. In: The international journal of human resource management, Jg. 25, H. 5, S. 718-735. DOI:10.1080/09585192.2013.815253

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"In the debate surrounding the relationships between HRM and performance, there is an argument suggesting that a focus on understanding the role of employee attitudes and behaviours may elicit valuable insights into performance drivers. In examining individual behaviour and performance links, there is evidence that well-being plays a significant role. Other notable performance antecedents are personality and emotional intelligence (EI). This paper explores the relationships between these variables and reports the findings from a study of 156 managers. Results show relationships between well-being and EI as well as with personality, although EI explained variance beyond personality dimensions. The implications for HR of these findings are discussed." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Kifle, Temesgen, Parvinder Kler & Sriram Shankar (2014): The power of the pram. Do young children determine female job satisfaction. In: Applied Economics Letters, Jg. 21, H. 4, S. 289-292. DOI:10.1080/13504851.2013.856991

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"Policy-makers worldwide have attempted a number of strategies over the last few decades to increase female labour-force participation without jeopardizing their choice of also maintaining a fulfilling family life, should they choose to do so. One such Australian strategy heavily subscribed by females with young children has been to promote part-time employment. Results provide evidence that females with young children at home engaged in part-time employment are generally more satisfied with their working hours and work - life balance relative to those with older and no children, whilst the opposite holds when looking at those in full-time employment. This suggests that part-time employment should be pursued as a policy tool to aid females with young children maintain a relationship with the labour market without having to also give up being the primary carer of their children." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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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.

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"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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Kropfhäußer, Frieder & Marco Sunder (2014): A weighty issue revisited. The dynamic effect of body weight on earnings and satisfaction in Germany. (SOEPpapers on multidisciplinary panel data research at DIW Berlin 635), Berlin, 14 S.

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"We estimate the relationship between changes in the body mass index (bmi) and wages or satisfaction, respectively, in a panel of German employees. In contrast to previous literature, the dynamic models indicate that there is an inverse u-shaped association between bmi and wages among young workers. Among young male workers, work satisfaction is affected beyond the effect on earnings. Our finding of an implied optimum bmi in the overweight range could indicate that the recent rise in weight does not yet constitute a major limitation to productivity." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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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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Schlett, Christian & Rene Ziegler (2014): Job emotions and job cognitions as determinants of job satisfaction. The moderating role of individual differences in need for affect. In: Journal of vocational behavior, Jg. 84, H. 1, S. 74-89. DOI:10.1016/j.jvb.2013.11.005

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"Research has shown that job satisfaction is determined by both cognitions about the job and affect at work. However, findings from basic and applied attitude research suggest that the extent to which attitudes are based on affective and cognitive information is contingent on stable individual differences, in particular need for affect. Based on current conceptualizations of job satisfaction as an attitude toward the job, we hypothesized that job satisfaction depends more on affect and less on cognitions, the higher a person's need for affect is. To test these hypotheses, we conducted two correlational studies (N = 194 university employees; N = 134 employees from various organizations) as well as an experimental study (N = 191 university employees) in which the salience of positive versus negative job cognitions was varied. Results supported our hypotheses. We discuss theoretical and practical implications of these differences in affective and cognitive underpinnings of job satisfaction." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Bille, Trine, Cecilie Bryld Fjaellegaard, Bruno S. Frey & Lasse Steiner (2013): Happiness in the arts. International evidence on artists' job satisfaction. In: Economics Letters, Jg. 121, H. 1, S. 15-18. DOI:10.1016/j.econlet.2013.06.016

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"Many artists are prone to high unemployment and low incomes suggesting low job satisfaction. Our analysis including 49 countries paints a different picture. On average artists enjoy higher job satisfaction than other employees, mainly due to more autonomy." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Binder, Martin & Alex Coad (2013): Life satisfaction and self-employment. A matching approach. In: Small business economics, Jg. 40, H. 4, S. 1009-1033. DOI:10.1007/s11187-011-9413-9

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"Despite lower incomes, the self-employed consistently report higher satisfaction with their jobs. But are self-employed individuals also happier, more satisfied with their lives as a whole? High job satisfaction might cause them to neglect other important domains of life, such that the fulfilling job crowds out other pleasures, leaving the individual on the whole not happier than others. Moreover, self-employment is often chosen to escape unemployment, not for the associated autonomy that seems to account for the high job satisfaction. We apply matching estimators that allow us to better take into account the above-mentioned considerations and construct an appropriate control group (in terms of balanced covariates). Using the BHPS dataset that comprises a large nationally representative sample of the British populace, we find that individuals who move from regular employment into self-employment experience an increase in life satisfaction (up to 2 years later), while individuals moving from unemployment to self-employment are not more satisfied than their counterparts moving from unemployment to regular employment. We argue that these groups correspond to 'opportunity' and 'necessity' entrepreneurship, respectively. These findings are robust with regard to different measures of subjective well-being as well as choice of matching variables, and also robustness exercises involving 'simulated confounders'." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Bryson, Alex & George MacKerron (2013): Are you happy while you work? (CEP discussion paper 1187), London, 25 S.

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"Recent work in psychology and economics has investigated ways in which individuals experience their lives. This literature includes influences on individuals' momentary happiness. We contribute to this literature using a new data source, Mappiness (www.mappiness.org.uk), which permits individuals to record their wellbeing via a smartphone. The data contain more than a million observations on tens of thousands of individuals in the UK, collected since August 2010. We explore the links between individuals' wellbeing measured momentarily at random points in time and their experiences of paid work. We explore variation in wellbeing within-individual over time having accounted for fixed unobservable differences across people. We quantify the effects of working on individuals' affect relative to other activities they perform. We consider the effects of working on two aspects of affect: happiness and relaxation. We find paid work is ranked lower than any of the other 39 activities individuals engage in, with the exception of being sick in bed. Although controlling for other factors, including person fixed effects, reduces the size of the association its rank position remains the same and the effect is still equivalent to a 7-8% reduction in happiness relative to circumstances in which one is not working. Paid work has a similar though slightly larger negative impact on being relaxed. However, precisely how unhappy or anxious one is while working depends on the circumstances. Wellbeing at work varies significantly with where you work (at home, at work, elsewhere); whether you are combining work with other activities; whether you are alone or with others; and the time of day or night you are working." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Dur, Robert & Robin Zoutenbier (2013): Intrinsic motivations of public sector employees. Evidence for Germany. (CESifo working paper 4276), München, 32 S.

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"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 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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Hofmans, Joeri, Sara De Gieter & Roland Pepermans (2013): Individual differences in the relationship between satisfaction with job rewards and job satisfaction. In: Journal of vocational behavior, Jg. 82, H. 1, S. 1-9. DOI:10.1016/j.jvb.2012.06.007

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"Although previous research often showed a positive relationship between pay satisfaction and job satisfaction, we dispute the universality of this finding. Cluster-wise regression analyses on three samples consistently show that two types of individuals can be distinguished, each with a different job reward - job satisfaction relationship. For the first person type, job satisfaction relates to financial and psychological reward satisfaction, whereas for the second person type job satisfaction relates to psychological reward satisfaction only. In addition, between-person type differences were found for the work value financial security but not for recognition, which suggests that differences in work values may lie at the basis of between-person differences in the rewards - satisfaction relationship. Moreover, person types 1 and 2 differ in turnover intention and affective organizational commitment, which implies that differences in the rewards - satisfaction relationship relate to important organizational outcomes as well. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Krenn, Manfred (2013): Well-being and work. Dublin, 9 S.

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"Well-being, health and safety at work and work-related health problems have been attracting growing public attention in Austria in recent years. An indicator for this rise in interest is the implementation of the Austrian Occupational Health Monitor by the Upper Austrian Chamber of Labour. The survey tries to analyse the links between working conditions and the health status of employees on the basis of very rich data. Some of the most interesting results are presented in this report." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Linz, Susan & Anastasia Semykina (2013): Job satisfaction, expectations, and gender. Beyond the European Union. In: International journal of manpower, Jg. 34, H. 6, S. 584-615. DOI:10.1108/IJM-06-2013-0149

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"Do gender differences in expected rewards contribute to gender differences in job satisfaction?
Design/methodology/approach - This paper utilizes data collected from over 9,400 employees in five economically and culturally diverse former socialist economies, first, to determine whether there are gender differences in desired and expected rewards, and second, to assess whether the link between job satisfaction and expected reward varies by gender or reward desirability.
Findings - This paper finds that for women, job satisfaction is positively linked to both extrinsic and intrinsic rewards, but for men, job satisfaction tends to be positively linked to extrinsic rewards. When reward desirability is included, more often for women than for men, non-monetary rewards are positively linked to job satisfaction regardless of whether they are viewed as desirable. Among men, the link between job satisfaction and a particular reward tends to be stronger if the reward is desired, although for job security this result holds for women as well. While own earnings tend to be positively linked to job satisfaction, comparison earnings are not statistically significant among most groups of respondents. Finally, we find that the magnitude of the estimated partial effect of increasing the expectation of receiving a particular reward tends to be greater for men than for women.
Research limitations/implications - By focussing on gender difference results that are common across these five diverse countries, we are able to add information that will prove useful in developing a more global perspective of factors influencing job satisfaction and worker performance.
Originality/value - This paper identifies gender differences in desired and expected rewards, both intrinsic and extrinsic, enabling us to more systematically explore gender differences in the link between job satisfaction, expectations, and reward desirability. Because our data come from employees in over 600 workplaces, we are able to control for an extensive number of worker, job, and workplace characteristics, which allows us to investigate in more detail, not only our primary objective - gender differences in the link between job satisfaction and expected rewards - but also several related topics: the proposition that women generally have lower workplace expectations, the link between job satisfaction and comparison earnings, for example." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Smith, Conal & Carrie Exton (2013): OECD Guidelines on measuring subjective well-being. Paris, 265 S. DOI:10.1787/9789264191655-en

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"Being able to measure people's quality of life is fundamental when assessing the progress of societies. There is now widespread acknowledgement that measuring subjective well-being is an essential part of measuring quality of life alongside other social and economic dimensions. As a first step to improving the measures of quality of life, the OECD has produced Guidelines which provide advice on the collection and use of measures of subjective well-being. These Guidelines have been produced as part of the OECD Better Life Initiative, a pioneering project launched in 2011, with the objective to measure society's progress across eleven domains of well-being, ranging from jobs, health and housing, through to civic engagement and the environment.
These Guidelines represent the first attempt to provide international recommendations on collecting, publishing, and analysing subjective well-being data. They provide guidance on collecting information on people's evaluations and experiences of life, as well as on collecting 'eudaimonic' measures of psychological well-being. The Guidelines also outline why measures of subjective well-being are relevant for monitoring and policy making, and why national statistical agencies have a critical role to play in enhancing the usefulness of existing measures. They identify the best approaches for measuring, in a reliable and consistent way, the various dimensions of subjective well-being, and provide guidance for reporting on such measures. The Guidelines also include a number of prototype survey modules on subjective well-being that national and international agencies can use in their surveys." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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"The EU and its citizens faced enormous challenges in 2012 as the limited economic recovery of the previous year stalled, GDP fell and unemployment began to grow again. As this yearbook on Living and working in Europe 2012 describes, one of the starkest findings was the divergence between and within countries. Some Member States have suffered greatly while others have not. Higher-paid jobs have been much more resilient than low to mid-paid jobs and have grown. Groups that were already vulnerable have suffered more in the crisis and countries have diverged on quality of life measures." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Artz, Benjamin (2012): Does the impact of union experience on job satisfaction differ by gender? In: ILR review, Jg. 65, H. 2, S. 225-243. DOI:10.1177/001979391206500202

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"The author investigates gender differences in the impact of accumulated union experience on job satisfaction. Because there are fewer women than men in both public and private sector unions, and women are disproportionately underrepresented in union leadership, their collective bargaining power is not equivalent to that of men. As a result, women's preferences for job characteristics and benefits may be overlooked, contributing to reduced job satisfaction as their tenure in the union increases. Using the U.S. National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) panel data from 1979-2004, the author demonstrates that the accumulation of union experience negatively affects women's job satisfaction more severely than it does men's. This is particularly the case in private sector unions, in which women are more likely to be under-represented in both union membership and leadership positions." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Bellmann, Lutz & Jens Stephani (2012): Effects of double qualifications on various dimensions of job satisfaction. In: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, Jg. 4, H. 2, S. 95-114., 2012-09-07.

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"Using a sample of graduates from a unique employee survey, this paper analyses the individual effects of double qualifications, i.e. of first taking up vocational training after obtaining the German upper secondary school-leaving certificate (Abitur) instead of going straight on to university. Our estimations take into account the potential endogeneity of having a double qualification. We find that the effects of double qualifications on wages and on eleven single dimensions of job satisfaction are either significantly positive or insignificant, but never significantly negative. Our results suggest that individual risk considerations are of minor importance in the context of double qualifications; however, such complex educational paths provide valuable labour market information for individuals." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Kirkpatrick Johnson, Monica & Maria A. Monserud (2012): Work value development from adolescence to adulthood. In: Advances in life course research, Jg. 17, H. 2, S. 45-58. DOI:10.1016/j.alcr.2012.02.002

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"This study examines three forms of development in work values, or the importance people attach to various rewards of working, including whether young people become more selective in their work values with age, whether work values become more stable with age, and whether work values become more predictive of later work outcomes with age. Drawing on multi-cohort panel data from ages 18 to 30 (the Monitoring the Future senior classes of 1976 - 1990), we find that the range of job features valued highly narrows with age; that interindividual differences in work values become more stable with age along seven dimensions of work values; and that with age, work values become stronger predictors of both the pay and intrinsic rewards of jobs. Despite significant social change altering the context of vocational development in adolescence and early adulthood, these developmental changes were highly similar across cohorts who were high school seniors between 1976 and 1990." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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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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Luchman, Joseph N., Seth A. Kaplan & Reeshad S. Dalal (2012): Getting older and getting happier with work. An information-processing explanation. In: Social indicators research, Jg. 108, H. 3, S. 535-552. DOI:10.1007/s11205-011-9892-8

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"Job attitudes and subjective well-being (SWB) have important relationships with one another. Moreover, job attitudes and, to an extent, SWB are related to chronological age. Owing to a 'graying' workforce in industrialized countries, uncovering how age influences job attitudes is increasingly important. The present work explores the effects of cognitive-aging research on the item response process during attitude measurement. Research finds that older individuals attend selectively to positive affective experiences and weigh affective experiences more heavily during judgment than younger individuals. Based on cognitive-aging research, we propose an item-response process and hypothesize that chronological age results in a specific form of measurement non-equivalence. Our hypothesis is tested on 2 different samples of university employees, across 3 different job attitudes rooted in emotional experiences. Results indicate age-related measurement non-equivalence across all 3 attitudes such that older employees report more positive job attitudes than younger employees even when controlling for the latent attitude construct. Our findings suggest caution in interpreting of age-satisfaction correlations, focusing greater attention on understanding item response processes of older versus younger individuals and increased attention to job-related emotional experience for older employees." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Mauno, Saija, Ulla Kinnunen & Taru Feldt (2012): Work-family culture and job satisfaction. Does gender and parenting status alter the relationship? In: Community, work & family, Jg. 15, H. 1, S. 101-129. DOI:10.1080/13668803.2011.598733

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"Previous studies on work-family culture have examined its relationship with different employee outcomes (e.g., work-family conflict, job satisfaction, commitment) but neglected one important question; namely, who are most likely to benefit from a supportive work-family culture in terms of positive employee outcomes? The aim of this study was to shed new light on the work-family culture - job satisfaction linkage by examining the moderator effects of gender and parenting status in this relationship. Specifically, we asked whether gender and parenting status would alter the association between work-family culture and job satisfaction. We hypothesized - on the basis of traditional gender roles - that women, and especially mothers, would benefit most from a family supportive organizational culture. We utilized three divergent samples gathered from male (N=768) and female (N=1364) employees in Finland: (1) a female-dominated sample from social and health care; (2) a male-dominated sample from paper industry; and (3) more gender-mixed sample from the ICT company. Work-family culture was described through its positive (work-family support) and negative facets (work-family barriers), whereas job satisfaction was operationalized via a facet-based scale. Hierarchical moderated regression analyses performed separately for the three different organizations revealed that the results for mothers and fathers under the condition of high work-family support differed in the paper mill and the information and communication technology (ICT) company. Thus, in addition to gender, the type of organization also moderated the relationship. Specifically, in the paper mill, mothers benefited more from high work-family support than fathers, whereas in the ICT company the reverse situation held: fathers benefited more than mothers. Thus, high work-family support was associated with higher job satisfaction among mothers in the paper mill and among fathers in the ICT company." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Pasca, Romana & Shannon L. Wagner (2012): Occupational stress, mental health and satisfaction in the Canadian multicultural workplace. In: Social indicators research, Jg. 109, H. 3, S. 377-393. DOI:10.1007/s11205-011-9907-5

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"Workplaces are becoming increasingly multicultural and therefore, include a large variety of employees from more than one ethnicity, nationality, religious and/or cultural background. In the context of this new global economy, Canadian workplace structure and composition has also permanently changed. Consequently, the primary purpose of this project was to explore occupational stress, mental health and satisfaction (life, job, relationship) as experienced by immigrant individuals attempting to achieve integration into Canadian workplaces. In order to address this research aim, responses of Canadian born participants (N = 42) were compared to those of non-Canadian born participants (N = 42) with respect to a series of questionnaires addressing the variables of interest. Our results suggested that, with the exception of self-reported symptoms of somatization and paranoia, non-Canadian born workers in the fields of education, healthcare and/or social work report more similarities than differences when compared to the responses of Canadian born workers. In general, the findings of this study suggested positive outcomes for non-Canadian born professionals who immigrate into Canada under the economic category." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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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.

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"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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Sloan, Melissa M. (2012): Unfair treatment in the workplace and worker well-being. The role of coworker support in a service work environment. In: Work and occupations, Jg. 39, H. 1, S. 3-34. DOI:10.1177/0730888411406555

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"Recent attention has been given to the supportive relationships that may develop among coworkers, and researchers have produced evidence that coworker support can be beneficial for worker well-being. However, studies that have examined the role of social support at work in protecting workers from the detrimental effects of a poor work environment have reported mixed results. The effects of coworker support appear to depend on the type of stressor experienced. This research focuses on stress from exposure to mistreatment by others. This type of stress may be particularly harmful for interactive service workers as they must negotiate interactions with others of various statuses in the workplace. Drawing on data from a large survey of workers, the ability of perceived coworker support to help protect workers from the negative effects of mistreatment by supervisors, customers, and coworkers is examined. The results offer some support for the stress-buffering hypothesis. Although being treated unfairly by others in the workplace is associated with low levels of job satisfaction and high levels of psychological distress, workers who report supportive coworker relationships appear to be protected from some of the negative effects of mistreatment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Stamov-Roßnagel, Christian & Torsten Biemann (2012): Ageing and work motivation. A task-level perspective. In: Journal of Managerial Psychology, Jg. 27, H. 5, S. 459-478. DOI:10.1108/02683941211235382

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"Purpose - The paper aims to establish the position that discrete work tasks, rather than entire jobs, are the most useful level of analysis of age differences in work motivation.
Design/methodology/approach - A total of 189 workers (aged 18-65 years) from production and office jobs in the building industry completed a survey on personal and job resources, overall and task-specific motivation, and job satisfaction.
Findings - Age was positively associated with motivation for generativity-related, but not growth-related tasks. Personal and job resources were positively and differentially related to task-specific motivation.
Research limitations/implications - Building on the notion of age-specific constellations of high and low-motivation tasks, the findings inspire research into age-related changes in work motivation. The authors studied only two task types; a more comprehensive task set will in future studies yield deeper insights into motivational regulation. Working with other industry sectors will enhance generalisability.
Practical implications - The results contribute to a theory-based, empirically grounded platform to assess age-related changes in work motivation, and to derive age-differentiated motivational interventions.
Social implications - Supporting older workers' motivation in light of the demand for longer individual work lives is becoming an important agenda for employers and policy makers. This research contributes to developing tools for such motivation support.
Originality/value - The paper enhances the conceptual clarity of work motivation research by distinguishing global and task-specific levels of motivation. The conceptualisation differentiates job design approaches by considering age-related changes at multiple levels instead of focusing on major age effects only." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Suppa, Nicolai (2012): Job characteristics and subjective well-being in Australia. A capability approach perspective. (Ruhr economic papers 388), Essen, 27 S. DOI:10.4419/86788443

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"Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht empirisch den Effekt von Job-Eigenschaften auf subjektives Wohlbefinden, wobei der Capability-Ansatz als konzeptioneller Rahmen dient. Zunächst wird ein Messmodell für vier latente Job-Eigenschaften mittels einer konfirmatorischen Faktoranalyse vorgestellt. In einem zweiten Schritt wird dann der Einfluss von Job-Eigenschaften auf die Lebens- und Jobzufriedenheit, mittels australischer Paneldaten, untersucht. Die Ergebnisse deuten darauf hin, dass (i) die vier latenten Job-Eigenschaften valide Konstrukte darstellen, (ii) positive Job-Eigenschaften die Lebens- und Jobzufriedenheit signifikant erhöhen, (iii) Job-Eigenschaften die mit Arbeitslosigkeit einhergehende Unzufriedenheit teilweise erklären können und (iv) dass das Kontrollieren unbeobachteter Heterogenität in derartigen Untersuchungen von zentraler Bedeutung ist." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Chambel, Maria José & Carlos-María Alcover (2011): The psychological contract of call-centre workers: Employment conditions, satisfaction and civic virtue behaviours. In: Economic and Industrial Democracy, Jg. 32, H. 1, S. 115-134. DOI:10.1177/0143831X10376421

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"The number of call centre businesses and workers has increased considerably over recent years and has become one of the sectors with the highest growth rate in Portugal. In this cross-sectional study, covering 363 call/contact centre (C/CC) workers in a Portuguese firm, we confirm that the relationship between employees and the organization, namely their psychological contract, is influenced by their employment conditions, that is, their status and work premises. We perform multiple regression analyses and results show that: (1) temporary employees perceive fewer relational and balanced and more transactional organizational obligations than permanent employees; (2) employees working at the client's premises perceive more balanced obligations of the organization; (3) the psychological contract has a relationship with the attitudes and behaviours of employees with a higher general relational orientation to their work, who are more satisfied and present more civic virtue behaviours. This study provides a discussion of the practical implications and future research." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Fietze, Simon (2011): Arbeitszufriedenheit und Persönlichkeit. "Wer schaffen will, muss fröhlich sein!". (SOEPpapers on multidisciplinary panel data research at DIW Berlin 388), Berlin, 46 S.

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"Die Arbeitszufriedenheitsforschung hat eine fast 100-jährige Geschichte und gehört - nicht nur in der Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie - zu den am intensivsten untersuchten Gebieten. Die vielfältigen Arbeiten lassen sich grob in situative, dispositionelle und hybride Ansätze klassifizieren, je nachdem ob Arbeitsbedingungen, Persönlichkeitseigenschaften oder deren Interaktion als Determinanten betont werden. Bisher liegen wenige Studien vor, die alle Bestimmungsgrößen in einem gemeinsamen Modell betrachten. Darüber hinaus verzichten viele Studien auf einen theoretischen Bezugsrahmen, sowohl bei der Berücksichtigung von Persönlichkeitvariablen als auch um den Einfluss verschiedener Faktoren auf Zufriedenheitsäußerungen zu erklären.
Der Beitrag untersucht auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) den Einfluss von Persönlichkeitseigenschaften und Arbeitsbedingungen sowie der Interaktion aus beiden Variablengruppen auf die Arbeitszufriedenheit. Hierzu werden auf das Fünf-Faktoren Modell (FFM) der Persönlichkeit (P. T. Costa und R. R. McCrae 1985; L. R. Goldberg 1981) und das Modell der beruflichen Gratifikationskrise (J. Siegrist et al. 1986) als theoretischer und konzeptioneller Bezugsrahmen zurückgegriffen. Anhand von OLS-Regression wird gezeigt, dass sowohl die Persönlichkeitsdisposition als auch (subjektive) Arbeitsbedingungen von Relevanz für die Arbeitszufriedenheit sind. Keine der Moderatorvariablen aus Arbeitssituation und Persönlichkeitseigenschaften leistet im Gesamtmodell eine signifikanten Erhöhung der Varianzaufklärung. Die höchste Erklärungskraft haben die Arbeitsbedingungen (Effort-Reward Imbalance und Autonomie). Vier der fünf Persönlichkeitseigenschaften zeigen hochsignifikante Wirkungen. Diese Befunde sprechen sowohl für einen situativen als auch einen dispositionellen Ansatz. Individuelle Arbeitsbedingungen (insb. eine geringe Effort-Reward Imbalance und hohe Autonomie) und Persönlichkeit (insb. emotionale Stabilität) spielen eine entscheidende Rolle, um höhere Arbeitszufriedenheit zu erreichen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Michenthaler, Georg (2011): Beschäftigte in der Forschung. Analyse der Arbeitsbedingungen und der Arbeitszufriedenheit auf Grundlage des österreichischen Arbeitsklima-Index. (Beiträge zur Wirtschaftspolitik 31), Wien, 50 S.

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"Der nicht zuletzt in der Lissabon-Strategie der EU vorgezeichnete Weg Europas von der industriellen Produktions- in die Wissensgesellschaft rückt die Herstellung und Vermittlung von Wissen ins Zentrum des Interesses. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit verdient in diesem Zusammenhang die Lebens- und Arbeitssituation der Beschäftigten in Forschung und Entwicklung, die zur Erreichung dieses Ziels maßgeblich beitragen. Um einen Blick in deren Arbeitsverhältnisse zu gewinnen, wurde nun das Institut für empirische Sozialforschung (IFES) wurde von der Arbeiterkammer Wien mit der Durchführung einer repräsentativen Befragung von Forschungsbeschäftigten in Österreich beauftragt. In dem Bericht werden die Hauptergebnisse der im letzten Quartal 2010 und im ersten Quartal 2011 durchgeführten - schriftlichen sowie telefonischen - Befragung dargestellt. Besondere Aktualität gewinnen die Befragungsergebnisse dadurch, dass eben in diesem Zeitraum die von der Bundesregierung geplanten Kürzungen der Förderungen von Forschungseinrichtungen publik wurden. Primäre Zielsetzung der Studie ist die Berechnung des Arbeitsklima Index für Beschäftigte in der Forschung sowie die vergleichende Darstellung einzelner Aspekte der Arbeitssituation dieser Berufsgruppe aus deren subjektiven Sicht. Ausgeklammert aus der Betrachtung wurden einerseits die universitäre Forschung, andererseits die den öffentlichen Einrichtungen zuzurechnenden Forschungsbereiche wie Forschungsaktivitäten seitens des Bundes, der Länder, der Gemeinden oder etwa auch von Museen u.ä. Grundgesamtheit der Untersuchung waren somit jene von der Statistik Austria in der 'Erhebung über Forschung und experimentelle Entwicklung 2007 - Unternehmenssektor' - in Vollzeitäquivalenten - ausgewiesenen rund 20.000 WissenschaftlerInnen und rund 14.000 Angehörigen des höher qualifizierten nichtwissenschaftlichen Personals im privatwirtschaftlichen bzw. kooperativen Bereich, die - als Haupttätigkeit oder temporär projektbezogen - im engeren Sinn mit Forschungsaufgaben wissenschaftlicher oder nichtwissenschaftlicher Art befasst sind, nicht jedoch Hilfs- oder administrative Kräfte. Es handelt sich dabei sowohl um Beschäftigte in spezifischen Forschungseinrichtungen, aber auch um solche in F&E-Abteilungen größerer Unternehmen der Produktions- und Dienstleistungssektoren. Vom Projektteam der Arbeiterkammer und der GPA-djp wurden eine Reihe von forschungsleitenden Fragestellungen und Thesen zur Berufsarbeit von Forschungsbeschäftigten eingebracht, die implizit oder explizit den Fokus der vorliegenden Analyse bilden - wie z.B.: - Charakter der ForscherInnenlaufbahnen, Karrierewege in der Forschung - insbesondere auch unter dem Gender-Aspekt - Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten, 'Freiheit der Forschung' - Arbeitsstrukturen - Teamarbeit vs. Einzelkämpfertum - Führungskompetenzen und Konfliktfähigkeit - Reputation bzw. Status von ForscherInnen in der Gesellschaft - Tätigkeitsumfang: von 'reiner' Forschung bis zu Akquisition, ForscherInnen als 'Mädchen für alles' - Familie-Beruf, Arbeitszeiten, Doppelbelastungen - Gesundheitsbedingungen, Sicherheit." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Muffels, Ruud & Bauke Kemperman (2011): Does a better job match makes women happier? Work orientations, work-care choices and subjective well-being in Germany. (SOEPpapers on multidisciplinary panel data research at DIW Berlin 361), Berlin, 36 S.

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"The study examines the effects of work orientations and work-leisure choices alongside the effect of genes or personality traits on subjective well-being (SWB). The former effects are assumed to be mediated by the match between women's preferred and actual number of working hours indicating labor market and time constraints. Data come from 24 waves of the German (SOEP) Household Panel (1984-2007). Random and fixed-effect panel regression models are estimated. Work orientations and work-leisure choices indeed matter for women's SWB but the effects are strongly mediated by the job match especially for younger birth cohorts and higher educated women. Therefore, apart from the impact of genes or personality traits preferences and choices as well as labor market and time constraints matter significantly for the well-being of women, providing partial support to the role (scarcity-expansion) theory and the combination pressure thesis while at the same time challenging set-point theory." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Parker, Louise, Duncan Watson & Robert Webb (2011): Family fortunes. Gender-based differences in the impact of employment and home characteristics on satisfaction levels. In: The Journal of Socio-Economics, Jg. 40, H. 3, S. 259-264. DOI:10.1016/j.socec.2011.01.009

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"The preponderance of subjective well-being analysis investigates the peripheral impact of objective measures such as income. By shifting the focus towards family satisfaction, this paper offers an alternative perspective. Through the incorporation of both employment and home characteristics, it provides an opportunity to integrate the analysis of work-life balance with the expansive wider literature of job satisfaction. Our estimates generate two key findings. First, as is frequently found in the employment literature, we confirm the existence of significant gender differences in family satisfaction. Second, the belief that home ownership is necessarily a significant source of well-being is rejected." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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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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Sell, Lea & Bryan Cleal (2011): Job satisfaction, work environment, and rewards. Motivational theory revisited. In: Labour, Jg. 25, H. 1, S. 1-23. DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9914.2010.00496.x

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"A model of job satisfaction integrating economic and work environment variables was developed and used for testing interactions between rewards and work environment hazards. Data came from a representative panel of Danish employees. Results showed that psychosocial work environment factors, like information about decisions concerning the work place, social support, and influence, have significant impacts on the level of job satisfaction. Maximizing rewards did not compensate public employees to an extent that ameliorated the negative effects on job satisfaction of experiencing low levels of any of these factors whereas influence did not impact job satisfaction of private employees." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Volmer, Judith & Daniel Spurk (2011): Protean and bounderyless career attitudes: relationships with subjective and objective career success. In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung, Jg. 43, H. 3, S. 207-218. DOI:10.1007/s12651-010-0037-3

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"Die proteische und entgrenzte Laufbahneinstellung haben seit einigen Jahren besondere Beachtung gefunden. Eine proteische Laufbahneinstellung beinhaltet, dass eine Person nach einer fortschreitenden Entwicklung und Selbstverwirklichung strebt; eine entgrenzte Laufbahneinstellung ist durch eine hohe physische und/oder psychische Mobilität gekennzeichnet. Dieser Beitrag verfolgt zwei Zielsetzungen: Erstens möchten wir den Zusammenhang zwischen proteischen und entgrenzten Laufbahneinstellungen mit subjektivem (d.?h. Karrierezufriedenheit und Erfolg im Vergleich mit Kollegen) sowie objektivem (d.?h. Beförderung und Gehalt) Berufserfolg untersuchen. Zweitens möchten wir Forschung zu proteischen und entgrenzten Laufbahneinstellungen mit Forschung zu Prädiktoren von Berufserfolg verknüpfen. Wir analysieren den Zusammenhang zwischen Laufbahneinstellung und Berufserfolg anhand einer Stichprobe von 116 Berufstätigen. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Komponenten der proteischen Laufbahneinstellung eher mit subjektivem Erfolg und Komponenten der entgrenzten Laufbahneinstellung eher mit objektivem Erfolg zusammen hängen. Folgerungen bezüglich der Relevanz von Laufbahneinstellungen für den Berufserfolg werden abgeleitet." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Wittmer, Jenell L. S. & James E. Martin (2011): Effects of scheduling perceptions on attitudes and mobility in different part-time employee types. In: Journal of vocational behavior, Jg. 78, H. 1, S. 149-158. DOI:10.1016/j.jvb.2010.07.004

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"Recent research supports the existence of a typology of part-time employees with demographic and behavioral differences. This research suggests that part-timers should not be viewed as one homogenous group and that certain part-time employee groups have fixed external role attachments, while others have more flexible attachments. Applying the part-time typology and the classification of fixed versus flexible attachments from previous research, the current study examines differences in the relationships among scheduling perceptions, job attitudes, and employment mobility for part-timers. Consistent with Partial Inclusion Theory, we found that part-time workers classified as having more fixed outside role attachments have lower organizational commitment, job satisfaction, employment mobility, work status congruence, scheduling control, and scheduling satisfaction than those classified as having more flexible outside role attachments. Additionally, the flexibility of external role attachments moderates the relationship between scheduling variables and job attitudes and employment mobility. Implications for management and research are discussed." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Zagenczyk, Thomas J., Ray Gibney, W. Timothy Few & Kristin L. Scott (2011): Psychological contracts and organizational identification. The mediating effect of perceived organizational support. In: Journal of labor research, Jg. 32, H. 3, S. 254-281. DOI:10.1007/s12122-011-9111-z

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"Understanding the processes through which employees incorporate the organization's identity into their own identity is critical to building positive employer-employee relationships. We draw primarily on organizational support theory to advance the argument that psychological contract breach is negatively related to organizational identification and positively related to organizational disidentification because it makes employees believe that their organizations do not value their contributions or care about their well-being (reduces perceived organizational support). Results from two studies generally provide support for our hypotheses: in Study 1, perceived organizational support fully mediated the relationship between psychological contract breach and organizational identification. In Study 2, Time 2 perceived organizational support fully mediated the relationship between Time 1 relational psychological contract breach (e.g., promises related to training, development, job security) and organizational identification, but not the relationship between transactional psychological contract breach (e.g., promises related to pay and work hours) and organizational identification. Time 2 perceived organizational support partially mediated the relationship between relational psychological contract breach and organizational disidentification, but not the relationship between transactional psychological contract breach and organizational disidentification. We conclude that organizations should be concerned with this erosion of the positive employer-employee relationship (organizational identification) and fostering of a negative employer-employee relationship (disidentification)." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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"This second annual Yearbook on Living and working in Europe 2010 aims to convey the main findings of some of Eurofound's key currents of research - in particular, results and analysis from its three pan-European surveys on company practices, working conditions and quality of life. All the surveys now enable us to paint some pictures of trends over time, crucial for understanding how Europe is developing and the changing challenges it is encountering. Not least among these challenges is the creation of a truly multicultural European society, a task being undertaken daily by both majority and minority communities. As detailed in last year's publication, European governments and social partners are still dealing with the effects of the economic crisis; in many countries, short-time working schemes were extended or introduced as one response. Eurofound's Yearbook also outlines how such responses to the crisis may also provide an opportunity, highlighting ways of adapting such schemes to combine both greater flexibility and greater security. Such adaptation can only take place with the cooperation of the social partners: the Yearbook 2010 looks at how both trade unions and employer organisations are adapting to meet the challenges of changing times." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Akerlof, George A. & Rachel E. Kranton (2010): Identity economics. How our identities shape our work, wages, and well-being. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 185 S.

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"Identity economics is a new way to understand people's decisions - at work, at school, and at home. With it, we can better appreciate why incentives like stock options work or don't; why some schools succeed and others don't; why some cities and towns don't invest in their futures - and much, much more. Identity Economics bridges a critical gap in the social sciences. It brings identity and norms to economics. People's notions of what is proper, and what is forbidden, and for whom, are fundamental to how hard they work, and how they learn, spend, and save. Thus people's identity - their conception of who they are, and of who they choose to be - may be the most important factor affecting their economic lives. And the limits placed by society on people's identity can also be crucial determinants of their economic well-being." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Augner, Christoph (2010): Arbeits- und Freizeitzufriedenheit. Zusammenhänge mit physischen und psychischen Befindlichkeitsparametern. In: Arbeitsmedizin, Sozialmedizin, Umweltmedizin, Jg. 45, H. 12, S. 665-668.

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"In der Pilot-Studie wurde die mögliche Wirkung der Arbeitszufriedenheit, der Ergebnisse der subjektiven Arbeitsanalyse, der gedanklichen Auseinandersetzung mit der Erwerbsarbeit in der Freizeit und der Freizeitzufriedenheit auf die Befindlichkeit (Depressivität, Häufigkeit körperlicher Symptome, Schlafqualität) untersucht.
143 berufstätige Personen wurden mittels Fragebogen zu den relevanten Variablen befragt. Die Arbeits- und Freizeitzufriedenheit war generell sehr hoch. Es zeigte sich, dass eine niedrige Arbeitszufriedenheit und häufige Gedanken über negative Arbeitsinhalte während der Freizeit mit signifikant schlechteren Befindlichkeitsparametern in Zusammenhang stehen. Dagegen zeigen Freizeitzufriedenheit und Gedanken über positive Arbeitsinhalte signifikant positive Zusammenhänge mit der Befindlichkeit.
Diese Pilot-Studie zeigt, dass dem 'Abschalten-können' in der Freizeit eine besondere Rolle zuzukommen scheint, besonders dann wenn negative Arbeitsinhalte im Vordergrund stehen. Weitere Forschungsaktivitäten und die Gesundheitsförderung sollten auch der richtigen Erholung während der Freizeit besonderes Augenmerk schenken." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Bryson, Alex & John Forth (2010): The evolution of the modern worker. Attitudes to work. (CEP discussion paper 1030), London, 31 S.

Abstract

"This paper examines how employees' experiences of, and attitudes towards, work have changed over the last quarter of a century. It assesses the extent to which any developments relate to the economic cycle and to trends in the composition of the British workforce. Many of the findings are broadly positive, particularly when compared with a picture of deterioration in the late 1980s and 1990s. The onset of a major recession in the late 2000s might have been expected to herald a fundamental shift in employees' attitudes to paid work and their working environment. The impression at the time of writing is, instead, of a more muted reaction than was seen in the early 1990s - in keeping with the more muted impact of the current recession on the labour market as a whole." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))