Job Demands in a Changing World of Work

Impact on Workers' Health and Performance and Implications for Research and Practice
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-54677-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 169 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 3967 g

This book examines the new ways of working and their impact on employees’ well-being and performance. It concentrates on job demands and flexible work emanating from current economic and organizational change, and assesses impact on workers’ health and performance. The development of issues such as globalization, rapid technological advances, new management practices, organizational changes and new job skills are addressed. This book gives an overview and discusses the potential negative and positive effects of such new job demands and new forms of work.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kubicek, Bettina

Korunka, Christian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Coaching, Training, Supervision
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturpolitik, Kulturmanagement
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Wirtschafts-, Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Societal Changes, the Reorganization of Work, and New Job Demands;Bettina Kubicek.- The Intensification of Work;Matea Paškvan & Bettina Kubicek.- The Paradox of Job Autonomy;Bettina Kubicek, Matea Paškvan & Johanna Bunner.- Knowledge in Today’s Working World; Bettina Kubicek & Matea Paškvan.-Flexible Forms of Work: Worker’s Basic Need Satisfaction and Organizational Control mechanisms;Cornelia Gerdenitsch.- The Role of New Demands in Daily Working Life;Roman Prem.-Recommendations for Job Design and the Importance of New Resources;Christian Korunka.

Über Autor(innen)

Christian Korunka is Professor for Work Psychology at the University of Vienna. His research interests are new demands at work, new forms of work, organizational changes, quality of working life and psychological aspects of entrepreneurship.

Bettina Kubicek, is Research Scientist at the University of Vienna. Her research interests are in new demands at work, flexible work organization and the work-home interface as well as in retirement research.