Job Demands in a Changing World of Work - Impact on Workers' Health and Performance and Implications for Research and Practice

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.

List of contents

Societal Changes, the Reorganization of Work, and New Job Demands;Bettina Kubicek.- The Intensification of Work;Matea Paskvan & Bettina Kubicek.- The Paradox of Job Autonomy;Bettina Kubicek, Matea Paskvan & Johanna Bunner.- Knowledge in Today's Working World; Bettina Kubicek & Matea Paskvan.-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.

About the author

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. 

Summary

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Christia Korunka (Editor), Christian Korunka (Editor), Kubicek (Editor), Kubicek (Editor), Bettina Kubicek (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9783319546773
• ISBN: 978-3-31-954677-3
• No. of pages: 169
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 16 mm x 240 mm
• Weight: 385 g
• Illustrations: VII, 169 p. 9 illus.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Management, Archäologie, Supervision, B, Consulting, Cultural Management, Cultural Studies, Economic Sociology, Human Resource Management, Psychology, International business, Counseling, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Work and Organizational Psychology, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Behavioral Science and Psychology, Personnel & human resources management, Personnel Management, Sociology: work & labour, Industrial psychology, Consulting, Supervision and Coaching