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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254808903321

Titolo

Job demands in a changing world of work : impact on workers' health and performance and implications for research and practice / / Christian Korunka, Bettina Kubicek, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer, , [2017]

ISBN

3-319-54678-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 169 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

158.7

Soggetti

Work - Psychological aspects

Personnel management - Health aspects

Psychology, Industrial

Personnel management

Economics - Sociological aspects

Supervision

Counseling

Management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Job demands in a changing world of work / Christian Korunka and Bettina Kubicek -- Socio-economic changes and the reorganization of work / Jörg Flecker, Theresa Fibich and Klaus Kraemer -- The intensification of work / Matea Paškvan and Bettina Kubicek -- The bright and dark sides of job autonomy / Bettina Kubicek, Matea Paškvan and Johanna Bunner -- Bridges over breaches : agency and meaning as resources for dealing with new career demands / Irina Nalis -- New ways of working and satisfaction of psychological needs / Cornelia Gerdenitsch -- The effects of a changing world of work on daily working life / Roman Prem -- Challenges for job design / Christian Korunka -- The present and future of work : some concluding remarks and reflections on upcoming trends / Bettina Kubicek and Christian Korunka.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the new ways of working and their impact on employees’ well-being and performance that have resulted from a



changed world of work. 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.