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

Author:   Christian Korunka ,  Bettina Kubicek
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2017
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9783319546773


Pages:   169
Publication Date:   07 April 2017
Format:   Hardback
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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.

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Author:   Christian Korunka ,  Bettina Kubicek
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2017
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   3.967kg
ISBN:  

9783319546773


ISBN 10:   3319546775
Pages:   169
Publication Date:   07 April 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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.

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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. 

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