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Job Demands in a Changing World of Work

Impact on Workers' Health and Performance and Implications for Research and Practice

  • Addresses the rapidly changing world of work in research and society

  • Combines theoretical and empirical studies on the subject of employee well-being and performance

  • Expands on negative and positive implications from research and practice in workplaces and institutions

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
  2. Job Demands in a Changing World of Work

    • Christian Korunka, Bettina Kubicek
    Pages 1-5
  3. Socio-Economic Changes and the Reorganization of Work

    • Jörg Flecker, Theresa Fibich, Klaus Kraemer
    Pages 7-24
  4. The Intensification of Work

    • Matea Paškvan, Bettina Kubicek
    Pages 25-43
  5. The Bright and Dark Sides of Job Autonomy

    • Bettina Kubicek, Matea Paškvan, Johanna Bunner
    Pages 45-63
  6. Challenges for Job Design

    • Christian Korunka
    Pages 131-151
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 163-169

About this book

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.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Christian Korunka

  • Department of Applied Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Bettina Kubicek

About the editors

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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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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