Job Demands in a Changing World of Work
Impact on Workers' Health and Performance and Implications for Research and Practice
Editors: Korunka, Christian, Kubicek, Bettina (Eds.)
Free Preview- 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
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Job Demands in a Changing World of Work
Pages 1-5
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Socio-Economic Changes and the Reorganization of Work
Pages 7-24
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The Intensification of Work
Pages 25-43
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The Bright and Dark Sides of Job Autonomy
Pages 45-63
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Bridges Over Breaches: Agency and Meaning as Resources for Dealing with New Career Demands
Pages 65-90
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Job Demands in a Changing World of Work
- Book Subtitle
- Impact on Workers' Health and Performance and Implications for Research and Practice
- Editors
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- Christian Korunka
- Bettina Kubicek
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-54678-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-54678-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-54677-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-85452-6
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VII, 169
- Number of Illustrations
- 9 b/w illustrations
- Topics
