Job Demands in a Changing World of Work [electronic resource] : Impact on Workers' Health and Performance and Implications for Research and Practice /
Korunka, Christian.editor.
Kubicek, Bettina.editor.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
Applied psychology.
Personnel management.
Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
Human Resource Management.
Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.
Consulting,  Supervision and Coaching.
Cultural Management.