The importance of relational characteristics: a person-centered approach
Adopting a person-centred approach, we integrate the job demands-control-support model with relational work design theory to investigate employee work design profiles involving autonomy, workload, social support and prosocial characteristics (representing the combined influence of task significance...
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| author | Knight, Caroline McLarnon, Matthew Wenzel, Ramon Parker, Sharon |
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| description | Adopting a person-centred approach, we integrate the job demands-control-support model with relational work design theory to investigate employee work design profiles involving autonomy, workload, social support and prosocial characteristics (representing the combined influence of task significance and beneficiary contact). For a sample of Australian not-for-profit employees (N = 2421), we identified four work design profiles: ‘active connected’, ‘passive disconnected’, ‘high strain disconnected’ and ‘controlled disconnected’. The most favourable profile, active connected, demonstrated the highest vigour and social worth, and was predicted by people being in higher managerial positions and having permanent employment contracts. The high strain disconnected and controlled disconnected profiles were associated with greater psychological exhaustion. Longer working hours predicted membership of the high strain disconnected profile. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-877472022-03-03T07:42:32Z The importance of relational characteristics: a person-centered approach Knight, Caroline McLarnon, Matthew Wenzel, Ramon Parker, Sharon 3507 - Strategy, management and organisational behaviour 3505 - Human resources and industrial relations Adopting a person-centred approach, we integrate the job demands-control-support model with relational work design theory to investigate employee work design profiles involving autonomy, workload, social support and prosocial characteristics (representing the combined influence of task significance and beneficiary contact). For a sample of Australian not-for-profit employees (N = 2421), we identified four work design profiles: ‘active connected’, ‘passive disconnected’, ‘high strain disconnected’ and ‘controlled disconnected’. The most favourable profile, active connected, demonstrated the highest vigour and social worth, and was predicted by people being in higher managerial positions and having permanent employment contracts. The high strain disconnected and controlled disconnected profiles were associated with greater psychological exhaustion. Longer working hours predicted membership of the high strain disconnected profile. 2022 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/87747 10.1177/03128962211073021 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FL160100033 SAGE fulltext |
| spellingShingle | 3507 - Strategy, management and organisational behaviour 3505 - Human resources and industrial relations Knight, Caroline McLarnon, Matthew Wenzel, Ramon Parker, Sharon The importance of relational characteristics: a person-centered approach |
| title | The importance of relational characteristics: a person-centered approach |
| title_full | The importance of relational characteristics: a person-centered approach |
| title_fullStr | The importance of relational characteristics: a person-centered approach |
| title_full_unstemmed | The importance of relational characteristics: a person-centered approach |
| title_short | The importance of relational characteristics: a person-centered approach |
| title_sort | importance of relational characteristics: a person-centered approach |
| topic | 3507 - Strategy, management and organisational behaviour 3505 - Human resources and industrial relations |
| url | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FL160100033 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/87747 |