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The effects of job demands and control on employee attendance and satisfaction
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In this article, the authors examined the impact of stressful job demands on employee attitudes and attendance and found significant interactions between control and objective psychological demands that indicated that these demands were associated with higher levels of tardiness and sick days only under conditions of low perceived control.Abstract:
We examined the impact of stressful job demands on employee attitudes and attendance. Using Karasek's (1979) theory of job decision latitude as the conceptual foundation, we hypothesized that mental and physical work demands would interact with employee beliefs of personal control. Survey data from 90 male manufacturing employees regarding their control beliefs were combined with objective job analysis data concerning mental and physical demands and one year's worth of archival data regarding unexcused absences, sick days, and days tardy. There were significant interactions between control and objective psychological demands that indicated that these demands were associated with higher levels of tardiness and sick days only under conditions of low perceived control. In contrast, subjective workload ratings showed no relationship with tardiness and sick days, but, in interaction with control, predicted work satisfaction and voluntary absence. We discussed these results in terms of a stress process that affects health-related attendance independent of employee attitudes.read more
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Job Demands, Job Decision Latitude, and Mental Strain: Implications for Job Redesign
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Motivation through the Design of Work: Test of a Theory.
TL;DR: In this paper, a model is proposed that specifies the conditions under which individuals will become internally motivated to perform effectively on their jobs, focusing on the interaction among three classes of variables: (a) the psychological states of employees that must be present for internally motivated work behavior to develop; (b) the characteristics of jobs that can create these psychological states; and (c) the attributes of individuals that determine how positively a person will respond to a complex and challenging job.
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Job decision latitude, job demands, and cardiovascular disease : a prospective study of Swedish men
TL;DR: The association between specific job characteristics and subsequent cardiovascular disease was tested using a large random sample of the male working Swedish population and the prospective development of coronary heart disease symptoms and signs was analyzed using a multivariate logistic regression technique.
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Perceived Control by Employees: A Meta-Analysis of Studies Concerning Autonomy and Participation at Work
TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-analysis was conducted of studies relating perceived control variables to 19 employee outcome variables, including job satisfaction, commitment, involvement, performance and motivation, physical symptoms, emotional distress, role stress, absenteeism, intent to turnover, and turnover.