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Human Relations free access article for September: Enriched job design, high involvement management and organizational performance - SJ Wood et al.

  • 1.  Human Relations free access article for September: Enriched job design, high involvement management and organizational performance - SJ Wood et al.

    Posted 09-02-2013 07:52

    Please find details of the September free-access article from Human Relations below – we hope you find it very interesting:

     

    Enriched job design, high involvement management and organizational performance: The mediating roles of job satisfaction and well-being 
    Stephen Wood, Marc Van Veldhoven, Marcel Croon and Lilian M de Menezes 
    Human Relations 2012; 65 (4): 419–445
    DOI: 10.1177/0018726711432476

    http://hum.sagepub.com/content/65/4/419.full.pdf+html

    This article will be free to access until 30 September 2013.

     

    Abstract

    The relationship between organizational performance and two dimensions of the 'high

    performance work system' – enriched job design and high involvement management

    (HIM) – is widely assumed to be mediated by worker well-being. We outline the basis

    for three models: mutual-gains, in which employee involvement increases well-being and

    this mediates its positive relationship with performance; conflicting outcomes, which

    associates involvement with increased stress for workers, accounting for its positive

    performance effects; and counteracting effects, which associates involvement with increased

    stress and dissatisfaction, reducing its positive performance effects. These are tested using

    the UK's Workplace Employment Relations Survey 2004. Job satisfaction mediates the

    relationship between enriched job design and four performance indicators, supporting

    the mutual gains model; but HIM is negatively related to job satisfaction and this depresses

    a positive relationship between HIM and the economic performance measures, supporting

    a counteracting effects model. Finally, HIM is negatively related to job-related anxiety–

    comfort and enriched job design is unrelated to it.

     

     

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    Claire Castle

     

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    Claire Castle

    Managing Editor, Human Relations 

    Telephone: +44 (0)7432740583

    Email: c.castle@tavinstitute.org

    www.humanrelationsjournal.org

     

    Human Relations 2012 Impact Factor:
    2-year impact factor: 1.938

    5-year impact factor: 2.901

    Source: 2012 Journal Citation Reports® (Thomson Reuters, 2013)

     

     


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