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Perception of organization's value support and perceived employability: insights from self-determination theory
(Taylor & Francis/Routledge, 2014)
Perceived employability (PE; i.e. the worker's perception about available job opportunities) is portrayed as the upcoming resource for workers and organizations. However, organizations might particularly want to stimulate ...
Job and organizations: Explaining group level differences in job satisfaction in the banking sector
(2012)
Purpose
– This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of group level differences in job satisfaction. Specifically, the authors seek to understand the shared variance in job satisfaction at the group level of ...
The mediating role of frustration of psychological needs in the relationship between job insecurity and work related well–being
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)
This study aims to test a new process underlying the negative relationship between job insecurity and work-related well-being. Specifically, based on Self-Determination Theory, frustration of the psychological needs for ...
Do demands and resources affect target's and perpetrators' reports of workplace bullying? A two-wave cross-lagged study
(Taylor & Francis, 2011)
In this study the causal relationships between work characteristics, in terms of job demands and job resources, and both targets’ and perpetrators' reports of workplace bullying, are investigated. In line with the Job ...
How job characteristics relate to need satisfaction and autonomous motivation: implications for work effort
(Clute Institute [for academic research], 2013)
To explore the motivational potential of job design, we linked job demands and job resources, as defined in the job demands–resources model, to the motivational process defined in self-determination theory. Specifically, ...
Does positive affect buffer the associations between job insecurity and work engagement and psychological distress? A test among South African workers
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
This study aims to respond to earlier calls to study well-known concepts, more specifically, job insecurity, in less traditional (i.e. non-European, non-US) settings, as well as factors that may mitigate the aversive ...
Well-being in times of task restructuring: The buffering potential of workplace learning
(Taylor &Francis, 2014)
In this paper, we focus on task restructuring as one of the most frequently occurring types of change in our contemporary knowledge society. In spite of its evident prevalence, research on task restructuring and employee ...
Unraveling the importance of the quantity and the quality of workers motivation for well–being: a person–centered perspective
(Elsevier, 2013)
The current study compares the quantitative and the qualitative viewpoints on work motivation by relying on Self-Determination Theory's differentiation between autonomous and controlled motivation. Specifically, we employed ...
Defining perceived employability: a psychological approach
(Emerald, 2014)
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to define employability within the psychological literature with a focus upon perceived employability. Design/methodology/approach – To achieve the aim, the paper defines five objectives ...
Perceived employability and performance: moderation by felt job insecurity
(Emerald, 2014)
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship perceived employability (the employee's perception about available job opportunities in the external labour market) and performance, accounting for ...