Well-Being of Public Servants Under Pressure: The Roles of Job Demands and Personality Traits in the Health-Impairment Process

IF 4.2 3区管理学 Q1 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Review of Public Personnel Administration Pub Date : 2021-10-18 DOI:10.1177/0734371X211052674

R. Borst, E. Knies

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Abstract

The health-impairment process from job demands to lower well-being among public servants is still understudied. This article therefore uses the Job Demands-Resources model and answers the following question: What is the relationship between sector-specific job demands and public servants’ work-related well-being, and which of the Big Five personality traits ensure that either the hindering effect of these demands is lowered or the challenging effect enlarged? Four public sector specific demands are studied including organizational restructurings, technological innovations, aggression from citizens, and integrity pressure. The analysis of two representative subsamples of the Dutch public sector show that all job demands negatively relate to well-being. Organizational restructurings is the strongest hindering job demand, while technological innovations is the least hindering demand. Moreover, some personality traits turned out to be demands instead of resources, opening new doors for future research in the health-impairment process of public servants.

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压力下公务员的幸福感：工作需求和人格特征在健康损害过程中的作用

从工作需求到公务员幸福感下降的健康损害过程仍然研究不足。因此，本文使用工作需求资源模型，回答了以下问题：特定部门的工作需求与公务员的工作幸福感之间有什么关系？五大人格特征中的哪一个确保了这些需求的阻碍作用降低或挑战作用扩大？研究了四个公共部门的具体需求，包括组织重组、技术创新、公民的攻击性和诚信压力。对荷兰公共部门两个具有代表性的子样本的分析表明，所有工作需求都与幸福感呈负相关。组织结构调整对就业需求的阻碍最大，而技术创新对需求的阻碍最小。此外，一些人格特征被证明是需求而非资源，为未来公务员健康受损过程的研究打开了新的大门。

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期刊介绍： The Review of Public Personnel Administration publishes articles that reflect the varied approaches and methodologies used in the study and practice of public human resources management and labor.