Changes in the association between job decision latitude and work engagement at different levels of work experience: A 10-year longitudinal study

IF 5.6 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED

Work and Stress Pub Date : 2020-04-02 DOI:10.1080/02678373.2019.1577310

K. Heinrichs, P. Angerer, Jian Li, A. Loerbroks, M. Weigl, A. Müller

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This study set out to explore the effects of accumulating work experience on the association between job decision latitude and its interaction with job demands and work engagement. Our ten-year longitudinal study followed 333 junior physicians in postgraduate training at baseline. We used self-report measures in four assessment waves, and we conducted path analyses to investigate linear and curvilinear regression effects. Results show that high job decision latitude was associated with high work engagement at all levels of work experience, with strongest associations at baseline and after ten years. Only for novices did job decision latitude buffer the negative association between job demands and work engagement. At the stage of high work experience, low levels of job decision latitude were weakly associated with work engagement, whereas with higher levels of job decision latitude, the positive association seemed to strengthen. Our findings indicate that job decision latitude is a key job resource at all stages of work experience, with stronger effects among novices and experts. Organisations’ work design efforts should include job decision latitude to promote work engagement across employees’ different career stages, with consideration to job entrants and experts in order to tailor specific work design solutions.

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不同工作经验水平下工作决策纬度与工作投入关系的变化:一项10年纵向研究

摘要本研究旨在探讨工作经验的积累对工作决策自由度及其与工作需求和工作投入的互动关系的影响。我们的十年纵向研究跟踪了333名初级医生的研究生培训。我们在四个评估波中使用了自我报告测量，并进行了路径分析，以研究线性和曲线回归效应。结果表明，高工作决策自由度与各级工作经验的高工作参与度相关，在基线和十年后的相关性最强。只有对于新手来说，工作决策的自由度才缓冲了工作需求和工作投入之间的负面关联。在高工作经验阶段，低水平的工作决策自由度与工作参与度的相关性较弱，而随着高水平的工作决定自由度，这种正相关性似乎增强了。我们的研究结果表明，在工作经验的各个阶段，工作决策自由度都是一个关键的工作资源，在新手和专家中影响更大。组织的工作设计工作应包括工作决策自由度，以促进员工不同职业阶段的工作参与，同时考虑到入职者和专家，从而定制特定的工作设计解决方案。

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Work and Stress PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED-

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11.70

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3.30%

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期刊介绍： Work & Stress is an international, multidisciplinary quarterly presenting high-quality papers concerned with the psychological, social and organizational aspects of occupational health and well-being, and stress and safety management. It is published in association with the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology. The journal publishes empirical reports, scholarly reviews and theoretical papers. It is directed at occupational health psychologists, work and organizational psychologists, those involved with organizational development, and all concerned with the interplay of work, health and organisations. Research published in Work & Stress relates psychologically salient features of the work environment to their psychological, behavioural and health consequences, focusing on the underlying psychological processes. The journal has become a natural home for research on the work-family interface, social relations at work (including topics such as bullying and conflict at work, leadership and organizational support), workplace interventions and reorganizations, and dimensions and outcomes of worker stress and well-being. Such dimensions and outcomes, both positive and negative, include stress, burnout, sickness absence, work motivation, work engagement and work performance. Of course, submissions addressing other topics in occupational health psychology are also welcomed.