Online education has become a vital weapon to fight against the COVID-19 epidemic in the world. In the home-based online education environment, female pre-school teachers are expected to balance the ...dual roles of teacher and mother at the same time, which may trigger the work-family conflict. Although previous studies analyzed individual stressors, work-family conflict and its outcomes, there is little research on pre-school teachers' work and parenting experience during major public health emergencies. The current study examined the associations among work overload, parenting stress, work-family conflict, and job satisfaction during the COVID-19. Seven hundred eighteen female pre-school teachers with children who worked online at home participated in the study. Female pre-school teachers reported that the COVID-19 has increased work overload and parenting stress. Moreover, work overload was negatively associated with job satisfaction via its positive association with work-to-family conflict. Parenting stress was negatively associated with job satisfaction via both family-to-work conflict and work-to-family conflict. The study contributes to a better understanding of the association among female pre-school teachers' work overload, parenting stress, work-family conflict, and job satisfaction. Our findings highlighted potential avenues for interventions aimed at balancing female pre-school teachers' work and family and improving their job satisfaction during the COVID-19.
•Work overload is both, framed by a larger context driving work intensification and sustained through practices.•Workers manage overload by using practices related to working hours and ...prioritization.•Practices of extending working hours and prioritizing emergencies contribute to sustain work overload.•Practices of managing boundaries, and the negotiating of work and deadlines are potential solutions to address the prevention of work overload.
Multi-project management is increasing as an organizing mode in the workplace. However, it leads to multiple issues for project workers, such as intense pressure and work overload. This paper explores how project workers experience work overload in a multi-project context, especially regarding practices that contribute to maintaining or preventing it. It builds on a case study of a financial institution in which employees are assigned to many projects at the same time. Findings uncover four practices related to working time (extending working hours and managing boundaries) and prioritization (prioritizing emergencies and negotiating work and deadlines). This paper exposes how issues such as work overload are both, framed by a larger context driving work intensification and sustained through practices. It also displays the power and agency of individuals, who are not passive toward work overload. As such, it contributes to extending perspectives and advancing understanding of project work.
Drawing on the Job Demand-Resources (JD-R) theory, the present study investigates the underlying mechanisms through which capability control, a type of behavior-based control, influences salesperson ...turnover. Using a sample of 145 industrial salesperson–supervisor dyads from different industries, this study's findings reveal that capability control contributes to decreasing salesperson turnover intentions, both directly and indirectly. Specifically, management capability control reduces work overload and increases work meaning, thus lowering salesperson turnover intention. The findings also confirm that these effects are contingent on the complexity of a product. When product complexity is low, capability control increases work overload and decreases work meaning, which has a positive effect on salesperson turnover intention. This study discusses these findings' theoretical and managerial implications.
•Capability control is negatively related to salesperson turnover intention.•Capability control impacts turnover through work meaning and work overload.•The effects of capability control on turnover depend on product complexity.•Capability control can backfire when product complexity is low.
Zusammenfassung
Hintergrund
Untersuchungen weisen auf hohe Belastungen bei Pflegefachpersonen einhergehend mit einer hohen psychischen Erschöpfung hin. Zur Entlastung und Gesundheitsförderung wurden ...in den letzten Jahren verschiedene Programme initiiert. Wenig erforscht sind bei Pflegefachpersonen bisher Resilienzfaktoren, die die psychische Erschöpfung mindern können. Dabei fehlen auch berufsvergleichende Analysen zur Einordnung der Ergebnisse.
Fragestellung/Ziel
Ziel der Studie ist die Gewinnung von Erkenntnissen zur psychischen Erschöpfung bei Pflegefachpersonen im Berufsvergleich, sowie Belastungs- und Resilienzfaktoren, welche in den gesundheitsfördernden Programmen adressiert werden sollten.
Methoden
Die Studie reanalysiert die Daten der vom Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (BIBB) und der Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin (BAuA) durchgeführten „BIBB/BAuA-Erwerbstätigenbefragung – Arbeit und Beruf im Wandel, Erwerb und Verwertung beruflicher Qualifikationen 2018“ (
n
= 20.012). Analysiert werden die psychische Erschöpfung, Belastungs- und Resilienzfaktoren von Pflegefachpersonen im Vergleich mit Erziehern, Sozialarbeitern und sonstigen Erwerbstätigen.
Ergebnisse
Die psychische Erschöpfung ist bei Pflegefachpersonen im Berufsvergleich am höchsten. Der häufigste Belastungsfaktor ist der Zeitmangel. Der häufigste Resilienzfaktor ist die Zusammenarbeit im Team. Der Resilienzfaktor des unterstützenden Verhaltens durch Vorgesetzte wird von Pflegefachpersonen vergleichsweise seltener genannt.
Schlussfolgerung
Die Programme zur Entlastung und Gesundheitsförderung sollten noch stärker als bisher organisationsbezogene Ansätze berücksichtigen und eine gesundheitsgerechte Führungskultur einbeziehen.
Abstract
Background
Investigations indicate high demands in the nursing profession combined with a high level of mental exhaustion. Various health promotion programmes have been initiated in recent years. However, little research has been done on resilience factors and professional comparison.
Aims
The aim of the study is to gain insights into mental exhaustion among nurses in a professional comparison, as well as stress and resilience factors that should be addressed in health-promoting programs.
Methods
The study reanalyses data from the “BIBB/BAuA employee survey—changing work and profession, acquisition and utilisation of professional qualifications 2018” (
n
= 20,012). The psychological exhaustion, stress factors and resilience factors of nurses are analysed in a professional comparison with early childhood educators, social workers and other employees.
Results
Mental exhaustion is highest in the nursing profession. The most common stressor is lack of time. The most common resilience factor is teamwork. The resilience factor of supportive behaviour by supervisors is mentioned comparatively less frequently in the nursing profession.
Conclusions
Programmes for health promotion should consider organisation-related approaches more than before and include a health-oriented management culture.
Audit businesses encourage their auditors to conduct remote audits during the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, auditors from small audit firms exchange their skills, viewpoints, and experiences through ...internet forums. The purpose of this study is to investigate how auditors’ knowledge-sharing activities through a social media community based on the reciprocity standard can prevent stress caused by work stressors, which affect their job satisfaction. The relationship between knowledge-sharing activities, work stressors, and job satisfaction was examined using the partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) method. This survey includes 151 auditors from 27 Indonesian small audit firms. The findings revealed that active involvement in knowledge sharing activities through social media groups boosts auditor motivation by raising good feelings when confronted with work conflict (β = 0.334, p < 0.001) and lowering negative emotions when confronted with work ambiguity (β = –0.407, p < 0.001) and work overload (β = –0.372, p < 0.001). However, only minimizing the negative feelings of work ambiguity (β = –0.331, p < 0.001) and work overload (β = –0.277, p < 0.001) can improve job satisfaction. Furthermore, work ambiguity (β = 0.135, p < 0.001) and overload (β = 0.103, p < 0.01) totally mediate the association between knowledge–sharing activities and auditor job satisfaction. Auditors set the norm for social media reciprocity by sharing their knowledge and expertise with others. As a result, the auditor can reduce negative emotions when facing hindrance stressors, thereby increasing job satisfaction.
AcknowledgmentThis research was sponsored by Lembaga Pengelola Dana Pendidikan (LPDP).
Objective: This research presents a research model on the effects of work stress and its components: work overload, time pressure and social influence on audit efficiency, taking into account the ...perceptions of both the financial and tax auditor. Methodology: A partial least squares structural equation model (PLS-SEM) was used on the basis of a total of 240 responses from financial and tax auditors belonging to the Professional Associations of Lima and Callao in Peru. Results: According to the PLS-SEM model, it is suggested that work overload is the most important factor affecting audit efficiency. Time pressure has an impact on the quality of work, as well as social influence on audit efficiency and its components: quality of work and employee welfare. Research Implications: Further research could address the evolution of the effects of the variables. Also, cross-cultural research should be considered, considering other cities in Latin America. Practical Implications: Senior management and boards of audit firms should consider constructing a career path that encompasses the variables investigated and their impact over time on the auditor's career. Originality/value: The study contributes to the development of scientific literature on the characteristics of financial and tax auditing in Peru and the behavior of auditors.
Given the increasing application of cutback strategies in the workplace, and an underlying need to understand explanatory process at work, we investigated the effects of one cutback strategy to deal ...with economic uncertainty - furloughs. Equity theory and social exchange theory guided our predictions in explaining the mechanisms through which furloughs affect turnover intentions. Quantitative data collected at two time periods during the "Great Recession", after cutbacks were announced and implemented, provided evidence that assessments of psychological contract breach and work overload affect the relationship between furlough experience and turnover intentions. To investigate how the additional stressors of a pandemic affected the proposed model, a follow-up content analysis of employee discussions around cutback policies during the COVID-19 pandemic was conducted. This analysis provided support for the model, and also identifies several additional themes brought on by the pandemic (trust, and health and safety), with many employees exhibiting feelings of anxiety and fear around cutback policies and the status of their employment in general. Our results have implications for many organizational cutback initiatives, including salary reductions and decreased organizational resources, that are implemented during times of crisis.
If there is any field that has experienced changes as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is work, primarily due to the implementation of teleworking and the effort made by workers and families to ...face new responsibilities. In this context, the study aims to analyze the impact of work–family conflict on burnout, considering work overload, in teleworkers during the COVID-19 pandemic. To evaluate the hypotheses, we used data collected during the last week of July 2020 using an online survey. Work–family conflict and burnout were measured using the Gutek et al. (1991) and Shirom (1989) scales. We tested the hypotheses using a structural equation model (SEM). The results indicated, between other findings, that there was a positive relationship between work–family conflict and family–work conflict and all the dimensions of burnout. However, there was no effect of teleworking overload in the work–family conflict and burnout relationship. This article is innovative because it highlights the importance of the economic and regulatory conditions that have surrounded the modality of teleworking during the pandemic, and their influence on wellbeing and psychosocial risks in workers.
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