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Job Crafting IS - Balancing job demands and job resources
Type
applied research project
Start Date
01 September 2013
End Date
01 September 2014
Status
completed
Keywords
mobile Health
job demands
job resources
job crafting
continued use
Description
The Job Crafting IS (JCIS) project aims to develop and evaluate an Information System aiming to support employees in analyzing their job situation and taking individual actions to balance job demands and job resources in order to prevent negative health and productivity outcomes, such as stress and burnout, or productivity loss.
Today's work environments are characterized by steadily increasing demands, such as high workloads and job-related pressure, resulting in negative health and productivity outcomes for employees, organizations and society. In this regard, the concept of job crafting suggests that individuals can take actions to reduce imbalances of job demands and available job resources by proactively shaping the characteristics of their jobs. However, job crafting interventions require trained work and health specialists, resulting in restricted dissemination in practice.
Information systems supporting employees' job crafting activities, denoted as job crafting information systems (JCISs), have the potential to be both cost-efficient and effective in preventing negative health and productivity outcomes, such as stress and burnout. Building on foundations derived from IS research, psychology and research on organizational and public health, the JCIS project aims to develop and evaluate an information system tailored to the individual needs of employees in crafting their own job situations. Both individual antecedents (e.g. self-efficacy) as well as organizational factors (e.g. team climate) are considered as important predictors of successful JCIS-based interventions. Furthermore, the project focuses on the relationship of intrinsic motivation and continued use in this context.
Today's work environments are characterized by steadily increasing demands, such as high workloads and job-related pressure, resulting in negative health and productivity outcomes for employees, organizations and society. In this regard, the concept of job crafting suggests that individuals can take actions to reduce imbalances of job demands and available job resources by proactively shaping the characteristics of their jobs. However, job crafting interventions require trained work and health specialists, resulting in restricted dissemination in practice.
Information systems supporting employees' job crafting activities, denoted as job crafting information systems (JCISs), have the potential to be both cost-efficient and effective in preventing negative health and productivity outcomes, such as stress and burnout. Building on foundations derived from IS research, psychology and research on organizational and public health, the JCIS project aims to develop and evaluate an information system tailored to the individual needs of employees in crafting their own job situations. Both individual antecedents (e.g. self-efficacy) as well as organizational factors (e.g. team climate) are considered as important predictors of successful JCIS-based interventions. Furthermore, the project focuses on the relationship of intrinsic motivation and continued use in this context.
Leader contributor(s)
Bauer, Georg
Member contributor(s)
Jenny, Gregor
Funder(s)
Topic(s)
mobile Health
job demands
job resources
job crafting
continued use
Method(s)
machine learning
data mining
survey
experiment
Range
HSG Internal
Range (De)
HSG Intern
Division(s)
Eprints ID
240011
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PublicationTowards Short-Term Detection of Job Strain in Knowledge Workers with a Minimal-Invasive Information System Service: Theoretical Foundation and Experimental Design(Association for Information Systems, 2015-05-25)
;Wahle, Fabian ;Haug, Severin ;Jenny, Gregor ;Bauer, Georg F.Early detection and tailored treatment of job strain is important because it negatively affects the health condition of employees, the performance of organizations, and the overall costs of the health care system likewise. Although there exist several self-report instruments for measuring job strain, one major limitation is the low frequency of measurements and, related to it, high-effort and high-costs associated with each wave of data collection. As a result and significant shortcoming, short-term epi-sodes of high job strain with serious negative outcomes cannot be identified reliably. The current research aims therefore to design, implement and evaluate a Job Strain Information System Service (JSISS) that continuously senses the degree of physiological job strain in knowledge workers solely based on mouse interactions. The following questions guide this research endeavour: (1) Which properties of an employee’s motor activity measured by mouse interactions are significantly related to the degree of physiological job strain? (2) Is physiological job strain related to self-reported psychological job strain? This research adopts the Job Demands-Resource model and the stress theory of van Gemmert and van Galen (1997) and proposes a lab experiment to answer the two research questions and thus, to examine the overall utility of the JSISS.Type: conference paper