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Kirill Bourovoi
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PublicationIs there a downside of job accommodations? An employee perspective on individual change processes(Frontiers Research Foundation, 2017-09-20)
;Kensbock, Julia M.By modifying the work environments, work routines, and work tasks of employees with health restrictions, organizations can effectively help them continue to perform their jobs successfully. As such, job accommodations are an effective tool to secure the continued employment of aging workers who develop disabilities across their life span. However, while accommodations tackle health-related performance problems, they might create new challenges on the part of the affected employee. Building on the organizational change and accommodations literatures, we propose a theoretical framework of negative experiences during accommodation processes and apply it to qualitative data from group interviews with 73 manufacturing workers at a German industrial company who were part of the company’s job accommodation program. Although problems associated with health-related impairments were mostly solved by accommodation, affected employees with disabilities reported about interpersonal problems and conflicts similar to those that typically occur during organizational change. Lack of social support as well as poor communication and information were raised as criticisms. Furthermore, our findings indicate that discrimination, bullying, and maltreatment appear to be common during accommodation processes. To make accommodation processes more successful, we derive recommendations from the organizational change literature and apply it to the accommodation context. We also emphasize unique characteristics of the accommodation setting and translate these into practical implications.Type: journal articleJournal: Frontiers in PsychologyVolume: 8Scopus© Citations 26 -
PublicationType: conference paper
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PublicationThe downside of workplace accommodations : Problems and conflicts during an individual change process: A qualitative analysis of the employees' perspective( 2014-06-10)
;Kensbock, JuliaOur study provides comprehensive insights into the experiences of workplace accommodation recipients and hereby highlights the idea that affected employees do not necessarily benefit from the accommodation. Building on organizational change and accommodations literature, we propose a theoretical framework of negative experiences during accommodation processes and apply it to qualitative data from interviews with accommodation recipients. Although problems associated with the health-related impairment are solved by the accommodation, affected employees often experience interpersonal problems and conflicts similar to those that typically occur during organizational change. Lacking social support as well as poor communication and information are frequently criticized. Moreover, discrimination, bullying, and maltreatment appear to be common during accommodation processes. The findings suggest that "well-meant is not always well-done" - in order to make accommodation processes more successful, we derive recommendations from organizational change literature and apply it to the accommodation context. Moreover, unique characteristics of the accommodation setting are emphasized and translated into practical implications.Type: conference paper -
PublicationType: work report
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PublicationAge and Acceptance Of Workplace Accommodations : The Role of the Employee Social Context( 2016)In most developed countries, the workforce is aging. With increasing individual age, there is a higher chance to acquire health restrictions. Organizations typically react to these circumstances by providing health-related workplace accommodations. Prior research indicates that the effectiveness of workplace accommodations strongly relies upon stakeholders such as coworkers and their levels of acceptance. With regard to coworkers' fairness assessments of accommodations, recipients' characteristics play a major role. However, little is known about the impact of recipients' chronological age and its boundary conditions. In this study, I draw upon the literature on disability, age, and similarity attraction to propose a model of the relationship between an accommodation recipient's age and coworkers' accommodation acceptance. I then test this model using multi-source data on 144 accommodation recipients working for a large German manufacturing company. As hypothesized, I find that the relationship between a recipient age and coworker accommodation acceptance is conditioned by the social context. Age is positively related to coworkers' acceptance when there is age similarity between the individual and the workgroup and when there are no accommodated peers in the workgroup. Implications for research and practice are discussed.Type: working paper