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Job Stress in the United Kingdom: Are Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Large Enterprises Different?

Lai, Yanqing, Saridakis, George, Blackburn, Robert (2015) Job Stress in the United Kingdom: Are Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Large Enterprises Different? Stress and Health, 31 (3). pp. 222-235. ISSN 1532-3005. (doi:10.1002/smi.2549) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:66082)

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Abstract

This paper examines the relationships between firm size and employees' experience of work stress. We used a matched employer–employee dataset (Workplace Employment Relations Survey 2011) that comprises of 7182 employees from 1210 private organizations in the United Kingdom. Initially, we find that employees in small and medium-sized enterprises experience lower level of overall job stress than those in large enterprises, although the effect disappears when we control for individual and organizational characteristics in the model. We also find that quantitative work overload, job insecurity and poor promotion opportunities, good work relationships and poor communication are strongly associated with job stress in the small and medium-sized enterprises, whereas qualitative work overload, poor job autonomy and employee engagements are more related with larger enterprises. Hence, our estimates show that the association and magnitude of estimated effects differ significantly by enterprise size.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1002/smi.2549
Uncontrolled keywords: SMEs, work stress, job stressors, enterprise size
Subjects: H Social Sciences
H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Divisions: Divisions > Kent Business School - Division > Department of Marketing, Entrepreneurship and International Business
Depositing User: George Saridakis
Date Deposited: 21 Feb 2018 11:38 UTC
Last Modified: 17 Aug 2022 11:02 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/66082 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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