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Job design, employment practices and well-being: a systematic review of intervention studies

Daniels, Kevin, Gediklli, Cigdem, Watson, David, Semkina, Antonina, Vaughn, Oluwafunmilayo (2017) Job design, employment practices and well-being: a systematic review of intervention studies. Ergonomics, 60 (9). pp. 1177-1196. ISSN 0014-0139. E-ISSN 1366-5847. (doi:10.1080/00140139.2017.1303085) (KAR id:82461)

Abstract

There is inconsistent evidence that deliberate attempts to improve job design realise improvements in well-being. We investigated the role of other employment practices, either as instruments for job redesign or as instruments that augment job redesign. Our primary outcome was well-being. Where studies also assessed performance, we considered performance as an outcome. We reviewed 33 intervention studies. We found that well-being and performance may be improved by: training workers to improve their own jobs; training coupled with job redesign; and system wide approaches that simultaneously enhance job design and a range of other employment practices. We found insufficient evidence to make any firm conclusions concerning the effects of training managers in job redesign and that participatory approaches to improving job design have mixed effects. Successful implementation of interventions was associated with worker involvement and engagement with interventions, managerial commitment to interventions and integration of interventions with other organisational systems.

Practitioner Summary: Improvements in well-being and performance may be associated with system-wide approaches that simultaneously enhance job design, introduce a range of other employment practices and focus on worker welfare. Training may have a role in initiating job redesign or augmenting the effects of job design on well-being.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1080/00140139.2017.1303085
Uncontrolled keywords: Well-being, job design, employment practices, interventions, PMO
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Divisions: Divisions > Kent Business School - Division > Department of Leadership and Management
Depositing User: Felipe Garcia Suarez
Date Deposited: 14 Aug 2020 13:31 UTC
Last Modified: 09 Dec 2022 01:24 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/82461 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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