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Job Satisfaction of People with Intellectual Disability: Associations with Job Characteristics and Personality
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Akkerman, Alma; Kef, Sabina; Meininger, Herman P. – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2018
To obtain an understanding of factors associated with job satisfaction of people with intellectual disability (ID), this study investigates the associations of job satisfaction with job characteristics (i.e., job demands, job resources) and personality, using the job demands-resources model. Data were gathered from 117 people and their employment…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Intellectual Disability, Work Environment, Personality Traits
Participative Work Design in Lean Production: A Strategy for Dissolving the Paradox between Standardized Work and Team Proactivity by Stimulating Team Learning?
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Lantz, Annika; Hansen, Niklas; Antoni, Conny – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore job design mechanisms that enhance team proactivity within a lean production system where autonomy is uttermost restricted. We propose and test a model where the team learning process of building shared meaning of work mediates the relationship between team participative decision-making, inter team…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Teamwork, Participative Decision Making, Manufacturing Industry
Evaluating the Well-Being of Public Library Workers
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Juniper, Bridget; Bellamy, Pat; White, Nicola – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2012
This study aimed to develop and pilot a questionnaire to determine the ways in which working in a UK public library system can impact the well-being of those deployed in the sector. The methodological framework was based on an approach used to evaluate the well-being of patients in a clinical setting. Based on the responses of 466 employees, the…
Descriptors: Evidence, Employees, Patients, Public Libraries
Development of the Student Affairs Officers Work Environment Perception Scale
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Haynes, Derrick E. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The qualitative and quantitative study developed and validated a questionnaire to measure Student Affairs Officers' (SAO) perceptions of the work environment. A review of the literature identified five major categories and 25 elements having an impact on SAOs' perceptions of the work environment. The test instrument (questionnaire) was developed…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Questionnaires, Factor Analysis, Work Environment
Job Design for Learning in Work Groups
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Lantz, Annika; Brav, Agneta – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2007
Purpose--What is required of job design and production planning, if they are to result in a work group taking a self-starting approach and going beyond what is formally required of it? This paper aims to contribute to group research by testing a theoretical model of relations between job design on the one hand (captured as completeness, demand on…
Descriptors: Manufacturing Industry, Task Analysis, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries
The Work Design Questionnaire (WDQ): Developing and Validating a Comprehensive Measure for Assessing Job Design and the Nature of Work
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Morgeson, Frederick P.; Humphrey, Stephen E. – Journal of Applied Psychology, 2006
Although there are thousands of studies investigating work and job design, existing measures are incomplete. In an effort to address this gap, the authors reviewed the work design literature, identified and integrated previously described work characteristics, and developed a measure to tap those work characteristics. The resultant Work Design…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Job Development, Work Environment, Test Construction