Carlos-Maria Alcover

King Juan Carlos University | URJC

The increasing demand for flexibility and adaptability among workers underscores the necessity to explore the outcomes of enhanced proactivity in employees. This study explores the role of job crafting and career competencies (i.e., knowing why, knowing how, and knowing whom) in the relationship between boundaryless career orientation and opposite...

El envejecimiento de la fuerza de trabajo debido a los cambios sociodemográficos globales plantea un conjunto de retos y de oportunidades cuya gestión es compleja y cuyos resultados pueden traer consigo consecuencias muy diversas para las personas y para las organizaciones. En los últimos años se ha promovido una serie variada de políticas y prácti...

This article presents the results and main conclusions of a quasi-experimental study after the implementation of an innovative project extended as a multi-year programme, called 'MusMotion', applied in compulsory secondary education, which is based on the relationship between music and emotions, as well as its effects on the academic performance of...

Resumen La Ley 3/2022 de Convivencia Universitaria ha configurado un marco en el que la mediación ocupa una posición central como procedimiento de preferencia para afrontar y resolver los problemas y conflictos de convivencia y disciplina en los contextos universitarios. En este artículo se analizan, en primer lugar, las principales características...

El principal objetivo de este trabajo se centra en analizar las implicaciones de la transformación digital para la dirección y gestión de una fuerza de trabajo mixta –humanos y máquinas–, e identificar los principales desafíos a los que se enfrenta en la actualidad y en el futuro próximo. Tras una breve contextualización de las organizaciones en el...

Teachers and educators are experiencing turmoil under the drastic changes in educational practices caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to research, transformational leaders effectively facilitate organizational change by fostering teachers’ sense of belonging and boosting social identity in their team members, which can result in better team...

Cuarta edición del Observatorio de Igualdad del Adecco Group Institute. Como en años anteriores, recogemos los resultados de una nueva encuesta a más de 30.000 empresas sobre las principales materias de interés sobre igualdad y diversidad. En esta entrega, contamos con tres bloques temáticos que complementan los datos el observatorio. En primer lug...

Work engagement is a scientifically consolidated variable, due to its fundamental role in business practice. To increase work engagement in companies, it is necessary to know which variables are antecedents and how they relate to each other. These variables include job autonomy, job crafting, and psychological capital. This research evaluates the r...

This study aims to identify whether daily activities during the lunch break, performed before eating, are associated with improvements in several indicators related to recovery from work stress. No existing studies examine the daily effects of sitting mindfulness meditation and aerobic physical exercise practiced during lunch break as daily interna...

Introduction: There is a direct association between patients with insecure attachment style (IAS), behavioural inhibition (BIS) as well as behavioural activation (BAS) motivational systems and anorexia nervosa (AN). However, the possible direct relationships between these three variables have not been studied. Objective: The main objective of th...

The coronavirus disease has exposed the population to psychosocial threats that could increase mental health problems. This research analyzed the relationships between emotional states (negative [−EWB] and positive [+EWB] experienced well-being), personal resources (resilient coping [RC]), dispositional resources (control beliefs about stress [BAS]...

This research aimed (1) to examine the agreement between body mass index (BMI)-based nutritional status and perceived nutritional status overall and by socio-demographic factors and (2) to state the association between the accuracy of weight perception and weight control practices in the Chilean adult population. A population-based cross-sectional...

The aim of this study is two-fold. Firstly, to analyze the relations between the perceptions of job insecurity and financial threat and general mental health during the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. And secondly, to identify the potential moderating effect of the support network. We carried out a cross-sectional study on a non-probabilistic...

The combination of work and family obligations can lead to two-way interference, resulting in Family Care Interference with Work (FCIW) and Work Interference with Family Care (WIFC). Both can impact late career motivation and intentions to continue working or retire and reduce their occupational time perspective (OFTP). Through two studies, this pa...

Negative stereotypes about older workers can result in different types of age discrimination. The aim of this study was to run a transcultural adaptation and validation of the Nordic Age Discrimination Scale (NADS) into Spanish. Three independent samples of Chilean (N = 301), Colombian (N = 150), and Spanish (N = 209) workers over the age of 45, fr...

p>El objetivo de este estudio fue evaluar dos modelos Path considerando el contrato psicológico y la percepción de apoyo/traición organizacional, como predictores del burnout y la intención de renuncia. Participaron 353 trabajadores en la Ciudad de México. Los dos modelos mostraron índices de ajuste aceptable: 1) En el modelo de relación de interca...

Purpose In the context of an aging workforce and uncertain labor markets, it is a priority to identify and analyze what factors influence intentions regarding motivation to continue working, how and when to retire. From the life course perspective, this paper aims to capture the individual agency and structure perceptions to withdrawal from work ea...

This paper aims to propose an integrated theoretical model with which to identify the personal characteristics, behaviors, and competencies of individuals who have successfully seen a senior cohousing project through to the residential stability phase. Numerous early-stage senior cohousing projects are registered each year. However, only a few of t...

In the last decade, interest in investigating the sustainable employability (SE) of older workers has gained ground, generating a significant number of theoretical and empirical contributions. However, the construct of SE lacks a definition accepted by the scientific community and unified measurement criteria, which has led to results that, so far,...

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the economic market and labor contexts worldwide. Brazil has suffered one of the worst social and governmental managements of the COVID-19 crisis, forcing workers and organizations to develop coping strategies. This environment can affect both well-being and performance at work. Sustainable well-being at work refe...

El envejecimiento de la fuerza de trabajo debido a los cambios sociodemográficos globales plantea un conjunto de retos y de oportunidades cuya gestión es compleja y cuyos resultados pueden traer consigo consecuencias muy diversas para las personas y para las organizaciones. El principal objetivo de este artículo es analizar los más importantes iden...

O objetivo deste capítulo é apresentar uma síntese das principais características das intervenções organizacionais dirigidas: (1) para melhorar a saúde e a segurança; (2) para melhorar a capacidade de trabalho e manutenção da atividade laboral; (3) à extensão da vida profissional; (4) à preparação da aposentadoria. Finalmente, são oferecidas uma sé...

Because the working population age is increasing, organizations are struggling to find ways to maintain employees’ desire and interest in staying on at work. Accordingly, the aim of this study is to enhance knowledge concerning the role played by personal resources (i.e. work ability) and psychosocial aspects (i.e. older workers stereotypes) in inf...

In career development, a variety of personal, organizational and labor market variables challenge employees and organizations, in particular those in dynamic working environments, such as higher education (HE) institutions. This study examines the association between work history, organizational social capital (OSC) and perceived organizational pre...

After more than 80 years in predicting organizational performance, empirical evidence reveals a science of teams that seems unable to consistently implement solutions for teams performing in real work settings-outside and away from the isolated teams breeding in research laboratories in the academic context. To bridge this growing practitioners-res...

As the aging population and workforce constitute a worldwide concern, it is becoming necessary to predict how the dual-threat of aging and technology at work increase job vulnerability of older workers and jeopardizes their employability and permanence in the labor market. The objective of this paper is twofold: (1) to analyze perceptions of artifi...

The confinement imposed by measures to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic may in the short and medium term have psychological and psychosocial consequences affecting the well-being and mental health of individuals. This study aims to explore the role played by group membership and social and personal identities as coping resources to face the experien...

The social distancing, confinement and quarantine adopted since March 2020 to confront the COVID-19 pandemic have affected multiple vital areas, and specially work, business and productive activities. Prior research has highlighted the relation between perceptions of risk in employment and its concomitant financial risk with a myriad of consequence...

High quality contact and customer relationships are key services for all types of firms. To achieve this high quality perfomance standard, companies need highly motivated and committed employees, and human resources managers are responsible for designing and implementing practices capable of satisfying both economic exchanges and social exchanges i...

This research analyses the effects of mindfulness meditation (MM) and physical exercise (PE), practised as daily recovery activities during lunch breaks, on perceived stress, general mental health, and immunoglobin A (IgA). A three-armed randomized controlled trial with 94 employees was conducted for five weeks including two follow-up sessions afte...

This chapter describes and integrates recent theoretical and empirical findings on late career development. First, we will review the concept of late career development, focusing on extended work ability among older workers as an objective indicator. We then go through the analysis of selection, optimisation and compensation (SOC) strategies and jo...

Los continuos cambios que caracterizan al mundo del trabajo y las relaciones laborales en la actualidad modifican de diversas formas las percepciones, las expectativas y las creencias de los trabajadores y los empleadores acerca del contenido y el cumpli-miento de sus relaciones de intercambio. Estas percepciones, expectativas y creencias configura...

Trabajar, jubilarse, ser mayor, envejecer no tienen los mismos significados en la actualidad que los que tenían en el siglo XX. Sin embargo, buena parte de las percepciones, actitudes, comportamientos y decisiones de muchas personas, organizaciones y poderes públicos continúan anclados en modelos mentales, suposiciones y normas que no se correspond...

In this work, two objectives were addressed. First, the visual aesthetics assessment of the workplace was explored for the first time as a potential antecedent of the proactive behaviors of job crafting. Second, the potential mediating role of the affective organizational commitment in this relationship was analyzed. To address these purposes, a fi...

Este trabajo ha obtenido el Premio Estudios Financieros 2019 en la modalidad de Recursos Humanos. El progresivo envejecimiento de la población tiene como una de sus consecuencias la necesidad de mantener en el mercado laboral a los trabajadores mayores y prolongar su vida profesional. Los responsables de recursos humanos se enfrentan al desafío de...

Negative stereotypes about older workers can result in ageism and age discrimination in the workplace. The aim of this study is to carry out an adaptation to Spanish and a preliminary validation of the Nordic Age Discrimination Scale (NADS) in a sample of Spanish workers over 55 years of age. The study involved 209 employees aged between 55 and 67...

Sesión de la serie virtual Conversaciones latinoamericanas en POT, organizada entre la Universidad del Valle- Colombia y la Universidad Federal de Bahía, con el apoyo de la Red Iberoamericana de Psicología de las organizaciones y el Trabajo - RIPOT. Programa de intercambio y afianzamiento de acciones colaborativas a partir de conversatorios transmi...

This research on the experience of distrust within organizational life is aimed firstly at drawing an integrated framework of distrust antecedents linked to behavioral consequences as perceived by naive people; and, secondly, at comparing differences between two foci, individuals and organizations. A mixed qualitative to quantitative exploratory st...

ResumenCon el aumento de la población adulta mayor a nivel mun­dial, existe un creciente interés por comprender los facto­res implicados en el envejecimiento activo. No obstante, lo extendido del uso del constructo y de investigaciones en la materia, aún persisten complejidades en su operaciona­lización y factores predictores. En el presente estudi...

La utilización de la mediación como una estrategia prioritaria, aunque no exclusiva, para la gestión y la resolución de conflictos en un número creciente de contextos tiende a generar expectativas elevadas acerca de su potencial eficacia. Sin embargo, a pesar de su indudable éxito en la solución de determinados tipos de conflictos, no siempre permi...

INTRODUCCIÓN CONCLUSIONES  No se han observado diferencias estadísticamente significativas al comparar las dos intervenciones activas (MM y EA) entre sí en ninguna de las variables dependientes a lo largo de la intervención. Sin embargo, sí se encuentran diferencias al comparar por separado cada una de las intervenciones con el grupo control. Así,...

Mindfulness meditation versus Physical exercise. Daily recovery strategies from job stress during lunch time. A randomized controlled trial.

Drawing on job design theories and a conceptual framework of work-related goals and motivation in later adulthood, the aim of this paper is to explore how work-related and individual factors are separately and jointly related to psychological work ability and bridge employment intentions via late job mobility. The cross-sectional study is based on...

Our study tests the perceived organizational support-burnout-satisfaction relationship based on stressor—strain—outcome model of stress (Koeske & Koeske, 1993) and on the conservation of resources theory (Hobfoll, 1989) in workers with disabilities employed in ordinary or competitive jobs (open labor market), analysing the relationship between perc...

El objetivo de este artículo es presentar una revisión del estado de la investigación y la práctica profesional acerca del papel desempeñado por las identidades múltiples individuales y sobre los procesos implicados en las múltiples identidades organizacionales, asícomo las consecuencias de ambos tipos de identidades para los individuos y las organ...

Trabajar, jubilarse, ser mayor, envejecer no tienen los mismos significados en la actualidad que los que tenían en el siglo XX. Sin embargo, buena parte de las percepciones, actitudes, comportamientos y decisiones de muchas personas, organizaciones y poderes públicos continúan anclados en modelos mentales, percepciones y normas que no se correspond...

Early or voluntary retirement (ER) can be defined as the full exit from an organizational job or career path of long duration, decided by individuals of a certain age at the mid or late career before mandatory retirement age, with the aim of reducing their attachment to work and closing a process of gradual psychological disengagement from working...

The last quarter of the twentieth century and the early years of the twenty-first ushered in far-reaching, rapid change in terms of socio-demographic factors, economic circumstances, and working conditions on a scale never before witnessed in history. In particular, the sustained rise in life expectancy over recent decades and the steep fall in the...

Individuals with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) present learning difficulties and limited performance of social skills, besides lower motor skills performance in comparison with their peers. Owing to these difficulties, most of children with ASD are at risk of social exclusion or a poor inclusion due to their behavior, mainly playing with other p...

Individuals with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) present learning difficulties and limited performance of social skills, besides lower motor skills performance in comparison with their peers. Owing to these difficulties, most of children with ASD are at risk of social exclusion or a poor inclusion due to their behavior, mainly playing with other p...

Este estudio tiene como objetivo analizar las consecuencias del deterioro de las condiciones de trabajo como resultado de la crisis o recesión económica sobre la salud, el bienestar, la percepción y las actitudes laborales en trabajadores con discapacidad. Para ello se utilizó una muestra de 31 trabajadores con discapacidad en empleo ordinario (no...

Background: Research has shown that self-determination theory can be useful in the study of motivation in sport and other forms of physical activity. The Perceived Locus of Causality (PLOC) scale was originally designed to study both. Aim: The current research presents and validates the new PLOC-U scale to measure academic motivation in the univ...

The psychological contract is a key construct for understanding of how employees' perceptions and assessments of the fulfillment of obligations by organizational agents influence their attachment to and engagement with in-role and task behaviors and with extra-role behaviors. This chapter begins by raising the question of multiple foci social excha...

The psychological contract (PC) describes the implicit and explicit promises and obligations exchanged by individuals and organizational agents in an employment relationship. While it has typically been assumed that each employee establishes the PC with a single agent (i.e., the organization), it seems more realistic to treat PCs as multi-focused,...

The purpose of this chapter is to discuss, firstly, types, conceptualisation and characterisation of bridge employment, offering a brief review of recent literature on this concept; secondly, a synthesis of antecedents and consequences of bridge employment decisions, highlighting main benefits for individuals, organizations and societies as a whole...

In recent years, scholars have increasingly recognized that the theoretical underpinnings of employee-organization relationships (EOR) are in need of further extension in light of recent organizational changes. In prior research, the study of EOR has been based on social exchange theory, and the psychological contract (PC) has played a central role...

Objectives: This study aims to describe some consequences of the recent economic downturn on the occupational health of disabled workers in the Spanish labour market. Since 2009, the generalised deterioration of working conditions in Spain has especially affected this group as a result of the economic and financial slump. These conditions can have...

Objectives: This study aims to describe some consequences of the recent economic downturn on disabled workers’ working conditions in the Spanish labour market. Since 2009, job security, wages and working conditions in general have all slumped whilst temporary contracts have surged as result of the economic and financial crisis. This negative situat...

In recent years, scholars have increasingly recognized that the theoretical underpinnings of employee-organization relationships (EOR) are in need of further extension in light of recent organizational changes. In prior research, the study of EOR has been based on social exchange theory, and the psychological contract (PC) has played a central role...

This article presents an instructional framework for collaborative learning, called CIF and aimed at the analysis level of Bloom’s taxonomy, as well as a mobile collaborative tool called MoCAS that supports CIF. MoCAS is aimed at the domain of scope of identifiers in programming learning, which is a topic present in programming courses in engineeri...

Purpose – Retirement adjustment is the process by which aged workers become accustomed to the changed facts of life in the transition from work to retirement and develop psychological well-being in their post-working life. The purpose of this paper is to explore the psychosocial factors that significantly explain retirement intentions and retiremen...

Successful resilience is a variable often related to an optimal aging process. However, literature is rather limited when dealing with assessment instruments for the elderly in the Spanish language. The objective of this work is to validate the Brief Resilient Coping Scale (Sinclair & Wallston, 2004), a four item likert scale, in the Spanish elderl...

The nature of work, workers, organizational conditions and career paths and practices has evolved rapidly over the past two decades. Some scholars have noted the need to look how the various job characteristics work together to influence workers in the mid and late career (Wang, Olson & Shultz, 2013). Drawing upon job design theories (Morgeson & Hu...

Perceived support from different sources in the organizational context is a key factor to well-being and job satisfaction. Recent studies show that perceived family support is another key factor, as it can either create or compensate different conflicts between the two vital areas. Our study examines these relationships in a group of workers under...

Perceived support from different sources in the organizational context is a key factor to well-being and job satisfaction. Recent studies show that perceived family support is another key factor, as it can either create or compensate different conflicts between the two vital areas. Our study examines these relationships in a group of workers under-...

The psychological contract (PC) describes the implicit and explicit promises and obligations exchanged by employees and organizational agents in an employment relationship. While it has typically been assumed that each person establishes the psychological contract with a single agent (i.e., the organization), it seems more realistic to treat PCs as...

Our study tests the Employee-Organization- Relationship framework in workers with disabilities working in ordinary employment, analyzing the relationship between perceived organizational support, job satisfaction, burnout and family support. We use a sample of 246 workers with physical, motor, sensory and psychological disabilities working in ordin...

BACKGROUND: In the case of workers with disabilities, family support is often essential to gain access to the labor market and achieve personal autonomy and financial independence, in addition to fostering job satisfaction and permanence in the organization. Moreover, the support offered by organizations is particularly valued by workers with disab...

Este artículo tiene tres objetivos: en primer lugar, ofrecer una síntesis de los resultados de los estudios recientes sobre los factores psicosociales y organizacionales implicados en los procesos de retiro laboral temprano, especialmente en el caso de la prejubilación en España. En segundo lugar, presentar un análisis sobre la necesidad de redefin...

This paper has three objectives: firstly, we offer a synthesis of the recent results regarding the psychosocial and organizational factors involved in early retirement processes, especially in the case of early retirement in Spain. Secondly, we provide an analysis of the need to redefine retirement in the Spanish context, specifically by implementi...