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The use of information and communication technologies while working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic may have increased flexibility and compatibility of different life domains, but may have also increased work intensification – which in turn may jeopardize wellbeing and task performance. While work intensification is assumed to relate positiv...
Wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse belegen, dass sich Humor und Lachen positiv auf unsere physische und psychische Gesundheit auswirken und als effektive Bewältigungsstrategie für stressige und unangenehme Situationen genutzt werden können. Dieses Buch untersucht umfassend die direkten und indirekten Auswirkungen von Humor auf die Gesundheit und wie ma...
This study used confirmatory factor analyses and descriptive statistics on new data from 345 dual study graduates in Germany to further assess a newly developed and recently published self-report inventory of employability. The resulting 19-item inventory showed a good model fit and factorial validity, with small to medium inter-scale correlations....
A lack of recovery like psychologically detaching from work can be detrimental to health. High cognitive demands may jeopardise detachment from work. Longitudinal studies concerning the long-term effects of cognitive demands on health and work ability via psychological detachment are understudied. Research has shown that social support may buffer t...
Humor am Arbeitsplatz galt einst als unprofessionell und wenig seriös. Heute wissen wir, dass Humor Kreativität fördern, den Teamzusammenhalt stärken und Stress abbauen kann. Das Forschungsprojekt „Humor – für die seelische Gesundheit“ nutzt dieses Wissen und möchte durch Humorinterventionen in Pflegeeinrichtungen nicht nur ein positives Betriebskl...
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between working conditions at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic (spring 2020) and employees’ mental wellbeing. According to the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model, work intensification, increased difficulty in accomplishing work tasks, heightened risk of infection by COVID-19, and increasin...
Personalbindung im ÖGD, Befragung zur Motivation den ÖGD wieder zu verlassen
Erwerbslosigkeit geht für viele Betroffene mit einer Abnahme ihrer psychosozialen Gesundheit einher. In diesem Beitrag wollen wir klären, was der Verlust von (Erwerbs-)Arbeit bedeutet, d.h. ob Erwerbslosigkeit wirklich krank macht bzw. Kranke eher erwerbslos werden, und welche präventiven Ansätze zur Vermeidung einer Abwärtsspirale bei drohender od...
A leader’s humour can be detrimental to communication effectiveness, particularly in emergency situations. Using reversal theory, we argue that the absence of humour in leadership leads to more effective communication in frontline practice because it enhances communication clarity. Combining data from a vignette study (N = 127) and two field studie...
Im Beitrag wird ein vergleichender Überblick über ausgewählte Programme zur Förderung der psychosozialen Gesundheit von Langzeiterwerbslosen gegeben. Zunächst wird die besondere Situation Langzeiterwerbsloser skizziert, insbesondere im Hinblick auf das Risiko des Kompetenzverlustes und selbstwertschädigender Misserfolgserfahrungen. Anschließend wer...
Organisationaler Wandel kann die Motivation von Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeitern beeinträchtigen. Förderlich für die Veränderungsbereitschaft der Beschäftigten ist vor allem ein transformationaler Führungsstil der Führungskräfte. Die betroffenen Personen schätzen auf Basis bisheriger Erfahrungen ein, ob der anstehende Veränderungsprozess fair abla...
Organisationaler Wandel kann die Motivation von Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeitern beeinträchtigen. Förderlich für die Veränderungsbereitschaft der Beschäftigten ist vor allem ein transformationaler Führungsstil der Führungskräfte. Die betroffenen Personen schätzen auf Basis bisheriger Erfahrungen ein, ob der anstehende Veränderungsprozess fair abla...
The COVID-19 pandemic influenced the work of employees across all continents. This article presents raw data that may be used to describe how the pandemic affected the work of employees in four European countries and how it influenced their job attitudes, feelings and work performance. In total, 726 respondents from Germany, the Czech Republic, Slo...
There is a broad consensus that associations exist between leadership behaviour and employee health. However, much less is known about potential mediating processes underlying links between specific leader behaviours, for instance presenteeism (i.e., working while being ill), and indicators of employee health, such as sick leave. Integrating theori...
Drawing on social resource theory and the norm of equity, this research proposes fairness of task distribution as a mediating mechanism of the well-established relationship between transformational leadership and followers’ well-being, conceptualizing the latter as low emotional exhaustion. Using data from 479 German employees in a three-wave longi...
Procrastination is a form of self-regulation failure characterized by the irrational delay of tasks despite potentially negative consequences. Previous research on procrastination was mainly conducted in academic settings, oftentimes combined with a focus on individual differences. As a consequence, scholarly knowledge about how situational factors...
The present study examines the joint roles of leadership and stressors for presenteeism of scientific staff. Leaders may have an impact on employees' health, both directly through interpersonal interactions and by shaping their working conditions. In the field of science, this impact could be special because of the mentoring relationships between t...
Fragestellung In der bisherigen Forschung wurden verschiedene Aspekte des Nachdenkens über die Arbeit in der Freizeit unterschieden. Neben Abschalten von der Arbeit, affektiver Rumination und problemlösendem Grübeln spielt positive Reflektion über die Arbeit in der Freizeit eine wichtige Rolle in der aktuellen Erholungsforschung. Ziel der vorliegen...
This chapter provides an overview of conceptualizations of humor, the most prominent theories, and theories that may be a useful foundation for research on humor at work. Definitions of humor are manifold, ranging from a communicative activity with positive emotional reactions in perceivers to an individual trait (e.g., sense of humor, cheerfulness...
The saying “laughter is the best medicine” is explored in this chapter on humor and health. Though a large proportion of humor and health research is conducted in general contexts, empirical findings regarding the work context are increasing. Employees’ and supervisors’ affiliative and self-enhancing humor styles are found to be related to employee...
In this concluding chapter, we discuss two important new avenues for humor research. First, globalization, as well as demographic changes in organizations, increase diversity with regard to age, gender, nationality, and so on. Thus, there will also be more diversity in communication, the expression of emotions, and the use of humor within work unit...
This chapter presents benefits and drawbacks of using humor in learning/for teaching and training. We introduce two theories about humor and learning, namely the Instructional Humor Processing Theory and the Perceived Humor Hypotheses. Among the consequences of humor in instruction are cognitive, social, as well as motivational and affective ones:...
This book provides a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art on the adaptive and maladaptive functions of humor. Humor is inescapable in our daily interactions - also at the work place. Affiliative, self-enhancing, self-deprecating and aggressive humor can all occur at work and have unique and sometimes ambiguous effects. The volume presents h...
Background Hospital stays and medical interventions are accompanied by worries and anxiety in children and parents. Recent studies show that hospital clowns may reduce anxiety and enhance well-being. However, so far studies are based solely on subjective measures and clowns are usually not integrated in medical routine. With this pilot study, we ai...
Job demands, like time pressure, consume employees’ limited resources, which need to be restored through recovery in order to maintain psychological well-being and work performance. Employees in high-strain jobs need to replenish their emotional resources throughout the work day. This can take place during breaks if employees are able to psychologi...
Coworking spaces are shared office environments for independent professionals. Such spaces have been increasing rapidly throughout the world, and provide, in addition to basic business infrastructure, the opportunity for social interaction. This article explores social interaction in coworking spaces and reports the results of two studies. Study 1...
Aim of this chapter is to summarize and integrate the most substantial findings on the impact of unemployment on work attitudes and behavior. In particular, the chapter was guided by the research question, whether unemployment affects coping abilities and strategies (e.g., seeking social support) and related variables. According to Conservation of...
As part of daily interactions humor is an integral element of work relationships with consequences for well-being or turnover intentions. However, its adequate assessment in the work context has yet to be improved. While the Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ; Martin et al. 2003. Individual differences in uses of humor and their relation to psychologi...
Failure to accurately process knowledge jeopardizes firms’ performance, especially in Professional Service Firms. Information pathologies are the counterpart of valid knowledge and occur at every stage of the organizational knowledge cycle. We distinguish five pathologies related to problems with knowledge culture (e.g, inadequate learning culture,...
In diesem Beitrag werden Unterschiede zwischen Erwerbslosen und Erwerbstätigen in der psychischen und physischen Gesundheit, den latenten Funktionen der Arbeit sowie der Qualität der (Wieder-)Beschäftigung aufgezeigt. Forschungsergebnisse untermauern eher die Kausalitätshypothese, d. h. Erwerbslosigkeit verursacht gesundheitliche Beeinträchtigungen...
The moderating role of work contracts on the relationship between human resource management (HRM) and the self-reported performance of 1,311 permanent and 924 temporary employees across three sectors was studied using a multilevel design in 103 organizations in three European countries. The HR practice examined was training and its allocation to th...
In der heutigen Arbeitswelt ist eine steigende Flexibilisierung der Arbeitsverhältnisse festzustellen. Die traditionelle Erwerbsbiografie, welche durch eine Abfolge der drei Blöcke Ausbildung, Erwerbstätigkeit und Ruhestand gekennzeichnet ist, wird zunehmend durch ein eher fragmentiertes Muster abgelöst. Immer mehr Arbeitnehmerinnen und Arbeitnehme...
21 Artikel von Beiträgen der 2. Kremser WIssensmanagement-Tage. Im Zentrum der Konferenz stand angewandtes Wissensmanagement, wobei der Dialog zwischen Wissenschaft und Praxis nicht zu kurz kam. Die verbindende Klammer der Beiträge dieses Bandes ist die Gestaltung gelingender Wissenskommunikation durch geeignete Mittel, wie Story Telling, Debriefin...
Knowledge is the most crucial resource of the 21st century. For professional service firms (PSFs), knowledge represents the input as well as the output, and thus the fundamental base for performance. As every organization, PSFs have to deal with errors – and how they do that indicates their error culture. Considering the positive potential of error...
Der Zusammenhang von Gerechtigkeit und Psychologischen Verträgen (PV) mit Rückzugsgedanken
und Rückzugsabsichten wurde in einer querschnittlichen Fragebogenstudie mit 171 Ehrenamtlichen
evangelischer Gemeinden und deren 28 Pfarrer/innen untersucht. Mehrebenenanalysen
zeigten keinen Zusammenhang zwischen der Wahrnehmung des PV aus Sicht der Ehrenamt...
Given that social comparison processes take place within social exchanges, this field study examines the relationship between the differences in organizational treatment of a diverse workforce and psychological contract (PC) fulfillment. With a focus on the provision of performance-related pay and training programs for 748 temporary and 1432 perman...
We propose value-oriented content of psychological contracts as being distinct from transactional and relational content, which we affirm using confirmatory factor analysis for employee, as well as organizational obligations. In a sample of 171 German parish volunteers, value-oriented volunteer and relational organizational obligations are signific...
Der eher wenig erforschte Einfluss des Privatlebens auf das Arbeits(er)leben wird hier in einem
Detail beleuchtet, das nicht nur ein beziehungsgefährdender Dauerbrenner sein kann,
sondern sich auch negativ auf die arbeitsbezogene Stimmung auswirkt: die Verantwortung
für den privaten Haushalt. In einer Querschnittsstudie wurde mittels Fragebögen in...
Background. The Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) can be called the standard for the assessment of schizophrenic disorders. It is well-known and routinely used. In scientific studies and clinical practice extensive training of raters in the use of the scale can often not be provided. The question is whether under such conditions psychome...
Medication noncompliance of schizophrenic outpatients is an important problem in clinical practice, causing relapse and illness deterioration. Because atypical neuroleptics have, in controlled clinical studies, been shown to be better tolerated and accepted by patients, the question is whether switching from conventional to atypical neuroleptics su...
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Amisulpride is an unique neuroleptic drug insofar as it has a dual pharmacodynamic effect. At low doses it blocks selectively presynaptic autoreceptors, and at high doses it blocks postsynaptic D(2)/D(3) receptors. This allows the dosage to be adjusted and the treatment tailored to various clinical situations. It is unknown whether thi...
