P.J.G. Schreurs's research while affiliated with Radboud University and other places

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This study examined the added value of emotional job demands in explaining worker well-being, relative to the effects of task characteristics, such as quantitative job demands, job control, and coworker support. Emotional job demands were expected to account for an additional proportion of the variance in well-being. Cross-sectional data were obtai...
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It is often assumed that happy workers are also productive workers. Although this reasoning has frequently been supported at the individual level, it is still unclear what these findings imply for organizational performance. Controlling for relevant work characteristics, this study presents a large-scale organizational-level test of the happy-produ...
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Researchers have revealed that managers profit most from informal and on-the-job learning. Moreover, research has shown that task characteristics and social support affect informal learning. On the basis of these insights, the authors examined the effects of task characteristics (psychological job demands, job control) and social support from the s...
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Work characteristics, well-being and organizational performance: an organizational-level test of the happy-productive worker hypothesis Work characteristics, well-being and organizational performance: an organizational-level test of the happy-productive worker hypothesis T.W. Taris, P.J.G. Schreurs, K.J.L. Eikmans & P. van Riet, Gedrag & Organisati...
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The present study examined the associations among job characteristics (demands and control), worker well-being (satisfaction and exhaustion) and indicators of organizational performance (efficiency, absence rates, and client satisfaction) among 66 Dutch home care organizations. Based on previous research, we expected that demands would relate negat...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to focus on home care organization employees, and examine how the interaction between job demands (emotional demands, patient harassment, workload, and physical demands) and job resources (autonomy, social support, performance feedback, and opportunities for professional development) affect the core dimensions o...
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Building on previous findings that those who hold negative attitudes toward the organization have a relatively low likelihood to participate in organizational surveys, the authors examined the impact of nonresponse on the findings of organizational surveys. An artificial example showed that if the likelihood to respond depends on one's standing on...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on home care organization employees, and examine how the interaction between job demands (emotional demands, patient harassment, workload, and physical demands) and job resources (autonomy, social support, performance feedback, and opportunities for professional development) affect the core dimensions...
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Web-based data collection: an update Web-based data collection: an update Toon Taris, Paul Schreurs & Kees Jan Sepmeijer, Gedrag & Organisatie, Volume 18, June 2005, nr. 3, pp. 181-195 The rapid increase in the number of internet users has given web-based surveys the potential to become a powerful tool in survey research. The present study discusse...
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Arising from interest concerning the possibility of causal relationships among the three components of the Maslach Burnout Inventory, several process models have been proposed for the development of burnout. The present paper first reviews the evidence in favour of the three most influential of these (Leiter and Maslach's model (1988); Golembiewski...
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The Scale for Interpersonal Behaviour (SIB), a multidimensional self-report measure of difficulty and distress in state assertiveness, was psychometrically evaluated in a large sample comprising 1242 unselected psychiatric inpatients. In addition to an overall measure of assertion, the SIB contains four factorially-derived dimensions: (I) negative...
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This study examined the structure of occupational well-being among 1,252 Dutch teachers. Building on Warr (1994) and Ryff (1989), a multidimensional model for occupational well-being (including affective, cognitive, professional, social and psychosomatic dimensions) was proposed and tested. Confirmatory factor analysis supported the distinction bet...
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This study examined the relations among inequity, psychological wellbeing and organizational commitment among a longitudinal sample of 920 Dutch teachers. Equity theory provided hypotheses on the mutual effects of inequity experienced in interpersonal and organizational exchange relationships on the one hand, and strain and psychological withdrawal...
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This study evaluated the effectiveness of a large-scale job stress reduction program implemented in the Dutch domiciliary care sector. The employees of 81 organizations were interviewed twice (only nurses in executive jobs; total sample size exceeded 26,000). Organizations that implemented many interventions were expected to be more successful in r...
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The job demands-resources (JD-R) model was tested in a study among 3,092 employees working in 1 of 4 different home care organizations. The central assumption in the model is that burnout develops when certain job demands are high and when job resources are limited because such negative working conditions lead to energy depletion and undermine work...
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This investigation deals with the active learning hypothesis in Karasek and Theorell's (1990) job demands-control model. The active learning hypothesis holds that high levels of learning and self-efficacy will occur among incumbents of high job demands/high job control jobs, whereas low levels of learning and self-efficacy will be found in low dema...
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This research examined burnout (i.e., emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and lack of personal accomplishment) among 2 samples of Dutch teachers as a function of inequity and experienced job stress in 3 different exchange relationships (with students, colleagues, and the school). It was hypothesized that inequity would be linked to burnout thr...
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This study examined the antecedents of job strain (emotional exhaustion, health complaints) and withdrawal behaviour (e.g. lowered organizational commitment) among a cross-sectional sample of 131 academic staff members of the law department of a large Dutch university. Conservation of resources theory (Hobfoll, 1989) provided the theoretical backgr...
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Studied the structure of well-being among teachers in the Netherlands using a 4-dimensional measure of work-specific well-being. 1,309 teachers with a mean age of 43.6 yrs were administered a questionnaire on psychological and physical well-being in the winter of 1995–1996, and 957 of these Ss were readministered the questionnaire approximately 1 y...
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This research examines the construct validity of Schaufeli, Leiter, Maslach, and Jackson's (1996) general burnout measure, the Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey (MBI-GS). Whereas burnout is traditionally defined and measured in terms of a phenomenon occurring among workers who work with people, the MBI-GS is intended for use outside the huma...
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According to Karasek's demand-control model, negative work- and health-related outcomes are espccially likely to occur when job demands are high and a worker's control over the job is low. Many studies have examined this hypothesis, but no consistent supportive evidence has been found. The current paper reviews earlier studies and critiques, and fo...

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... Some studies have stated that the relationship between gender and EE is inconsistent (Bakker et al., 2002; Bekker et al., 2005; Schaufeli & Enzmann, 1998; Van Horn et al., 1997a, b). The relationship between gender and EE differs (Greenglass et al., 1998), because some studies report larger magnitudes of EE for females (Bakker et al., 2002; Rupert & Morgan, 2005; Schaufeli & Enzmann, 1998), while other studies show larger scores for males (Bekker et al., 2005; Van Horn et al., 1997a, b). However, Rubino et al. (2013) propose the potential presence of an external factor, which influences the relationship between gender and EE, and they emphasize the need to investigate the potential mediators and moderators of this relationship. ...
... Burnout is a common phenomenon occurring among today's employees (Taris & Schreurs, 2009). Studies have proven that individual health and workplace productivity are both negatively impacted by burnout (Bakker et al., 2004(Bakker et al., , 2008. ...
... Previous longitudinal studies showed that burnout is rather stable over time (e.g., Hakanen et al., 2008;Schaufeli & Enzmann, 1998;Taris et al., 2005). This finding is intriguing because the first operationalizations of burnout highlighted that this syndrome should change over time (Freudenberger, 1974;Maslach, 1982). ...
... Teachers' occupational health refers to their evaluations of various aspects of their job (van Horn et al., 2004). The multifaceted construct incorporates affective, cognitive, professional, social, and psychosomatic dimensions (van Horn et al., 2004). ...
... Every organization has its own values and beliefs which not necessarily rely on religious concepts (Weston 2002), but elements like, participants' job expertise and knowledge of the organizational context can be identified as important supplement to the expertise of managers. And intervention experts during intervention planning and implementation activities, ty to use workplaces aspects characterized by good job design and even employee health may provide conditions that allow employees the time and resources to become involved in participative interventions (Taris 2003). Workplace values as a term is broadened and furthered into workplace Spirituality, and such values are used to improve organizational performance (Giacalone 2004). ...
... The other job demands however -role-finding and workload/effort -had a significant impact on career doubts. Career doubts can be interpreted as an indicator for low commitment to professional learning, and although findings are mixed, some studies reported negative relationships between job demands and self-reported learning behaviour among teachers (Toon et al. 2003). While moderate demands seem to enhance the commitment to professional learning, they can lead to exhaustion and decreased commitment if demands become too pressuring (in de Wal et al. 2020). ...
... Burnout has three components, namely emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation and feelings of low accomplishment (Jackson et al., 1998;Leiter & Maslach, 2017;Maslach et al., 2001;Taris et al., 2001). The exhaustion component represents the individual experience of being overextended and depleted physically and emotionally (Maslach et al., 2001). ...
... This hypothesis was partly supported as teachers' good teacher-working environment fit was related to the experienced lower levels of cynicism towards the professional community over time. This implies that receiving recognition and a constructive climate are likely to buffer cynicism and thus prevent disengagement from the professional community (Taris et al. 2004;Sullanmaa et al. 2022). However, the perceived teacher-working environment fit did not predict other burnout dimensions during the five-year follow-up. ...
... One of the major advantages of MBI is that MBI can clearly distinguish perceived work-related burnout from other mental syndromes such as anxiety and depression, because of the nature of burnout defined as jobrelated by Maslach and Jackson (1979). Another popular survey is MBI-General Suvey (MBI-GS, Schutte et al., 2000;Taris et al., 1999). However, MBI-GS is rather generic and the items refer to work itself rather than to one's personal relationships at work. ...
... Being happy with your work may have to do with having nice colleagues and an average workload. Individual and group performance is not directly the result of employee satisfaction or motivation, but is achieved through the involvement and commitment of workers' representation, HRM practices and work organisation (Judge et al. 2001;Taris et al. 2008). For instance, organisational commitment can be brought about by an organisational design that provides job autonomy, possibilities of consulting others, learning opportunities etc. (Karasek and Theorell 1990). ...