Job Demands in a Changing World of Work : Impact on Workers' Health and Performance and Implications for Research and Practice

"This book examines the new ways of working and their impact on employees' well-being and performance that have resulted from a changed world of work. It concentrates on job demands and flexible work emanating from current economic and organizational change, and assesses impact on workers' health and performance. The development of issues such as globalization, rapid technological advances, new management practices, organizational changes and new job skills are addressed. This book gives an overview and discusses the potential negative and positive effects of such new job demands and new forms of work."--Page [4] of cover Front Matter....Pages i-vii Job Demands in a Changing World of Work....Pages 1-5 Socio-Economic Changes and the Reorganization of Work....Pages 7-24 The Intensification of Work....Pages 25-43 The Bright and Dark Sides of Job Autonomy....Pages 45-63 Bridges Over Breaches: Agency and Meaning as Resources for Dealing with New Career Demands....Pages 65-90 New Ways of Working and Satisfaction of Psychological Needs....Pages 91-109 The Effects of a Changing World of Work on Daily Working Life....Pages 111-129 Challenges for Job Design....Pages 131-151 The Present and Future of Work: Some Concluding Remarks and Reflections on Upcoming Trends....Pages 153-162 Back Matter....Pages 163-169 "This book examines the new ways of working and their impact on employees' well-being and performance. It concentrates on job demands and flexible work emanating from current economic and organizational change, and assesses impact on workers' health and performance. The development of issues such as globalization, rapid technological advances, new management practices, organizational changes and new job skills are addressed. This book gives an overview and discusses the potential negative and positive effects of such new job demands and new forms of work."-- Page 4 de la couverture