Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.5559/di.28.1.03
Designing Work for Mental Health: The Moderating Role of Job Resources
Karmen Dežmar Krainz
orcid.org/0000-0003-4890-1214
; Croatian Institute for Health Protection and Safety at Work, Zagreb
Josip Mikulić
orcid.org/0000-0001-7079-668X
; Faculty of Economics and Business, Zagreb
Helena Koren
; Croatian Institute for Health Protection and Safety at Work, Zagreb
Ana Zavalić
; Zagreb County Health Center, Zaprešić
Abstract
The aim of this article is to investigate the relationship
between work design characteristics and employee
health outcome. Specifically, job resources (i.e. managerial
support, co-worker support and information
about organizational changes) were examined as
moderators of the relationship between job demands
(i.e. workload and lack of control) and mental health.
Following the job demands-resources model, and
by using partial-least squares structural equations
modelling, this study provides empirical evidence
that job demands are negatively related to employees'
mental health on a sample of 383 public transportation
drivers. Furthermore, as the results reveal, job resources
relieve the negative impact of job demands thus
providing an alternative for avoiding the health
impairment process.
Keywords
work design; job demands-resources model; mental health; Croatia
Hrčak ID:
217317
URI
Publication date:
24.2.2019.
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