Job Design and Innovative Work Behavior: Enabling Innovation Through Active or Low-Strain Jobs?

‘McJobs’, ‘good jobs’ and skills: job-seekers’ attitudes to low-skilled service work

This article focuses on unemployed job-seekers’ attitudes towards entry-level jobs in three areas of the service sector – retail, hospitality and call-centre work. The article examines whether job-seekers are reluctant to pursue these opportunities, and provides an analysis of the motives of those ruling out service work. A range of potential barriers is discussed, including the extent to which...

Transformational leadership and innovative work behavior

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the mediating role of psychological empowerment and the moderating role of self-construal (independent and interdependent) on the relationship between transformational leadership and employees’ innovative work behavior (IWB). Design/methodology/approach – A total of 639 followers and 87 leaders filled out questionnaires from cross-industry sampl...

Enabling innovation through integrated systems engineering

the impact of work engagement on the innovative behavior through the mediating role of sharing mistakes

today, organizations need innovations in order to grow and survive. organization that can`t deliver innovative products and services to market continually, would be doomed to failure. but key of innovation is in the innovative behavior of employees. various factors affect the innovative behavior of the employees. work engagement of employees is one of the factors which can affect this behavior....

Employer support for innovative work and employees' job satisfaction and job-related stress.

OBJECTIVES There are high levels of global and national underemployment, but limited information is available on the impact of this phenomenon on the quality of employees' working lives. This study examines the relations among perceived employer support for creative work, different forms of underemployment and employee quality of life, including job satisfaction, perceived job security and job ...