Springer 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. 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. From the Back Cover 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. About the Author Christian Korunka is Professor for Work Psychology at the University of Vienna. His research interests are new demands at work, new forms of work, organizational changes, quality of working life and psychological aspects of entrepreneurship. Bettina Kubicek, is Research Scientist at the University of Vienna. Her research interests are in new demands at work, flexible work organization and the work-home interface as well as in retirement research.