Modern Work Research Articles

Management of Technical Employees in the Involvement of Coordination and Collaboration

This article explores the challenges faced by organizations in managing technical employees in a coordinated and collaborative environment. The authors argue that effective coordination and collaboration between technical employees and management is crucial for achieving organizational goals and enhancing job satisfaction among employees. The article highlights the importance of clear communication and a supportive work environment, and emphasizes the need for managers to be knowledgeable about technical aspects and flexible in their approach to problem-solving. The authors provide practical suggestions for overcoming these challenges and offer insights into the importance of successful coordination and collaboration in the management of technical employees. the article examines the role of technology in facilitating coordination and collaboration between technical employees and management. It also discusses the need for continuous training and professional development for technical employees to stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in their field. The authors suggest that a combination of effective communication, collaboration, and technology can lead to improved productivity, better quality of work, and increased job satisfaction among technical employees. The findings of this article offer valuable insights into the management of technical employees in the modern work environment and have implications for organizations looking to improve their management practices and achieve success in a rapidly changing technical landscape.

Arterial hypertension and atrial fi brillation: general pathogenesis and mutual eff ects on the course of diseases

The article presents reviews of modern domestic and foreign scientific publications on the pathogenesis of atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients with arterial hypertension (AH), as well as the issues of blood pressure control in AF. Arterial hypertension (AH) is often accompanied by comorbidity, and, in addition, is the most frequent factor in the development of atrial fibrillation (AF). AF is the most common type of arrhythmia, which increases the risk of thromboembolic complications, heart failure, and leads to an increase in the overall mortality rate. The aim of the work was to study the pathological mechanisms of the formation of AF in hypertension, as well as their mutual impact on the course of diseases, and, in addition, to analyze and compare methods for measuring blood pressure (BP) in AF, used in modern clinical work, to identify the most objective method. A general scientific method was applied: analysis of modern scientifi c domestic and foreign literature on research problems, generalization, comparison, systematization of theoretical data on the experience of application. All reviews were indexed in PubMed, Medline, eLibrary, CyberLeninka, Google Scholar databases. The presented study allow us to conclude that hypertension is both a risk factor for atrial fi brillation and a complication of the course of the disease in patients with atrial fibrillation; the most objective method of measuring blood pressure in AF is oscillometric. The tasks and prospects of future research are identified.

Portraits of Working Women: Lola Ridge’s “The Ghetto” and the Visual Record

This essay focuses on Lola Ridge’s long poem “The Ghetto” in relation to the gendered imagery and visual construction of the modern laborer emerging across early twentieth-century print media. Perpetuating gendered notions of the modern worker as predominately masculine, late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century visual representations of the laborer typically feature manly, virile figures, often in resistance to capitalism and inevitably eliding the industrial woman laborer. Ridge’s “The Ghetto” alternatively locates modern labor in the female industrial worker. The essay considers the poem’s splicing of collective and individual portraits of immigrant working women, developing a visual rhetoric that asserts women’s agency amidst modernity’s changing forms of work, insisting upon their visibility as workers, activists, and feminists. Consideration of several visual print genres includes women’s labor publications; social and industrial documentary photography; and periodical illustrations from The Masses. In visually representing women workers, these sources of visual media contextualize Ridge’s approach in “The Ghetto” and social attitudes toward gender and labor persisting in the century’s early years.

The Struggling Siren: Speech Therapy and Claude Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande

In Claude Debussy’s opera, Pelléas et Mélisande, the audience first encounters Mélisande in the depths of an impassable forest. Discovered by the nobleman Golaud, Mélisande trembles and weeps beside a fountain. She either cannot or will not speak. When her voice finally escapes her body, she cries out to Golaud that he is not to touch her. Taken aback, he asks what has happened to her, and Mélisande utters her first complete sentence: “I do not want to say! I do not want to say!” (“Je ne veux pas le dire! Je ne veux pas le dire!”). Carried along by Debussy’s lush impressionistic harmonies, Mélisande stammers and stutters through this opening scene, in contrast to the clarity and eloquence of Golaud’s lines. Through this vocal exchange, heard publicly for the first time on 30 April 1902, Debussy redefined French opera. Rapidly, critics hailed Pelléas et Mélisande as the first French work to truly oppose and surpass the dominant influence of Richard Wagner’s music dramas.1 Debussy’s pioneering opera elevated the French language to a position where the text could be heard distinctly, while his musical adaptation of Symbolist playwright Maurice Maeterlinck’s words heightened the mystery of the original text. Scholars such as Katherine Bergeron, Jane Fulcher, Jann Pasler, Lydia Goehr, and Marianne Wheeldon among others have examined the multiple meanings of Debussy’s opera, defining it as the arch-French modernist work with its revolutionary treatment of language.2 Building on this scholarship, we offer another layer of evidence for hearing Debussy’s opera and the modes of expression conveyed by the character Mélisande.

Mastitis pattern analysis: epidemiology into practice

Analysis of data to inform decision making in dairy animal practice is a cornerstone of modern dairy herd health work and is routinely carried out in areas such as fertility management and mastitis control. Mastitis in dairy herds continues to be important and relevant to veterinary advisors for many reasons, such as cow welfare, the cost of disease, the use of antimicrobials and the sustainability of farming and food supply, including environmental impact and waste milk. When implementing control measures to reduce mastitis infection rates on farm, herd level analysis of infection ‘patterns’ to inform decision making has been shown to be an important first step. Feedback from participants using the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) Dairy Mastitis Control Plan previously indicated that the first stage of the Plan, analysing patterns and making a herd ‘diagnosis’, was often a difficult stage for Plan deliverers. The new AHDB Dairy QuarterPRO scheme offers an ‘entry-level’ method of routinely monitoring mastitis on farm and builds in a rapid method of assessing the predominant mastitis infection patterns present on farm, using somatic cell count and clinical mastitis records. A new fully automated mastitis pattern analysis report is now available to all milk recording dairy herds in the UK through their milk recording organisation, allowing routine assessment of the predominant pattern of infection, and enabling farmers and veterinary surgeons to highlight the most important area on their farm for mastitis control.

The transformation of personality-oriented pedagogy ideas in socialist education in the first third of the 20th century

On the basis of historical documents, pedagogical writings of the 19th early 20th centuries and modern works, the paper reveals features of the development of ideas of personality free development in Russian pedagogy in the first third of the 20th century. Their significance for the modern theory and practice of personality-oriented education is assessed. It is determined that by the beginning of the 20th century education had become a strategically important phenomenon, the idea of personality as a value for society was becoming widespread. Schools of pedagogy of individuality were being formed. The content of personality-developing pedagogical systems had been heterogeneous by 19171918, they were influenced by various theories in the context of the relationship between the individual and society. Since the 1920s, pedagogical activity acquired sociocentric contours associated with the upbringing of the socialist type of personality. State educational authorities carefully, but firmly and consistently eliminated religious and other pedagogical influences that did not fit into the established format and ideal of the moral character of a Soviet citizen. At the same time, in socialist education, within certain limits, there was continuity between the ideas of free development and environmental education of the 1920s. The study shows that with unlimited resources in creating a controlled and ideological educational environment, outstanding results can be achieved. However, such results will be ambiguous: blocking personal development, encouraging a programmed influence on a person deprives him of a self-forming beginning, freedom, and ultimately responsibility.

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Impact of 4IR Technology and its Impact on the Current Deployment

The Fourth Industrial Revolution represents a fundamental change in how we live, work, and relate to one another. It is a new chapter in human development with remarkable technological advancements comparable to those of the first, second, and third industrial revolutions. These developments are fusing the physical, digital, and biological worlds in ways that hold great promise as well as the possibility of great danger. The way that modern people live and work is changing as a result of disruptive technologies and trends including the Internet of Things (IoT), robotics, virtual reality (VR), and artificial intelligence (AI). This is known as the fourth industrial revolution. Industry 4.0 refers to the incorporation of these technologies into production processes. In this article, we discussed the history of 4IR technology, its impact of 4IR technology, and its impact on the current deployment.

Measurement of Relative Efficiency Levels of Southeast Asian Countries in Dealing with the Covid-19 Pandemic Over One Year

Introduction: Handling the COVID-19 outbreak is one of the most novelties modern work is facing by many countries today. Massive outbreak needs countries efficacy and talent in creating new approaches. These approaches need to prevent the spread of the outbreak and increase the citizens' belief as the outbreak will damage the countries' functional capacity. Technical efficiency is used maximally to gain total control of the conditions. This study aims to measure the relative efficiency level of Southeast Asian countries in dealing with COVID-19 pandemic over one year.
 Methods: The relative efficiency level of the most successful countries in Southeast Asia in managing COVID-19 infection was determined using Frontier 4.1 through Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) and Excel software. The technical efficiency of the SFA model is defined as the ratio of observed output to maximum feasible production. If the country's technical efficiency (TE) is greater than 80%, it is the most effective in Southeast Asia at managing COVID-19 infection, but if it is less than 80% or close to 0, it is inefficient.
 Results: This research aims at the COVID-19 epidemic in a Southeast Asian country, where the country with the highest technical efficiency score is the most efficient and indicates the country's ability to deal with the COVID-19 outbreak without any complications. Laos was ranked first (TE = 0.99901), with a technical efficiency score that was higher than that of most other Southeast Asian countries. Singapore comes in second position with a technical efficiency score of 0.99882. Brunei is in third place for COVID-19, with a technical efficiency score of 0.99870. Cambodia is in last place, with a score of 0.84675 for technical efficiency.
 Conclusion: Laos is the highest technical efficiency score among the southeast Asian countries. Various things that can lead to inefficiency include lack of awareness about standard operating procedures (SOP) among the causes of COVID-19 case infection in the workplace, and the community continues to increase. This condition may also be due to the lack of medication or vaccines to cure COVID-19. All communities around the world are expected to adopt standard operating procedures (SOP) such as wearing face masks, hand sanitizers, and social distance to curb the increasingly violent spread of COVID-19.

Algal biorefinery culminating multiple value-added products: recent advances, emerging trends, opportunities, and challenges.

Algal biorefinery is rising as a prominent solution to economically fulfill the escalating global requirement for nutrition, feed, fuel, and medicines. In recent years,scientific productiveness associated with microalgae-based studies has elaborated in multiplied aspects, while translation to the commercial level continues to be missing. The present microalgal biorefinery has a challenge in long-term viability due to escalated market price of algal-mediated biofuels and bioproducts. Advancements are required in a few aspects like improvement in algae processing, energy investment, and cost analysis of microalgae biorefinery. Therefore, it is essential to recognize the modern work by understanding the knowledge gaps and hotspots driving business scale up.The microalgae biorefinery integrated with energy-based products, bioactive and green compounds, focusing on a circular bioeconomy, is urgently needed. A detailed investigation of techno-economic analysis (TEA) and life cycle assessment (LCA) is important to increase the market value of algal products. This review discusses the valorization of algal biomass for the value-added application that holds a sustainable approach and cost-competitive algal biorefinery. The current industries, policies, technology transfer trends, challenges, and future economic outlook are discussed. This study is an overview through scientometric investigation attempt to describe the research development contributing to this rising field.

The Architecture of the Software System for Supporting Attendance Records at the University

Nowadays, in accordance with the modular rating system adopted in universities, as well as due to the shift in emphasis towards the independent work of students and the construction of individual educational trajectories, the task of accounting for attendance at classes is being updated. The purpose of this paper is to develop the architecture of a software system that allows you to automate the process of confirming the presence of students in the classroom. Based on the analysis of modern works and the technical capabilities of current software solutions, the method of scanning the unique QR code of each training session with the camera of the students mobile device was chosen as the most optimal means of solving this problem. The paper presents the results of visual modeling of the software system, as well as the structure of the system, which includes the teachers console in the form of a web application in PHP and a mobile application for the iOS platform developed in Swift. The organization of data storage in the MySQL DBMS, the structure of relations are described. The main algorithms for the operation of the main software modules for scanning and generating a QR code are considered. Test examples of the operation of a web application and a mobile application as the main components of the system are given. With a high degree of confidence, we can assume that the presented system will be effective for solving attendance accounting problems.

LITERARY MOTIF OF PAIN: THEORY AND METHODS OF LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS

The article provides a thorough review of the theory of a literary motif and its modern adaptation in termsof cognitive narratology and cognitive stylistics in order to introduce methods of linguistic analysis into the researchof the motif of pain in works of American and British modernists. Pain depiction in a literary text is studiedby encoding unpleasant emotions while using methods of conceptual metaphor and metonymy, as well as corpusanalysis. The research presupposes five stages: a) analysis of the keywords in the text which are eitherpain-indicative or pain-descriptive; b) corpus analysis of lemmas “pain”, “hurt” and others pain-related words;c) reconstruction of conceptual metaphors and metonymies of PAIN; d) reconstruction of narrative patternsof the motif of pain; e) analysis of affected character's profile. The initial research suggests the following:i) the motif of pain has a tendency to be marked by descriptive and indicating verbal units which are widely usedin the medical field; ii) conceptual metaphors and metonymies of PAIN tend to be less prototypical in a literarytext than those in a natural language; iii) the motif of pain appears in a literary narrative through a set of imagesand actions zoomed on the characters' traumatic unpleasant experience; iv) the two main sets of narrativeevents, that are structurally indicative of the motif of pain are believed to exist. The first set revolves aroundany explicit traumatic experience, with the latter becoming a salient point of the plot, while the second setresorts to depicting a more implicit process of a character accumulating discomfort and emotional traumain the studied novels.

Peter Bergmann on observables in Hamiltonian General Relativity: A historical-critical investigation

The problem of observables and their supposed lack of change has been significant in Hamiltonian quantum gravity since the 1950s. This paper considers the unrecognized variety of ideas about observables in the thought of constrained Hamiltonian dynamics co-founder Peter Bergmann, who trained many students at Syracuse and invented observables. Whereas initially Bergmann required a constrained Hamiltonian formalism to be mathematically equivalent to the Lagrangian, in 1953 Bergmann and Schiller introduced a novel postulate, motivated by facilitating quantum gravity. This postulate held that observables were invariant under transformations generated by each individual first-class constraint. While modern works rely on Bergmann's authority and sometimes speak of “Bergmann observables,” he had much to say about observables, generally interesting and plausible but not all mutually consistent and much of it neglected.On occasion he required observables to be locally defined (not changeless and global); at times he wanted observables to be independent of the Hamiltonian formalism (implicitly contrary to a definition involving separate first-class constraints). But typically he took observables to have vanishing Poisson bracket with each first-class constraint and took this result to be justified by the example of electrodynamics. He expected observables to be analogous to the transverse true degrees of freedom of electromagnetism. Given these premises, there is no coherent concept of observables which he reliably endorsed, much less established.A revised definition of observables that satisfies the requirement that equivalent theories should have equivalent observables using the Rosenfeld–Anderson–Bergmann–Castellani gauge generator G, a tuned sum of first-class constraints that changes the canonical action ∫dt(pq̇−H) by a boundary term. Bootstrapping from theory formulations with no first-class constraints, one finds that the “external” coordinate gauge symmetry of GR calls for covariance (a transformation rule and hence a 4-dimensional Lie derivative for the Poisson bracket), not invariance (0 Poisson bracket), under G (not each first-class constraint separately).

Reinventing Work. The Implications of Modern Work Arrangement for Individuals and Teams

The nature of work is changing rapidly and global trends such as demographic changes, exponential technological growth and changes in individual value systems have accelerated a shift with regards to how, where and when work is organized. Whilst an abundance of research has explored the implications of modern work from economic and sociological perspectives and discussed the consequences for organizations, relatively little is known about how the changing notion of work impacts workers and teams. This symposium addresses this gap by bringing together leading scholars who will shed light on how workers experience changes in work and how this influences their careers, their attitudes and their wellbeing. Using the presentations as a starting point, the aim of the symposium is to discuss common patterns, but also interesting differences in order to identify how individuals benefit from modern work, whilst highlighting potential challenges and drawbacks. Insider to the Team, Outsider to the Organization. Freelancers’ Perceived Insider Status Presenter: Thomas Gigant; ESCP Europe Employee Experiences and Well-being in rapidly transformed Virtual Teams Presenter: Almudena Canibano; ESCP Business School Presenter: Petros Chamakiotis; ESCP Business School Presenter: Emma Russell; U. of Sussex Visibility and Status of Accumulated Professional Knowledge. Effects of Digital Transformation Presenter: Nanna Gillberg; U. of Gothenburg Presenter: Ewa Wikström; School of Business, Economics & Law, U. of Gothenburg, Sweden Can AI Recommendations Mitigate Nepotistic Hiring Behavior? Presenter: Jonathan Edward Booth; London School of Economics and Political Science

How strategies of selective optimization with compensation and role clarity prevent future increases in affective strain when demands on self-control increase: Results from two longitudinal studies.

In modern working environments effective strategies for regulating goal-directed behavior and allocating and investing limited resources (e.g., selection, optimization, and compensation [SOC] strategies) should enable employees to cope up with job demands that require volitional self-regulation, thereby preventing strain over time. However, theoretical insights suggest that the beneficial impact of SOC strategies on psychological health depends on the degree to which employees experience clarity in their job role. To understand how employees stabilize their psychological health when demands increase over time, I examine interaction effects of changes in self-control demands (SCDs), SOC strategies and role clarity at an earlier point in Time on changes in affective strain in two longitudinal samples from different occupational and organizational settings (international private bank: N = 389; heterogenous sample: N = 313, 2 year lag). In line with recent conceptualizations of chronic forms of distress, affective strain involved emotional exhaustion, depressive symptoms, and negative affect. In support of my predictions, structural equation modeling revealed significant three-way interactions of changes in SCDs, SOC strategies and role clarity on changes in affective strain in both samples. In particular, the positive relationships between changes of SCDs and changes in affective strain were jointly buffered by SOC strategies and role clarity. The present findings offer implications for stabilizing well-being when demands increase over long time periods. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

Context Matters: The Implications of Workplace Envy Across Contexts

The interpersonal and social aspects of modern work have made envy – the painful emotion experienced at work when one lacks and desires one or more work others’ superior qualities, achievements, or possessions – a practical phenomenon to study in organizational science. With scholarly interest in envy on the rise, this symposium introduces fresh perspectives and further advances scholarly discussion regarding the nature of envy by showcasing four cutting-edge studies. In particular, these studies provide new insights regarding envy, its outcomes, and factors influencing these outcomes across different contexts (e.g., leadership, job search, different cultures), for different targets (the envier, the envied, and the organization), and using diverse methodological approaches (e.g., meta-analysis, experiencing sampling). Attendees will thus learn current directions in workplace envy research from researchers with expertise in the topic area. Following the presentations, Dr. Yochi Cohen-Charash will synthesize the papers in the symposium and lead an interactive discussion on the current state of envy research. As envy is commonly experienced as an undesirable emotion, our symposium seeks to offer a comprehensive understanding of workplace envy, its various outcomes (both the “good” and the “bad”), and strategies to manage envy in ways that can benefit employees and organizations alike, in line with the Academy of Management 2022 theme of “Creating a Better World Together”. The Dark Side of Envy: Implications of Job Search Envy on Health Presenter: Jaewoo Kim; U. of Houston Presenter: Leanne Atwater; U. of Houston Presenter: Jamie Belinne; U. of Houston Exploring Envy as a Mediator between LMX Quality and Work Outcomes Presenter: Hakan Ozcelik; California State U. Sacramento The Bright- and Dark-Side Effects of the Daily Perception of Being Envied by Coworkers Presenter: Harshad Girish Puranik; U. of Illinois at Chicago Presenter: Kathleen Keeler; Ohio State U. Presenter: Haoying Xu; U. of Illinois at Chicago Presenter: Siyi Tao; U. of Illinois at Chicago Envy Beyond Borders: A Meta-Analysis of National Culture and Reactions to Envy Presenter: Manuel F. Gonzalez; Seton Hall U. Presenter: Yochi Cohen-Charash; Baruch College & The Graduate Center, CUNY Presenter: Soohyun Lee; William Paterson U. Presenter: Kim Story Johnson; - Presenter: Paul E. Spector; U. of South Florida

Age Diversity as a Risk Factor for Psychological Safety in Teams of Older Employees

Age diversity has become a more and more pressing issue in modern working teams. Yet the effects of age diversity are not fully understood. While psychological safety is both dependent on interpersonal relationships and an important antecedent of team performance, it has never been studied as a potential mediator of the link between age diversity and team performance. In this study, we aim to close this gap in the literature and introduce team age as a moderator of this relationship as we argue that perceptions of age diversity might shift between different age cohorts due to stereotype threat. We tested our assumptions using a sample of 1441 white-collar workers, nested in 109 working teams. Using aggregated team-level data, we tested a moderated mediation model with age diversity as a predictor, psychological safety as a mediator, team age as moderator, and team performance as an outcome. We found a negative relationship between age diversity and psychological safety for teams of older employees. This moderation translated into a negative moderated mediation effect of age diversity on team performance via the mediator psychological safety for older teams. In conclusion, age diversity seems to be a significant risk factor for psychological safety and subsequently team performance in teams of older employees but not in teams of younger employees. Our study complements the existing literature integrating psychological safety literature, age diversity literature, and stereotype threat literature by demonstrating, that age diversity is a risk factor for psychological safety and subsequently team performance in teams of older employees.

A Longitudinal Study on Weekly Flexibilization, Boundaryless Work, and Presenteeism

In the face of technological advancements, flexibilization and boundaryless work have become integral parts of modern occupational settings. Simultaneously, current research indicates a considerable increase in presenteeism—the behavior of working while sick. Meta-analytic findings indicate two main drivers for presenteeism: a high work motivation and an impaired state of health and psychological well-being. Research on flexibilization and boundaryless work shows that these job conditions enhance employees’ work motivation but also impair employees’ health. Based on conservation of resources theory and Miraglia and John’s (2016) dual-path model on antecedents of presenteeism, we investigate how both job conditions affect attendance behavior (absenteeism and presenteeism) via motivation and well-being by conducting a weekly diary study over the course of nine weeks. In total, 284 people provided data on flexibilization, boundaryless work, flow experience, well-being, absenteeism, and presenteeism. Multilevel mediational analyses revealed that flexibilization prevents presenteeism, whereas boundaryless work can increase presenteeism (N = 2284 week-level). The results further revealed support for the health impairment path at the within-person and between-person levels whereas the motivational path was not supported at the within-person level. Our results offer several theoretical and practical implications for how modern work shape attendance behavior.

Alternative Work Arrangements: Understanding the Experience of the Modern Worker

In recent years, technological advancements have fundamentally changed how, when, and where individuals work. An increasing number of modern workers have jobs outside of the 9-to-5 traditional work arrangement and instead seek work through alternative work arrangements, such as gig work or multiple jobholding. This trend has accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic and will likely continue due to the benefits inherent in these alternative work arrangements such as increased income and flexibility. This symposium focuses on both the benefits and challenges of alternative work arrangements. Throughout this proposed symposium, we elaborate on the experiences of workers with alternative work arrangements face. More specifically, the papers in the symposium focus on the work identities and relational strategies of the modern worker, the status inconsistencies between the types of work they perform, the freedom they receive from the alternative work arrangements, and whether or not they disclose their alternative forms of work and how their alternative work arrangements impact important work outcomes. Thus, each paper offers insights into what the future of work will look like and what organizations and managers should consider to successfully retain talent and cooperate with new types of workers. With this symposium, we see the potential to bridge the perspectives of organizations and individual workers so that both parties can benefit from these new types of work arrangements. A Comparison of the Relational Challenges of Organizational Workers Versus Gig Workers. Presenter: Elizabeth Nguyen Trinh; U. of Michigan, Ross School of Business Presenter: Brittany Lambert; Indiana U. - Kelley School of Business Presenter: Brianna Barker Caza; U. of North Carolina at Greensboro Presenter: Susan J. Ashford; U. of Michigan Is Multiple Jobholding Depleting or Enriching? Presenter: Sherry E. Moss; Wake Forest U. Presenter: Brianna Barker Caza; U. of North Carolina at Greensboro Presenter: Arran Caza; U. of North Carolina, Greensboro The Effects of Psychological Reactance on Side-hustlers’ Daily Hostility and Initiative Presenter: Hudson Sessions; Southern Methodist U. Presenter: Michael Baer; Arizona State U. Presenter: Jennifer Nahrgang; U. of Iowa A Self-Regulation Perspective on How Adult Content Creators Achieve Multiple Job Coherence Presenter: Emily D. Campion; U. of Iowa Presenter: Kathleen Keeler; Ohio State U. Do You Want to Know a Secret? Disclosure and Concealment of Multiple Job Holding Presenter: Sujin Jeong; U. of Iowa Presenter: Jennifer Nahrgang; U. of Iowa

Be Ready for Tomorrow’s Prevailing Uncertainty

The purpose of this paper is to obtain deeper insights into employees’ adaptive performance — a key competence of modern workers that can enable organizations to deal with the prevailing uncertainty of the future. In this context, a moderated mediation model was developed to investigate the extended link between employee’s adaptive performance and autonomy in terms of work method autonomy, work scheduling autonomy, and work criteria autonomy. Based on data from 1,142 teleworking employees of an internationally operating company, structural equation modeling was used. Results confirm that the positive relation between employees’ autonomy in terms of work method autonomy, work scheduling autonomy, and work criteria autonomy and employees’ adaptive performance is mediated by job crafting–strength. Work criteria autonomy showed the strongest effect. Further, demands-ability fit was found to mediate the relation between job crafting–strength and adaptive performance. Although nonwork-interrupting work behavior was found to partly moderate the link between the different autonomy dimensions and job crafting–strength, it showed a positive and significant influence regarding the relation of work criteria autonomy, a negative and significant influence regarding work scheduling autonomy, and no significant influence regarding work method autonomy.