Mental Health and Entrepreneurial Exit

Hessels, Jolanda; Rietveld, Niels; Thurik, Roy; Zwan, Peter van der

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“…Biggs et al (2010) and Dietrich et al (2014) indicate that individuals with mental illness are less productive and less collaborative with their colleagues. Hennekam et al (2020a, b, c) and Hessels et al (2017) clarify that individuals with mental health challenges are more likely to lose self-confidence and a sense of belonging. Moreover, they are often excluded and/or isolated in different work and life contexts.…”

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Mental health of business academics within the COVID-19 era: can meaningful work help? A qualitative study

Samara

2022

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PurposeThrough addressing academics in four public business schools in Egypt, the authors of this paper aim to uncover how meaningful work might shape the mental health of the addressed academics post COVID-19.Design/methodology/approachThe author employed a qualitative research method through semi-structured interviews with 44 academics from four business schools selected from among 25 public institutions of higher education in Egypt. The author subsequently used thematic analysis to determine the main ideas in the transcripts.FindingsThe authors’ findings show that business academics usually consider meaningful work as playing a major role in shaping their mental health, especially after a crisis. This indicates that the more they perceive their jobs as valuable and worthwhile, the more they can deal with limitations and mental health issues (e.g. anxiety, stress, inadequate sleep, etc.) that accompany crisis. The findings also show that during the time of the COVID-19 crisis, employees (business academics in this case) have not placed so much importance to their autonomy (ability to choose and/or participate in decision-making processes) in the workplace. Instead, they care more about their relatedness (sense of belongingness) and their level of competence (sense of capability). Accordingly, the authors show that having academics that develop a sense of purpose for their academic duties in a time of crisis has less mental health disorders. Subsequently, post crisis, business academics can feel a continuous sense of relatedness and find ongoing opportunities to work and learn.Originality/valueThis paper contributes by filling a gap in HR management, in which empirical studies on the relationship between mental health and meaningful work have been limited so far.

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“…Hennekam et al. (2020a, b, c) and Hessels et al. (2017) clarify that individuals with mental health challenges are more likely to lose self-confidence and a sense of belonging.…”

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Mental health of business academics within the COVID-19 era: can meaningful work help? A qualitative study

Samara

2022

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“…Work is important for individuals as it gives them a sense of purpose, belonging, security, and self-worth. This particularly holds for people with mental illnesses (Halliday et al, 2015), who may struggle to find a sense of purpose and control in addition to facing impairments in terms of social functioning (Hennekam et al, 2020;Hessels et al, 2017).…”

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The paradox of mental illness and employment: a person-job fit lens

Hennekam

Follmer

Beatty

2020

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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Mental illness is highly stigmatized and much of the extant research has focused on the ways in which having a mental illness detracts from employees' productivity. In this study, we aim to obtain a more holistic understanding of how mental illness impacts employees' work experiences. We do this by examining both the positive and negative characteristics associated with mental illness by conducting two exploratory qualitative studies consisting of 257 qualitative in-depth surveys and 15 interviews with employees with mental illness.Using a person-job fit lens, we demonstrate how positive characteristics are associated with good needs-supplies fit while negative characteristics are associated with poor demandsabilities fit. This paradox illustrates how having a mental illness affords employees unique skills and qualities that enable them to excel in their roles; yet, the negative characteristics resulted in tendencies to overwork, increased stress, and reduced abilities to cope. Our findings highlight that the characteristics of mental illness simultaneously enhance and hinder different types of P-J fit. We believe employees with mental illness and their employers should be aware of the paradoxical benefits of mental illness, and develop strategies to support the effective balancing of the unique strengths and weaknesses of mental illness in the workplace.

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Mental Health and Entrepreneurial Exit

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Mental health of business academics within the COVID-19 era: can meaningful work help? A qualitative study

Mental health of business academics within the COVID-19 era: can meaningful work help? A qualitative study

The paradox of mental illness and employment: a person-job fit lens

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