The Impact of Job Characteristics and Motivators on Perceived Stress Among Information Technology (IT) Consultants

Wallgren, Lars Göran; Hanse, Jan Johansson

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“…Such work situations are associated with high stress. In this extreme, health risks of different nature are common and people do not withstand the situation for long [11]. However, what is truly an impact of the introduction of the PAEHR in this case is a bit unclear since some of the reports on demand on documentation is said not to be new and that patients also prior to the implementation were able to request their healthcare records on paper.…”

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“…[13,14] According to the demand-control-support model, the reports of increased demand, loss of control and support would indicate an increased risk for health problems among the healthcare professionals. This since if the worker does not have control of work conditions and planning, does not have usable tools and feels exposed if things go wrong, the work will be unhealthy [11]. Such work situations are associated with high stress.…”

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“…On the other hand, if high demands are not met by substantial control and social support, the situation will soon be dangerous. [11] Emanating from the Demand-Control-Support theory [9], this paper investigates the impact of patients' access to their health records on healthcare professionals' work environment in a primary care setting in Sweden.…”

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Healthcare Professionals’ Experiences of the Work Environment After Patients’ Access to Their Electronic Health Records – A Qualitative Study in Primary Care

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For healthcare personnel, the work environment is already challenging, and when eHealth systems are introduced they are often considered to further add to the complexity. This paper investigates the impact of patients’ access to their electronic health records on healthcare professionals’ work environment in a primary care setting in Sweden. A work environment theory-driven analysis, focusing on perceived demands, control and support, was conducted on 14 semi-structured interviews of different primary care professionals. The professionals expressed a slight increase in demands, loss of control and some increase and decrease of support. This study discusses insights on how patients’ access to health records can have an impact on healthcare professionals’ work environment.

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Healthcare Professionals’ Experiences of the Work Environment After Patients’ Access to Their Electronic Health Records – A Qualitative Study in Primary Care

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Privacy invasion in business environments

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Brosseau

Aïmeur

2012

2012 Tenth Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust

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It is not uncommon for business managers to use recent innovations in information and communications technology to monitor employees and job candidates. These methods not only rely on heavy surveillance during working hours of employees but can also be applied outside their professional environment, to impinge on their personal lives. Surveillance techniques encompass such traditional means like recording cameras to more recent methods including analyzing social networks pages, performing extensive web searches and dealing with online data brokers. While monitoring initiatives set up by employers can have benefits for companies, the threat to privacy they entail can deteriorate the mental and physical health of employees and have a negative impact on the quality of relationship between colleagues.Businesses have a social responsibility and need to ensure that their behavior does not infringe upon their employee's rights to privacy. In this non-technical paper, we discuss some online approaches adopted by companies regarding employee surveillance. We elaborate on various methods employed by managers to monitor their employees and gain as much information as possible on job candidates.Then, these techniques are further discussed from the standpoint of their moral and legal perspectives with regards to privacy rights.

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High Levels of Work Motivation reduce the Perceived Stress

Wallgren

2014

Inventive Approaches for Technology Integration and Information Resources Management

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The aim of the longitudinal study covered in this chapter was to test whether job characteristics (job demand, job control), with “motivators” (e.g. recognition, achievement, possibility for growth) as the mediating variable, can predict perceived stress (e.g. stressed, tense). The sample was composed of 320 Information Technology (IT) consultants in Sweden. Data were collected at 2 time points, with a time lag of 6 months. Results of structural equation modeling analyses show that job demand was most strongly related to perceived stress in the 6-month follow-up. Furthermore, “motivators” were negatively related (i.e. expected direction) to perceived stress at follow-up. Cross-sectional studies have been presented earlier, but a contribution of this study is that it is a 2-wave data set. The chapter uses a model that covers more information than a cross-sectional design, and the results add another aspect to existing work motivation and stress research by using a longitudinal data set and by relating job characteristics to perceived stress both directly and indirectly. The presented model can be used to examine potential causes of job stress among IT consultants and may generate important lessons for managing the general workforce of tomorrow. Finally, methodological considerations and recommendations for future research are discussed.

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The Impact of Job Characteristics and Motivators on Perceived Stress Among Information Technology (IT) Consultants

Cited by 4 publications

References 23 publications

Healthcare Professionals’ Experiences of the Work Environment After Patients’ Access to Their Electronic Health Records – A Qualitative Study in Primary Care

Healthcare Professionals’ Experiences of the Work Environment After Patients’ Access to Their Electronic Health Records – A Qualitative Study in Primary Care

Privacy invasion in business environments

High Levels of Work Motivation reduce the Perceived Stress

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