Well-being and Stress in Mobile and Virtual Work

Richter, P.; Meyer, Jelka; Sommer, Fanny

doi:10.1007/3-540-28365-x_10

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“…Finally, the mental workload factors analysed as perceptions of factors influencing well‐being and stress in each location were studied. The analysis was based on the workload‐strain model (Richter et al ., 2006: 235), which draws a distinction between the effects of external sources impinging upon a human being (mental workload). These factors have an immediate effect on mental strain, which includes an individual's habitual and current preconditions.…”

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“…To make the work possible and foster employees' well‐being, it is essential for managers and leaders, as well as employees themselves, to understand these requirements better. However, there seem to be only a few studies on these developing types of work which connect employees' experiences of strain and well‐being to the characteristics of their work (Richter et al ., 2006). This article attempts to fill this gap to some degree and to increase the knowledge of the requirements and challenges and their mental workload factors.…”

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Changing requirements and mental workload factors in mobile multi-locational work

Vartiainen

Hyrkkänen

2010

New Technology, Work and Employment

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Changing requirements and mental workload factors in mobile multi-locational work

Vartiainen

Hyrkkänen

2010

New Technology, Work and Employment

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“…Despite the growing media and research attention for occupational health, the adaptation of mental health issues in the context of virtual teamwork has been scarce in research up to now (11). Although a few researchers have addressed both, challenges and job-related health outcomes in virtual teamwork (11)(12)(13)(14), but a dearth of research remains.…”

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“…Although virtual teamwork promises many advantages, such as high flexibility, virtual team member face particular challenges due to their working conditions (11)(12)(13)(14). Not only do they depend on ICT and lack regular face-to-face contact, working across geographical distances and time zones can lead to expectations and practice of permanent availability among virtual team members (6).…”

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“…Facilitated by digitalisation, this can easily lead to an intrusion of work life into private spheres (23,24). There is evidence that permanent availability, as one aspect of boundarylessness and frequent ICT usage, creates stress among employees (14,25). Scientific literature refers to the inability to cope with new technologies as "digital stress" which is associated with health impairments and sleep disturbances (26).…”

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Boundarylessness and sleep quality among virtual team members – a cross-sectional study from Germany

Rohwer

Kordsmeyer

Harth

et al. 2020

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Background In the course of globalisation and digitalisation, new ways of work become increasingly prevalent. To remain competitive as an organisation, cooperation across time, place, and organisational boundaries becomes necessary. Virtual teamwork offers these advantages, but can also be both, an opportunity and a burden, for employees. The aim of this study is to gain first insights into job demands and resources in virtual teamwork to create a basis for deducing appropriate health promotion and prevention measures. Methods In this cross-sectional study, an online questionnaire was used to examine the relationship between boundarylessness as a job demand, psychological detachment as a personal resource, as well as perceived stress and sleep quality as health outcomes among 46 employees in virtual teamwork in Germany. Data collection lasted from October 2019 to January 2020. Validated scales were used for the questionnaire, except for virtuality. Due to insufficient operationalisation to date, a virtuality scale was developed based on the current state of research. The data were analysed with multiple regression analyses. Results The results show that virtuality and perceived stress impaired sleep quality of virtual team members in this sample. In contrast, successful psychological detachment from work was positively related to sleep quality. There were no significant results for boundarylessness. Virtual team members with managerial responsibility showed higher levels of psychological detachment. Conclusion The study provides first insights in the relationship between virtual teamwork and employee health in the German context. Further research, particularly on job demands in virtual teamwork, is needed to derive concrete health promotion and prevention measures.

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Coping with coping strategies: how distributed teams and their members deal with the stress of distance, time zones and culture

Nurmi

2011

Stress and Health

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The changing world of work is increasing demands on workers through greater need for flexibility in global collaboration. This multiple-case study uses a qualitative research approach to study context-specific job stressors and coping in ten geographically distributed work teams. Results demonstrate the complex and dynamic nature of the stress-coping process and how coping strategies, adapted to manage stress-evoking uncertainty and ambiguity in distributed work, created secondary sources of psychological strain to individuals. The main strategies for managing the uncertainty and ambiguity in the studied teams were extensive emailing, travelling to face-to-face meetings and extending workdays to collaborate simultaneously across time zones. Continuously used, these coping strategies created work overload and strain. Experienced workers, who had good self-management skills, succeeded in coping with these secondary sources of strain by prioritizing and setting clear limits for workload. Less-experienced workers were overloaded and needed more social support from their leaders and teammates. The study proposes that distributed team members rely heavily on individual coping resources, because spatial and temporal distance hinders or even precludes the mobilization of social resources related to emotional, instrumental and informational social support.

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Well-being and Stress in Mobile and Virtual Work

Cited by 18 publications

References 27 publications

Changing requirements and mental workload factors in mobile multi-locational work

Changing requirements and mental workload factors in mobile multi-locational work

Boundarylessness and sleep quality among virtual team members – a cross-sectional study from Germany

Coping with coping strategies: how distributed teams and their members deal with the stress of distance, time zones and culture

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