Title
A diary study to open up the black box of overtime work among university faculty members
Author
TNO Kwaliteit van Leven
Beckers, D.G.J.
van Hooff, M.L.M.
van der Linden, D.
Kompier, M.A.J.
Taris, T.W.
Geurts, S.A.E.
Publication year
2008
Abstract
Objectives: This study aimed at opening up the black box of overtime work among university faculty members by providing information on (i) when faculty members work overtime, (ii) what activities are undertaken during overtime, and (iii) how overtime is experienced. Methods: Data were collected among 120 Dutch faculty members who completed a general questionnaire (addressing general overtime hours, work characteristics, and well-being) and a 9-day diary study (with information on daily overtime hours, activities, and experiences). Analyses of variance were used to analyze the data. Results: Overtime was very prevalent among faculty members, high overtime workers being nonfatigued, engaged employees with positive work characteristics. Overtime was unevenly distributed over the week, being common on Sunday and Monday and uncommon on Friday and Saturday. Overtime activities during the weekend differed from those during the workweek, relatively much time being spent on research during weekend overtime. Overtime activities were experienced differently than activities during regular hours, overtime work being experienced as less effortful and less stressful than regular workhours and weekend overtime being less pleasurable than regular hours and evening overtime. Conclusions: This detailed day-to-day mapping and evaluation of overtime work contributes to a better understanding of overtime work by demonstrating meaningful patterns of overtime over the (work)week and meaningful associations between overtime activities and time-contingent experiences. It is suggested that worktime control plays an important role in explaining the results. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Subject
Veilig en Gezond Werken
Overwerk
Arbeidsduur
Werktijden
Arbeidstijden
Well-being
Workhours
Worktime control
Occupation
Questionnaire survey
Variance analysis
Working conditions
Analysis of variance
Controlled study
Data analysis
Employee attitude
Job stress
Netherlands
Night work
Questionnaire
Teacher
Wellbeing
Work experience
Work schedule
Working time
Adult
Faculty
Internal-External Control
Middle Aged
Personnel Staffing and Scheduling
Questionnaires
Universities
Work Schedule Tolerance
Workload
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TNO identifier
240839
ISSN
0355-3140
Source
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health, 34 (34), 213-223
Document type
article