Labour contracts in the European Union, 2000-2005: Differences among demographic groups and implications for the quality of working life and work satisfaction

Current theorizing holds that organizations may be less motivated to offer good work circumstances to temporary workers because the latter do not constitute the core of the organization. This implies that their quality of working life and work satisfaction could be lower than that of permanent workers. Therefore, it is potentially important to...

Voluntary or involuntary? Control over overtime and rewards for overtime in relation to fatigue and work satisfaction

This study aims to examine whether the relationship between overtime and well-being is influenced by the voluntary vs. involuntary (i.e., compulsory) nature of overtime work and by the presence or absence of rewards for overtime. We also explored the prevalence of these types of overtime and how they were related to work and personal...

Hoe mensen werken: Een praktijkboek voor leidinggevenden

Met hard werken is niets mis, als er maar gelegenheid is voor herstel. In Hoe mensen werken geven de auteurs aan hoe je als leidinggevende werknemers kunt helpen in balans te blijven. Werkgevers zijn namelijk sinds kort verplicht mee te werken aan het herstel van werknemers met psychische problematiek. (Psychologie) Een loopbaan start met wensen...

A direct measure of morale in the Royal Netherlands Armed Forces Morale survey: ‘Theoretical puzzle, emperical testing and validation’

The psychological stresses on military personnel and units of the Netherlands’ Armed Forces are enormous due to the types of conflict which military personnel is involved in, the use of modern technology and the high pace of operations. High morale is a determinant of sustained effective performance and vitally important in keeping stress...

Burnout and work engagement: Exploring individual and psychophysiological differences

Burnout has been a major topic in occupational health psychology for the past three decades, and work engagement, presumed to be burnout's opposite, recently gained increasing interest. The two main research questions of this thesis were: (1) To what extent can burnout and work engagement be described in terms of personality dimensions?; and (2)...