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Daily hassles, resilience, and burnout of call centre staff / Willem Alfonzo VisserVisser, Willem Alfonzo January 2007 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D. (Industrial Psychology) )--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2007.
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Daily hassles, resilience, and burnout of call centre staff / Willem Alfonzo VisserVisser, Willem Alfonzo January 2007 (has links)
Internationally, as well as locally, the trend is for companies to use call centres as their
preferred method of service delivery. The increase in the use of call centres as a service
delivery mechanism thus provides many more employment opportunities. Within call centres,
service is primarily delivered by frontline employees referred to as customer service
representatives (CSRs). While nothing seems to stop the growth of call centres and the
increase of employment opportunities within them, working in call centres is not necessarily
experienced as pleasant. Working in a call centre is frequently seen as stressful and the work
in such a centre can foster burnout. Burnout is considered to be a pathogenic construct.
The first purpose of this study was to describe and investigate the contribution of six central
characteristics (antecedents) of call centre work environments and their influence on burnout,
affective commitment and turnover intentions. These characteristics were work overload;
electronic performance monitoring; lack of career and promotion opportunities, lack of skill
variety and emotional labour. An incidental sample of customer service representatives
(N=146) was obtained from the inbound service call centre of a large financial company. AU
six independent variables were found to be significantly related to the experience of burnout,
affective commitment and turnover intentions. Multiple regression analysis made it possible
to establish that work overload, lack of career and promotion opportunities and skill variety,
and emotional labour were the most important predictors of burnout, whereas lack of career
and promotion opportunities was the most significant predictors of both affective
commitment and turnover intentions. Burnout had a direct effect on turnover intentions and
was not mediated by affective commitment.
One antecedent that is often associated with the development of burnout is daily hassles, but
daily hassles as an antecedent of burnout in call centres has not been studied before. The
second purpose of this study was to develop a short Call Centre Daily Hassle Diagnostic
Questionnaire that could be used to identify the most common daily hassles that call centre
agents experience in their working lives, both within the work environment and within their
day-to-day personal lives, and to determine the relationship between it and burnout. A cross-sectional
survey research design was used with an accidental sample (N=394) taken from a
service and sales call centre. An exploratory factor analysis of the data resulted in a six-factor
model of daily hassles within call centres that significantly predicted exhaustion. The factors
were daily demands, continuous change, co-worker hassles, demotivating work environment,
transportation hassles and inner concerns.
In the third part of this research thesis there is a shift away from the pathogenic paradigm
towards a more salutogenic/fortigenic paradigm. Very little previous research has been done
on adult resilience. The purpose of the third study was to explore the concept of adult
resilience and to identify and describe the protective and vulnerability factors that play a role
in adult resilience. Through the use of an exploratory factor analysis, eight factors were
identified that played a role in adult resilience. They were Confidence and Optimism,
Positive Reinterpretation, Facing Adversity, Support, Determination, Negative Rumination,
Religion and Helplessness.
Based on the findings of this research, some practical recommendations were made for the
management of call centres to reduce the development of burnout and turnover intentions, on
how to utilise the Hassle-based Diagnostic Scale and on how to apply the Adult Resilience
Indicator in the training and development of resilience. / Thesis (Ph.D. (Industrial Psychology) )--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2007.
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Daily hassles, resilience, and burnout of call centre staff / Willem Alfonzo VisserVisser, Willem Alfonzo January 2007 (has links)
Internationally, as well as locally, the trend is for companies to use call centres as their
preferred method of service delivery. The increase in the use of call centres as a service
delivery mechanism thus provides many more employment opportunities. Within call centres,
service is primarily delivered by frontline employees referred to as customer service
representatives (CSRs). While nothing seems to stop the growth of call centres and the
increase of employment opportunities within them, working in call centres is not necessarily
experienced as pleasant. Working in a call centre is frequently seen as stressful and the work
in such a centre can foster burnout. Burnout is considered to be a pathogenic construct.
The first purpose of this study was to describe and investigate the contribution of six central
characteristics (antecedents) of call centre work environments and their influence on burnout,
affective commitment and turnover intentions. These characteristics were work overload;
electronic performance monitoring; lack of career and promotion opportunities, lack of skill
variety and emotional labour. An incidental sample of customer service representatives
(N=146) was obtained from the inbound service call centre of a large financial company. AU
six independent variables were found to be significantly related to the experience of burnout,
affective commitment and turnover intentions. Multiple regression analysis made it possible
to establish that work overload, lack of career and promotion opportunities and skill variety,
and emotional labour were the most important predictors of burnout, whereas lack of career
and promotion opportunities was the most significant predictors of both affective
commitment and turnover intentions. Burnout had a direct effect on turnover intentions and
was not mediated by affective commitment.
One antecedent that is often associated with the development of burnout is daily hassles, but
daily hassles as an antecedent of burnout in call centres has not been studied before. The
second purpose of this study was to develop a short Call Centre Daily Hassle Diagnostic
Questionnaire that could be used to identify the most common daily hassles that call centre
agents experience in their working lives, both within the work environment and within their
day-to-day personal lives, and to determine the relationship between it and burnout. A cross-sectional
survey research design was used with an accidental sample (N=394) taken from a
service and sales call centre. An exploratory factor analysis of the data resulted in a six-factor
model of daily hassles within call centres that significantly predicted exhaustion. The factors
were daily demands, continuous change, co-worker hassles, demotivating work environment,
transportation hassles and inner concerns.
In the third part of this research thesis there is a shift away from the pathogenic paradigm
towards a more salutogenic/fortigenic paradigm. Very little previous research has been done
on adult resilience. The purpose of the third study was to explore the concept of adult
resilience and to identify and describe the protective and vulnerability factors that play a role
in adult resilience. Through the use of an exploratory factor analysis, eight factors were
identified that played a role in adult resilience. They were Confidence and Optimism,
Positive Reinterpretation, Facing Adversity, Support, Determination, Negative Rumination,
Religion and Helplessness.
Based on the findings of this research, some practical recommendations were made for the
management of call centres to reduce the development of burnout and turnover intentions, on
how to utilise the Hassle-based Diagnostic Scale and on how to apply the Adult Resilience
Indicator in the training and development of resilience. / Thesis (Ph.D. (Industrial Psychology) )--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2007.
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Investigating the relationship between intrinsic and extrinsic reward, job satisfaction, organisational commitment and turnover intention / Anntha Visser.Visser, Anntha January 2012 (has links)
Retention strategies in the nursing profession have been a significant subject among researchers for decades. The current shortages of these skilled professionals have reached an alarming extent globally, making it difficult for organisations to retain these workers, also in South Africa. It has become evident that nursing professionals from South Africa emigrate to other countries for more lucrative remuneration, sophisticated work resources and better career opportunities, impacting the South African economy and nursing workforce negatively.
The general objective of the research was to determine whether a relationship exists between intrinsic and extrinsic rewards, job satisfaction, organisational commitment and turnover intention among a group of South African healthcare workers in the private healthcare sector. Specifically of interest was also to see if nurses’ turnover intention could be predicted by the other variables.
A cross-sectional survey design was used. A convenience sample of 152 healthcare workers was obtained from three private hospitals in the Gauteng and North-West provinces. A measuring instrument for intrinsic and extrinsic rewards was adapted from a previous study, and applied with measures of job satisfaction, affective organisational commitment and turnover intention.
Results indicated that the measure of rewards did not present with sufficient reliability, and it was subjected to factor analysis. This delivered two reliable factors, which were labelled Objective experience of rewards and Perceived lacking organisational support. Objective experience of rewards showed to be significantly related to job satisfaction and inversely to turnover intention, and Perceived lacking organisational support was significantly negatively related to job satisfaction and positively to turnover intention. It was also seen that both job satisfaction and objective experience of rewards showed predictive value in terms of nurses’ turnover intention.
Conclusions and limitations regarding this study were made, and recommendations regarding the profession and future research are made. / Thesis (MCom (Industrial Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2013.
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Investigating the relationship between intrinsic and extrinsic reward, job satisfaction, organisational commitment and turnover intention / Anntha Visser.Visser, Anntha January 2012 (has links)
Retention strategies in the nursing profession have been a significant subject among researchers for decades. The current shortages of these skilled professionals have reached an alarming extent globally, making it difficult for organisations to retain these workers, also in South Africa. It has become evident that nursing professionals from South Africa emigrate to other countries for more lucrative remuneration, sophisticated work resources and better career opportunities, impacting the South African economy and nursing workforce negatively.
The general objective of the research was to determine whether a relationship exists between intrinsic and extrinsic rewards, job satisfaction, organisational commitment and turnover intention among a group of South African healthcare workers in the private healthcare sector. Specifically of interest was also to see if nurses’ turnover intention could be predicted by the other variables.
A cross-sectional survey design was used. A convenience sample of 152 healthcare workers was obtained from three private hospitals in the Gauteng and North-West provinces. A measuring instrument for intrinsic and extrinsic rewards was adapted from a previous study, and applied with measures of job satisfaction, affective organisational commitment and turnover intention.
Results indicated that the measure of rewards did not present with sufficient reliability, and it was subjected to factor analysis. This delivered two reliable factors, which were labelled Objective experience of rewards and Perceived lacking organisational support. Objective experience of rewards showed to be significantly related to job satisfaction and inversely to turnover intention, and Perceived lacking organisational support was significantly negatively related to job satisfaction and positively to turnover intention. It was also seen that both job satisfaction and objective experience of rewards showed predictive value in terms of nurses’ turnover intention.
Conclusions and limitations regarding this study were made, and recommendations regarding the profession and future research are made. / Thesis (MCom (Industrial Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2013.
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