The gradually increasing pressure of the organization¡¦s job demands becomes a universal and unchangeable fact. Most studies focused on the normal causal relationships between work stress and its outcomes rather than the reversed and reciprocal relationships between them. From the view points of drift hypothesis and gain and loss spiral resulting from the conservation of resource theory, the present study probed the reciprocal relationships between job characteristics, burnout and health.
Two-wave panel data were collected from nurses both in public and private hospitals in southern Taiwan. Pre-test data were used to test the Cronbach's £\ and confirmatory factor analysis for each scale. Structural equation modeling implemented with AMOS 5.0 was employed to test the fitness of the hypothesized models. Through a series of nested models competing, our findings showed that the final models fitted well to the data. Our results proved some cross-lagged effects including the normal causal relationships between psychosocial job characteristics and burnout, the reversed causal relationships between burnout and mental, physical health, burnout has partial mediating relationships between psychosocial job characteristics and mental, physical health, and the reciprocal causal relationships between psychosocial job characteristics, burnout, and mental, physical health.
According to our findings, managerial implications can be suggested that managers should pay attention to employees¡¦ burnout and introduce some managerial practices immediately in order to prevent the harmful outcomes of health. It can be achieved by higher job control to alleviate employees¡¦ job strain. Organizations should increase employee¡¦s job control such as job redesign, flexible work schedules, and goal setting. In addition, burnout can be affected by mental and physical health as well. From the viewpoint of organizational intervention, stress management programs can help to improve employees¡¦ physical and mental health, which will in turn release employee¡¦s burnout. Organizations will gain a competitive advantage if they make better use of their human resources.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0824110-110449 |
| Date | 24 August 2010 |
| Creators | Huang, Yu-Hwa |
| Contributors | Te-Cheng Yu, Liang-Chih Huang, Shyh-jer Chen, Yuan-Duen Lee, Ing-Chung Huang |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0824110-110449 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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