Reducing Hindering Job Demands: The Role of Belief in Life as a Zero-Sum Game and Workload

Roczniewska, Marta; Wojciszke, Bogdan

doi:10.3390/ijerph181910036

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“…Rudolph et al noted that nurses who experience higher workloads will be motivated to reduce the demands that create obstacles and seek resources that can help them counteract those demands [ 24 ]. As a result, decreasing job demands may have the unintended consequence of workloads being piled onto coworkers [ 25 ].…”

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The Relationship Between Job Crafting and Nurses’ Happiness in Bisha Region, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Alharthi¹,

Elseesy²,

Aljohani³

2023

Cureus

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Background Job crafting is an example of constructive behavior in which workers aggregate resources to meet their needs and succeed at work. Individuals may change job boundaries and social relationships at their convenience to feel closer to what they consider the perfect workplace. Aim To analyze the relationship of job crafting with nurses' happiness. Method A quantitative cross-sectional study was conducted on 441 nurses from Saudi Arabia. Data were collected using an electronic questionnaire (Google Drive). This questionnaire includes demographic factors, a Job Crafting Scale (JCS), and the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire (OHQ). Ethical considerations were strictly followed in the present study. Result The results revealed that most nurses had a high level of job crafting. The overall mean score of JCS was (91.2 ± 11.8). The present results demonstrate that the overall mean happiness score was at a moderate level. The overall mean OHQ score was 3.98 ± 4.25, and there was a significant positive correlation between the OHQ score according to the increasing structural domain (r=0.246), decreasing hindering job demands (r=0.220), increasing social job resources (r=0.176), increasing challenging job demands (r=0.212), and the overall total JCS (r=0.252). This indicates that the increase in job happiness is correlated with the increase in job crafting. Conclusion Job crafting has a positive significant relation with nurses' happiness. It is the responsibility of nurse managers and educators in the healthcare industry to provide a suitable work environment, beginning with including employees in decision-making and duties through leadership empowerment and providing support programs, and activities to increase the job happiness and job crafting experienced by nurses.

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The Relationship Between Job Crafting and Nurses’ Happiness in Bisha Region, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Alharthi¹,

Elseesy²,

Aljohani³

2023

Cureus

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“…At the heart of BZSG lies the core assumption that resources constitute a "finite pie", in which one person's winning makes all others losers, and vice versa (Covey, 1991). Zerosum beliefs affect emotion and cognition and are linked to predominantly destructive interpersonal dynamics (Roczniewska and Wojciszke, 2021), including a lower quality exchange relationship (Crocker et al, 2017), negative reciprocity (R o _ zycka-Tran et al, 2015) and reduced help giving (Sirola and Pitesa, 2017). Individuals with high BZSG view self-interests and other-interest as antagonistic, in which territorial and belongingness motivations present incompatible goal pursuits.…”

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Evolutionary motives in employees’ knowledge behavior when being envied at work

David

Shih

2023

JKM

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Purpose Knowledge transfer is a crucial ingredient of employee innovation, yet affective work events may disrupt knowledge flow among employees. This study aims to investigate a previously overlooked, yet frequently occurring affective work experience, namely, that of being envied, and examine how perceptions of being envied may drive contrastive knowledge behaviors of sharing and hiding, which subsequently impact employee innovation. The study further examines how the zero-sum game beliefs of the envied individual may moderate these mechanisms. Design/methodology/approach This study builds on territorial and belongingness theories to delineate the contrastive motivations for knowledge hiding and knowledge sharing. This study tests a moderated mediation model through a multisource survey design involving 225 employees. Findings The results support the notion that perceptions of being envied are linked to both knowledge hiding and knowledge sharing; however, the indirect effect of being envied on innovation is observed only through knowledge sharing. The indirect positive link between perceptions of being envied and innovation via knowledge sharing is weakened when the envied employee holds high zero-sum game beliefs. Originality/value This study advances knowledge scholarship by identifying and testing the organizationally relevant but largely overlooked antecedent of being envied at work. The results provide useful insights to practitioners on how sharing or hiding knowledge serves as a strategic asset in response to being envied at work and how this may in turn impact employee innovation.

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The relationship between career-related future time orientation and employment outcomes: a time-lagged study

Hu,

Hood,

Creed

et al. 2024

Int J Educ Vocat Guidance

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Reducing Hindering Job Demands: The Role of Belief in Life as a Zero-Sum Game and Workload

Cited by 6 publications

References 57 publications

The Relationship Between Job Crafting and Nurses’ Happiness in Bisha Region, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

The Relationship Between Job Crafting and Nurses’ Happiness in Bisha Region, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Evolutionary motives in employees’ knowledge behavior when being envied at work

The relationship between career-related future time orientation and employment outcomes: a time-lagged study

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