Workers’ Health, Wellbeing, and Safety in the Digitalizing Platform Economy

Ropponen, Annina; Hakanen, Jari; Hasu, Mervi; Seppänen, Laura

doi:10.4324/9780429467929-4

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“…Fourth, today's work life has more non-standardized employment contracts than those included in our study. In the future, more attention should be paid to the specific job demands and job resources-and also to the lack of demands and resources-and their relationships with vitality at work of those working in platforms, for instance [63]. Finally, although our study examined 30 countries, they were all European.…”

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Testing Demands and Resources as Determinants of Vitality among Different Employment Contract Groups. A Study in 30 European Countries

Hakanen

Ropponen

Witte

et al. 2019

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The aim of this study was to investigate the relative importance of four job demands and five job resources for employee vitality, i.e., work engagement and exhaustion, in three different employment groups: permanent, temporary and temporary agency workers. We employed data from the sixth European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) collected in 2015 comprising 28,042 employees from 30 European countries. We used linear regression analyses and dominance analysis (DA). The results showed minor mean differences in work engagement and exhaustion and that temporary agency workers had the highest job insecurity and lowest job control. The associations between job resources and job demands, and work engagement and exhaustion of the groups, did not differ considerably. DA showed that in all three employment groups, job feedback made the strongest contribution to work engagement and workload to exhaustion. In addition, among the temporary agency workers, supervisor support contributed to work engagement and job control (negatively) to exhaustion more than in the other groups. This study suggests that the key determinants of vitality at work may be similar, regardless of contract, and that to have sustainably performing vital workers, organizations should focus on enabling job feedback and preventing high workload in all employment groups.

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Testing Demands and Resources as Determinants of Vitality among Different Employment Contract Groups. A Study in 30 European Countries

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Witte

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“…(II) Employees/Freelancers: to complement the perspective of the management level, employees and freelancers were also identified as a stakeholder-group. It is assumed that employees/freelancers are often more affected by risks related to, for example, platform-based labour [36,37]. (III) Citizens: For the overall social analysis, citizens who had direct or indirect contact with digital platforms were also surveyed.…”

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“…German laws and regulations do not apply here. Work-related illnesses may therefore arise increasingly in the future as a result of these working conditions [36,58,59]. It is necessary to identify the physical and mental stress situations as well as the work-related hazards and to derive effective measures for health and safety at work [60].…”

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Digital platforms: Perceived criteria of success, importance of work design, occupational safety and health for present and prospective digital platforms

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Görke

Hesemann

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BACKGROUND: Digital platforms have found their way into all our lives: they are discussed in political, economic, scientific and public fields worldwide. Platform-based work is also on the rise in the German labour market, not only in institutionalised work, but also in start-ups and spin-offs. OBJECTIVES: The article describes the results of an analysis aimed at identifying perceptions of new and already known major success factors on market entry and market penetration regarding occupational safety and health (OSH) and work design. METHODS: A total of 31 semi-standardised interviews were conducted with 39 people. First, perceived success factors in general were examined with the comparative analysis. Surprisingly, OSH/work design factors did not emerge as perceived success factors. For this reason, a in-depth analysis was performed in a secondary analysis with the structured content analysis. RESULTS: Identified perceived success factors were user orientation, scalability, network effects, niche occupation. The in-depth secondary analysis with focus on OSH/work design showed that the interviewees are aware of the topic of OSH/work design, but did not consider it to be important to economic success. CONCLUSIONS: The identified success factors may not seem surprising. What is surprising, however, is the role played by OSH/work design. Solutions must be developed that sensitize working persons in the platform sector to the topic of OSH/work design. A two-step process may be useful: First, uniform regulations and laws must be anchored in the platform architecture. Second, various measures and training courses can be designed to inform and raise awareness.

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“…The configuration of work practices with high-performance in terms of job resources was found to have a positive influence on health conditions (Hauff et al, 2020). Health conditions are physical and mental conditions in general so that they can work optimally (Ropponen et al, 2019). HPWPs which are known to have an influence on employee health also have other effects on several components.…”

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Effect of High-performance Work Practices on Civil Servants Health Based on Two Sides of the Job Demands-resources Model in the National Research and Innovation Agency Indonesia

Itsnaini¹,

Riani²

2022

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The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of High-Performance Work Practices (HPWPs) viewed from two sides of the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model on employee health. The proposed model was tested on 402 civil servants of the Indonesian Research and Innovation Agency. We utilized Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) to analyze the study. Our results show that HPWPs has a significant positive impact on employee health, job satisfaction, employee engagement, and challenge stressors. Besides that, we found that HPWPs has a negative impact on stressors and emotional exhaustion. In addition, job satisfaction, employee engagement, challenge and hindrance stressors become partial mediators in the positive effect of HPWPs on employee health. Meanwhile, supportive leadership tends to reduce the positive influence of HPWPs on employee health. The results of this study indicate that agencies should pay more attention to the dose of JD-R and the role of leadership in HPWPs in order to improve employee well-being. Because if job demands higher than the work resources, it has a negative impact on employees, even excessive leadership roles in the HPWPs have a negative impact on employees

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Workers’ Health, Wellbeing, and Safety in the Digitalizing Platform Economy

Cited by 12 publications

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Testing Demands and Resources as Determinants of Vitality among Different Employment Contract Groups. A Study in 30 European Countries

Testing Demands and Resources as Determinants of Vitality among Different Employment Contract Groups. A Study in 30 European Countries

Digital platforms: Perceived criteria of success, importance of work design, occupational safety and health for present and prospective digital platforms

Effect of High-performance Work Practices on Civil Servants Health Based on Two Sides of the Job Demands-resources Model in the National Research and Innovation Agency Indonesia

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