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| Titre : | Work Orientations, Well-Being and Job Content of Self-Employed and Employed Professionals (2018) |
| Auteurs : | Peter B. Warr ; Ilke Inceoglu |
| Type de document : | Article : document électronique |
| Dans : | Work, employment and society (vol. 32, n° 2, April 2018) |
| Article en page(s) : | pp. 292–311 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Catégories : |
Thésaurus CEREQ TRAVAIL INDEPENDANT ; REPRESENTATION DU TRAVAIL ; CONDITION DE TRAVAIL |
| Résumé : | Drawing on psychology-derived theories and methods, a questionnaire survey compared principal kinds of work orientation, job content and mental well-being between self-employed and organisationally employed professional workers. Self-employment was found to be particularly associated with energised well-being in the form of job engagement. The presence in self-employment of greater challenge, such as an enhanced requirement for personal innovation, accounted statistically for self-employed professionals’ greater job engagement, and self-employed professionals more strongly valued personal challenge than did professionals employed in an organisation. However, no between-role differences occurred in respect of supportive job features such as having a comfortable workplace. Differences in well-being, job content and work orientations were found primarily in comparison between self-employees and organisational non-managers. The study emphasises the need to distinguish conceptually and empirically between different forms of work orientation, job content and well-being, and points to the value of incorporating psychological thinking in some sociological research. (source: article) |
| Document Céreq : | Non |
| En ligne : | http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0950017017717684 |
