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You want me to do what? Two daily diary studies of illegitimate tasks and employee well-being.
- Source :
- Journal of Organizational Behavior (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.); Jan2016, Vol. 37 Issue 1, p108-127, 20p
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- Illegitimate tasks, a recently introduced occupational stressor, are tasks that violate norms about what an employee can reasonably be expected to do. Because they are considered a threat to one's professional identity, we expected that the daily experience of illegitimate tasks would be linked to a drop in self-esteem and to impaired well-being. We report results of two daily diary studies, one in which 57 Swiss employees were assessed twice/day and one in which 90 Americans were assessed three times/day. Both studies showed that illegitimate tasks were associated with lowered state self-esteem. Study 1 demonstrated that high trait selfesteem mitigated that relationship. Study 2 showed that illegitimate tasks were associated with not only lowered state self-esteem but also lower job satisfaction and higher anger and depressive mood, but not anger or job satisfaction remained elevated until the following morning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- JOB stress
SELF-esteem
JOB satisfaction research
INDUSTRIAL psychology research
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 08943796
- Volume :
- 37
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Organizational Behavior (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 112207535
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2032