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Skill Utilization (skill + utilization)
Selected AbstractsWorker flexibility and its perceived contribution to performance: The moderating role of task characteristicsHUMAN FACTORS AND ERGONOMICS IN MANUFACTURING & SERVICE INDUSTRIES, Issue 2 2007Eric Molleman This study examined the relationship between worker flexibility in team-based work and its perceived contribution to efficiency, work quality, and innovation, and the moderating role of task autonomy, skill utilization, and task monotony. Four-hundred ninety-four employees from 113 teams in 15 organizations completed and returned questionnaires. Skill utilization proved to be positively related to perceived contribution of flexibility to efficiency, work quality, and innovation. Furthermore, skill utilization strengthened the positive relationships between worker flexibility and its perceived contribution to efficiency and work quality and weakened the negative relationship between worker flexibility and its perceived impact on innovation. Task monotony was negatively related to the perceived quality benefits of being flexible. In addition, it weakened the positive relationship between worker flexibility and its perceived contribution to both efficiency and quality and strengthened the negative relationship with the perceived impact of flexibility on innovation. Task autonomy was positively related to the perceived contribution of flexibility to innovation and weakened the negative relationship between worker flexibility and the perceived innovation benefits of being flexible. The authors conclude that skill utilization and lack of monotony are important issues in relation to worker flexibility on all performance objectives that were considered, whereas task autonomy seems especially relevant when innovation is a key issue. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Hum Factors Man 17: 117,135, 2007. [source] Jailed resources: conservation of resources theory as applied to burnout among prison guardsJOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR, Issue 1 2007Jean-Pierre Neveu This study evaluates a salutogenic perspective of the burnout process. Building upon Hobfoll's (1989) Conservation of Resources theory, it proposes a simultaneous test of three hypothesized resources-based models. These competing models test the structure of burnout in relation to depleted resources (e.g., lack of skill utilization, of participation, of co-worker support, and of professional worth) and negative correlates (e.g., absenteeism and depression). SEM results provide equally good support for two resource-based models, although each of them proceeds from two different approaches (Leiter vs. Golembiewski). Of all burnout components, personal accomplishment is found to be least related to resources depletion, while emotional exhaustion is the most related to absenteeism and depression. Results are analyzed in light of existing literature and of the specific nature of the sample, a large population of French correctional officers (n,=,707). Implications for burnout theory and human resource management are discussed. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] The Utilization of Education and Skills: Evidence from BritainTHE MANCHESTER SCHOOL, Issue 6 2002Francis Green This paper assesses how far the products of education are utilized in the British labour market, and how utilization has recently changed. We distinguish the concepts of ,under,education', ,over,education' and ,qualification inflation'. Using data from four surveys we find that over,education, while substantial, has been stable since the mid,1980s. Although observed over,education is partly associated with low ability compared with one's educational peers, both over,education and skill under,utilization are also associated with mismatch in the labour market, and both involve a loss of wages. We conclude that, in order to inform policy, education and skill utilization should be closely monitored. [source] | ||||||||||