Is Lean Mean

Workplace Transformation and Employee Well-being

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2374890
AutoresRichard Anderson-Connolly (University of Puget Sound, autor correspondente), Leon Grunberg (University of Puget Sound), Edward S Greenberg (University of Colorado Boulder), Sarah Moore (0000-0003-4961-9982, University of Puget Sound)
Ano2002
Volume16
Fascículo3
Páginas389-413
Data de publicação2002-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoWork Employment and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0950-0170 • E-ISSN: 1469-8722
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/095001702762217407
OpenAlexW2168575224
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12
Referências citadas33

This article examines the relationship between workplace transformation (or restructuring) and the well-being of employees, in terms of both psychological and physical health, at a large manufacturing corporation in the United States. While the previous literature has been largely divided over the issue - some researchers providing unqualified enthusiasm and others equally strong criticism of workplace changes - we found, after decomposing workplace transformation into five distinct dimensions of intensity, autonomy, team-work, skilling and computing, that certain components were harmful while others were beneficial to the employees. Furthermore, some effects of reengineering varied between managers and non-managers. Overall, increases in workplace intensity were associated with the largest increases in stress and symptoms of poor health. The data were produced by a longitudinal (two-wave) survey questionnaire of over 1000 employees and were analyzed by means of a structural equations model

Autonomy · Business · Corporation · Criticism · Enthusiasm · Political science · Public relations · Restructuring · Structural equation modeling · Work (physics · Work Intensity · Applied Psychology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior · Mathematics · Psychology · Social Psychology · Workplace Health and Well-being · Marketing