You want me to do what? Two daily diary studies of illegitimate tasks and employee well-being

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• Personal Author:
  Eatough EM ; Elfering A ; Igic I ; Meier LL ; Semmer NK ; Spector PE
• Description:
  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 self-esteem 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. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Mental Health Occupational Health Safety Stress, Psychological
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Illegitimate Tasks Emotional Stress Employee Satisfaction Ethics Job Analysis Job Satisfaction Job Stress Mental Stress Occupational Stress Professional Workers Psychological Effects Psychological Responses Self-esteem Task Performance Well-being Worker Health Work Experience Work Operations Work Practices

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• ISSN:
  0894-3796
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Florida ; New York ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  108-127
• Volume:
  37
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20048393
• Citation:
  J Organ Behav 2016 Jan; 37(1):108-127
• Contact Point Address:
  Erin M. Eatough, Department of Psychology, Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, The City University of New York, Baruch College, One Bernard Baruch Way, New York, NY, 10010, U.S.A.
• Email:
  erin.eatough@baruch.cuny.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2016
• Performing Organization:
  Sunshine Education and Research Center, University of South Florida
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Organizational Behavior
• End Date:
  20290630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7fcec185b617ee93c9e4d62151ccf244303365f76881a2858ee13c0d0f7a014c90efead5404f89c8fb0ccd5fb328af794c1748530902e722ef863d6df45b8704
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/203153/cdc_203153_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 185.03 KB ]