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National Employment Systems and Job Autonomy: Why Job Autonomy Is High in the Nordic Countries and Low in the United States, Canada, and Australia

open access: yesOrganization Studies, 1999
We present evidence that, across countries, similar jobs carry very different levels of autonomy. Workers in Nordic countries have greater discretion than workers in the United States, Canada, and Australia, all else being equal.
Frank Dobbin
exaly   +2 more sources

Influence of job autonomy on job crafting of dental hygienists

International Journal of Dental Hygiene, 2023
AbstractObjectivesJob autonomy focuses on the job performance and tasks of health providers with a national licence in South Korea, which affects job crafting, to develop job competency. This study was conducted to identify the influence of job autonomy on job crafting of dental hygienists.MethodsThis cross‐sectional study included 411 dental ...
Young‐Eun Jang, Nam‐Hee Kim
openaire   +2 more sources

Leader–Member Exchange (LMX), Job Autonomy, and Creative Work Involvement [PDF]

open access: yesLeadership Quarterly, 2012
Researchers have claimed that high quality of supervisor–employee relationships (i.e., leader– member exchange; LMX) fosters creativity at work. Moreover, researchers have acknowledged that this relationship is not clear-cut but rather complex.
Daniel Spurk   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Nurses autonomy and job satisfaction

Social Science & Medicine, 1988
Nurses' autonomy is structurally limited by physicians' close supervision and control. A prolonged physicians' strike in Israel in 1983 created a special situation where for 3 months nurses had to provide primary health care services without physicians.
S, Carmel   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Autonomy: An Important Component for Nurses’ Job Satisfaction

International Journal of Nursing Studies, 2001
This quantitative pilot study (n=178), conducted in a large Brisbane teaching hospital in Australia, found autonomy to be the most important job component for registered nurses' job satisfaction. The actual level of satisfaction with autonomy was 4.6, on a scale of 1 for very dissatisfied to 7 for very satisfied.
exaly   +6 more sources

Waitressing, Vulnerability, and Job Autonomy

Sociology of Work and Occupations, 1980
The question for research is: what effect does job autonomy have on the sense of vulnerability expressed by those working for tips rather than for contracted wages? Vulnerability, the dependent variable, is a measure of the worker's perception of risk attached to working under such an arrangement.
Suellen Butler, James K. Skipper
openaire   +1 more source

Perceived Autonomy and Job Satisfaction in Occupational Therapists

American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 1988
Perceived autonomy, overall job satisfaction, and specific work incentives and disincentives were surveyed in 249 occupational therapists. Respondents rated autonomy and job satisfaction moderately high. They perceived achievement, interpersonal relationships with co-workers, and the nature of the work itself as incentives.
G L, Davis, J E, Bordieri
openaire   +2 more sources

The Bright and Dark Sides of Job Autonomy

2017
In recent decades, the regulation of work has been increasingly handed over to the individual worker, who is given greater autonomy in performing his/her job. Employees can decide not only how (methods autonomy) but also when (worktime autonomy) and where they perform their work (workplace autonomy ).
Bettina Kubicek   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Autonomy in Unlikely Places: Preconditions in Low-Skilled Jobs

2015
Can low-skilled jobs be designed advantageously with high levels of autonomy? Since the beginning of industrialism, Taylorist principles of separating planning and execution of work have dominated the design of work organisation in the private sector.
Sørensen, Ole H.   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

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