Research Group for Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
J Occup Health Psychol. 2012 Apr;17(2):162-74. doi: 10.1037/a0027348. Epub 2012 Feb 20.
This longitudinal study probes the relationship between employability and burnout among employees from a company undergoing reorganization. We advanced employability as a personal resource that relates negatively to burnout. We expected that this hypothesis would hold for different operationalizations of employability, including (1) job-related and (2) transferable skills, (3) willingness to change jobs and (4) to develop competences, (5) opportunity awareness, (6) self-esteem, and (7) self-perceived employability (i.e., perceived employment opportunities). In a similar vein, we expected that the hypothesis would hold for the different dimensions of burnout; namely emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced personal accomplishment. We used longitudinal Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) to test our hypotheses. Employees from a Swiss company undergoing a major reorganization were surveyed at three times with a total time lag of 19 months (Time 1: N = 287; Time 2: N = 128; Time 3: N = 107). Our results indicate that particularly self-esteem, but also job-related and transferable skills as indicators of one's employability were important predictors of burnout, with all relationships being negative.
本纵向研究探讨了正在经历重组的公司员工的就业能力与倦怠之间的关系。我们将就业能力视为一种与倦怠呈负相关的个人资源。我们预计,这一假设将适用于就业能力的不同操作化,包括(1)与工作相关的和(2)可转移的技能、(3)愿意换工作和(4)发展能力、(5)机会意识、(6)自尊和(7)自我感知的就业能力(即感知到的就业机会)。同样,我们预计,这一假设将适用于倦怠的不同维度;即情绪耗竭、去人性化和个人成就感降低。我们使用纵向分层线性建模(HLM)来检验我们的假设。对一家瑞士公司正在进行的重大重组中的员工进行了三次调查,总时间间隔为 19 个月(时间 1:N = 287;时间 2:N = 128;时间 3:N = 107)。我们的结果表明,特别是自尊,但也包括作为就业能力指标的与工作相关的技能和可转移技能,是倦怠的重要预测因素,所有关系均呈负相关。