Procome Research Group, Medical Management Centre, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden.
Sopot Campus, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, 81-745 Sopot, Poland.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Feb 13;17(4):1200. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17041200.
Achieving sustainable employability (SE), i.e., when employees are able to continue working in a productive, satisfactory, and healthy manner, is a timely challenge for healthcare. Because healthcare is a female-dominated sector, our paper investigated the role of social job resources in promoting SE. To better illustrate the complexity of the organizational environment, we incorporated resources that operate at different levels (individual, group) and in different planes (horizontal, vertical): trust (individual-vertical), teamwork (group-horizontal), and transformational leadership (group-vertical). Based on the job demands-resources model, we predicted that these resources initiate the motivational process and thus promote SE. To test these predictions, we conducted a 3-wave study in 42 units of a healthcare organization in Sweden. The final study sample consisted of 269 professionals. The results of the multilevel analyses demonstrated that, at the individual level, vertical trust was positively related to all three facets of SE. Next, at the group level, teamwork had a positive link with employee health and productivity, while transformational leadership was negatively related to productivity. These findings underline the importance of acknowledging the levels and planes at which social job resources operate to more accurately capture the complexity of organizational phenomena and to design interventions that target the right level of the environment.
实现可持续就业能力（SE），即员工能够以富有成效、满意和健康的方式继续工作，这是医疗保健领域的一个紧迫挑战。由于医疗保健是一个女性主导的行业，我们的论文研究了社会工作资源在促进 SE 方面的作用。为了更好地说明组织环境的复杂性，我们纳入了在不同层面（个人、群体）和不同层面（横向、纵向）运作的资源：信任（个人-纵向）、团队合作（群体-横向）和变革型领导（群体-纵向）。基于工作要求-资源模型，我们预测这些资源会启动激励过程，从而促进 SE。为了检验这些预测，我们在瑞典的一家医疗保健组织的 42 个单位进行了 3 波研究。最终的研究样本包括 269 名专业人员。多层次分析的结果表明，在个人层面上，纵向信任与 SE 的所有三个方面都呈正相关。接下来，在群体层面上，团队合作与员工健康和生产力呈正相关，而变革型领导与生产力呈负相关。这些发现强调了承认社会工作资源运作的层次和平面的重要性，以更准确地捕捉组织现象的复杂性，并设计针对环境正确层次的干预措施。
