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3110 ORAL
Industrial/organizational psychology
Chair: Oi Kwan Ophelia Tsui, Hong Kong, China
3110.1 Managers’ occupational stress in the People’s Republic of China: A Field Study,
Changqin Lu, Department of Psychology, Peking University, China
This study investigated managers’ occupational tress in the People's Republic of China. A total of
450 enterprise managers in eight cities of completed a Shorter Chinese Version of
OSI-2(Occupational Stress Index). The results of regression analyses showed that “Organizational
climate”, “Home-work balance”, “Sex” were significant predictors of physical strain, and
“Organizational climate”, “Factor intrinsic to job”, “Tenure”, “Educational level”, “Sex” were
significant predictors of psychological strain, and for job satisfaction, only “Managerial role” was
significant predictors.
3110.2 Work stressors in virtual organizations, Niina Kokko, Matti Vartiainen, Marko
Hakonen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
The increasing focus on globally networked working groups and interactive technologies have
created virtual organizations as people work across the boundaries of time, space and
organizations. Distributed work creates new job demands and challenges for the employees and
leaders. According to our preliminary survey results (n = 223), procedural and interactional justice,
trust, and leadership quality correlate negatively with virtual team members felt stress. Major
positive correlates are job complexity and information load. Semi-structured interviews (n= 83)
aim at deeper analysis of job demands, social and organizational stressors and regulation problems
that cause stress for employees working in virtual context.
3110.3 Changeability and gender related challenges of work values, Tom Nils Yrjo Hagstrom 1 ,
Anders Kjellberg 2 , 1 National Institute for Working Life, Sweden, 2 University of Govle, Sweden
Changeability of work values was studied by longitudinal analyses of nurses and engineers from
the Stockholm area in Sweden. Questionnaires were completed by 173 male and 48 female
engineers and 353 female and 31 male nurses at three measurement occasions covering about four
and half years from the end of their vocational education. Women's ratings of Social relations and
Altruism remained higher than men's while women & acute; ratings of Benefit/career and
Influence increased which eliminated the initial gender difference. The changeability of work
values is discussed in terms of challenges and norms in working life.
3110.4 An indigenous model of job insecurity among Hong Kong employees, Oi Kwan
Ophelia Tsui, Darius K-S Chan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
This study examined the antecedents and consequences of job insecurity in Hong Kong. As
opposed to the frequently studied antecedents that concern mainly about the work roles of
employees in the West, we explored factors that are more relevant to collective cultures. Based on
the responses of a sample of Hong Kong employees, job insecurity was found to be associated
positively with perceived loss of friends and coworders due to layoffs and negatively with
perceived job alternatives. Detrimental effects of insecurity on job satisfaction, organizational
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