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(8 chapters / 186 pages / 23 figures / 22 tables / 0 graphs / 266
references / 4 appendices)
psychology
Industrial/organizational psychology
Organizational health, working conditions, irrational and rational
beliefs, occupational stress
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There are a number of similar concepts of organizational health.
According to the Organizational Health Model (Hart & Cooper,
2001), organizational health can be understood as a quintessential
nodal link between stress, individual performance, and
organizational performance. The model also represents a turning
point in the field of occupational stress research, because it focuses
simultaneously on both individual indicators of stress and wellbeing
(for example burnout and vitality), and the indicators of
organizational performance (such as organizational citizenship
behaviour and turnover intentions). Many organizational
characteristics (such as the perception of working conditions), as
well as individual personality traits of employees (such as positive
and negative affectivity), have been shown to play an important role
in the stress process. On the other hand, little is known about the
role(s) that (ir)rational beliefs play in the development of stress and
wellbeing in employees.
The main aim of this study was to test whether conditions at work
and (ir)rational beliefs can predict some of the organizational health
indicators, such as burnout, work engagement, psychosomatic
symptoms, organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), absenteeism
and turnover intentions. To address this question, research was
conducted on a sample of 477 employees of both genders, with an
average age of 39 years, permanently employed in 18 public and