Managing temporary agency workers’ well-being: the role of resilience and work alienation

• Autorzy: Ferreira Pedro , Gomes Sofia

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.17512/pjms.2023.27.1.04

Warianty tytułu

PL

Zarządzanie dobrostanem pracowników tymczasowych: rola odporności i alienacji w pracy

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The well-being of temporary workers is still understudied, especially the role of individual resources as promoters of well-being. As such, this paper aims to examine the role of resilience as a resource for enhancing work engagement and reducing burnout of temporary agency workers. Additionally, this study tests the mediating role of work alienation. The study follows a quantitative approach. Based on a sample of 2.054 temporary agency workers, a set of hypotheses were tested using the Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM), using SmartPLS3.0. The results show that resilience is positively related to work engagement and negatively related to burnout. Work alienation plays a mediating role between resilience and burnout and work engagement of temporary agency workers by reducing the effect of resilience. This study novelty highlights the contribution of resilience as a mechanism to reduce burnout and enhance work engagement, but also about the importance of preventing work alienation. Since resilience can be learned and work alienation can be avoided, this study has important implications for human resources management strategies and practices.

PL

Dobrostan pracowników tymczasowych jest wciąż niedostatecznie zbadany, zwłaszcza rola indywidualnych zasobów jako promotorów dobrostanu. W związku z tym niniejszy artykuł ma na celu zbadanie roli odporności jako zasobu zwiększającego zaangażowanie w pracę i zmniejszającego wypalenie zawodowe pracowników tymczasowych. Dodatkowo, niniejsze opracowanie poddaje analizie pośredniczącą rolę alienacji w pracy. Opracowanie opiera się na metodzie ilościowej. Na przykładzie 2 054 pracowników tymczasowych, przetestowano zestaw hipotez za pomocą modelowania równań strukturalnych metodą najmniejszych kwadratów (PLS-SEM), przy użyciu SmartPLS3.0. Wyniki pokazują, że odporność jest pozytywnie związana z zaangażowaniem w pracę i negatywnie związana z wypaleniem zawodowym. Alienacja w pracy odgrywa rolę pośredniczącą między odpornością a wypaleniem zawodowym i zaangażowaniem w pracę pracowników tymczasowych poprzez zmniejszenie wpływu odporności. To nowatorskie badanie podkreśla wkład odporności jako mechanizmu zmniejszającego wypalenie zawodowe i zwiększającego zaangażowanie w pracę, ale także znaczenie zapobiegania alienacji w pracy. Jako że odporności można się nauczyć, a alienacji w pracy można uniknąć, niniejsze opracowanie ma istotne znaczenie dla strategii i praktyk zarządzania zasobami ludzkimi.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

temporary agency work; resilience; burnout; work engagement; work alienation

PL

praca tymczasowa; odporność; wypalenie zawodowe; zaangażowanie w pracę; alienacja w pracy

• Wydawca: Czestochowa University of Technology
• Czasopismo: Polish Journal of Management Studies
• Rocznik: 2023
• Tom: Vol. 27, No. 1
• Strony: 62--80
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 48 poz., rys., tab.

Twórcy

autor

Ferreira Pedro

• Department of Economics and Management, University Portucalense

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6506-7869

autor

Gomes Sofia

• Department of Economics and Management, University Portucalense

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0326-0655

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Uwagi

Opracowanie rekordu ze środków MEiN, umowa nr SONP/SP/546092/2022 w ramach programu "Społeczna odpowiedzialność nauki" - moduł: Popularyzacja nauki i promocja sportu (2022-2023).