The impact of the work conditions of allied health professionals on satisfaction, commitment and psychological distress

Health Care Management Review

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 273-283

  Rodwell, John ^a   Noblet, Andrew ^a   Demir, Defne ^a   Steane, Peter ^b  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Allied health professionals; Job satisfaction; Justice; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MODEL; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PREDICTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADULT; ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PERSONNEL LOYALTY; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WORKPLACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68949164506     PISSN: 03616274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HMR.0b013e31819e76da     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Agho, A. O., Prince, J. L., & Mueller, C. W. (1992). Discriminative validity of measures of job satisfaction, positive affectivity and negative affectivity. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 65(3), 185-196.
2. Allen, N. J., & Meyer, J. P. (1990). The measurement and antecedents of affective, continuance and normative commitment to the organization. Journal of Occupational Psychology, 63(1), 1-18.
3. Bakker, A. B., Schaufeli, W. B., Sixma, H. J., Bosveld, W., & Van Dierendonck, D. (2000). Patient demands, lack of reciprocity, and burnout. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 21 (4), 425-441.
4. Brayfield, A. H., & Rothe, H. F. (1951). An index of job satisfaction. Journal of Applied Psychology, 35(5), 307-311.
5. Brockner, J., & Weisenfeld, B. M. (1996). An integrative framework for explaining reactions to decisions: Interactive effects of outcomes and procedures. Psychological Bulletin, 120(2), 189-208.
6. Bultmann, U., Huibers, M., van Amelsvoort, L., Kant, I., Kasl, S., & Swaen, G. (2005). Psychological distress, fatigue, and long term sickness absence. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 47(9), 941-947.
7. Butterfield, R., Edwards, C., & Woodall, J. (2004). The new public management and the U.K. police service: The role of the police sergeant in the implementation of performance management. Public Management Review, 6(3), 395-415.
8. Caplan, R., Cobb, S., French, J., Harrison, R., & Pinneau, S. (1980). Job demands and worker health: Main effects and occupational differences. Ann Arbor, MI: The Institute for Social Research.
9. Casey, M., & McKavanagh, M. (2002, May 1-3). Rural Connect: Rural Allied Health Mentor Program, sharing experiences, sharing stories, building healthy relationships and communi-ties. Paper presented at World Rural Health Conference, Melbourne, Australia.
10. Castle, N. G. (2006). Organizational commitment and turnover of nursing home administrators. Health Care Management Review, 31 (2), 156-165.
11. Chen, D- R., Lin, Y- Y., & Chung, K- P. (2008). Career stress and female managers' health in Taiwan's hospitals: A multilevel model approach. Health Care Management Review, 33(1), 40-50.
12. Cohen, J., Cohen, P., West, S. G., & Aiken, L. S. (2003). Applied multiple regression/ correlation analysis for the behav-ioral sciences. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
13. Colquitt, J. A. (2001). On the dimensionality of organizational justice: A construct validation of a measure. Journal of Applied Psychology, 86(3), 386-400.
14. Colquitt, J. A., Conlon, D. E., Wesson, M. J., Porter, C. O. L. H., & Ng, K. Y. (2001). Justice at the millennium: A meta-analytic review of 25 years of organizational justice research. Journal of Applied Psychology, 86(3), 425-445.
15. Cropanzano, R., Bowen, D. E., & Gililand, S. W. (2007). The management of organizational justice. Academy of Man-agement Perspectives, 21, 34-45.
16. Cutrona, C. (1990). Stress and social support: In search of optimal matching. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 9(1), 3-14.
17. De Boer, E. M., Bakker, A. B., Syroit, J. E., & Schaufeli, W. B. (2002). Unfairness at work as a predictor of absenteeism. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 23(2), 181-197.
18. DeConinck, J. B., & Stilwell, C. B. (2004). Incorporating organizational justice, role states, pay satisfaction and supervisor satisfaction in a model of turnover intentions. Journal of Business Research, 57(3), 225-231.
19. De Jonge, J., & Schaufeli, W. B. (1998). Job characteristics and employee well-being: A test of Warr's vitamin model in health care workers using structural equation modeling. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 19, 387-407. (Pubitemid 128185794)
20. Fujishiro, K., & Heaney, C. A. (2007). Justice at work, job stress, and employee health [Electronic version]. Health, Education & Behavior, 1-18. DOI:10.1177/1090198107306435.
21. Goffin, R. D., & Gellatly, I. R. (2001). A multi-rater assessment of organizational commitment. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 22, 437-451.
22. Greenberg, J. (1988). Cultivating an image of justice: Looking fair on the job. Academy of Management Executive, 8(2), 155-158.
23. Guest, D. E. (2002). Perspectives on the study of work-life balance. Social Science Information, 41 (2), 255-279.
24. Health Professions Council of Australia. (2005). The allied health professional workforce in Australia: Challenges and opportunities. Melbourne, Australia: Author.
25. Johnson, A., & Paton, K. (2007). Health promotion and health services: Management for change. South Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press.
26. Johnson, J. V., & Hall, E. (1988). Job strain, workplace social support, and cardiovascular disease. American Journal of Public Health, 78(10), 1336-1342.
27. Judge, T. A., & Colquitt, J. A. (2004). Organizational justice and stress: The mediating role of work-family conflict. Journal of Applied Psychology, 89(3), 395-404.
28. Karasek, R. A. (1979). Job demands, job decision latitude, and mental strain: Implications for job redesign. Administrative Science Quarterly, 24(2), 285-308.
29. Karasek, R. (1985). Job content questionnaire and user's guide. Los Angeles: Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
30. Karasek, R., Baker, D., Marxer, F., Ahlbom, A., & Theorell, T. (1981). Job decision latitude, job demands, and cardiovascular disease: A prospective study of Swedish men. American Journal of Public Health, 71, 694-705.
31. Kessler, R. C., & Mroczek, D. (1994). Final versions of our non-specific psychological distress scale. Ann Arbor, MI: An Institute for Social Research.
32. Leventhal, G. S. (1976). Justice in social relationships. InJ. W. Thibaut, J. T. Spence, & R. C. Carson (Eds.), Contemporary topics in social psychology. Morristown, NJ: General Learning Press.
33. Lloyd, C., King, R., & Chenoweth, L. (2002). Social work, stress and burnout: A review. Journal of Mental Health, 11 (3), 255-265.
34. Mikkelsen, A., Øgaard, T., & Landsbergis, P. (2005). The effects of new dimensions of psychological job demands and job control on active learning and occupational health. Work and Stress, 19(2), 153-175.
35. Narayanan, L., Menon, S., & Spector, P. (1999). Stress in the workplace: A comparison of gender and occupations. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 20(1), 63-73.
36. Noblet, A. J., McWilliams, J., Teo, S. T. T., & Rodwell, J. J. (2006). Work characteristics and employee outcomes in local government. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 17(10), 1804-1818.
37. Rafferty, A. M., Traynor, M., Thompson, D. R., Ilott, I., & White, E. (2003). Research in nursing, midwifery and the allied health professions. British Medical Journal, 326, 833-834.
38. Rydstedt, L. W., Ferrie, J., & Head, J. (2006). Is there support for curvilinear relationships between psychosocial work characteristics and mental wellbeing? Work and Stress, 20(1), 6-20.
39. Schoo, A., Boyce, R., Ridoutt, L., & Santos, T. (2008). Workload capacity measures for estimating allied health staffing requirements. Australian Health Review, 32(3), 548-558.
40. Sparks, K., & Cooper, C. (1999). Occupational differences in the work-strain relationship: Towards the use of situation-specific models. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 72(2), 219-228.
41. Spector, P. (1992). A consideration of the validity and meaning of self-report measures of job conditions. In C. Cooper, & I. Robertson (Eds.), International review of industrial and organizational psychology (pp. 123-151). New York: Wiley.
42. SPSS Inc. (2006). SPSS advanced statistics 15.0.1. Chicago: SPSS.
43. Struber, J. (2004). Recruiting and retaining allied health professionals in rural Australia: Why is it so difficult? Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice, 2(2). Retrieved December 16, 2008, from http://ijahsp.nova.edu
44. Tabachnick, B. G., & Fidell, L. S. (2007). Using multivariate statistics (5th ed.). Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
45. Thibaut, J., & Walker, L. (1975). Procedural justice: A psychological analysis. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
46. Van Der Doef, M., & Maes, S. (1999). The job demand-control(-support) model and psychological wellbeing: A review of 20 years of empirical research. Work and Stress, 13(2), 87-114.
47. Van Horn, J. E., Schaufeli, W. B., & Enzmann, D. (1999). Teacher burnout and lack of reciprocity. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 29(1), 91-108.
48. Warr, P. B. (1990). Decision latitude, job demands, and employee wellbeing. Work and Stress, 4(4), 285-294.