Job design, employment practices and well-being: a systematic review of intervention studies

There is inconsistent evidence that deliberate attempts to improve job design realise improvements in well-being. We investigated the role of other employment practices, either as instruments for job redesign or as instruments that augment job redesign. Our primary outcome was well-being. Where studies also assessed performance, we considered performance as an outcome. We reviewed 33 intervention studies. We found that well-being and performance may be improved by: training workers to improve their own jobs; training coupled with job redesign; and system wide approaches that simultaneously enhance job design and a range of other employment practices. We found insufficient evidence to make any firm conclusions concerning the effects of training managers in job redesign and that participatory approaches to improving job design have mixed effects. Successful implementation of interventions was associated with worker involvement and engagement with interventions, managerial commitment to interventions and integration of interventions with other organisational systems. Practitioner Summary: Improvements in well-being and performance may be associated with system-wide approaches that simultaneously enhance job design, introduce a range of other employment practices and focus on worker welfare. Training may have a role in initiating job redesign or augmenting the effects of job design on well-being

Human resource practices and customer satisfaction: Test of a multilevel model

Drawing on self-determination theory (SDT), we proposed and tested a multilevel model of how a strategically-focused high performance work system operates to influence customer satisfaction. Data were obtained from frontline employees, branch managers, and from branch records two organizations (retail bank and cosmetics) in Lithuania. Results of Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling (MSEM) analyses revealed support for our model. Specifically, unit-level HPWS influenced psychological need satisfaction through experienced HPWS, which provides the autonomous regulation that fosters creative process engagement. Furthermore, through a bottom-up process, creative process engagement relates to unit creative performance which, in turn, relates to customer satisfaction

Proactive Customer Service Performance: Test of a Team-Level Model

Grounded in a control-based perspective, we proposed and tested a team-based model of the processes through which team empowering leadership influences aggregated proactive customer service performance. Data were obtained from teams of frontline employees and their supervisors of a retail bank in an emerging economy. Results of a second stage moderation test (Edwards and Lambert, 2000) revealed that team empowering leadership positively relates to collective psychological ownership which, in turn, mediates the team empowering leadership-aggregated proactive customer service performance relationship. The results further revealed that collective psychological ownership only relates to aggregated proactive customer service performance when empowerment climate is low but not high. We interpret this finding as suggesting a compensatory role for empowerment climate in the collective psychological ownership-aggregated proactive customer service performance relationship