Predicting Sustainable Employability in Swedish Healthcare: The Complexity of Social Job Resources
1
Procome Research Group, Medical Management Centre, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden
2
Sopot Campus, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, 81-745 Sopot, Poland
3
Centre for Epidemiology and Community Medicine, 104 31 Stockholm, Sweden
4
School of Health, Care and Social Welfare, Mälardalen University, 722 20 Västerås, Sweden
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17(4), 1200; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17041200
Received: 23 January 2020 / Accepted: 10 February 2020 / Published: 13 February 2020
(This article belongs to the Section Occupational Safety and Health)
Achieving sustainable employability (SE), i.e., when employees are able to continue working in a productive, satisfactory, and healthy manner, is a timely challenge for healthcare. Because healthcare is a female-dominated sector, our paper investigated the role of social job resources in promoting SE. To better illustrate the complexity of the organizational environment, we incorporated resources that operate at different levels (individual, group) and in different planes (horizontal, vertical): trust (individual-vertical), teamwork (group-horizontal), and transformational leadership (group-vertical). Based on the job demands-resources model, we predicted that these resources initiate the motivational process and thus promote SE. To test these predictions, we conducted a 3-wave study in 42 units of a healthcare organization in Sweden. The final study sample consisted of 269 professionals. The results of the multilevel analyses demonstrated that, at the individual level, vertical trust was positively related to all three facets of SE. Next, at the group level, teamwork had a positive link with employee health and productivity, while transformational leadership was negatively related to productivity. These findings underline the importance of acknowledging the levels and planes at which social job resources operate to more accurately capture the complexity of organizational phenomena and to design interventions that target the right level of the environment.
View Full-Text
Keywords:
sustainable employability; healthcare; female-dominated workplace; social job resources; trust; teamwork; job satisfaction; health; job performance
▼
Show Figures
Figure 1
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
MDPI and ACS Style
Roczniewska, M.; Richter, A.; Hasson, H.; Schwarz, U.T. Predicting Sustainable Employability in Swedish Healthcare: The Complexity of Social Job Resources. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 1200.
Show more citation formats
Note that from the first issue of 2016, MDPI journals use article numbers instead of page numbers. See further details here.
