# Does Job Design Make Workers Happy?

**Published:** 2019-03-27  
**Categories:** Akademiska publikationer, Publikationer  
**URL:** https://www.etla.fi/sv/publikationer/does-job-design-make-workers-happy/

#### Abstract

Using linked employer-employee data for Finland we examine associations between job design, employee well-being and job-related stress. Three key findings stand out. First, in accordance with the theory of Karasek and Karasek and Theorell, job control and supervisory support are positively correlated with employee well-being and negatively correlated with job-related stress. Second, as predicted by theory, job demands are positively correlated with job-related stress. Third, there is no association between job demands and employee well-being and, contrary to expectations, neither job control nor supervisory support alleviate the negative relationship between job demands and job-related stress. Our results confirm the importance of job design for employee well-being.

*Scottish Journal of Political Economy.*

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## Additional Information

**Kirjoittajat:** Böckerman, Petri - Bryson, Alex - Kauhanen, Antti - Kangasniemi, Mari

**Kansikuva:** No

**Lataa Pdf:** No

**Key Words:** HRM, Job control, Job demands, Job design, Job satisfaction, Job support, Stress, Supervisors, Worker well-being

**Paivays:** 27.03.2019

**Kieli:** en

**Sarja:** Other articles

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/sjpe.12211

**Saatavuus:** 2