Work characteristics in long-term temporary workers and temporary-to-permanent workers: A prospective study among Finnish health care personnel

Saija Mauno, Nele De Cuyper, Ulla Kinnunen and Hans De Witte
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Saija Mauno: University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Nele De Cuyper: KU Leuven, Belgium
Ulla Kinnunen: University of Tampere, Finland
Hans De Witte: KU Leuven, Belgium

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2012, vol. 33, issue 3, 357-377

Abstract: In this study, the authors seek to account for possible transitions from temporary to permanent employment in relation to perceived psychosocial work characteristics, i.e. job insecurity, workload, job control and organizational communication. The study compared three groups of Finnish hospital workers utilizing a two-wave design with a two-year time lag: (1) workers who were temporarily employed at Time 1 but permanently employed at Time 2 (temporary-to-permanent workers; n = 25); (2) workers who were temporarily employed at Time 1 and at Time 2 (long-term temporary workers; n = 45); and (3) a reference group of workers who were permanently employed at Time 1 and Time 2 (permanent workers; n = 316). The results showed that temporary-to-permanent workers experienced less job insecurity but more workload at Time 2 than at Time 1. Furthermore, long-term temporary workers experienced higher workload at Time 2 than at Time 1, and they also reported a negative change in organizational communication during the follow-up.

Keywords: comparative study; job contract change; long-term temporary work; prospective design; psychosocial work characteristics; temporary-to-permanent work (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1177/0143831X11408939

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