High-involvement management practices, job control, and employee well-being in the public and private sectors. Evidence from Finland

Laura Peutere, Antti Saloniemi, Simo Aho, Jouko Nätti and Tapio Nummi
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Laura Peutere: Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tampere, Finland
Antti Saloniemi: Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tampere, Finland
Simo Aho: Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tampere, Finland
Jouko Nätti: Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tampere, Finland
Tapio Nummi: Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Tampere, Finland

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 2018, vol. 24, issue 4, 467-486

Abstract: The connection between high-involvement management (HIM), entailing heavy employee involvement, and employee well-being is a controversial and widely discussed topic. Clarifying how job satisfaction and stress are connected to HIM and job control (the control employees have over their work), this study is based on data from two Finnish sources: an employer survey investigating the extent of HIM within an organisation, and employee assessments of job control, stress and job satisfaction. Logistic regression models were used as the study method. In contrast to previous Finnish studies, our findings show that HIM seems hardly to benefit employee well-being. Especially in the public sector, the correlation between extensive HIM and employee well-being turned out to be negative. However, HIM in the private sector was positively related to job satisfaction. As expected, a high level of job control was regularly associated with greater well-being.

Keywords: Employer-employee surveys; high-involvement management; job control; job satisfaction; stress (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1177/1024258918807387

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