دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی ارتباط بین ویژگی های شغلی و سازمانی و استرس شغلی در میان کارکنان انجمن چینی - الزویر 2018

abstract

Although the past two decades have witnessed a fast growth in studies on occupational attitudes and experiences among correctional officers, such research is rare in China despite the country's strong push for community corrections since 2003. Drawing on interview survey data collected from a province in China, the study assessed the relationships between job and organizational characteristics and job and role stress among Chinese community corrections workers. The results indicated that agency formalization, supervisory support, and coworker integration reduced role ambiguity and/or conflict, whereas job dangerousness, role ambiguity, and role conflict increased job stress among Chinese correctional staff. Workers with stronger punishment orientations also reported higher levels of job stress. Implications for future research and policy are discussed.

6. Discussion

Although community-based sanctions have become the dominant theme in recent correctional reforms in China, studies on the occupational attitudes and experience of street-level workers remain sporadic. Drawing on the job and organizational characteristics model, this study assessed the influences of positive and negative features of work environment on job stress. The possible mediating effect of role stress on the relationships between job and organizational characteristics and job stress was also tested. Our major findings are discussed along the three research questions.

First, among the six job and organizational characteristics, job dangerousness surfaced as the only job stressor for Chinese CC staff. Although it is somewhat surprisingly to know the weak connections between other job and organizational characteristics, our findings confirm the results from previous studies showing that dangerousness is one of the strong antecedents of job stress (Lambert and Hogan, 2010; Lambert and Paoline, 2005, 2008; Lambert et al., 2007; Misis et al., 2013). It is reasonable to expect that when CC workers perceive their work environment as dangerous to their safety and health, they are more likely to report high levels of job stress. Given its high relevance but under-investigated status in the existing literature, job dangerousness has to be included in future research of correctional staff stress. Future studies should contain measures reflecting not only physical risks or threats but also psychological or mental threats to correctional workers