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Determinants of employee well-being in project work

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  • Charlotte Bråthen
  • Margrethe Ommundsen
  • Andreas Wald
  • Maria Magdalena Aguilar Velasco

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Projects are supposed to foster innovation and flexibility and to create better conditions for learning. Accordingly, project work usually has a positive connotation for both, firms and the individual worker. However, project work can also involve stress, poor work-life balance, and burnout and thus be detrimental to employees' well-being. Well-being not only has an instrumental function for stimulating employee's motivation and work performance, but it is a fundamental human goal itself. This paper contributes to research on work-related well-being in projects by investigating the antecedents of well-being. We develop a research model based on the job-demand-support-control model which we test using a sample of Scandinavian project workers. We identify project control and co-worker support as factors enhancing the well-being of project workers and project demand as a negative factor of influence. Our findings can help organisations in creating project-work environments that support the well-being of project workers.

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  • Charlotte Bråthen & Margrethe Ommundsen & Andreas Wald & Maria Magdalena Aguilar Velasco, 2021. "Determinants of employee well-being in project work," International Journal of Project Organisation and Management, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 13(3), pages 197-217.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijpoma:v:13:y:2021:i:3:p:197-217
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