Mapping the landscape of research on job design and employee well-being: The contingency between context, job, and jobholders
Prof. Jia Lin Xie
Professor in Management
Rotman School of Management
University of Toronto
Work constitutes an essential part of human life. Research on job design has been considered as a “mature” field with abundant studies on how job characteristics influence employee attitudes, behaviors and well-being. In this seminar, the presenter will provide a critical review of extant research on job design and employee well-being, including her own research, to reveal the opportunities and challenges inherent in this field.
From a conceptual perspective, the presenter will introduce three lines of research that her research teams involved in charting new terrain in the job design literature. For each line of the research, she will discuss how it attempted to move the literature forward, and meanwhile, the unresolved research gaps and challenges. Methodologically, she will share her experience in collecting immunological and physiological health data through blood and saliva samples; and discuss how the integration of self-reported and non-self-reported data enhances research objectivity and facilitates cross-cultural comparative research. At the end of seminar, the presenter would like to open the discussion for future research directions and highlight the importance of taking a contingency perspective in studying the changing world of work.
