Journal
JOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
Volume 37, Issue 1, Pages 108-127Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/job.2032
Keywords
illegitimate tasks; occupational stress; self-esteem; well-being; job satisfaction
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- Sunshine Education and Research Center at the University of South Florida
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) [T42-OH008438]
- Swiss National Science Foundation [PA00P1-131482, PZ00P1-142393]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [PZ00P1_142393, PA00P1_131482] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
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Illegitimate tasks, a recently introduced occupational stressor, are tasks that violate norms about what an employee can reasonably be expected to do. Because they are considered a threat to one's professional identity, we expected that the daily experience of illegitimate tasks would be linked to a drop in self-esteem and to impaired well-being. We report results of two daily diary studies, one in which 57 Swiss employees were assessed twice/day and one in which 90 Americans were assessed three times/day. Both studies showed that illegitimate tasks were associated with lowered state self-esteem. Study 1 demonstrated that high trait self-esteem mitigated that relationship. Study 2 showed that illegitimate tasks were associated with not only lowered state self-esteem but also lower job satisfaction and higher anger and depressive mood, but not anger or job satisfaction remained elevated until the following morning. Copyright (C) 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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