The importance of relational work design characteristics: A person-centred approach

Adopting a person-centred approach, we integrate the job demands-control-support model with relational work design theory to investigate employee profiles involving autonomy, workload, social support and prosocial characteristics (representing combined influence of task significance beneficiary contact). For sample Australian not-for-profit employees ( N = 2421), identified four profiles: ‘active connected’, ‘passive disconnected’, ‘high strain disconnected’ ‘controlled disconnected’. The most favourable profile, active connected, demonstrated highest vigour worth, was predicted by people being in higher managerial positions having permanent employment contracts. high disconnected controlled were associated greater psychological exhaustion. Longer working hours membership profile. JEL Classification: L31, L30, L20, L29