Sources of well-being and commitment of staff in the Australian Disability Employment Services Noblet, Andrew, Graffam, Joseph and McWilliams, John 2008, Sources of well-being and commitment of staff in the Australian Disability Employment Services, Health and social care in the community, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 137-146. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Sources of well-being and commitment of staff in the Australian Disability Employment Services Author(s) Noblet, Andrew orcid.org/0000-0002-3498-6838 Graffam, Joseph McWilliams, John orcid.org/0000-0002-6333-8987 Journal name Health and social care in the community Volume number 16 Issue number 2 Start page 137 End page 146 Total pages 10 Publisher Blackwell Scientific Publications Place of publication Oxford, England Publication date 2008-03 ISSN 0966-0410 1365-2524 Keyword(s) Disability Employment Services Employee well-being Job satisfaction Job strain Organisational commitment Psychological contract Summary This study examined the role of working conditions in predicting the psychological health, job satisfaction and organisational commitment of personnel responsible for helping people with disabilities gain employment in the mainstream Australian labour market. The working conditions were assessed using two theories: the Job Strain Model (job demand, social support and job control) and Psychological Contract Theory (unwritten reciprocal obligations between employers and employees). In the case of the Job Strain Model, the generic dimensions had been augmented by industry-specific sources of stress. A cross-sectional survey was undertaken in June and July 2005 with 514 staff returning completed questionnaires (representing a response rate of 30%). Comparisons between respondents and non-respondents revealed that on the basis of age, gender and tenure, the sample was broadly representative of employees working in the Australian disability employment sector at that time. The results of regression analyses indicate that social support was predictive of all of the outcome measures. Job control and the honouring of psychological contracts were both predictive of job satisfaction and commitment, while the more situation-specific stressors - treatment and workload stressors - were inversely related to psychological health (i.e. as concern regarding the treatment and workload stressors increased, psychological health decreased). Collectively, these findings suggest that strategies aimed at combating the negative effects of large-scale organisational change could be enhanced by addressing several variables represented in the models - particularly social support, job control, psychological contracts and sector-specific stressors. Language eng Field of Research 150305 Human Resources Management HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal HERDC collection year 2007 Copyright notice ©2008, Blackwell Scientific Publications Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30007621 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Business and Law Deakin Business School Faculty of Health School of Psychology Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Mon, 05 Jan 2009, 13:01:02 EST Fri, 22 May 2009, 14:47:50 EST Fri, 22 May 2009, 14:49:44 EST Fri, 22 May 2009, 14:51:06 EST Wed, 31 Mar 2010, 12:54:12 EST Wed, 02 Jul 2014, 15:33:12 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 6 times in TR Web of Science Cited 5 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 1185 Abstract Views, 3 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 29 Sep 2008, 08:54:13 EST