Overbenefitting, underbenefitting, and balanced: Different effort-reward profiles and their relationship with employee well-being, mental health, and job attitudes among young employees.

ABSTRACT: We aimed to identify different, both balanced and imbalanced, effort-reward profiles and their relations to several indicators of employee well-being (work engagement, job satisfaction, job boredom, and burnout), mental health (positive functioning, life satisfaction, anxiety, and depression symptoms), and job attitudes (organizational identification and turnover intention). We examined data drawn randomly from Finnish population (n = 1,357) of young adults (23-34 years of age) collected in the summer of 2021 with quantitative methods. Latent profile analysis revealed three emerging groups in the data characterized by different combinations of efforts and rewards: underbenefitting (16%, high effort/low reward), overbenefitting (34%, low effort/high reward), and balanced employees (5

SUBMITTER: Li J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10083407 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature