2004
Volume 23, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 0921-5077
  • E-ISSN: 1875-7235

Abstract

Workplace learning and emotional exhaustion in the Job Demands-Resources model

Workplace learning and emotional exhaustion in the Job Demands-Resources model

J. Van Ruysseveldt en J. Taverniers, Gedrag & Organisatie, volume 23, June 2010, nr. 2, pp. 118-135

Researching the strain-reducing potential of workplace learning, a research model was developed in which the motivational process in the Job Demands-Resources model was conceptualised as a competencies development process, adding learning opportunities as additional job resources and competencies development as motivational outcome. We assumed a significant negative relationship between learning opportunities and/or actual competency development and emotional exhaustion. Using Structural Equation Modelling, a research model was tested on Dutch survey data obtained in three sectors: industry (N = 159), private services (N = 368) and public services (N = 451). Results show that the availability of more learning opportunities was negatively related to emotional exhaustion, but this relationship was mediated by the actual development of new work-related competencies. This research confirms that in the (re)design of jobs, a double gain could be achieved by considering work places at the same time as learning places.

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