dc.rights.license | CC-BY-NC-ND | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Brenninkmeijer, Veerle | |
dc.contributor.author | Heetvelt, Niels | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-11-29T01:00:42Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-11-29T01:00:42Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/43244 | |
dc.description.abstract | In response to technological developments, asynchronous modes of communication
have become ubiquitous for exchanging information and maintaining social
relationships in contemporary work environments. While these developments benefit
workers’ job control and diminish work-home conflicts, they could simultaneously
arouse workers’ preoccupation with and urge to repond promptly to work-related ICT
messages, which is labeled as ‘workplace telepressure’. Workplace telepressure could
lead to detrimental health and wellbeing effects, and could be induced by external
norms to respond promptly, imposed by the organizational environment, or by selfimposed norms to respond promptly, imposed by workers’ own predilection and urges.
In pursuit of previous workplace telepressure research, this study was set out with the
aim to examine how trait-like individual differences (e.g. agreeableness,
conscientiousness, neuroticism and irrational need for control) affect workplace
telepressure, as they could act as substantial self-imposed norms. Furthermore, this
study aims to explore whether the presence of response expectation organizational
norms could strengthen the effect of self-imposed norms on workplace telepressure.
By means of cross-sectional research, data were collected among Dutch working adults
(N = 136). Results suggest that both organizational factors as certain personal factors
could contribute to explain workplace telepressure. However, these two factors seem
not in any way to interact with each other. Suggestions for further research and
practical implications are discussed. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | Utrecht University | |
dc.language.iso | EN | |
dc.subject | this study examines how trait-like individual differences (e.g. agreeableness,
conscientiousness, neuroticism and irrational need for control) affect workplace
telepressure, as they could act as substantial self-imposed norms. Furthermore, this
study aims to explore whether the presence of response expectation organizational
norms could strengthen the effect of self-imposed norms on workplace telepressure. | |
dc.title | The pressure to press send: Implications of organizational and self-imposed norms on workplace telepressure | |
dc.type.content | Master Thesis | |
dc.rights.accessrights | Open Access | |
dc.subject.keywords | Workplace telepressure; Big Five personality traits; irrational need for
control; response expectation norms; self-imposed norms | |
dc.subject.courseuu | Social, Health and Organisational Psychology | |
dc.thesis.id | 12303 | |