Is there a Balance between Work Effort and Rewards by the Professionals in the Long-Term Care? Cover Image

Panuje rovnováha mezi pracovním úsilím a odměnami u profesionálů v dlouhodobé péči?
Is there a Balance between Work Effort and Rewards by the Professionals in the Long-Term Care?

Author(s): Blanka Jirkovská
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Applied Sociology
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Nakladatelství Karolinum
Keywords: Effort Reward Imbalance Model; effort and rewards of employees; stress at workplace; well-being; workers in long-term care

Summary/Abstract: Model Effort Reward Imbalance (ERI) belongs to the basic concepts of mapping workplace stress. It examines the relationship between the long-term subjectively perceived level of workers’ effort and rewards and analyses the physical and psychosocial consequences of the (im)balance. We conducted verification of the ERI model on a sample of Czech professionals caring for the elderly in 2014 (N = 265). The survey included 12 facilities providing health and social services for the elderly. It was divided into 4 groups according to two criteria: facilities providing residential/field services and “medical” / “social workers”. We found that the majority of professional caregivers suffer from imbalance between higher effort and lower rewards and this discrepancy is reflected in the reduction of their well-being. The level of imbalance differs among defined groups. The outputs correspond to foreign studies and confirm the validity of the ERI model.

  • Issue Year: XXII/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 115-131
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Czech