Towards More Proactive Sustainable Human Resource Management Practices? : A Study on Stress Due to the ICT-Mediated Integration of Work and Private Life
Palm, Kristina ; Bergman, Ann and Rosengren, Calle LU
(2020)
In Sustainability
12(20).
- Abstract
- This article discusses sustainability in Human Resource Management (HRM) in the blurred digital working life, focusing on the emotion of stress. Its empirical basis is an activity and emotion diary study conducted with 26 employees of three industrial companies in Sweden. Our results show that work and private life are integrated by digital activities and also by emotions. Due to the extensive use of digital devices, stress in the working sphere is not only connected with work, and stress in the private sphere is not only connected with private life. The study also shows that stress is often episodic and can end due to activities connected with both the trigger and non-trigger spheres. From a social sustainability perspective, this study... (More)
- This article discusses sustainability in Human Resource Management (HRM) in the blurred digital working life, focusing on the emotion of stress. Its empirical basis is an activity and emotion diary study conducted with 26 employees of three industrial companies in Sweden. Our results show that work and private life are integrated by digital activities and also by emotions. Due to the extensive use of digital devices, stress in the working sphere is not only connected with work, and stress in the private sphere is not only connected with private life. The study also shows that stress is often episodic and can end due to activities connected with both the trigger and non-trigger spheres. From a social sustainability perspective, this study suggests that HRM should gently extend employee consideration beyond the traditional temporal and spatial boundaries of work, i.e., also including private life when understanding work in the digital age. (Less)
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- Palm, Kristina
; Bergman, Ann
and Rosengren, Calle
LU
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- publishing date
- 2020
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- Contribution to journal
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- Sustainability
- volume
- 12
- issue
- 20
- article number
- 8303
- publisher
- MDPI AG
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- scopus:85092893001
- ISSN
- 2071-1050
- DOI
- 10.3390/su12208303
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- English
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