Browsing by Author "Ikäheimonen, Ada"

In today's performance-driven society time pressure is strongly present, and it has been increasing in work life during the last decades. One of the key factors affecting the well-being at work for Finns is time pressure and high workload, which has been confirmed by various studies. According to previous studies, time-pressure has negative impact on employee well- being. The purpose of my research was to examine the experiences and views of time pressure and well-being at work in a recruiting company. In addition, the aim was to find out whether the time of recruiting work experience affects the interviewees' responses. I studied a recruitment company qualitatively by interviewing three employees working in the recruitment team. As a theoretical framework, I used the Job Demand-Resources (JD-R) -model to analyze the results of my data. The JD-R -model takes into account job demands and job resources. In this study, time pressure was used as a job demand, and the possibility to affect of work and the independence of work were used as job resources. In my study I found that each of the interviewees experienced time pressure in their work every week. Each interviewees stated that they had tight schedule at work and high workload has negative effect on the quality of work. The workload varied among each interviewees and they had different opinions whether time-pressure was on weekly basis or not. In addition, the study showed that interviewees ability to affect on work description and work hours were seen as job resources. Time pressure is often spoken very negatively. Although each interviewee experienced time pressure at a weekly level and this has been shown to affect well-being at work, this did not appear in my data. The interviewees are really satisfied with their job and the company. Interviewees well-being at work is significantly influenced by the experience of work relevance, good working atmosphere and colleagues.