Abstract
Recovery at work nowadays: a multidimensional perspective Adequate work-life balance is a key component of a healthy lifestyle and is facilitated by recovery from daily work-related strains, which allows employees to unplug and devote themselves without interference to private life once their work is over. Processes of recovery are challenged by the extensive use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and the exponential expansion of hybrid working which increases productivity but also results in a "24/7 always on culture", blurring the lines between work and non-work time, and increasing job demands. Thus, ICTs use, and hybrid work put at risk hybrid workers' capacity to psychologically detach and recover from work. For this reason, research needs to improve knowledge on how organizations can successfully use digital technology and hybrid work to help employees to recover from work-related stress. This project aims to investigate the relationship between hybrid work and employees’ recovery processes. In doing so, the project focuses on individual, leadership, and group factors that can influence the recovery from work-related stress, especially for what concerns digital work environments. At the individual level, the project will investigate how hybrid work encourages or inhibits employees' capacity to psychologically detach from their work and, as a result, how much this affects the resultant need of recovery. Taking into account the changes of setting deriving from the hybrid work, the project will also consider the moderating role of job demands and job resources on the relationship between hybrid work and psychological detachment. The second area of investigation concerns the role that leaders may have in the recovery of hybrid workers. Notably, it will focus on the influence that “emotional events”, perceived by followers when interacting with the leader, have on followers’ emotions and perceived Leader-Member exchanges, which in turn can impact recovery. Secondly, by investigating the incongruence in leader-follower dyads on their life goals, and the association that this incongruence may have with followers’ recovery. The third area focuses on the organizational climate for recovery from work, defined as the employee’s shared perception of how much recovery is encouraged and supported by the organization and will examine how much such perception is related to the actual employees’ recovery. The project will conceptualize the organizational climate for recovery from work, create a measurement tool to assess it, and explore the nomological network of this concept and how well it can predict the actual recovery of employees. Eventually, the project aims to shed light on factors that determine the actual effective recovery processes in employees engaged in hybrid work. The project intends to contribute to the development of scientific knowledge and guidelines useful for adopting a hybrid work approach and creating a work environment conducive to effective employee recovery.
Dettagli del progetto
Responsabile scientifico: Salvatore Zappalà
Strutture Unibo coinvolte:
Dipartimento di Psicologia "Renzo Canestrari"
Coordinatore:
Università degli Studi di VERONA(Italy)
Contributo totale Unibo: Euro (EUR) 79.522,00
Durata del progetto in mesi: 24
Data di inizio
30/11/2023
Data di fine:
28/02/2026
