TY - JOUR A1 - Blanz, Mathias T1 - Employees’ Job Satisfaction: A Test of the Job Characteristics Model Among Social Work Practitioners JF - Journal of Evidence-Informed Social Work N2 - The present article describes an investigation of the Job Characteristics Model (JCM) by Hackman and Oldham (1976) for the prediction of job satisfaction of employees in social work areas. While there is considerable evidence for the JCM with respect to profit-oriented organizations, it was tested whether it can also be applied to the non-profit sector. The present study surveyed 734 holders of jobs in social work in Germany in order to assess their job satisfaction and the core variables of the JCM (i.e., the five job characteristics and the three psychological states). Regression and mediation analyses were used to examine the relations between these variables. The results showed that the expected relations were remarkably in accordance with the findings from the for-profit sector. All model variables correlated positively with job satisfaction, with the psychological states showing higher coefficients than the job characteristics. In addition, the influence of job characteristics on job satisfaction was significantly mediated through the psychological states. These findings were supported by a replication study. Implications of the JCM for practice, in particular for assessment and interventions in social work organizations, are discussed. KW - Social work employees KW - job satisfaction KW - nonprofits KW - job characteristics model KW - job design Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23761407.2017.1288187 VL - 14 IS - 1 SP - 35 EP - 50 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Heilmann, Katharina ED - Rosskopf, Ralf T1 - Unaccompanied Minors - Lifeworlds in the Spheres of Childhood and Seeking Refuge T2 - Unaccompanied Minors in International, European and National Law KW - Minderjähriger KW - Flüchtling KW - Asylrecht KW - Unaccompanied Minors KW - Asylum Y1 - 2016 SN - 978-3-8305-3578-2 SP - 9 EP - 25 PB - BWV Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag CY - Berlin ER -