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Johannes Beller, Julia Graßhoff, Batoul Safieddine, Jelena Epping + 1 more
Background The adverse effects of perceived excessive workload (work overload), as one major source of work stress, on health and work performance are well-documented; however, studies that examine how work overload has changed over time are lacking. This study aims to examine the time trends in work overload across…
Yun-Seok Hwang, Byung-Jik Kim, Paul B. Tchounwou
Although previous works have examined how work overload affects the perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors of members in an organization, those studies have paid insufficient attention to the mediating and contingent factors in the work overload-turnover intention link from the perspective of positive psychology.…
Jesús Yeves, Mariana Bargsted, Cristian Torres-Ochoa
The COVID-19 pandemic has driven organizations to implement various flexible work arrangements. Due to a lack of longitudinal studies, there is currently no consensus in specialized literature regarding the consequences of flexible work arrangements on employee mental health, as well any long term potential impacts.…
Wei-Gang Tang, Christian Vandenberghe
The relation between role overload and work performance remains insufficiently understood. Drawing upon conservation of resources theory, we expected role overload to negatively relate to performance through psychological strain and this relation to be buffered by leader-member exchange (LMX). Study 1 (N = 212)…
Paola Spagnoli, Nicholas J. Haynes, Liliya Scafuri Kovalchuk, Malissa A. Clark + 2 more
'Malissa A. Clark' 'Carmela Buono' 'Cristian Balducci'] The current study aimed to test how workload, via workaholism, impacts job performance along with the complex interplay of perfectionistic concerns and work engagement in this mediated relationship. A two-wave, first and second stage dual-moderated mediation model…
Bo Huang, Lina Ma, Wei Xia
The findings of existing studies of how role overload affects employees’ performance in organizations have been mixed and controversial. We draw on the hindrance-challenge framework to suggest that role overload contains both hindrance and challenge stressor components. We integrate this theory with the behavioral…
Frédéric Boucher, Julie Dextras-Gauthier, Marie-Hélène Gilbert, Pierre-Sebastien Fournier + 1 more
Background Like many other countries, healthcare services in Canada face numerous organizational changes with the main objective of doing more with less. The approach taken within different healthcare networks has brought about a reform in healthcare facilities in Quebec, leading to several mergers and eliminating over…
Lisa-Marie Michels, Aleksandra Petkova, Marcel K. Richter, Andreas Farley + 2 more
'Andreas Farley' 'Daniel Graziotin' 'Stefan Wagner'] In this paper, we report on an Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) study on experiencing overwhelm in a software development context. The objectives of our study are, hence, to understand the experiences developers have when being overwhelmed, how this…
Lorenzo Avanzi, Enrico Perinelli, Michela Vignoli, Nina M. Junker + 1 more
'Cristian Balducci'] Workaholism and overcommitment are often used as interchangeable constructs describing an individual’s over-involvement toward their own job. Employees with high levels in both constructs are characterized by an excessive effort and attachment to their job, with the incapability to detach from it…
Dominic Standage, Martin Paré, Gunnar Blohm
Working memory capacity has long been the subject of intense research interest, but few studies have systematically investigated the dependence of capacity on memory load that exceeds our retention abilities. Under this real-world scenario, WM performance typically declines beyond a critical load among low-capacity…
Lisa-Marie Michels, Aleksandra Petkova, Marcel K. Richter, Andreas Farley + 2 more
'Andreas Farley' 'Daniel Graziotin' 'Stefan Wagner'] Abstract—We have conducted a qualitative psychology study to explore the experience of feeling overwhelmed in the realm of software development. Through the candid confessions of two participants who have recently faced overwhelming challenges, we have identified…
Sathish Gopalakrishnan, Xue Liu
Competitive analysis of online algorithms has commonly been applied to understand the behaviour of real-time systems during overload conditions. While competitive analysis provides insight into the behaviour of certain algorithms, it is hard to make inferences about the performance of those algorithms in practice.…
Jana Korunovska, Sarah Spiekermann
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are generally assumed to save time and energy, yet user fatigue due to ICT use is on the rise. The question about the effects of ICT use on human energy and fatigue is marred by inconsistencies in terminology, definitions, and measures. The aim of this paper is…
Anna Velyka, Marco Guerzoni
This paper is about the possible negative impact of excessive collaboration on the performance of top employees. With the rise of participatory culture and developments in communications technology, management practices require greater conceptual awareness about possible outcomes of increased organizational…
Rachel A. Householder, Scott Arnold, Robert Green
— Rising trends in the number of customers turning to the cloud for their computing needs has made effective resource allocation imperative for cloud service providers. In order to maximize profits and reduce waste, providers have started to explore the benefits of oversubscribing cloud resources. However, the benefits…
Roger W.P. Kissane, Arash Ghaffari-Rafi, Peter G. Tickle, Samit Chakrabarty + 3 more
Mammalian motor systems adapt to the demands of their environment. For example, muscle fibre types change in response to increased load or endurance demands. However, for adaptations to be effective, motoneurons must adapt such that their properties match those of the innervated muscle fibres. We used a rat model of…
Seungbeom Seo, Seungji Lee, Nayoung Lee, Sung-Phil Kim
Choice overload occurs when an ever-growing number of options impairs decision quality, because evaluating options taxes cognitive resources. We investigated whether reducing cognitive demand could mitigate overload by encouraging greater cognitive effort to achieve optimal choice. We conducted two experiments…
Yang Hong, Changcheng Huang, James Yan
Recent collapses of SIP servers in the carrier networks indicates two potential problems of SIP: (1) the current SIP design does not easily scale up to large network sizes, and (2) the built-in SIP overload control mechanism cannot handle overload conditions effectively. In order to help carriers prevent widespread SIP…
Clemente F. Arias, Francisco J. Acosta, Federica Bertocchini, Cristina Fernandez-Arias
Metabolic overflow is defined by the excretion of partially oxidized byproducts, such as acetate, ethanol, and lactate, which could otherwise be used to produce energy. This behavior, widespread across diverse biological systems, is paradoxical because it suggests a seemingly wasteful use of resources that could…
Jaehyoung Hong, Su Jung Choi, Se Ho Park, Hyukpyo Hong + 3 more
Shift workers and many other groups experience irregular sleep-wake patterns. This can induce excessive daytime sleepiness that decreases productivity and elevates the risk of accidents. However, the degree of daytime sleepiness is not correlated with standard sleep parameters like total sleep time, suggesting other…