The Job Demands-Resources Model: Overview and Critical Appraisal. Progress Advances in Positive Occupational Psychology

The JD-R is an encompassing job characteristics model relating various demanding and resourceful job aspects to divergent individual and organizational outcomes via impaired (i.e. burnout) and optimal (i.e. work engagement) worker well-being. The model builds upon previous job characteristics models and integrates their main tenets. During the past decade, the JD-R has been a fruitful model to examine the impact of job design on individual (e.g., job satisfaction, depression) and organizational outcomes (e.g. turnover and absenteeism). Despite this compelling body of evidence and the inclusive character of the JD-R, some issues remain. The current contribution aims to provide an overview of the JD-R-literature and highlight some of the unanswered questions in order to stimulate scholars to further job design theory and practice in the realm of the JD-R.nrpages: 36status: publishe