By completing this form, you are officially registering for the
5th International Seminar scheduled on
March 11th, 2024, which will be held at
MEGA from
9h30 to
16h30.
The seminar will be delivered by Pr. Johannes Siegrist*, titled : The model of effort-reward imbalance and its relevance for human resource management
This presentation introduces a sociological model of stressful work, termed ‘effort-reward imbalance’, focusing on the principle of social reciprocity of exchange in costly transactions. Violations of this principle trigger stressful experiences with adverse long-term effects on health and well-being. Multiple epidemiological studies demonstrated elevated risks of depression, coronary heart disease and other disorders among employees suffering from effort-reward imbalance at work. More recently, the model was applied to organizational outcomes, such as absenteeism, disengagement, obstruction, and turnover intentions. Scientific and practical implications of this theoretical approach are discussed.
*Pr. Johannes Siegrist is medical sociologist, born 1943 in Switzerland and working in Germany. He was Professor and Director of the Institute of Medical Sociology at the Heinrich-Heine- University in Düsseldorf, Germany, until 2012, followed by a Senior Professorship from 2012- 2021 at this University. Now emeritus, he is mainly active as scientific advisor. With his long-standing research he published extensively, in addition to holding visiting professorships, e.g. at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA, and the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. He received numerous rewards and is member of Academia Europaea.
