Stairway to heaven or a placebo: the impact of lean leadership, through job demands, on hospital workers' engagement and performance.

Purpose: This study aims to examine to what extent the relationships between hospital workers' perceptions of lean leadership behaviour, their engagement and the hospital unit's perceived performance are mediated by job demands.

Design/methodology/approach: The data ( = 1,624) come from a lean implementation study in a Dutch hospital and are analysed using structural equation modelling in Mplus (v8.4).

Stimulating Employability and Job Crafting Behaviour of Physicians: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

The demanding work context of physicians challenges their employability (i.e., their ability and willingness to continue to work).

Positive impact of the COVID-19 pandemic? A longitudinal study on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on physicians' work experiences and employability.

Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic places an enormous demand on physicians around the world. The aim of this study was to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on physicians' work experiences and their ability and willingness to continue working in their profession until retirement (ie, their employability).

Design: A longitudinal comparative design was used.

A Career Crafting Training Program: Results of an Intervention Study.

This intervention study examined the effects of a career crafting training on physicians' perceptions of their job crafting behaviors, career self-management, and employability. A total of 154 physicians working in two hospitals in a large Dutch city were randomly assigned to a waitlist control group or an intervention group. Physicians in the intervention group received an accredited training on career crafting, including a mix of theory, self-reflection, and exercises.

Career Crafting Training Intervention for Physicians: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background: Physicians work in a highly demanding work setting where ongoing changes affect their work and challenge their employability (ie, their ability and willingness to continue working). In this high-pressure environment, physicians could benefit from proactively managing or crafting their careers; however, they tend not to show this behavior. The new concept of career crafting concerns proactively making choices and adapting behavior regarding both short-term job design (ie, job crafting) as well as longer-term career development (ie, career self-management).

Dealing with a changing work environment: hospital job type contingencies.

Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to examine whether workers in various hospital job groups differ in their perceptions of the provision of managerial support, and of their up-to-date expertise (UDE), willingness to change (WTC) and employment opportunities (EO). Second, to examine whether and how the relationships between managerial support, workers' UDE, WTC and their EO are moderated by hospital job type. Design/methodology/approach Survey data were collected from 1,764 employees of three Dutch hospitals.