%0 Journal Article
%T Work Orientations, Well
%A Ilke Inceoglu
%A Peter Warr
%J Work, Employment and Society
%@ 1469-8722
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0950017017717684
%X Drawing on psychology-derived theories and methods, a questionnaire survey compared principal kinds of work orientation, job content and mental well-being between self-employed and organisationally employed professional workers. Self-employment was found to be particularly associated with energised well-being in the form of job engagement. The presence in self-employment of greater challenge, such as an enhanced requirement for personal innovation, accounted statistically for self-employed professionalsĄŻ greater job engagement, and self-employed professionals more strongly valued personal challenge than did professionals employed in an organisation. However, no between-role differences occurred in respect of supportive job features such as having a comfortable workplace. Differences in well-being, job content and work orientations were found primarily in comparison between self-employees and organisational non-managers. The study emphasises the need to distinguish conceptually and empirically between different forms of work orientation, job content and well-being, and points to the value of incorporating psychological thinking in some sociological research
%K job engagement
%K job satisfaction
%K person¨Cjob fit
%K preferences
%K professional workers
%K self-employment
%K values
%K work orientations
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0950017017717684