1. What are the contributions in this paper?
The authors demonstrate the use of MLPA by investigating job characteristics profiles based on the Job Demand-ControlSupport ( JDCS ) model using data from 1,958 university employees clustered in 78 work departments.. The implications of the results for organizational research are discussed, together with several issues related to the potential of MLPA for wider application.
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2. What is the role of occupational well-being in the workplace?
Occupational well-being as a mediator between job insecurity and turnover intention: Findings at the individual and work department levels.
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3. What is the potential of multilevel mixture modeling?
Multilevel mixture modeling also has the potential to answer the generalization problem of person-centered research (see Meyer & Morin, 2016; Mäkikangas & Kinnunen, 2016), i.e., whether the profiles found are unit-specific or more universal.
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4. What is the metric used to determine the job demands and control?
The combination of job demands and control is assumed to form four job types, namely, active (high job demands, high job control), passive (low job demands, low job control), high-strain (high job demands and low job control) and low-strain (low job demands and high job control) (Karasek, 1979).
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