JCQ 2.0 International Workshop Announcement

We are inviting you to attend a JCQ 2.0 International Workshop:

Measuring Complex, Multilevel Social Job Demands In the Global Economy and Service/Information Society -(after ICOH) This September 4-5th workshop provides a forum for the researchers who are interested in work demands to share their research results, and discuss problems, and future research directions/plans.

BACKGROUND: The existing work demands scales of the JCQ (and perhaps other contemporary psychosocial questionnaires) may not optimally measure complex social demands in the global economy, or demands of the service/information society.

FOCUS: How to improve the work demands scales theoretically and methodologically to address new types of these challenges, as we move to complete the JCQ 2.0. The spread of a global economy with few protective social structures increases coping challenges for many workers all over the globe. The extension of social services in the developed and developing countries and the “information society” provide complex new social job demands. A variety of theoretical expansions (including the new “Associationist” Demand/Control model) and understandings of complex social behavior imply the need for a new look at demands scales, as do statistical, and comparative analysis of demand scale properties. These all confirm the need to accommodate new dynamic changes, and multiple levels of stressors and control. However, how these conceptions would be translated into practical assessment tools requires a broad new discussion

SCHEDULE: (location (double-check program): Conference hotel: Salon Pilot Room) *** Sept. 4, 2008 (4:30 pm to 6:00 pm – just after ICOH closing): The New Challenge: several background presentations. *** Sept. 5, 2008 (8:30 am to 12:30 pm): Main Discussion (a) Breakout Groups bridging our current research themes with these new social challenges and potentially broader theoretical constructions: a) multiple-level “quantitative demands” -labor intensification; b) multi-level emotional labor, social support, hostility, justice; c) multi-level human relations personal politics; d) job insecurity; e) boundaryless,work and unpredictability. (b) Plenary discussion: What must be measured? (c) Writing group and next pilot location? *** Lunch *** Sept. 5, 2008 (1:15 pm to 2:30 pm): Discussion - Macro Decision Latitude results from the Korean and Chinese pilot studies.

REQUIREMENT: All attendees should prepare a 2/3 page abstract on their own multilevel job demands case study, partly related to their reading of the full Workshop Announcement materials, including the Discussion Set-Up Memo (Web: www.jcqcenter.org), or prepare an equally short recommendation of how to bridge the new theory approaches with the new job realities and measurement possibilities - this abstract is to be forwarded to BongKyoo Choi (bongkyoo@hotmail.com) before the workshop. REGISTRATION: If you plan to attend the workshop, please send notification to Sandra Gibson (jcqcenter@uml.edu: 1-978-934-3348) by August 23th, since Workshop attendance is usually limited.