The growing attention paid to employee well-being in the healthcare system, along with the reinforcement of factors that drive change in the work environment, provides a strong foundation for studying the relationship between work design and its related outcomes. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between the elements of work design and the overall well-being of healthcare professionals, particularly the differences across multiple groups of various genders and age brackets. A cross-sectional study design was employed, and a convenience sampling method was used. The study participants were healthcare professionals, and a total of 427 valid surveys were collected. The partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) approach was deployed to test the relationship between the determinants of work design and the perceived well-being of healthcare professionals. The results indicate a strong positive relationship between the social characteristics of work and overall well-being, as well as a positive contribution of the work context to the perceived well-being of healthcare professionals. The findings validated that knowledge characteristics had no beneficial impacts on overall well-being; nor did the task characteristics of work design. Although the mentioned associations failed to demonstrate statistical significance, the results nonetheless have significant practical consequences that are comparable to those of the relationships that demonstrated statistical significance.

This paper examines Canadian multicultural literature in relation to diaspora marginalization, focusing on Joy Kogawa’s exploration of silence and erasure in Obasan (1981), Dionne Brand’s fragmented constructions of identity in A Map to the Door of No Return (2001), and M. G. Vassanji’s articulation of hybrid identity in The In-Between World of Vikram Lall (2003). These literary perspectives are then extended to the digital age through an analysis of South Slavic diaspora communities in Canada (Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian) and their forms of online cultural production and engagement. In the digital era, cultural marginalization is no longer solely produced through colonial discourse, patriarchy, or state violence, but is increasingly intensified by algorithmic regimes of visibility, self-representation, and surveillance. The paper demonstrates that digital platforms have transformed diaspora identity from print-based cultural memory into a participatory and continuously evolving system shaped by algorithmic logics. Therefore, marginalization occurs less through direct exclusion from literary production and more through language loss, reliance on dominant digital platforms, and the replacement of traditional publishing with informal online storytelling. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that digitization has not resulted in the democratization of the literary and linguistic sphere, but rather that algorithmic filtering has contributed to the marginalization of languages with lower economic capital, including South Slavic languages.