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- Berglund, Rachael, et al.
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Corporate Approaches for Managing the Psychosocial Work Environment
- 2018
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Employee wellbeing and good mental health is essential for good business. Identifyingpsychosocial work factors, assessing their potential effect and treating psychosocial risks before harm has occurred are recommended as a proactive measure to prevent harm and promote wellbeing in the workplace. To compare these theories to practice, five 45 – 60 min telephone interviews were carried out with respondents working with health and safety processes on a national level from 5 large companies in Sweden. Thematic Analysis and Direct Content Analysis were used to analyze the data. The results indicate that the respondents identify the same work factors in their workplace as those in the Stress Indicator Tool, a questionnaire operationalizing psychosocial risks. The participant’s name three additional work factors to those included in the Stress Indicator Tool as relevant for the psychosocial work environment; availability, identification with work and self-leadership. Risk assessments appear to be carried out in companies using e.g. employee satisfaction index and manager/employee dialogue. The respondents also described risk treatment being carried out on the primary, secondary and tertiary levels. A novel finding was that the new legislation (AFS, 2015) in Sweden has had an impact on company’s actions to manage the psychosocial work environment. All five companies named actions related to increased dialogue as a direct result of the new legislation in Sweden. The main limitation of this study is the very small sample size which restricting its generalizability. Future research could investigate the process from identification of a psychosocial work factor to the treatment chosen by the company.
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- Berglund, Rachael, et al.
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Critical Psychosocial Risk Treatment for Engineers and Technicians
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Ingår i: International Journal of Economics and Management Engineering. - Amsterdam, Netherlands. - 2225-742X. ; 14:5, s. 362-375
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study explores how management addresses psychosocial risks in seven teams of engineers and technicians in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution. The sample is from an ongoing quasi-experiment about psychosocial risk management in a manufacturing company in Sweden. Each of the seven teams belongs to one of two clusters: a positive cluster or a negative cluster. The positive cluster reports a significantly positive change in psychosocial risk levels between two time-points and the negative cluster reports a significantly negative change. The data are collected using semi-structured interviews. The results of the computer aided thematic analysis show that there are more differences than similarities when comparing the risk treatment actions taken between the two clusters. Findings show that the managers in the positive cluster use more enabling actions that foster and support formal and informal relationship building. In contrast, managers that use less enabling actions hinder the development of positive group processes and contribute negative changes in psychosocial risk levels. This exploratory study sheds some light on how management can influence significant positive and negative changes in psychosocial risk levels during a risk management process.
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