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Assessment of work intensification by managers and psychological distressed and non-distressed employees: a multilevel comparison
Work intensification is a popular management strategy to increase productivity, but at the possible expense of employee mental stress. This study examines associations between ratings of work intensification and psychological distress, and the level of agreement between compared employee-rated and m...
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National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Japan
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4551062/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25752252 http://dx.doi.org/10.2486/indhealth.2014-0176 |
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author | BAMBERGER, Simon Grandjean LARSEN, Anelia VINDING, Anker Lund NIELSEN, Peter FONAGER, Kirsten NIELSEN, René Nesgaard RYOM, Pia OMLAND, Øyvind |
author_facet | BAMBERGER, Simon Grandjean LARSEN, Anelia VINDING, Anker Lund NIELSEN, Peter FONAGER, Kirsten NIELSEN, René Nesgaard RYOM, Pia OMLAND, Øyvind |
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description | Work intensification is a popular management strategy to increase productivity, but at the possible expense of employee mental stress. This study examines associations between ratings of work intensification and psychological distress, and the level of agreement between compared employee-rated and manager-rated work intensification. Multi-source survey data were collected from 3,064 employees and 573 company managers from the private sector in 2010. Multilevel regression models were used to compare different work intensification ratings across psychological distress strata. Distressed employees rated higher degree of total work intensification compared to non-distressed employees, and on three out of five sub ratings there were an increased prevalence of work intensification in the case group. In general, there was poor agreement between employee and company work intensification rating. Neither manager-rated work intensification nor employee/manager discrepancy in work intensification ratings was associated with psychological distress. Distressed employees had a higher total score of employee/manager agreed work intensification, and a higher prevalence of increased demands of labour productivity. This study demonstrates higher ratings of employee/manager agreed work intensification in distressed employees compared to non-distressed employees, challenging previous findings of reporting bias in distressed employees’ assessment of work environment. |
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spelling | pubmed-45510622015-09-01 Assessment of work intensification by managers and psychological distressed and non-distressed employees: a multilevel comparison BAMBERGER, Simon Grandjean LARSEN, Anelia VINDING, Anker Lund NIELSEN, Peter FONAGER, Kirsten NIELSEN, René Nesgaard RYOM, Pia OMLAND, Øyvind Ind Health Original Article Work intensification is a popular management strategy to increase productivity, but at the possible expense of employee mental stress. This study examines associations between ratings of work intensification and psychological distress, and the level of agreement between compared employee-rated and manager-rated work intensification. Multi-source survey data were collected from 3,064 employees and 573 company managers from the private sector in 2010. Multilevel regression models were used to compare different work intensification ratings across psychological distress strata. Distressed employees rated higher degree of total work intensification compared to non-distressed employees, and on three out of five sub ratings there were an increased prevalence of work intensification in the case group. In general, there was poor agreement between employee and company work intensification rating. Neither manager-rated work intensification nor employee/manager discrepancy in work intensification ratings was associated with psychological distress. Distressed employees had a higher total score of employee/manager agreed work intensification, and a higher prevalence of increased demands of labour productivity. This study demonstrates higher ratings of employee/manager agreed work intensification in distressed employees compared to non-distressed employees, challenging previous findings of reporting bias in distressed employees’ assessment of work environment. National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Japan 2015-03-06 2015-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4551062/ /pubmed/25752252 http://dx.doi.org/10.2486/indhealth.2014-0176 Text en ©2015 National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd) License. |
spellingShingle | Original Article BAMBERGER, Simon Grandjean LARSEN, Anelia VINDING, Anker Lund NIELSEN, Peter FONAGER, Kirsten NIELSEN, René Nesgaard RYOM, Pia OMLAND, Øyvind Assessment of work intensification by managers and psychological distressed and non-distressed employees: a multilevel comparison |
title | Assessment of work intensification by managers and psychological distressed
and non-distressed employees: a multilevel comparison |
title_full | Assessment of work intensification by managers and psychological distressed
and non-distressed employees: a multilevel comparison |
title_fullStr | Assessment of work intensification by managers and psychological distressed
and non-distressed employees: a multilevel comparison |
title_full_unstemmed | Assessment of work intensification by managers and psychological distressed
and non-distressed employees: a multilevel comparison |
title_short | Assessment of work intensification by managers and psychological distressed
and non-distressed employees: a multilevel comparison |
title_sort | assessment of work intensification by managers and psychological distressed
and non-distressed employees: a multilevel comparison |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4551062/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25752252 http://dx.doi.org/10.2486/indhealth.2014-0176 |
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