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A Qualitative Study on Employees’ Experiences of a Support model for Systematic Work Environment Management
Background: The aim is to explore how an organisational work environment support model, the Stamina model, influences employees’ work situations and the development of sustainable work systems. Methods: It was a qualitative study with semi-structured, focus-group interviews, including 45 employees f...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6801862/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31547496 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16193551 |
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author | Hellman, Therese Molin, Fredrik Svartengren, Magnus |
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description | Background: The aim is to explore how an organisational work environment support model, the Stamina model, influences employees’ work situations and the development of sustainable work systems. Methods: It was a qualitative study with semi-structured, focus-group interviews, including 45 employees from six work groups. Eighteen focus group interviews were conducted over a period of two years. Data were analysed with constant comparative method. Results: The core category, shifting focus from an individual to an organisational perspective of work, illustrated how communication and increased understanding of one’s work tasks changed over time and contributed to deeper focus on the actual operation. These insights were implemented at different time points among the work groups during the two-year process. Conclusions: Our results indicate that working with the model engages employees in the work environment management, puts emphasis on reflections and discussions about the meaning and purpose of the operations and enables a shared platform for communication. These are important features that need to continue over time in order to create a sustainable work system. The Stamina model, thus seems to have the potential to promote productive and healthy work places. |
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spelling | pubmed-68018622019-10-31 A Qualitative Study on Employees’ Experiences of a Support model for Systematic Work Environment Management Hellman, Therese Molin, Fredrik Svartengren, Magnus Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Background: The aim is to explore how an organisational work environment support model, the Stamina model, influences employees’ work situations and the development of sustainable work systems. Methods: It was a qualitative study with semi-structured, focus-group interviews, including 45 employees from six work groups. Eighteen focus group interviews were conducted over a period of two years. Data were analysed with constant comparative method. Results: The core category, shifting focus from an individual to an organisational perspective of work, illustrated how communication and increased understanding of one’s work tasks changed over time and contributed to deeper focus on the actual operation. These insights were implemented at different time points among the work groups during the two-year process. Conclusions: Our results indicate that working with the model engages employees in the work environment management, puts emphasis on reflections and discussions about the meaning and purpose of the operations and enables a shared platform for communication. These are important features that need to continue over time in order to create a sustainable work system. The Stamina model, thus seems to have the potential to promote productive and healthy work places. MDPI 2019-09-23 2019-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6801862/ /pubmed/31547496 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16193551 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Hellman, Therese Molin, Fredrik Svartengren, Magnus A Qualitative Study on Employees’ Experiences of a Support model for Systematic Work Environment Management |
title | A Qualitative Study on Employees’ Experiences of a Support model for Systematic Work Environment Management |
title_full | A Qualitative Study on Employees’ Experiences of a Support model for Systematic Work Environment Management |
title_fullStr | A Qualitative Study on Employees’ Experiences of a Support model for Systematic Work Environment Management |
title_full_unstemmed | A Qualitative Study on Employees’ Experiences of a Support model for Systematic Work Environment Management |
title_short | A Qualitative Study on Employees’ Experiences of a Support model for Systematic Work Environment Management |
title_sort | qualitative study on employees’ experiences of a support model for systematic work environment management |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6801862/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31547496 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16193551 |
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