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Social and psychological resources moderate the relation between anxiety, fatigue, compliance and turnover intention during the COVID-19 pandemic
This study targeted employees of Japanese companies in China. Therefore, in the future, it is necessary to verify generalizability as to whether it applies to employees of companies of other nationalities in other countries. Also, the authors used newly developed scales instead of the general psychological scales. Therefore, it is necessary to verify the reproducibility using a more general scale. Anxiety encourages compliance practices but also increases fatigue and willingness to leave. Therefore, a method of inciting anxiety and making employees follow rules reduces the strength of an organization. To overcome this...
Source: International Journal of Workplace Health Management - February 15, 2022 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Keisuke Kokubun Yoshiaki Ino Kazuyoshi Ishimura Source Type: research

Workplace productivity loss as a result of absenteeism and presenteeism in chronic and episodic migraine: a scoping review
Doxa Papakonstantinou, Constantinos Tomos International Journal of Workplace Health Management, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- Migraine consists of a chronic neurological disorder with episodic attacks. Migraine prevails in people of their most productive working age, followed by difficulties at work and social functions. This scoping review aims to analyze the economic burden on a workplace due to chronic migraine compared to episodic migraine by focusing on the indirect costs of absenteeism and presenteeism and addressing the research gaps in this field. According to the P...
Source: International Journal of Workplace Health Management - November 26, 2021 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Doxa Papakonstantinou Constantinos Tomos Source Type: research

The effect of an online individualized program to prevent nurse burnout – a mixed method study
This study adds to the understanding of online individual burnout prevention. The results suggest the feasibility of an online program to prevent nurse burnout. This could be optimized by complementing it with organizational interventions, introducing refresher courses, reminders and follow-up. Furthermore, additional attention should be devoted to preparing the implementation in order to minimize attrition rates. (Source: International Journal of Workplace Health Management)
Source: International Journal of Workplace Health Management - September 13, 2021 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Nina Geuens Erik Franck Peter Vlerick Peter Van Bogaert Source Type: research

Effects of health-promoting leadership, employee health on employee engagement: employability as moderating variable
This study focuses on health-promoting leadership and employee health, engagement relationship and the above relationship moderating by employability. Health-promoting leadership plays a key role in the workplace, results show that health-promoting leadership has a positive impact on employee health and employee engagement, while employee health did not have a positive effect on employee engagement. Employability negatively moderated the relationship between employee health and employee engagement. This study is based on cross-sectional survey data collected at the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic rapidly and cont...
Source: International Journal of Workplace Health Management - August 31, 2021 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Liping Liu Chunyu Zhang Chih-Cheng Fang Source Type: research

Acting the part: how social and organisational factors shape managers' actions towards employees with repeated short-term sickness absence
Isa Norvell Gustavsson, Ulrika Müssener, Christian Ståhl International Journal of Workplace Health Management, Vol. 14, No. 6, pp.634-649 The aim of the study was to understand the social and organisational factors in the workplace that shape managers' actions and attitudes towards workers with repeated short-term sickness absence. This was a qualitative interview study. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 19 managers at 15 different workplaces. The analysis had an abductive approach, using thematic analysis which focused on the latent content of managers attitudes towards emp...
Source: International Journal of Workplace Health Management - August 24, 2021 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Isa Norvell Gustavsson Ulrika M üssener Christian St åhl Source Type: research

Coping with the crisis: the effects of psychological capital and coping behaviors on perceived stress
This study makes a unique contribution to the literature by explaining how PsyCap operates through coping to affect perceptions of stress in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Source: International Journal of Workplace Health Management)
Source: International Journal of Workplace Health Management - August 20, 2021 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Sherry A. Maykrantz Brandye D. Nobiling Richard A. Oxarart Luke A. Langlinais Jeffery D. Houghton Source Type: research

Sense of security when new at work: a thematic analysis of interviews with young adult retail workers in Sweden
Erika Wall, Sven Svensson, Anna Berg Jansson International Journal of Workplace Health Management, Vol. 14, No. 6, pp.620-633 Positive examples of situations in which young adults new at work experience feeling secure in the role as novice in the work force are here focused. The aim is to analyze how young adults who are new to the labor market express having a sense of security in the workplace. The long-term goal is to strengthen the conditions for the health and wellbeing of workers entering the retail labor market. Thirteen individual in-depth telephone/video-interviews were conducted ...
Source: International Journal of Workplace Health Management - August 20, 2021 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Erika Wall Sven Svensson Anna Berg Jansson Source Type: research

Search inside yourself: investigating the effects of a widely adopted mindfulness-at-work development program
Norian A. Caporale-Berkowitz, Brittany P. Boyer, Christopher J. Lyddy, Darren J. Good, Aaron B. Rochlen, Michael C. Parent International Journal of Workplace Health Management, Vol. 14, No. 6, pp.593-604 Workplace mindfulness training has many benefits, but designing programs to reach a wide audience effectively and efficiently remains a challenge. The purpose of this study is to assess the effects of a widely adopted workplace mindfulness program on the mindfulness, active listening skill, emotional intelligence, and burnout of employees in a large, multinational internet company. The stu...
Source: International Journal of Workplace Health Management - August 10, 2021 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Norian A. Caporale-Berkowitz Brittany P. Boyer Christopher J. Lyddy Darren J. Good Aaron B. Rochlen Michael C. Parent Source Type: research

Line managers' middle-levelness and driving proactive behaviors in organizational interventions
Eyvind Helland, Marit Christensen, Siw Tone Innstrand, Karina Nielsen International Journal of Workplace Health Management, Vol. 14, No. 6, pp.577-592 This paper explores line managers' proactive work behaviors in organizational interventions and ascertains how their management of their middle-levelness by aligning with the intervention, or not, influences their proactive work behaviors. The authors’ findings are based on thematic analysis of 20 semi-structured interviews of university heads of departments responsible for managing organizational interventions. The authors found that...
Source: International Journal of Workplace Health Management - August 6, 2021 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Eyvind Helland Marit Christensen Siw Tone Innstrand Karina Nielsen Source Type: research

Association of individual and device usage factors with musculoskeletal disorders amongst handheld devices users during homestay due to pandemic
Rahul Jain, Kunj Bihari Rana, Makkhan Lal Meena International Journal of Workplace Health Management, Vol. 14, No. 6, pp.605-619 The COVID-19 pandemic is spreading in India and different parts of the world. The outbreak delivered not only the condition of dying from infection but also forced people (especially office workers and students) to perform all working (office work, classes, assignments, etc.) and non-working activities (leisure activities such as social media, gaming, etc.) at home using handheld devices (HHDs). In this situation, HHD usage for longer durations is mainly responsible f...
Source: International Journal of Workplace Health Management - August 3, 2021 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Rahul Jain Kunj Bihari Rana Makkhan Lal Meena Source Type: research

Work-related technoference at home and feelings of work spillover, overload, life satisfaction and job satisfaction
This study examines technoference and phubbing due to work while at home, as opposed to focusing on the at-work context. (Source: International Journal of Workplace Health Management)
Source: International Journal of Workplace Health Management - July 29, 2021 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Brandon T. McDaniel Kimberly O'Connor Michelle Drouin Source Type: research

Dark triad and situational variables and their relationship to career success and counterproductive work behaviors among employees in Turkey
This study contributes to examining career success as a dependent variable in addition to CWB. The findings showed that situational variables are related to career success, and DTP is related to CWB. This finding has both conceptual and practical implications. (Source: International Journal of Workplace Health Management)
Source: International Journal of Workplace Health Management - July 27, 2021 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Aaron Cohen Emrah Özsoy Source Type: research

The moderating effect of person –organization fit on the relationship between job stress and deviant behaviors of frontline employees
This study introduces the moderating effect of P-O fit on the relationship between job stress and frontline employees' deviant behaviors, which has not been revealed in previous studies. It provides an understanding of the importance of considering the compatibility between individual and organizational values as one of the company's efforts to reduce stressed employees' responses by engaging in workplace deviance. (Source: International Journal of Workplace Health Management)
Source: International Journal of Workplace Health Management - July 27, 2021 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Marliana Junaedi Fenika Wulani Source Type: research

Financing employee healthcare: fusing the preferences of employees in decision-making
This study aims to explore the correlations of employee preferences for health care schemes and evaluated the cost implications of each of the available Schemes. The study applied a multinomial probit analysis on cross-sectional data from Taita Taveta University (TTU) in Kenya's coastal region. Cost-benefit analysis was used to rank alternative healthcare schemes. For triangulation of information, individual interviews were supplemented with key informant interviews. Two sets of factors, personal attributes of employees and the attributes of the health care provider, were found to drive employee preferences for h...
Source: International Journal of Workplace Health Management - July 5, 2021 Category: Occupational Health Authors: George Ouma Ochieng'a Maurice Ogada Source Type: research

Employer perspectives concerning the self-management support needs of workers with long-term health conditions
This study highlights that employer self-management support is not provided to workers with long-term conditions in a purposeful way. Workplace support depends on an employer knowing what needs to be supported which, in turn, depends on aspects of disclosure, stigma, work demands and line management. (Source: International Journal of Workplace Health Management)
Source: International Journal of Workplace Health Management - June 22, 2021 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Sally Hemming Hilary McDermott Fehmidah Munir Kim Burton Source Type: research