The impact of moderate and major workplace expansion and downsizing on the psychosocial and physical work environment and income in Sweden
The impact of moderate and major workplace expansion and downsizing on the psychosocial and physical work environment and income in Sweden
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DOI：
10.1080/14034940600813073
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发表时间：
2007-01-01
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Theorell, Tores
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作者：
Ferrie, Jane E.;Westerlund, Hugo;Theorell, Tores
目的：描述瑞典较大工作场所的代表性样本中组织变革（适度和大幅扩张和缩小规模）对社会心理工作特征、身体危害和收入的影响。方法：1991-1996 年劳动力规模的年度变化来自税务登记数据。工作环境特征是根据 1991 年、1993 年和 1995 年两年一度的瑞典工作环境调查的一部分参与者进行测量的。收入数据来自国家登记处。结果：并非所有组织变革都会导致工作环境恶化。公共部门适度缩减规模和适度扩张带来的有利结果多于不利结果。然而，在私营部门，适度的组织变革的总体影响是工作环境较差。大规模裁员与私营部门男性更好的社会心理工作环境有关，而大规模扩张则与公共部门女性和私营部门男性的较差环境有关。除此之外，重大组织变革与心理社会工作环境之间的关联在不同性别和部门之间是混合的，尽管重大组织变革始终与更大的身体危害风险相关。低收入完全与私营部门的组织精简有关。结论：需要更多的研究来确定工作环境是否可以解释观察到的组织变革与健康之间的关联。由于数据的限制，作者无法在本研究中对此进行检验。他们的研究结果表明，未来对工作环境的研究应该更加关注身体危害。
Aims: To describe the effect of organizational change (moderate and major expansion and downsizing) on psychosocial work characteristics, physical hazards, and income in a representative sample of larger workplaces in Sweden. Methods: Annual changes in workforce size for the years 1991-1996 were derived from tax registry data. Work environment characteristics were measured in a sub-set of participants from the biennial Swedish Work Environment Surveys for 1991, 1993, and 1995. Income data were derived from national registries. Results: Not all organizational change resulted in a poorer work environment. The number of beneficial outcomes associated with moderate downsizing and moderate expansion in the public sector outweighed the number of adverse outcomes. However, in the private sector the overall effect of moderate organizational change was a poorer work environment. Major downsizing was associated with a better psychosocial work environment for private-sector men and major expansion with a poorer environment for public-sector women and private-sector men. Otherwise, associations between major organizational change and the psychosocial work environment were mixed across sex and sector, although major organizational change was consistently associated with a greater risk of physical hazards. Low income was associated exclusively with organizational downsizing in the private sector. Conclusions: More research is needed to determine whether the work environment can explain observed associations between organizational change and health. Data limitations prevented the authors from examining this in the present study. Their findings indicate that future research on the work environment should pay more attention to physical hazards.