HEALTHY WORK ORGANIZATION--INTERVENTION EFFECTIVENESS

本订正提案的总体目标是评价旨在改善健康工作组织的外地干预措施的效力。 健康的工作组织是一个有吸引力的概念，因为它假设为改善员工健康和福祉而采取的行动也有利于“底线”财务业绩。 研究涉及健康的工作组织的各个方面，但几乎没有注意评价真实的工作环境中的相关干预措施。拟议的干预措施使用数据驱动的解决问题的团队，结合联合收割机元素，从全面质量管理（TQM），工人参与和社区参与。 家得宝是这个项目的合作伙伴 本研究有三个具体的目的：1）调查健康/安全和财务绩效的变化作为解决问题的干预的功能; 2）调查干预如何影响组织气氛，特别是与参与和信息交流有关的维度;（3）探讨问题的影响-解决健康工作组织理论模型的外生和内生成分的干预问题，这是本研究的基础。 在第一年，基线数据将收集来自家得宝的中南部地区的所有商店的员工，使用健康的组织审计的理论模型的基础上开发的。 同时，将收集组织有效性数据（包括健康/安全和财务绩效结果）。 将10对匹配的悬挂物随机分配至处理和对照条件。 将在干预开始后8个月和20个月收集随访组织有效性数据。 将使用分层线性和结构方程建模技术分析数据。 以焦点小组和组织线人访谈形式提供的定性数据将补充定量措施。 这种实地验证与诺拉的两个优先事项有关，即工作组织和干预有效性，并对鼓励企业在工作场所安全和健康方面采取积极和全面的举措具有潜在的重要意义。

The overall goal of this revised proposal is to evaluate the effectiveness of a field-based intervention designed to improve healthy work organization. Healthy work organization is an attractive concept because it assumes that actions taken to improve employee health and well-being also benefit "bottom line" financial performance. Research has addressed the dimensions of healthy work organization, but virtually no attention has been given to evaluating relevant interventions in real work settings. The proposed intervention uses data-driven problem-solving teams that combine elements from total quality management (TQM), worker involvement, and community engagement. Home Depot, Inc. is the corporate partner for this project. The research has three specific aims: 1) to investigate changes in both health/safety and financial performance as a function of the problem-solving intervention; 2) to investigate how the intervention impacts organizational climate, specifically dimensions related to participation and information exchange; and 3) to explore the impact of the problem-solving intervention on the exogenous and endogenous components of the theoretical model of healthy work organization which undergirds this study. During year 1, baseline data will be collected from employees in all stores in Home Depot's mid-south region, using the healthy organization audit developed on the basis of the theoretical model. At the same time, organizational effectiveness data (both health/safety and financial performance outcomes) will be collected. Ten matched pairs of stores will be randomly assigned to treatment and control conditions. Follow-up organizational effectiveness data will be collected at 8 and 20 months after the start of the intervention. Data will be analyzed using hierarchical linear and structural equation modeling techniques. Qualitative data in the form of focus groups and organizational informant interviews will supplement the quantitative measures. This field validation is pertinent to two NORA priorities, Work Organization and Intervention Effectiveness, and has potentially important implications for encouraging businesses to embrace proactive and comprehensive initiatives in workplace safety and health.