Workplace Stress: a critical evaluation of strategies to understand and combat the stresses of working life.

在过去的十年里，“工作压力”已经成为世界上许多地方的公司、竞选组织和非政府组织关注的主要问题。有证据表明，这是心理健康问题的主要原因，从焦虑、抑郁到自杀，以及由于缺勤和“出勤”而导致的生产力损失。在大雇主的支持下，已经建立了一些运动组织，以确定遭受工作压力的个人，为他们提供心理健康急救，教授应对策略，并在必要时指导他们接受心理健康服务。虽然其中一些是由大公司的人力资源部门管理的，但其他一些是由特定的心理健康团队承担的。但是，对于那些最边缘化的人——亚马逊等电子商务公司仓库里的工人、“零工经济”中的工人、自雇者和其他不稳定就业的人，以及那些传统就业形式被“全球化”和经济变革侵蚀的人——工作场所的压力又如何呢？该博士项目将研究工作场所压力的起源和传播，将其置于就业和职业结构变化特征的背景下，识别和描述对工作场所压力的反应，包括工作场所压力运动组织的兴起和活动，检查有关不同策略有效性的证据，并在英国与组织和员工进行定性研究，研究对抗“工作场所压力”的战略的国家、发展和实施以及应对策略。

Over the past decade, 'workplace stress' has become a major concern for companies, campaigning organisations, and NGOs in many parts of the world. There is evidence this is a major cause of mental health problems from anxiety and depression to suicide, and of lost productivity due to absenteeism and 'presenteeism'. Campaigning organisations have been set up, often with the support of large employers, to identify individuals experiencing workplace stress and to provide them with mental health first aid, to teach coping strategies, and where necessary direct them to mental health services. While some of these are managed by the HR departments of large corporations, others are undertaken by specific mental health teams. But what of workplace stress in the work situations of the most marginalised -the workers in the warehouses of the e-Commerce firms such as Amazon, those in the 'gig economy', the self-employed and others in precarious employment, and those whose traditional forms of employment have been eroded by 'globalisation' and economic change? This PhD project will undertake research on the origins and spread of the concern with workplace stress, place this in the context of the changing character of employment and career structures, identify and characterise the responses to it, including the rise and activities of work place stress campaigning organizations, examine evidence on the efficacy of the different strategies involved, and undertake qualitative research in the UK with organizations and employeesontherationalfor,developmentandimplementationof,andresponsestostrategies for combatting 'workplace stress'.