Work , Stress, Health and Parenting Among Hotel Employees

描述(由申请人提供)：此申请概述了一个发展中心的计划，该中心将对酒店员工的工作压力、健康和育儿进行协作性试点研究，作为研究网络的一部分，该网络专注于开发干预方案，以研究工作场所政策和做法的健康益处(RFA-HD-04-017)。拟议的研究涉及三种产品，每种产品都涉及与酒店公司合作伙伴的合作研究。第一个产品是一个单独的研究项目，它使用日常日记的方法来检查日常工作压力源与日常自我报告和生理指标(即皮质醇)之间的关系，这些指标包括身体健康、幸福感和生产力，以及一天内和跨天的情况。具体地说，我们将把皮质醇的收集和分析添加到一项由斯隆基金会资助的针对酒店经理及其配偶/伴侣(n=120对夫妇)的日常日记研究中，并将制定一项新的每日日记调查，以了解酒店小时工(n=120)工作压力源和相同结果之间的关系。该项目将为该网络贡献一种复杂的方法，通过该方法，该网络可以在随后的大规模干预研究中检查员工获得新政策和做法时发生的日常过程及其对员工及其家人的健康、福祉和生产力的影响。我们还建议领导一个合作项目，通过咨询每个网络合作伙伴，查阅相关文献，并在合作伙伴的工作地点(包括我们自己的酒店公司网站)开展焦点小组活动，为网络确定适当的育儿措施。第三个产品是一个合作项目，旨在开发和试点针对一线主管(在我们的案例中，在酒店)的压力管理干预措施，并创建一个调查工具，利用组织对干预的准备情况。该网络的活动共同解决了一个重要的公共卫生问题：工作场所持续存在的压力源对有工作的成年人及其家人的健康和福祉的影响。需要进行这类试点研究，以规划大规模干预措施，以评估工作中的“家庭友好型政策和做法”在多大程度上对员工及其家人的生活产生可衡量和重大的影响。这种大规模干预的结果将告知政策制定者和雇主，或许还会刺激工作场所为工薪家庭提供更多支持。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application outlines plans for a developmental center that would conduct collaborative pilot research on work stress, health, and parenting for hotel employees as part of a research network focused on developing intervention protocols to study the health benefits of workplace policies and practices (RFA-HD-04-017). The proposed research involves three products, each of which involves collaborative research with a hotel company partner. The first product is an individual research project that uses daily diary methods to examine associations of daily work stressors with daily self reports and physiological measures (i.e., cortisol) of physical health, well-being, and productivity, within and across days. Specifically, we would add the collection and assaying of cortisol to an ongoing, Sloan Foundation-funded daily diary study of hotel managers and their spouses/partners (n = 120 couples), and we would develop a new daily diary investigation of the connections between work stressors and the same outcomes for hotel hourly workers (n = 120). The project would contribute to the network a sophisticated method by which it can examine, in subsequent large-scale intervention research, the day-to-day processes that occur when employees have access to new policies and practices and their implications for the health, well-being, and productivity of employees and their family members. We also propose to lead a collaborative project to identify appropriate measures of parenting for the network, via consultation with each network partner, reviewing the relevant literatures, and conducting focus groups at partners' work sites (including our own hotel company sites). The third product is a collaborative project to develop and pilot test a stress management intervention targeted at first-line supervisors (in our case, in hotels), and creates a survey tool that taps organizational readiness for interventions. Together, the activities of the network address an important public health issue: the implications of ongoing stressors in the workplace for the health and well-being of employed adults and their families. Pilot research of this kind is needed to plan large-scale interventions that would evaluate the extent to which "family-friendly policies and practices" at work make a measurable and significant difference in the lives of employees and their families. The results of such large-scale interventions will inform policy makers and employers and perhaps stimulate workplaces to provide more support for working families.